Charity

The School supports numerous charities throughout the year. These include CAFOD, Great Ormond St. Hospital for Sick Children, The Havens Hospice, The Children’s Society, Barnardo’s and the local Women’s Refuge.

The School also sponsers a poor child in Palestine and also supports fifteen children affected by the tsunami in 2005. Money for all these ventures is raised in a number of fun ways including sponsored events, a 20p coin trail and the Christmas and Easter Raffles.

Each Christmas the staff, pupils and friends of the school fill more than 180 shoe boxes with gifts for needy children in Eastern Europe. These boxes are in turn delivered by the charitable organisation Samaritan’s Purse.

Red Nose Day 2011

The children celebrated and supported red nose day this year a little early.  On Wednesday 16th March all the children came in to school wearing red clothes, wigs and of course the obligatory red nose.  Every child made a donation and special assemblies were held on the day so that the childern understood why red nose day was held and what a difference the fund raising makes to the lives of others.

Christmas Raffle 2010

The Christmas Raffle was very popular with all the children who were keen to buy tickets for a chance to win one of the 52 prizes, all generously donated by Miss Welcome and her mother.  The lucky winners came from throughout the school and a magnificent total of £950.66 was raised.  The proceeds from the raffle are being donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital Oncology Ward.  Your support as always, is very much apprecaited.

Coin Trail 2010

The children collected a magnificent amount of 20p coins!  In total, £587.60 was raised. This sum was then divided between CAFOD and CARE (formerly known as Brentwood Catholic Childrens Society).  It was a very close competition between the houses of St. David and St. Patrick as to whose line of 20p's was the longest.  Eventually St. Patrick were officially declared the winners.
 

Easter Raffle 2010

We are delighted to announce that a magnificent £900 was raised from the Easter Raffle.  A cheque for this amount was given to Great Ormond Street Hospital and we received a lovely letter in return expressing their gratitude and explaining what a difference charitable donations such as these make.  Thank you all for your generous support.

Hats for HAITI

Following the terrible disaster that struck Haiti recently, the school held this event where everybody wore a hat of their choice.  A tremendous £1000 was raised which has been sent directly to Sister Mary who runs an orphange in Haiti.  Thank you all for your very generous support.

Christmas Raffle 2009

A fantastic total of £1,069.10 was raised for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.  Thank you to Mrs Welcome and Miss Welcome for donating the lovely prizes. The Junior class who raised the most amount of money was Lower Two, and in the Infant and Pre-Prep Department it was Pre-Reception.  Well done to them, and thank you to everyone who bought tickets to support this worthwhile cause.

Strictly Come Dancing Upper Two Style

On Thursday 22nd October Upper Two took to the stage in a whirl of sequins and bow ties for Strictly Come Upper Two 2009!  All the boys and girls paired off to choreograph their versions of a waltz, and rehearsed for weeks leading up to the event.  They performed in three groups, with the winners of each group dancing once more in the final before the champions were crowned.  The rest of the school paid to watch the show, and all money raised went to the school tsunami fund. It was a brilliant effort by all concerned, and all credit should go to Upper Two for creating such an exciting competition.

The boys	The girls
	Strictly Champions 2009!

Coin Trail 2009

The 20p coin trial took place on Manday 12th October to raise money for CAFOD.  A magnificent total of £921.80 was raised, which will provide meals for over 4,500 starving children.  Well done to all the children, and especially to St Patrick's house for collecting the most money.