Chasing The Sun

On the longest day of the year, Mr Leach cycled the width of England from dawn to dusk as part of the ‘Chasing the Sun’ challenge. He started at The Isle of Sheppey and ended at Burnham on Sea, a distance of 330 km. He said of the experience, ‘it was tough, but enjoyable at the same time. Coming down Cheddar Gorge at speed was interesting with goats in the road! I managed to finish before the heavy rain started so I was pleased about that.’ up 200km in just under seven hours. To give moral support to Mr Leach, Mr Mubiru and pupils from Kikaaya got on their bikes to cycle around their village for 1km, marvelling at the superhuman effort Mr Leach was about to undertake. Mr Mubiru sent a video message to Mr Leach saying ‘thank you so much for dedicating your time, energy and resources for the link, we appreciate your services.’ He also said how inspired he had been by Mr Leach in an assembly he gave about him to his school.

Mr Leach was cycling to raise funds via a crowdfunding page for our ‘Partners in Learning’ Kikaaya College School (KCS) in Uganda. To kick off his challenge he cycled for a full school day in the Quad, clocking Having cycled 530 km, Mr Leach then kicked off a challenge for the PGS Community, to cycle the remaining 5,920 km distance between PGS and KCS by the 1st September 2021!

‘Portsmouth - Our Place’ at PortsFest by Fiona Nicholson

Inspired and supported by the work of local artisan Jen Evison (www.jencreates.co.uk) 10 local schools, including PGS, created an interactive 3m x 2m 3D Jigsaw Model of Portsmouth for Ports Fest. Each school created a piece of the jigsaw, that is a representation of their local area, and also included an aspirational element for how they would like their area to develop. Using QR codes on the model it was possible to find out more about what our young people think and feel about ‘Portsmouth – Our Place’ through survey results and videos, and what they hope for the future. It was housed in Portsmouth Cathedral for three weeks and is dedicated in loving memory to David ‘Mac’ MacDonald who cut all the jigsaw pieces.