In year 5 we had a week of fundraising, before Easter, for our class charity: National Autistic Society. The children in Owl Class decided they wanted to have a whole school ‘Home Clothes Day’, host a KS2 book sale and complete a class sponsored walk.

We challenged ourselves to walk the distance from school to Paris, which is approximately 180 miles, and gave ourselves three walking slots over the week to complete it.

We calculated our miles into laps and worked out that we needed to walk, or run, 60 laps of the school field (each!) to make it there.

On the last day before Easter, and after calculating our laps, we realised that we were three laps short! So, leading us to success in the last few minutes of term 4, three super members of Owl Class took to the field to run a lap each and were welcomed back to a whole class applause, for giving the one last push we needed to get us to Paris!

I am delighted to announce that after collecting all of the money from our sponsored walk and teaming this with the money raised from the ‘Home Clothes Day’ and the KS2 book sale, Owl Class have raised £914.36 for our charity!

Thank you to everyone who donated towards our charity events and a special thank you to all the friends and family of Owl Class for their generous sponsored walk donations. I am incredibly proud of the children for their dedication to this cause and raising money for National Autistic Society. Every single child gave their all and worked as a team towards one goal!

You can donate and find more out about the charity, and the amazing support they give to autistic people here: https://www.autism.org.uk

Go Owl Class!

Mrs Carpenter-Wilson