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Highclare Pupils Wear Hats for Haiti

Pupils across all three sites at Highclare School raised money for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal last week, raising a total for the whole school of £1,412.

Children at the school’s Nursery and Infant department at Highclare Woodfield, in Wylde Green, wore a great assortment of different hats on Friday 29th January to raise their money, and with the help of staff and parents raised £805. Their fund raising event was enjoyed by all the children from aged eighteen months to 7 years and saw the school awash with colourful, cosy and crazy hats!

“The idea came from the children themselves after their weekly reflective Assembly when Year 1 & Year 2 pupils discussed the current earthquake in Haiti and the impact it was having on children and their families. After looking at photographs of Kiki, the young survivor who was pulled from the rubble after eight days, they decided that as Woodfield is a
caring school, we should extend our caring hands across the world.” said Mrs Lin Jude, Head of Highclare Woodfield.

Eight members of the school council then took their cheque to the Oxfam shop in Wylde Green where the money was gratefully received by staff.

Junior pupils at Highclare The Abbey held their own raffle and a ‘Ten pence Trail’ covering all the letters of the words ‘Help Haiti’ in 10 p coins and pupils at Highclare St Paul’s paid £2 each to take part in a non-uniform day to raise further money for the disaster fund.