As part of our charity work to support the ‘St Joseph’s Penny’ appeal, we decided to sell pancakes at break time as a way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, before we start our journey through Lent. St Joseph’s Penny is a very important charity that supports vulnerable children and families in our local community. We enjoyed our pancakes especially sprinkled with sugar and lemon juice – delicious!
Today our CARITAS team were tasked with selling Pudsy Bear cookies throughout the school. After hours of long, hard work by the kitchen staff the cookies were ready to go on sale. Each child in the school received a cookie and through your very generation donations we raised £110.00. Thank you for your support and all involved.
Year 5 led the school in their collective worship which informed everybody about this year CAFOD appeal to Brighten Up and raise money for Harvest. The focus of the assembly was water. The children expertly told us how we use water everyday and take it for granted; however, there are also children around the world who are less fortunate and have to walk up to 5km, three times a day to fetch water for their family before going to school. However, with the help of the money so generously raised by St. Mary’s these communities are supplied with water towers and pumps which gives them a regular of water so that the children are all able to attend school. Throughout the school children took part in messy hair day and there were truly terrible hairstyles (and that’s just the teachers). Thank you to everybody for your kind donations and Year 5 in leading this year’s appeal.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their wet and muddy ‘muddy mayhem’ assault course this week. Proceeds from the event will be shared between Sports Relief and PTA Funds. Thank you for your support.
Thank you to all the children and families for their generous donations to the CAFOD appeal this year. Thanks to your donations we have raised a magnificent £117.48. In addition to we have an overwhelming response to the donations of food towards the St. Mary’s Parish food bank. Thank you again for your generosity and support.
Yet again the children and families of St. Mary’s have showed generous and charitable we are by donating toys and gifts to operation Christmas child that will be sent to children in other parts of Europe, who otherwise wouldn’t receive any Christmas presents.
Sixty children from KS2 had a great time at the Charity Sleepover on Friday night and raised £823.82 in the process. In keeping the theme of raising money to help the people in the Philippines, children had a light tea of soup and a hot dog. They then watched a film. After the film, Mrs Farrell led a liturgy for the people affected by the typhoon. The children then had hot chocolate and a biscuit, before settling down in their sleeping bags and watching a second film. Eventually, eyelids began to droop and the children slowly went off to sleep – just after midnight!!
Year 4 were first to wake up at about 6.30am. Then, it was up, dressed and sleeping bags packed away – ready for a simple breakfast of toast and juice. And before everyone knew it Mums and dads were collecting their children.
The verdict from the children – a resounding success! The staff…..they went home exhausted for some well deserved sleep.
The money will be split (50/50) between CAFOD and the PTA (to improve mobile technology in the classrooms). Thank you for your generosity.
Congratulations to Class 1C who managed to put together a fantastic 87 Christmas shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. The children wish to thank everyone for their kind donations. They will bring much joy and happiness to those receiving them.
This year, each of our classes has chosen a charity to support throughout the year. Class 1C have chosen ‘Operation Christmas Child’ and have set themselves a target of making 200 Christmas shoeboxes to help children in Eastern Europe have an enjoyable Christmas.
The children have decided to organise the collection a little differently this year. Each week, over the next four week period, they will collect nominated items from different gift categories. The children will then put all their collections together and make up as many shoeboxes as they can.
The collections are as follows:
Mon 23rd Sept – Educational Items – pens and pencil, notebook and stickers.
Mon 30th Sept – Personal Care Items – children’s toothbrushes and toothpaste, flannel, sponge, soap, shampoo etc
Mon 7th Oct – Toys – soft toys, tennis ball, finger puppet, jigsaw, trucks and cars, dolls
Mon 14th Oct – Other Items – sweets, gloves, scarves, sunglasses, bangles etc.
Items can be brought into school at any time during the week.
Please note: all gifts should be new and cannot include any war related items, chocolate or novels.
Thank you for your continued support and generosity.
We aim to develop in the children an awareness of their wider community, and to foster practical service and charity towards others both locally and globally. We do this by involving the children in charity fundraising throughout the year.
In February 2013, we raised £176.50 for CAFOD through a non uniform day. Thank you for your generosity.
We are currently raising funds for Caritas through the St. Joseph’s Penny collection. To date, we have collected £100.90. Once again, many thanks. If you have not already done so, please return your box to school by Monday 25th March.
On 15th March, we will be having a non uniform day in support of Comic Relief. The children are asked to wear something red in return for a donation.
