Kid crusaders are so keen to help chosen charities
By Lilah Hepworth and Charlotte Dib, Year 4, Trinity Beach State School
CONGRATULATIONS Cancer Council and Act for Kids, you have been chosen.
Our school, Trinity Beach State School have voted and these are the two charities that our school community will support long term.
These foundations support kids and families dealing with cancer or child abuse and neglect.
We will create events throughout the year to fundraise and support these foundations in any way we can.
This is the process we used to decide on which ones to support:
First, the student council representatives, house captains and school leaders voted on around 20 children’s charities creating a shortlist of a top five.
Then the council reps took this list to their classes where the other students voted for their top two.
Next, they returned the votes to a teacher who added up the numbers and voila! Cancer Council and Act for Kids were the favourites.
Everyone seemed pretty happy with the outcome so we guess we made a great choice.
We have just held our first fundraiser, a free dress day, where students donated a gold coin and the proceeds we raised of $823.35 went directly to the Act for Kids foundation.
This term we are also organising a Relay for Life event to support the Cancer Council.
A big thank you in advance to our school community for being kid crusaders and donating to these worthy causes.
Together we can make big things happen. ON AUGUST 2, Our Lady Help of Christians’ Year 6 students organised a funfair to raise money for charity.
The whole school played fun games like pin the tail on the dragon and throw a wet sponge at the teachers. There was also throwing a rugby ball into a hoop, cup stacking and many more activities.
The Year 6 students had made posters to tell the school about all the different games they could play.
Even though it rained in the afternoon it was still fun. Some of the games were done in the library instead of on the oval.
At each game, you could win prizes like sticky hands, rubbers and glitter pens.
Some games had a raffle for bigger prizes like a basketball or a nerf gun.
The students had to write their name on a ticket if they won a game.
Principal Luke Felstead walked around the school to look at the activities.
Students donated money by bringing cash or online using the tuckshop’s flexischools app. The school raised $1344.35. Some of this money will go to the Story Dogs program and the rest will go to Mercyworks.