Charity Cycle Ride
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Dear Parents, Welcome back to another busy term at St. Christopher’s. Charity events this term for The Eyeless Trust ( www.eyeless.org.uk) We hope that you will be as generous in your support this term as you were last term – a phenomenal £2000 was raised between September and Christmas, withh over half being collected during the last 2 weeks of term in December! The Sleepover for Year 3 – 6 is going ahead on Friday 5th February, with 68 pupils, and a brave ( daft? ) team of 8 staff, and should raise over £1300. The school’s Annual Bring & Buy Sale will be held in February, so please clear out your toy cupboards, bookshelves and toiletries shelves in anticipation of this! Further details will be sent regarding the exact date and timings, so watch out for the letter. As you are probably aware, Mrs. E. Palmer (1P) and her husband, along with 2 fathers, Paul Murray-Higgins, and Paul Minton, are cycling from the London Eye, to the village of Eye in Suffolk, on March 18th & 19th. A justgiving page has been set up for them www.justgiving.com/stchristophersriders, and we would urge you to sponsor them on their quest. Please also send the link to your family and friends. We have a target of £2000 for this event. I have already signed up my sponsorship, as I am full of admiration for anyone who cycles further than the end of the road! We are planning to give them a good send off when they leave school, and hope to have a live link-up during assembly on the Friday morning. If you feel that you would like to take up the challenge and join them on the ride, it is not too late to see Mrs. Palmer, as the overnight accommodation has not yet been booked ! Two of our pupils have used their own initiative to raise money for The Eyeless Trust. Lucy Taylor set up a bar at her grandparents’ home on Christmas Day, charging the family members, and friends who were visiting, for their drinks. Obviously a good time was had by them, as she raised £ 31.66 ! Not to be outdone by dad’s cycling challenge, Patrick Minton decided to do a sponsored run in Cator Park, which was held on 17th January. He ran 5 laps of the park ( 1.5km ), and was sponsored by 11 friends and family members, and raised an impressive £25. Well done to both of them – we’re immensely proud of you! We love to hear about the children doing their own bit for the charity, so if your child has an idea, please do support it, and let me know what they did – photos are good too. Equally, if they, or you, have any ideas for larger scale events that maybe we could run in school, please let us know – we have some ideas of our own, but we are open to suggestions! Just a reminder – if anyone has a Marathon place either in this country or abroad, and needs a charity, then please do consider The Eyeless Trust. I mentioned it at a get together with my neighbours during the Christmas period, and one of them has pledged to support it when he does New York later in the year, and his wife is now also considering joining him! Mr. Velasco is mentioning the charity to everyone he knows, and as a result, 2 other schools have chosen to support it, as well as friends agreeing to participate in various sponsored sporting challenges. Sir is in training, and will be doing his own ‘event’ later on this year – so watch this space for more details! It’s amazing what just mentioning it does to some people!! More mundane matters… The Boxtops scheme is continuing to run on packets of Nestle cereal. Please check the dates on the tokens, as this is a continuous scheme, and send the current ones in by the end of term in order for the tokens to be of use to us. During the Christmas holidays, I delivered 195 pairs of spectacles to a local branch of Wilkinsons optician. They support World Vision Overseas, a scheme whereby spectacles are cleaned and mended, and then sent to countries where they are desperately needed. Many thanks for your donations, and please continue to send them in to school. The Times & Sunday Times Free Books for Schools campaign has now ended, and our book order has been sent off. Thank you for the several thousand tokens that were collected – as a result, a good little collection of books will be taking up residence in our libraries very soon. Our easyfundraising site is raising a steady amount of commission for the charity – so please keep shopping through this. If you haven’t already tried it, go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk, click on Find A Cause and type in St Christophers School – Beckenham ( this is case sensitive, and needs the hyphen ). You will be asked to register, and can then start shopping with your favourite retailers. Please pass this on to all your family and friends too, as anyone can raise funds for us. We are still collecting
We also have envelopes for recycling ink cartridges. Please collect a FREEPOST envelope for any that you have rather than sending empty cartridges to school. If you become aware of any other token collect schemes that we could be involved in please let me know. Generally we receive promotional details directly from companies, but there are occasionally some that we aren’t aware of! Thanks in anticipation of your support. |
