Charities

HARVEST FESTIVAL
- a feast for eye and ear!

Our three services were a feast for eye and ear! Tables groaned with harvest gifts!All year groups from Nursery to Yr 8 contributed songs, poems and prayers while Rev de Garis made us laugh, made us think and led us in prayer and song. As well as a huge collection of gifts for the Salvation Army, we raised £729.80 (£209.80 from festivals plus £520 personal donations from parents) for Mukuti Lakeside School iAfrica.

HALLOWE’EN TUCK SALE

Dressed in ghoulish costume, the pupils brought in many sweets and other confectionery to sell. As well as this, some pupils made and brought in some cakes to compete in the Sweet and Spooky Creepy Cake Competition. The entries were extremely ghoulish and looked disgusting, though, as it turned out, they were good toeat! Student Council were delighted with how many pupils took part in this successful event.

DORSET & SOMERSET
AIR AMBULANCE

Yarrells School Student Council chose the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance as beneficiaries of the funds raised from their annual Halloween Tuck Sale.President of the Student Council, Klayton Nutley (pictured) put forward Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance as his choice of charity because they are local and he has seen them attend some incidents his rugby matches.
Head Girl, Anna Bussell donned her witch’s costume for the presentation of the cheque £271.00 to DSAA’s Annette Plaistow-Trapaud (pictured) who came to Yarrells to show the pupils slides of the new helicopter which has been recently purchased with money raised by local fund-raising events.
Headmistress, Mrs Covell, quipped “I’d rather be rescued by the DSAA!”

CHILDREN IN NEED
Pudsey pays a visit

Staff and pupils at Yarrells raised a staggering £500 this year for Children in Need. There was a flurry of activity which involved all areas of the school. The kitchen staff baked Pudsey cookies which Year 5 decorated and then sold at the school gates – what a scrum that was! Pudsey cookies were baked at home and sold to neighbours and friends with Jack and Riley Weers raising the largest single amount of £30.75. Pedal for Pudsey took place in the courtyard where some brave and energetic teachers took turns on an exercise bike, much to the delight of pupils passing by. Nursery did their annual collection of Pennies for Pudsey also. Pudsey called in to our school assembly much to the children’s surprise and delight and was rewarded with a cheque and loads of hugs!

Mukuti School

SALVATION ARMY COLLECTION

HALLOWE’EN CAKE COMPETITION

DORSET AIR AMBULANCE

PUDSEY

The Mukuti Project - October 2010

Mrs Nethercott took two large suitcases full of books, stationery, footballs, football kit, and sports shoes with her to Africa, donated by us at the Yarrells to give to the children of Lakeside Primary School in Malawi.Additionally she took money that was raised by the generosity of the Yarrells’ children and parents to be used for the benefit of Mukuti School.

In the picture of the classroom you will see the blue desks that “our” money has been used to fund local youth workers to make. The children no longer sit on the floor!

They were also delighted with the gift of the black plimsolls which are being proudly worn and continued to be worn throughout the visit, during which they learned some of our English songs and in return taught Mrs Nethercott their own type of African dancing!! The classroom was also decorated with bunting made by Yarrells’ pre-prep children and they gave us a lovely painting of their School, by a local artist, and which now hangs in the Yarrells’ dining room. You can see it being presented by Sam Ludick in front of the class to Mrs Nethercott.

Afterwards, the football kit was handed over to the children and worn to wave a final goodbye. We havealso paid for a chair for the Teacher, “Miss Rose”, and a see-saw and swing for the children.

The plans are now to fund more equipment made locally for the playground, to carry out needed
maintenance for the school building and to pay for simple uniforms, to be made locally, and to give the School identity.

Thank you to everyone!!!

DONATIONS TO CHARITIES

Julia’s House - staff guess the weight of the babies                                           £35.00

- Royal Wedding “Street Party”                                                                               £279.16

- Nursery & Pre-Prep plays                                                                                     £190.86

Christian Aid                                                                                                          £99.92

Action Medical Research - Nursery & Reception Teddy Bears’ Picnic               £46.92

Help the Heroes collection of “small change” Yr 4                                               £15.00

World Wildlife Fund for Nature collection of “small change” Yr 4                      £15.00

Macmillian Cancer Support – staff coffee morning                                         £165.00

Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance

- Hallowe’en tuck sale & cake Competition                                                             £405.50

Mukuti School, Malawi – Harvest festivals                                                        £390.00

Personal donations from parents                                                                           £570.00

WaterAid – Harvest festival                                                                                   £83.06

Children in Need biscuit sales & staff pedal for Pudsey                                    £500.00

Poppy Appeal £                                                                                                    138.86

Poole Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Christmas Concerts                               £549.56

Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital

- donations by staff instead of sending Christmas Cards                                      £60.00

RNLI SOS “Sweet and Savoury” Food Sale                                                         £200.00

Comic Relief Red Nose Day                                                                               £235.36

Salvation Army - Harvest Festival gifts

Samaritan’s Purse - Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes

Gift of Sight - plastic bottle tops from plastic milk bottles

Royal National Institute of Blind People - used stamps

                                           Grand total to May 2011                                        £3,979.20