VOLUNTEERING

Tree Planting At Blondin Park

For our class’s Enrichment session, we travelled to Blondin Park to help preserve the nature in the park including litter picking and tree planting We were split up into three groups: litter picking, mulch shovelling and tree planting

Working as a team made the work more efficient and enjoyable with a leader guiding us on what to do and some strategies to make our work better and easier The leaders were very helpful and encouraging as they made the experience more enjoyable We were able to collectively clean up most of the litter in the park and plant around six new trees. We added bark mulch on top of the roots of the trees to keep the soil safe during the cold winter months Although this work was gruelling, it was rewarding as we were able to use our time to help our community

Parents Guild Christmas Bazaar

On Saturday 3rd of December, the school fair was held, where there were three stalls set up to raise money for The Log Cabin

The result of the very busy and exciting fair was over £400 raised through the sale of Christmas cards which were designed by students, Christmas themed sweets and also through Christmas themed games The games included Pin the nose on Rudolph, Lucky Dip and a 50p Toss

Many of the Charity reps in the different years volunteered to run these stalls and it was a great experience as well as lots of fun

Age Uk Choirs

On Thursday 1st December a group of Sixth Form students attended the Age UK Community Centre in Greenford to perform some Christmas Carols for the elderly people that attend the centre All the 6th formers dressed up in festive clothes and it was clear that this was greatly appreciated by the residents of the centre A few Christmas songs that went down particularly well were Mariah Careys ‘All I want for Christmas is you ’ and ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ with one resident in particular getting involved dancing in the middle It was a very successful performance and one that was enjoyed thoroughly by both us and the residents of the centre

Christmas Jumper Day

Tuesday 13th December will be our annual Christmas jumper day Please wear your festive jumpers for a £2 donation which will go to two charities: Log Cabin or Care 4 Calais Pay £2 cash to your form tutor during registration or via the JustGiving link (Please take a screenshot to show to your tutor)

Students Make Christmas Cards

Thank you to all the students in Y7,8,10 and the Junior school who produced beautiful Chriatmas cards to be enjoyed by older people living in the Ealing area 120 cards will go into the hampers produced by Age UK Ealing and the rest have been distributed to Chestnut lodge care home St David’s and Blakesley House where Y10 students sing to the residents on a weekly rotation