VOLUNTEERING

Birthday Events

This half term we started the Summer Babies Birthday Bonanza!! (We couldn’t think of another name unfortunately)

On Wednesday the 8th of March, some of the charity reps (Abbi Harinee and I) got together at 8:00 to organise who we were visiting and what special requests they had (eg: Hamilton songs, and ‘please embarrass her a lot’, which we made sure to do).

Since it was our first go and we had quite a few people we did struggle with the surprise element at times, but made up for it with the loud singing and dancing It was extremely fulfilling and funny seeing the whole class join in with us and not hesitate to participate. But all in all, I am super excited to be doing these surprises, and hope that every Wednesday morning will be as busy and entertaining as the first Rithi Y12

A quote from a Year 8 on their experience: My friend, Alice, used the birthday surprise that some Year 12’s were offering, to surprise me a couple of days after my birthday They came in playing music and sang for us, while wearing party hats and Hawaiian necklaces The whole class joined in the singing and it was all very fun. Alice did it in secret so it was a complete surprise for me! It made me feel special on my birthday! They also gave me a brownie It was quite embarrassing but it made it more exciting and fun Flo Y8

Fairtrade Awards

On Tuesday 21st February one of the Y11 enrichment groups joined a Google Meet with the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur school in Pennsylvania The class had been researching and developing their presentations on Fairtrade to present to the Notre Dame school which was part of the events being held in order to gain the next Fairtrade award - the Fairactive award On the meet they shared their presentations with the students in Pennsylvania and the US students shared their presentations and knowledge of Fairtrade in the US Here is what our students said:

Hannah, Yasmin and I really enjoyed speaking to the American students and found it very enriching It was a very interesting experience, as not only did we discuss fairtrade, but we also had an in depth conversation about their own personal topics for their final projects One of the girls was doing a presentation about the Catholic church and how their teachings affect fair trade We learnt a lot about the catholic influence on fairtrade, and hopefully our project helped her with research Over all, it was an incredibly fascinating experience, and all the girls were friendly and interested in what we had to say

Charlotte Y11