NHEHS CHARITY NEWSLETTER

Date: 7th March 2022

Supporting Ukraine

We have all been moved by the events unfolding in Ukraine and many of you naturally want to do something to help the adults and children who have had to flee their homes. A group of Y11 students have already responded by organising a bake sale and will be leading the school in a wear yellow and blue for a £2 day. Here are the events you can take part in at school to help raise money for the work of Unicef in Ukraine.

https://www.unicef.org/ukraine/en

Cake sale - Wednesday 2nd March

Collection of items - Wednesday 9th March - Monday 14th March

Wear yellow or blue dress up day - Friday 11th March

Second hand book sale - Tues 15th & Wed 16th March

Teacher quiz - Friday 11th March

Knit a yellow flower to be sold amongst the students and sta - See the pattern here

For the dress up day you can either give your £2 to your form tutor or donate through the Just Giving page.

If you have further ideas as to how the school can support Ukranians please speak to Lydia or Evangeline in Y11. For more details, you can also email Mrs Johnson s.johnson@nhehs.gdst.net

Y9 Charity events

Y9 have just completed a successful charity month raising money for Ashiana who provide refuge services for South Asian, Turkish and Iranian women. Below is a round up of some of the events held over the last month. Money is still being counted. The final total will be announced in the next newsletter.

Would I lie to you?

The Would I Lie To You event was hosted to raise money for Ashiana. It was a fun game that teachers played against a team of students, trying to guess whether a story was true or false. Lots of students came to watch the event and it was very successful. Millie Y9

The Masked Singer

For our Masked Singer event we invited teachers from various departments to sing anonymously from behind a curtain. For the event, students had to guess which teacher was singing from behind their "mask". We managed to get Ms Tollit, Mr Head, Ms Thomas and a duet of Ms Cagnino and Ms Newman to sing for the event. The winners were given prizes for guessing and we managed to raise a lot of money for our chosen charity, the Ashiana Network. Caitlin

Y9

Bubble tea

For one of our Year 9 Charity Events, to raise money for the Ashiana Network, we sold bubble tea. In preparation for the event, we bought boba, iced tea, cups, and straws. Although it was quite expensive to buy the products we needed, we were able to gain a large profit at the event. For the charity event we sold our various flavours of bubble tea in the Atrium and then later moved outside. The event was very successful and enjoyable, and it was a fun way for us, as Charity reps, to raise money for a charity we strongly believed in.

Hi! I’m Niamh and for A Level I study History, Politics and English Lit. I applied for the charity rep role because the wide range of charity events have always been a part of school that I've really liked, and I enjoyed being the charity rep in year 10 as well. In the past as I mentioned I was one of the charity reps but I have also volunteered at the British heart foundation charity in hammersmith as well as helping the school getting involved in the RoK network which helped distribute our old textbooks to schools in the UK and Nigeria and I also hope to volunteer at the Amnesty bookshop in Hammersmith.

Hi I’m Carmen and I’m so excited to be a new Charity rep this year. I really enjoy helping and getting involved with Volunteering. I really enjoy our school charity events and now get to help with them. I have been involved with lots of our year charity events so thought I would continue this as I really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to the upcoming Charity events and helping with them.

Hi, I'm Lollie and I'm in Year 10. I became a volunteering lead as I have always wanted to get involved in the charity events and programs that the school runs. I was a humanitarian rep in Year 9 and really enjoyed all the events that I got involved with and the PSCHEE lessons that I helped run. We also went on a trip to the Harrow Club, and I found it really interesting and inspiring to see how they were helping their community. I think that everyone should try and get involved in some form of volunteering as it is really fulfilling to see how your actions can help someone else.

Hey! I’m Millie and I’m so excited to be a Charity rep this year. I applied to be a charity rep because I enjoy volunteering and helping people and would love to be part of that for the school. I enjoy volunteering at a homeless shelter near my house and baking every week because I get to help out my local community.