Can you believe that 79 children fell asleep at school? We are pleased to say that it wasn’t the lessons that sent them to sleep but an organised sleepover. The first sleepover in Reid Street’s 107 year history took place on Friday 5th July. Children from key stage 2 attended and the whole event was extremely successful. The Pie challenge children learned about the hospitality business and created their own Reid Street BnB raising £960! Children began arriving at 5:30 pm with a vast array of sleeping equipment. Everyone was excited but some were a little nervous too. At 6 pm, we all headed to Magic and Mayhem where the children thoroughly enjoyed some free time charging around the indoor play area. After returning to school at 8:30 pm, supper (toast, cookies and milk) were served. Everybody was in a great mood and incredibly excited. The teachers were wondering if anyone would sleep. After taking a vote for which movie we would watch, we went back to the hall where we sat with friends and watched The Emoji Movie. Some children fell asleep straight away! The behaviour of the children was impeccable throughout the night and 90% of the children were fast asleep by 11:00 pm when the movie finished. The children began to wake around 6:00 am. Then staff arrived to make breakfast so after some early morning team games on the yard we all enjoyed either a bacon or sausage sandwich. The Pie challenge design team had created some review sheets and we were thrilled with our 4.5 out 5 star rating. Here are some of the comments: Very nice place for a first time. The price of £12 is good because it included the soft play, a breakfast, supper and a movie. Damon I thoroughly enjoyed it. The PIE Challenge have been planning it for ages and I think they pulled it off. I would definitely do it again. Olivia On Friday, the figures needed to be in. We knew we had received lots of interest from businesses wanting to sponsor us (see the Sponsorship blog). It was our job to count the sleep over total.
We had collected lots of money over the two weeks as we were counting and checking totals all the time. Jack, Tyler and Alfie had great fun counting all the money! We had over £900 as 76 children have paid. Alfie said, “It’s the most money I’ve ever counted.” Jack said, “I can’t believe we have raised that amount as when the other school arranged a sleepover they only raised £450 but charged £15:00.” Tyler who is the deputy finance manager said, “This is going to be amazing everyone is talking about it! We loved the movie night but this has raised nearly double the amount of that.” Over the last three weeks, we have been collecting money from the children who are coming to the sleep over. We have decided to run a hospitality business and have a massive sleepover. We have visited other schools in Darlington to find out about their sleep over and we even went to the local Mecure Hotel.
Our design team created an invitation/ticket which everyone got with their receipt when they paid the £12:00. Every day we collected the money and took it to the school office to keep in the safe and we gave out the envelopes with the children’s receipt and ticket. |
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