Year 2 pupil, Camilla, was interviewed at her school, Our Lady of Hartley Primary, by ITV this month, for her charity work for Mental Health charity, Looseheads.

Camilla and her brother, Spencer, have been running to raise money for the charity since September last year. They have so far run an incredible 252 miles and will complete the challenge on 24 June, by then they will have run 288 miles!

Camilla has also now won a competition to be the mascot for the Rugby World Cup in France later this year. Well done, Camilla, you really are an inspiration!

You can see watch Camilla's interview with ITV here.

 

If you would like to support Camilla and Spencer, you can donate on their Justgiving page here.

Two of our dedicated staff at St Peter's Primary in Sittingbourne completed the Virtual Moonwalk for Breast Cancer Care this month.

 

Catherine and Shelly walked a marathon distance of 26.2 miles in 7.27 hours and raised a fantastic total of £435.00 for the charity!

 

A huge well done to Catherine and Shelly, we're so proud of you!

On Friday 19th May, a group of St Edward's staff nipped off to the Ashford International Hotel to pick up the Team of the Year Award for their district!

 

The school's nomination was anonymous, and read: 
"The whole school is dedicated to the care and welfare of the children. The staff always go the extra mile to support not only the children, but the family as a whole."

The nomination was written through the eyes of a child, and also detailed how the staff team had made pupils feel safe whilst at school, even though they were having sleep issues at home.
 

The school staff advised that they were very surprised by the award, and that it was lovely to have the recognition from parents and pupils who had taken the time to nominate the school.

 

Go Team St Ed's! 🎉

Earlier this term, St Gregory’s students in Years 7 to 10 took part in the CAFOD Big Lent Walk fundraiser, with each year group completing two circuits of the school’s playing fields to raise money for the official aid agency and charity.

 

Enjoying the outdoors and the sunshine, the fundraising walks provided a wonderful opportunity for the school to come together as a community to show their support for the amazing work that CAFOD does. A photographer from CAFOD also join the school at the event to capture images of the fundraising effort in action (please see below).

 

The campaign, which was launched by St Gregory’s Year 12 CAFOD Young Leaders at the start of Lent, managed to raise a total of £1,600 and meant the school successfully raised more money for CAFOD in those few, short weeks than was raised by various events throughout the whole of last year.  

 

A huge well done to all involved!

Please take a few moments to read the wonderful article below which has been written by Eva, one of our talented Year 5 pupils at St Joseph's Primary, Broadstairs:

 

St Joseph's Year 5 pupils walked to Broadstairs College for a fun-filled day of celebration and street party put on by the staff and students of the college, to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III. Along with St. Joseph's, many other local schools also took part in many fun activities. At the entrance, Paddington Bear welcomed us, and we enjoyed our first arts and crafts activity where we decorated colouring sheets and played some popular traditional games including giant Connect Four and Heads and Tails. We even took pictures with Paddington.

 

After that, we headed to the Forest School where we made medals from wood cuttings, wood cookies, and did a forest scavenger hunt for words. After the hunt, we worked out that the letters spelt Charles and found lots of wildlife and nature. Once we had finished activity two, it was time for activity three. In activity three, we got to draw Coronation art and messages on a mini cooper, - we all drew crowns, thrones and objects that relate to the King. Then we had a game of Croquet and Giant Jenga…. it was really peaceful because the sun was shining and lots of robins were chirping in the trees.

 

At lunch time, we all sat at a really long table with Union Flag table cloths, where everyone got a Union Jack picnic box with a Union flag and a horn. Elli-May (a student from the college) lead us superbly in the National Anthem. When we were finished we headed over to the beach hut where we all enjoyed anice cream in the sun.

 

Oakley, another Year 5 pupil at St Joseph’s said “I had an amazing day because we played party games and I got to spend time with my friends outside of the classroom, it was nice to celebrate the King's coronation.”

 

Our final activity for the day was a photo booth where we dressed up as kings and queens to have photos taken together. There were face paints, glitter hair and tattoos. We played cage football and made crowns.

 

The day ended with all the schools getting together for an epic dance off. We had an amazing day celebrating the King's coronation and our thanks go to the staff and students of Broadstairs College!

 

 

The coronation wasn't the only thing being celebrated at the weekend!

 

St Edmund's pupil, Kienna, and her teammates are returning home to the UK from this year's All Star World Cheerleading Championships in Florida, as silver medalists! In an extremely tough category they are incredibly proud to have been placed 2nd in the world!

 

This is a truly fantastic achievement, well done everyone!!

Year 10 pupil Ophelia is a true inspiration, here's a little piece of her journey so far....

 

Ophelia has had the most incredible journey which encompassed being a soloist in ballets and an opera at the Paris Opera Garnier and Bastille! However, the dance world is a tough one. Ophelia left home in September 2021 to live in Portugal to train at the Annarella Sanchez International Academy of Dance where she trained 4-6 hours a day in a pre-professional ballet school and attended high school studying in Portuguese. She then moved to Arizona USA where she trained 4-6 hours a day at Master of Ballet Academy pre pro division and was home-schooled until there was a sudden family bereavement. The families plans had to change, therefore moving back to England. Ophelia now travels up to London on a daily basis to train at Masters of Ballet Academy in their pre pro division, managing to combine her education at St Edmund's in Dover and her high-level ballet training.

 

We are proud to support you Ophelia... Reach for the stars, they're not far away!!