Good Shepherd School is breaking world records in a patriotic way.

On Wednesday the school rallied together 970 staff and students to form the shape of a maple leaf.

Leonie Gagnon, French language assistant at Good Shepherd School, says she came up with the idea as a way to bring the entire school together.

"I was working mostly with the French immersion kids and I thought it was sad I hadn't had a chance to work with the whole school and I was thinking of making a school project," she says. "I looked it up online and noticed the previous record for the largest human maple leaf was for 404 people in Japan and it was unusual because that's our icon, the maple leaf... everything just naturally fell into place and it was just perfect."

She adds the event was also a great way to celebrate the school's 25th anniversary.

Rules were in place to make sure the activity met the required guidelines to break the world record including two people counting the amount of individuals as they entered the shape which could only be outlined in chalk. Witnesses needed to be gathered to give testimony after and participants had to remain in the maple leaf shape for five minutes.

Gagnon says the atmosphere was incredible.

"It was so overwhelming and crazy. When it was over I didn't realize it because I was running from place to place but it was so great, the team was amazing, everybody knew what to do and everything went smoothly. It was perfect and the kids were just amazing."

Once the paperwork and evidence is sent off Gagnon says she will find out in about two weeks to three months if Good Shepherd School's human maple leaf will be in the world record book.

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