School Projects
The children have taken part in many projects, activities, events and
fund raising initiatives, here are some of the things they have been
up to since September 2003.
Asian Earthquake Appeal
Our collection for the Asian Earthquake appeal on Monday 17th
October, came to £211.42. A very big thank
you to everyone for your
contributions.
Harvest Festival
All our harvest donation for the Harvest Festival goes to the Food Cupboard
at St. Mary's Church in Bletchley to help local families in desperate
need.
Jeans for Genes
Children and staff take part in the Jeans for Genes day every year.
Advantage Africa -January 2005
Money was raised during the School Christmas Concerts, where children
helped a local charity Advantage Africa with fundraising. The picture
in the top right hand corner shows Two Year 6 Pupils and Mr Scull present
a cheque for £600 to Andrew Betts, director of Advantage
Africa. The money was put towards helping to fund Teachers
in Africa. Andrew came in to talk to the children prior to the fundraising
and again later to tell them how their money was being spent.
Street Care - Monday 22nd November 2004
Giles Brook Streetcare Champions spend the morning with the Mayor of
Milton Keynes, showing how the school are piloting the Milton Keynes
Streetcare initiative in schools to promote good citizenship and care
for the local environment. ( more..... )
Samaritan's Purse - October 2003 / 2004 / 2005
Every year the children have the opportunity to support
Operation Christmas Child, which is a project of Samaritan's Purse. Families
who wish to support this charity, fill up a shoe box with small toys, school
supplies, hats, scarves and other gifts. The boxes are then sent to poor
children around the World. To find out more visit Samaritan's
Purse web site.
RSPCA - May 2005
Two separate projects were done by year 3 and year 4 and
the children from both year groups decided to raise money for the RSPCA
but in very different ways.
Year 3
The children decided that they wanted to create their
own games and then set up and ran their own stalls, taking money and giving
change, as each class in turn visited their event during the day.
Year 4
Children in year 4 learnt about all the different animal
welfare organisations, they decided to do a sponsored event to raise money
and decided that they would sponsor themselves, their teachers and
teaching assistants to dress up for the day as pets. They raised £141
for a RSPCA.
Choir raise money for Special Care baby Unit - December
2003
The school choir sang carols in the entrance to
Safeway's for 60 minutes. They managed to cause quite a bit of congestion
as many shoppers stopped to listen to them, but everyone really enjoyed
the Christmas cheer and they raised a lot of money for Milton Keynes
Hospital, Special Care Baby Unit.
Blue Peter Appeal
The school supports many other charities and these have included the NSPCC,
the Ark Charity and Red Nose Day.
