CHARITY

Mary’s Meals Charity

strongly about and takes a priority in our termly activities. It was a busy year for Canonaid, the School’s Charity Committee with representatives from each year group offering opportunities for students right across the School to get involved in fundraising. The two charities students voted to support were Centrepoint and Tree Aid. Students ran a very successful Coin for Life drive, collecting used foreign currency. Each of the Charity Committees also organised an event or sale. Year 7 organised a Reverse Advent where they asked each girl to bring in a food item per day for one week and all food items were donated to Harrow Foodbank and Year 9 organised a wonderfully entertaining teacher karaoke event. In October 2019, we held ‘Get Active’, a 24 hour sponsored event involving students from Years 10 and 11. Students participated in a range of activities such as lacrosse, judo, bouldering, yoga and gym work from 9am on Saturday 12th October to 9am on Sunday 13th October including a 2am Latin dance class quickly followed by a glow in the dark badminton session. The spirit and energy of the girls was phenomenal. Money raised went to the

Christmas Panto

Supporting the community and giving back is something which the NLCS family feels very

National Brain Appeal.

Delivering PPE

We hosted our annual Community Christmas Party for residents of local care homes. Guests and students ate together and watched a pantomime organised by the Drama department.

Covid-19 and the national lockdown inevitably meant that we were no longer able to physically get out into the community. However, that didn’t mean that our charitable work had to slow down. Production of our PPE face shields for local GP surgeries and care homes continued over the lockdown weeks and, with the help of Canonaid, we were also able to supply the face shields to the

Livability Care Homes as well as ‘Happiness’ cards which the girls made to help bring little moments of joy to the residents there. We were so grateful to be able to continue supporting them during such extremely challenging times.

In response to the challenging times, students created a NLCS Acts of Kindness Group and in collaboration with Canonaid created a video of well-wishing to send to care homes and NHS workers. In addition to this, over 30 NLCS musicians and singers came together to create a virtual orchestra, performing The Beatles’ ‘Here Comes the Sun’ – an amazing achievement.