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Meadow Drive School learners and teachers stepped up to support their classmate Fiona McHugh and her fundraising efforts to find a cure for type 1 diabetes.
On Oct. 10, the Meadow Drive School community joined together in love and solidarity for an in-school T1D walk-a-thon. The hallways were a sea of blue — McHugh’s favorite color — as the students and faculty walked around the school led by McHugh and her team dubbed “Fiona’s one-derful Warriors.”
For learners and teachers at Meadow Drive, finding a cure for type 1 diabetes is a mission they take very personally. Since 2020, when McHugh started pre-K and informed the school of her T1D diagnosis, the school community has been unified in its support for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and for McHugh and other learners battling the disease.
“We are always happy to empower our learners to see how they can make a
difference in the world,” Jennie Fahey, principal of Meadow Drive School, said. “Fiona is not only making an impact toward finding a cure, but she is also a role model for her peers who may seek to make a difference in their own way.”
Now in second grade, this is McHugh’s final year at Meadow Drive, making this walk extra special for the entire Meadow family.
The district is proud of McHugh and all her fellow learners, friends and teachers that work together to lift each other up and put their energy and passion behind causes that will make the world a better place.
