Charities

2011-12 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!

2011-12 Charities

Mukuti School

SALVATION ARMY COLLECTION

HALLOWE’EN CAKE COMPETITION

DORSET AIR AMBULANCE

PUDSEY

RNLI SOS Snack Sale

Year 4 rounded off a week of learning about the work of the RNLI by hosting a Sweet Or Savoury snack sale to raise funds for this worthy charity based in Poole. With Mrs Fellows, the school chef, they enjoyed making delicious pizzas to sell.

Year 4 parents sent in a variety of very imaginative cakes, some with an RNLI theme!

An amazing total of nearly £230 was raised. A big "thank you" to everyone who supported this event.

Connect with Ghana

At Yarrells School we are always very happy to be able to show our commitment to the wider community; recently we had a visit from Mr Nelson Ametepey-Hayes who was delighted to accept some text books from us, of which we no longer have need.

Mr Ametepey-Hayes has set up a primary school, Chrisnel International School, in Accra, Ghana, which is still in the very early phases of being developed and has some very limited resources at this stage.

We will continue to support the school in the future by sending on items of furniture and uniform, as well as books; computers; playground equipment; resources and audio-visual items that are no longer required.



Not only will we be providing practical support, but this is very much in keeping with our ECO ethos in recycling and regenerating!

Hallowe’en Tuck Sale

A FANTASTIC £200 WAS RAISED!! THANK YOU EVERYONE.

On Friday 26^th October, there was a Hallowe’en Tuck Sale. We collected lots of cakes, cookies and sweets which had been brought in by pupils. At Golden Time, Years 4 and up rushed in to see what treats would be on offer. The Early Years came in before and were very excited.

There were also a lot of creepy cakes for the creepy cake competition. The creepy cake competition was a great success. All the cakes looked amazing and really creepy. There was an auction for other cakes as well. Year 7 were behind the counter selling.

All the money was donated to our chosen charity,  Horse-riding for the Disabled at Holton Lee, nominated by this year's Student Council.

Overall, the Hallowe’en Tuck Sale was a great success and everyone had lots of fun!

by Eleanor P & Jessica A   Year 7

Shoebox Appeal

On Tuesday 27^th November Samaritans Purse collected 122 Christmas shoeboxes from Yarrells School.

This was a fantastic effort and I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who brought in a box. We even had boxes from ex-pupils who wanted to be involved! I will keep you posted as to where our shoeboxes end up, as it is now possible to ‘track’ the boxes on their journey to children who otherwise would not receive a gift at Christmas.

DONATIONS TO CHARITIES 2011-12