Sweeties and 
jeely pieces

OUR CHALLENGE to every secondary school in Scotland is well under way and it’s going great. Dozens of secondaries around the country are busy raising cash for the new children’s hospice at Loch Lomond, but there are some out there we haven’t yet heard from — so come on folks! Our aim is to see every secondary pupil in Scotland raise at least £1. Now a number of primary schools have also joined in the act.  Among them are the primary six pupils of Bredilands Primary School in Paisley who have got to know each other a whole lot better while raising £114.43 for our hospice appeal. Teacher Beverly Kirk had been thinking of ways to get the new primary six class to gel quickly as it had been made up from two separate primary five classes.

Pupils of class Six Brediland Primary School in Paisley raised £114 for the Schools Challenge.  Front — James Steele, Lisa McWilliams and Christopher Murdoch. Back — Lisa Marie Duffin and Leslie Osborne.

She explains, “Your challenge was a great opportunity to get the class working together while raising money for a good cause, so I asked the children to come up with fund-raising ideas.”
Sweet-toothed pupils including Lisa McWilliams set up a cake and candy stall in the assembly hall.
All the class made a contribution, bringing in cakes their parents had helped them make or saving up sweeties to donate to the stall.
Budding artist Christopher Murdoch drew Pokemon colouring-in sheets and sold them to fellow pupils with a prize for the best effort and James Steele sold quiz sheets with questions about sweets.
Nicola Berry sold raffle tickets with teddies and cuddly toys as prizes.
Lisa McWilliams says, “I really enjoyed helping CHAS. Everyone made a big effort to help each other and we,re all really good friends now.” 
Anne Douglas, a Home Economics teacher at Douglas Ewart High School, Newton Stewart, is putting her culinary skills to good use by getting her pupils to hand-pick brambles and then teaching them how to make jam.
It’s been jeely pieces all round as the fourth year enterprise class have been selling the jam for 50p a jar to pupils, teachers and cleaning staff in the school. So far they’ve managed to raise £50 for our appeal. 

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