Charities

Charity

Hog Roast Ultimate Elton

Everyone had a great time at our Ultimate Elton event in March. Particular thanks to David Brydon and his team of helpers for superbly coordinating the event, also to Lulu and Howard Boder for facilitating and for assisting ‘Elton’ on the night. The evening raised £1,431.79.

At our annual Hog Roast we welcomed families old and new to usher in the new school year. It was an excellent afternoon, set off by the open classroom, the chance to meet and talk to our new Head, catch up with friends and eat delicious pork, all rounded off by the beautiful English sun! Everyone was very generous with donations at an all time high of £367.99 plus 2 Singapore Dollars and a 50 Stotinki coin from Bulgaria!

Thank you to the BHCC for organising such a successful event.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Coffee and bacon butties went down a treat when we joined in the national World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in September.

The traditional Friday morning bacon buttie stall usually raises funds for the BHCC but this week the money was donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. The BHCC version of the classic coffee morning event, still featured bacon butties, kindly sponsored by the school caterers. Holroyd Howe also supplied coffee and cake for those preferring a sweet treat. Proceeds from the event amounted to a total of £455.26.

Commenting on the fund-raising efforts, Cris Martin St Valery, Chair of the BHCC said, “The school is committed to ensuring that children and staff never lose sight of the value of generosity and our ethos has always been to demonstrate care and compassion towards others. Teaching children these valuable life lessons and actively involving them in raising funds for Macmillan helps to shape their views on what really matters. It was fi tting that the children hosted their own event and that all money raised should be diverted to such a worthy cause, on this national fund-raising day. People gave generously as the whole school community came together to make the morning a huge success. Thank you to all those who helped set-up, serve and eat!”

Harvest Festival

Our Harvest Festival sale raised a magnifi cent donation of £655.06 for the Salvation Army.

Remembrance Day

In Kindy, the children talked about Armistice Day and how soldiers in the wars are remembered. They learnt about how the land was destroyed and how, after the fi ghting had stopped, poppies grew. People saw this as a sign of hope and poppies are worn today as a mark of respect.

Year 3 wrote some very moving poems to commemorate Remembrance Day.

Our annual Poppy Appeal raised an impressive £444.49.

The Barrow Hills Outbound Hound returned home just before half term, much to the delight of all at Barrow Hills. A huge thank you must go to the BHCC for this, their fi rst purchase of the year. The funds raised by this Haslemere Community Arts project will go to a variety of local charities.

The hound is a collaboration between all children in the school from Nursery right through to Year 8; a collaged homage to the estate which surrounds the school. The central focus of the canine fi berglass masterpiece is a depiction of Great Roke, the main school building (an Arts and Crafts country house) supported by an illustrative garden theme representing the formal Gertrude Jekyll gardens and the 33-acre estate and grounds.

Art Scholars were responsible for painting the hound and designing the landscape style greenery for the rest of the School to colour, which was then attached to the hound. Years 7 and 8 created the buildings and logos to indicate the various school departments.

Thank you to Mrs Hatcher for leading the project and for coming up with the idea that the hound should sit by the school front door as our watchdog!

Christmas Decorating Workshop

It was a day of festive fun when children throughout the school took part in one of their favourite annual events – a Christmas Decorating Workshop on Friday 29th November.

Organised by BHCC, the Christmas workshop provided an opportunity for the children to decorate ceramic gingerbread men, which were then sent off to be fi red. The artistic masterpieces were returned, beautifully gift wrapped in time for the annual festivities. Every decoration was unique, enabling each child to create an unusual bespoke Christmas decoration, which could be gifted to friends and family.

The children also made colourful paper chains to decorate the Refectory and Christmas tree. As always, we are very grateful to the willing group of parents who volunteered their time to help festoon the school with the handmade paper chains.

Cris Martin St Valery, Chair of BHCC, said, “The children always look forward to this particular event which has become a fi rm favourite. Not only does it raise valuable funds, it also creates memorable experiences for all who take part. All activities are geared towards developing the pupil profi le attribute of generosity as well as encouraging compassion towards others. The workshop helped to instil those traits as well as strengthen the school’s community spirit.”

The Christmas Decorating Workshop raised £342. A huge thank you to Tiggy Trounce and all the parent volunteers. We are also pleased to report, the fi nal total for the charity cards was £614, thank you again to Mel Harris for organising.

Lent Appeal 2020

Following the very successful appeal in 2019, the Barrow Hills 2020 Lent Appeal again supported the UK based grassroots charity ‘Change 1’s Life’.

The charity aims to assist people in SubSaharan Africa who are victims of poverty, natural disaster or catastrophe. Change 1’s Life has children at the heart of its work and helps to supply food, clean water, clothes, medical aid and education.

This year, the Barrow Hills appeal supported the charity’s School Building Project. Change 1’s Life will be transforming shipping containers into solar powered classrooms and eventually a whole sustainable school with all the infrastructure necessary for children to learn and play.

The primary focus of the Barrow Hills Lent Appeal was to collect classroom items for the children to use in their new school. These included colouring pens and pencils, writing pencils, rubbers, notebooks and exercise books, age appropriate work books, rulers, pencil cases, writing pens and calculators, trainers, football boots and even laptops.

Rather than trying to raise money, all children took part in an ‘awareness event’ during the week commencing 9th March to remind them of what the school was doing and why:

Children in Key Stage 1 completed a variety of physical tasks, ranging from laps around the garden, to trike rides in their PE lessons. Years 3 and 4 took part in a fi ve-mile ‘awareness walk’ cross country to partner school King Edward’s Witley and back again to Barrow Hills, with children enjoying hot chocolate and cake at the halfway point!

Middle-Prep had an opportunity to build life skills, while supporting the Lent Appeal. They headed to Godalming on the train for an afternoon of hunting through charity shops, choosing items they thoought would be great for the school development project. Fun was had by all and it was excellent to see the diverse range of purchases, from stationery, rugby balls and educational board games to a microscope and telescope.

Upper Prep were extremely helpful in sorting all the donations! Thank you to everyone for their support of this year’s Lent Appeal.

Cake Sales and Bacon Butties

Hugely popular as always, the cake sales raised £796.83 and bacon butties achieved £3402.93, a total of £4199.76.

Huge thanks to the wonderful group of volunteers who run the stalls in all weathers. You are always a welcome sight!

Bonfi re Night

What a wonderful night we had for our Bonfi re and Firework display. Nearly 400 people attended to see our expertly built bonfi re burn and see the three superb ‘Guys’ go up in smoke. We were then treated to a spectacular fi rework display with the added bonus of an encore from The Chandler School! It just goes to show what a strong and vibrant community we have at Barrow Hills as it would not be possible to put on an event of this scale without the support and dedication of so many people. A huge thank you to all the volunteers from parents to school staff - you know who you are, and it is greatly appreciated. The event raised £1226.75