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Charity & community
Supporting The Children’s Society
Will Cherry, Ed Mercer and Josh Turner, our Year 11 Chapel Volunteers, along with the support of our school Chaplain, have been working on a project to support The Children’s Society, which is this year’s Chapel Harvest Charity.
The Children’s Society, a national charity with a local branch based in Coventry, helps young people who have had an unimaginably hard start to life.
Josh Turner, Year 11 Chapel Volunteer told us "Our Chaplain was contacted by an ambassador for the charity, who asked if Warwick School might be able to collect and donate old sports equipment to them. The Chaplain invited our input as Chapel Volunteers, and we thought that this would be a great initiative, as Sport is such an integral part of all of the schools in the Foundation.
Every young person that the charity helps has a poignant story to tell, having had an unimaginably hard experience at a very young age – but something I personally have found during working on this project is that these children, despite their traumatic experiences, have very similar wants and needs to mine, and my peers. One of these is the desire to play sport, to engage in an activity which is nothing more than enjoyable.
Thanks to the amazing support from families at Warwick School we have met the short-term needs of The Children’s Society, and are now looking to work with them towards a bigger, longer-term project.
A huge thank you again from the three of us, to everyone who has donated sports kit. The amount of kit donated was unbelievable and surpassed all expectations. You have played an important role in the success of this initiative, and I believe that we really have achieved a special thing."
Wear Red Day
Friday, 16 October was Wear Red Day, and pupils and staff across the Foundation wore red in support of the charity ‘Show Racism the Red Card.’
Show Racism the Red Card www.theredcard.org, the UK’s largest anti-racism educational charity was founded in 1996 thanks in part to a donation by then Newcastle United goalkeeper Shaka Hislop.
Wear Red Day is a nationwide annual event the charity uses to raise money to fund their educational programmes. Today the school and the Foundation came out in support of this charity and its message, that prejudice and discrimination have no place in our society.
The drive to participate in Wear Read Day was down to the initiative and hard work of; Will Callan, Archie McCusker, Richard Rose and Josh Simango. The boys pitched the idea to Mr Barker, recruited the Heads of King’s High School, Warwick Prep School and the Junior School to the cause, and delivered a series of assemblies to pupils and staff warning of the dangers of complacency and subconscious bias and sharing a powerful vision of a community in which all colours, creeds and cultures are represented and respected.
Foodbank
Collection
A group of pupils organised a collection for the Warwick District Foodbank, asking pupils to donate non-perishable food items and other household products to create advent hampers.
The boys delivered a presentation in assembly to explain the foodbank initiative and how it works, and why they are so important to the community. They then appealed to the boys to bring in their items, and each form within the school will create their own hampers filled with donations. The hampers will be collected up and transported to the foodbank to help local residents who are in need.
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