On Friday, the whole school took part in our annual International Day. We enjoyed dressing up in different culture’s clothing and performing our Brazilian dance for parents and the school. We discussed respect for different cultures and shared reasons why we chose our clothing for the day.
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. Members of our Choir were invited to take part in Darlington’s annual Proms in the Park event alongside the winners and runners up from this year’s Mayor’s Singing Contest. Children performed a medley from Mary Poppins and participated in the finale of Rule Britannia, Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. They performed alongside The Royal Signals (Northern) Band. The children were a credit to the school and sang with great enthusiasm. The event was a huge success and raised over £1600 which is used to support ABF The Soldiers' Charity.
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