‘Our very own Marcus Rashford!’

One of All Saints’ Year 4 pupils has demonstrated so many of their school values through fundraising to support the school foodbank.

Maisie, in Year 4, was concerned about why families needed to use the foodbank and explained: “All children should be able to have a treat cupboard like I do.”

With this in mind, Maisie started making some small stress balls and sold them to friends and family. Colleagues at her Dad’s work sponsored Maisie to make 150 of them and this also boosted her funds – the company also offered to match any monies raised.

In worship on Monday, Maisie presented the school with £700 and said there is still some more to come. Over the coming weeks, Maisie will be involved in deciding how she would like the money to be spent.

Headteacher Laura Jackson said: “We are incredibly proud and grateful for Maisie’s donation towards our foodbank. Her creativity, hard work and kindness will have a huge impact on many of our families. As one child stated in worship on Monday, ‘Maisie is like All Saints’ own version of Marcus Rashford.’ Thank you Maisie!”

Maisie is pictured presenting wellbeing lead Lisa Nicholson with the fruits of her fundraising efforts.

All Saints’ enjoy writing freedom

All Saints’ have held their very first “Free Write Friday”. As part of their whole school focus on writing this year, opportunities were provided to enable children to apply taught skills whilst writing about a topic and in a genre of their own choice.

Sophie Hoggarth, English lead, launched the event and children were given time to plan and prepare their writing before completing it on the day.

“Enabling the children to have such freedom over their writing content increased engagement. We were all very pleased to see the children apply many taught features, produce sustained writing and most importantly thoroughly enjoy the task,” said Sophie.

One child from each class was then chosen to attend an afternoon tea party as a reward for their fantastic writing efforts. The party was a lovely celebration of writing, said headteacher Laura Jackson. She added: “Children of all ages shared their work together whilst consuming a vast amount of buns!”

The school is planning to carry out this event half termly.