Charity and Community

2024-2025

We have lots of opportunities to get involved in charity and community events. We think it is really important to be active members of the local and global community, supporting other people whenever we can. This helps us to live out our vision, 'a family of learners expecting the best.' 

We support a range of charities every year, by organising fundraising events for Macmillan Cancer Care, Royal British Legion, Children in Need and Comic Relief. We also support a range of local charity and community events throughout the year. 

Children in Need 2024

We had a great time raising money for Children in Need this year. The school council organised lots of fun games for everyone to take part in and we all wore something spotty or yellow for the day!

Poppy Appeal

We recognised Remembrance Day by learning all about this important annual event and observing a silence at 11am on the 11th November. Our Head Prefects sold poppies and other items to raise money for the Poppy Appeal.

MacMillan Coffee Afternoon

The Prefect team organised another fantastic coffee afternoon, open to all members of the school and village community. It was a lovely event, where people came together to have a chat over a cup of coffee and piece of delicious cake. They also organised a break time cake sale for the children in school. We were very pleased to raise lots of money for charity, too!

2023-2024

Year 5 Visitor from Ricardo - STEM Project

Reception Fundraising

Felix's Fundraiser

Reflection Garden

The School Council worked together to put bird feeders and decorations into our Reflection Garden to make it and even more lovely place to sit and to encourage more wildlife. 

Canal Garden

Peace Pole Unveiling Ceremony

On 7th February, we were joined by Margaret from the Rotary Club and Reverend Martin for a special ceremony to unveil our new 'Peace Pole'. The pole is a lovely addition to our Reflection Garden and shares the words 'May peace prevail on Earth' in all of the different languages spoken by children at our school. Each class produced prayers, artwork and poems, which were shared in the special ceremony. We are so grateful to the Rotary Club for organising the Peace Pole as a wonderful symbol of inclusion. 

Canal 

In January, Year 6 visited our local canal to see the area of land which we have adopted. The children will be producing some artwork to displayed in the area for our local community to enjoy!

Collective Worship Team

Thank you to the Collective Worship Team who have decorated a Christmas tree to represent our school vision and values which is now on display at St Nicholas Church. We hope that many of you are able to visit the church to see the beautiful array of trees from local groups and businesses.

Choir Performance

In December, some members of the school choir visited Radford Social Club to join members of the village    community at the Pensioners’ Christmas Lunch. Children were invited to perform Christmas carols and then spent time chatting to the adults. The adults look forward to welcoming the children to this event every year and it was lovely to see them interacting so nicely.

Canal

In the autumn term, we adopted an area of our local canal! Thank you to Mrs Finn, the canal trust and the children for all of their hard work on this area of land. We look forward to continuing our work in the spring term!

Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service

Thank you to our local Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service who came in to speak to Y1 and Y5 about the importance of fire safety. We really appreciate their time sharing these important messages.

Children in Need

Our School Council prepared games and activities for Children in Need at the end of November.  Children came into school  wearing something spotty or bright and all children have taken part in activities such as ‘Guess the name of the teddy’ and ‘How many pompoms in a jar.’ Thank you for donations on ParentPay which will be sent to Children in Need for the fantastic work they do.

Children's Forest

In November, Y5 returned to Leasowe Farm to continue with the work on the Children's Forest! They had a great time tending to the forest and continuing all of the work that was started last year. Well done Year 5!

Sponsored walk for WWF

In November, a group of the Year 3s did a 5 mile sponsored walk from Radford Semele to Long Itchington. They organised it to raise money for the World Wildlife fund and they have raised over £700. They were absolutely brilliant and all the staff and parents are really proud of them. Well done to George, Chester, Leo, Freddie A, Zidan and Finn from Y1 and well done to Leo from Year 1 who set up the half way point and then did the second half of the walk. 

Rotary Club Peace Pole

We are so grateful to the Rotary Club for the donation of our Peace Pole which is now located in the Reflection Garden. The Peace Pole includes all of the different languages spoken by children here at school and is such a lovely way to show all children how we value them as individuals and to encourage peace for all. 

World Mental Health Day 

This year, we recognised World Mental Health Day by holding a special assembly and wearing hats linking to this year's theme: 'Hats on for Mental Health'. 

Harvest Festival

Once again, we have been overwhelmed with the donations we have received for our Harvest Festival celebration - it is lovely to see our value of generosity in action. Our donations are being sent to our local foodbank to support families and individuals in our community. 

Helping out at the food bank

We are so proud of Aaid and Aaish for packing bags for perishable food bank at the local mosque over the holidays. They helped by first shopping for the items for food bank and then they packed 70 bags with other members of the mosque. They really enjoyed the task and understood the importance of giving and sharing and showing our value of generosity. Great work boys! 

"We gave the food to people who don’t have any. It was a hard project to do because we had to do about a hundred bags! It makes me feel happy that I was able to help other people." Aaish, Year 3

Tree Planting

Thank you to all of the children, staff and local volunteers from FoRGE for their great teamwork planting our saplings in our Year 1 outdoor area. We can't wait to watch them grow!