Fundraising and Charitable work
Throughout the year, we hold various events to help raise money both for the school and other worthy causes, such as Families in Ukraine, Children in Need, and WWF. We have also supported local causes, including monthly litter picks in Bedale, local food banks, and fundraising for various charities.
WWF - Rainforest Alliance
Our year six children felt very proud and passionate delivering a presentation about South America, The Amazon rainforest and the devastating effects on the other rainforests around the globe. We are hopeful to sponsor another orangutan or two this year.
This year, we are working with the Autism Project; a project funded by Hambleton &
Richmondshire Locality Board and delivered alongside The Dales School. The project is within
its second year and is aimed at supporting the needs of autistic children and young people in
mainstream schools in Hambleton and Richmondshire. The project offers staff training on a
small group or whole school basis, modelling and coaching for staff using evidence-based
interventions and approaches, signposting and transitional support, as well as support for
families.
Princess Trust
We are so proud of Charlotte who has made a lovely decision to grow her beautiful hair and cut it for Little Princess Trust! Tonight she is having her hair cut, Well done Charlotte!
We are getting Ready! Red Nose Day will soon be here!
Our recent Litter Picking
The sun was shining for our Bedale Litter Busters this morning! There were lots of children this morning volunteering their time to help make our community look clean and tidy. Thanks to everyone who joined us!
We have another great Wake Up Wednesday with Mr Holmes!
Healthy Eating Award
Wear Red For Alfie
It was wonderful to see a sea of red in school today in support of the very brave Alfie. We are sure that the funds raised will be gratefully received by the family, and we hope they have the most amazing time in Lapland this winter.
Well done to Joseph for organising the day. The total amount donated today to Alfie’s JustGiving page was £430. Thank you everybody for your support.
Children in Need - Pudsey
The children raised an amazing £1451 for Children in Need! Our highest amount ever! All their ‘bearpees’ and donations are so gratefully received and we are so proud of all their perseverance in the ’bearpee’ challenge! Thank you to all those who donated
Eco Warriors
We are proud to share our big green flag to show that we are an eco-friendly school. We are working on this year's action plan by placing compost buckets around the grounds for all the biodegradable waste, such as apple cores and banana skins from break times. We are also working hard on the Samaritans Purse shoebox appeal.
Eco Warriors have been very busy recently. Mr Booth very kindly put up our new flag on the backfield, which looks amazing. This shows that we are working hard to make our school environmentally friendly.
This term we have been looking at electricity and ways to reduce water waste. So, we have asked every class to choose an energy monitor so we can save electricity in school. Their role will be to make sure lights and interactive whiteboards are switched off if nobody is in the room. We also had a virtual assembly with Yorkshire Water where they gave us top tips on how to reduce water waste; they also did a workshop with Year 5 about Water Aid.
Eco Warriors asked every class to create a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child. These shoeboxes, which are packed with essentials and lovely gifts, will be sent around the world and will bring joy to so many children who have very little. Thank you to everyone who donated items for the shoeboxes.
Being of service to our local community
Bedale Litter Pick
On the 3rd Sunday of every month, a growing group of pupils and parents gather to pick up litter around the town. Rain or shine, we have helped to tidy up the park, the High Street, the canal and further afield. It is so good to be active members of our community, helping to keep Bedale beautiful.
Wear a Hat Day
We have joined other schools across the country for Wear a Hat Day in support of Brain Tumour Research and The Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. We had such a fun day and raised a fantastic amount of £350 for such important charities that are particularly close to all our hearts.
Red Nose Day
On Friday 17th March 2023, we joined together with other schools around the country to support Red Nose Day. We raised over £300 and enjoyed wearing spotty and bright clothes on the day.
Rainforest
As part of our rainforest topic, the pupils in Year Six annually raise money in support of a charity which helps look after this vital resource for our planet.
The Year 6 children learn about threats to different habitats around the world including the Amazon Rainforest and the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Why these small islands? Because, as the children discover, this is the only remaining place on Earth where orangutans can be found in their natural habitat. We use the book, 'There's a Rang Tan in My Bedroom' as a launch and expand our research in many of our subjects.
The children present their work from Geography, Computing and English to parents in an incredible, emotional afternoon event. The children lead the planning, do all the presenting (tugging more than a few heartstrings!) and are always successful in raising money to safeguard the dwindling number of orangutans.
With the money raised last year (over £200) we were able to sponsor two orangutans AND two mountain gorillas, who are now able to live a long and happy life in a protected habitat. What an amazing achievement. You can find out more about WWF sponsorship here: Adopt an Orangutan | WWF.
This brings the total our pupils have raised while we have been running this unit of work to over £1200 with seven acres of precious forest sponsored too.
Mettupalayam
For twenty years now, we have had links with Mettupalayam in India, supporting the work of the Friends of Mettupalayam (FOM) Click here to visit their Facebook page
FOM is a village-based project supporting children and adults in a very poor rural area of Tamil Nadu, South India. The project, founded in 1985, centred mainly on children, improving their future lives and health through education and better nutrition. In recent years, they have also expanded support to include the elderly, and the disabled.
At Bedale Primary School, we have been involved in raising money for development projects such as building a new school and buying resources to help the community. In previous years, members of staff have visited India as well as having guests from the village here in Bedale to see our school. If you want to know more about our recent work and links with Mettupalayam click here.
Sponsored Run for Ukraine - Global Awareness Club
Fun Run
Every year in the Summer Term, we hold our annual Fun Run on the school field, which has been a fixture of the school summer for over a decade now. With stalls organised and managed by the Year 6 children, this is always an exciting and popular event for the rest of the school to join in with. Each year, the children decide on a different charity they would like to support.
Eco Warriors
Eco Warriors, which was named Global Awareness club; are delighted to have been nominated for the Picture News Award, celebrating all of their hard work and achievements throughout the last academic year. We are nominated for our work with Hambleton Foodshare, Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Shoebox Appeal, fundraising for Ukraine, pen pal letters with children in Mettupalayam and last but not least writing letters to David Attenborough and receiving a reply!!
MKC
Dales Centre
The children in EYFS throughout the year visit the Dales Centre. It is an excellent charity run by volunteers where the elderly in our community can gather to enjoy food and companionship. We are passionate about learning how we can help in the community.
At Christmas time the children visited the Dales Centre to spread the Christmas spirit. We sang our Christmas songs to the ladies and gentlemen who access this service whilst they had their Christmas dinner. Both the children and the Dales Centre visitors had a lovely time.
The EYFS children really enjoyed the visit from Danielle who works for Mellors. She came to chat to us about how to keep healthy and we loved tasting the different fruit and vegetables. Danielle kindly donated the fruit & vegetables to Dales Centre.
As part of our work on China, we read the story of ‘The Magic Paintbrush’. In the story, the character Shen emphasises the importance of giving to others and helping those in need. Following on from this we thought about what we could do for our local community. We decided to make some crispy cakes and deliver them to the Dales Centre. We visited the Dales Centre and we shared stories and poems and ate our yummy cakes with the ladies and gentlemen who were using the service.
