Charity
Through the Form Charity programme the whole school community helps raise money and awareness for good causes locally (e.g. Princess Alice Hospice, Barnardos, Home-Start and the Shooting Star Trust), nationally (Jeans for Genes Day and Breakthrough Breast Cancer), and internationally (Opportunity International, the African Medical and Research Foundation, Pahamune House and Kiira College). In 2004/5, over £22,000 was raised by Form Charity.
An Inter-Form Form Charity Competition is run in the first three year groups with Form Charity Cups presented in the last assembly of the academic year. A range of Whole-school events are organised each year. These include an annual Staff Stars in their Eyes, a Staff Cabaret, and a Staff versus Student University Challenge, sponsored cricket matches and mufti days, and an Amarillo video featuring staff. Individual form activities include sponsored silences and fitness programmes, the design and sale of Teacher Top Trumps Cards, cake and sweet sales, and auctions. An annual Second Year Sponsored Character Day is also organised by a member of the English Department to mark World Book Day. A member of staff swam the English Channel in aid of the local Shooting Star Children's Hospice.
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Famous quotes containing the word charity:
“Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“With a smile of Christian charity great Casey’s visage shone;
He stilled the rising tumult, he made the game go on;”
—Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)