Charity Ambassadors
Charity Ambassadors 2024-2025
Our Charity Ambassadors have been selected by the School Council after reviewing each application letter. The purpose of the Charity Ambassadors is to guide us by providing ideas and support on how we can help others in our community and those globally. The Charity Ambassadors demonstrate our school values of love and value for all, aspire, flourish and shine, learn, remember and do and to share faith and hope by encouraging us to think of others and those who may need our support.
Charity Ambassador meetings are held with Miss Kealey.
Autumn 1 2024
Our Charity Ambassadors are eager and excited to start making a positive impact on the lives of others. They will be introducing the school to our local partnering charity Nightsafe during a worship, promoting the donation of food and cleaning products. They will be sitting down with the head of Nightsafe to review our long term plan and suggest any amendments they think need to be adjusted. They have already written and sent out letters to local stores asking to borrow a shopping trolley to be used as the collection box. The girls are now promoting generous donations of food and cleaning products for our local partnered charity NightSafe.
World Mental Health Day
The girls have worked alongside school council for world mental health day to promote the donation collections to our local charity Nightsafe discussing the impact it will have on the young adults there.
The Zuri Project Uganda
The girls have worked hard in creating a PowerPoint explaining the agriculture for the children at Kishunju Primary School Uganda to be shared by teachers in their classes. They have also worked alongside our fabulous kitchen staff in providing some local cuisines from Uganda for children to try such as matoke and porridge. They have also created a video montage of the food eaten and favoured by children at St Leonard's which has been sent to Kishunju Primary School Uganda who are currently doing the same.
Here is a tour from Mercy of Kishunju Primary Schools gardens where they grow the majority of their food used to cook breakfast and lunch for the children and teachers.
Below is a young girl called Hope who is preparing morning porridge for over 300 children before she starts her school day.
A taste of Uganda!
Thank you to our amazing Charity Ambassadors who have organised for children to have a small taste of Uganda at lunch time. The ambassadors worked with our fabulous kitchen staff to make matoke and porridge which is eaten by the children at Kishunju Primary School. The children loved it!
What is your favourite food?
Autumn 2
Our Charity Ambassadors have come back after the half term eager and excited to continue making a positive impact on the lives of others. They have discussed and created another donation list for our local partnering charity Nightsafe where the children are asking for food, toiletries and warm clothing donations. They have also discovered that Nightsafe are supported by Children in Need and are currently working along side our School Council members to find out the best way to raise money for on 16th November. After sitting down with the head of Nightsafe to review our long term plan and suggest any amendments they think need to be adjusted the children have been invited to visit Nightsafe this half term. Thanks o their brilliantly persuasive letters, Tesco Buckshaw have generously donated a trolley to the school.
The children have all kindly made at home or with our Charity Ambassadors, friendship bracelets which have been sent off to the children at Kishhunju Primary School for Christmas after learning about their different crafts.
The Charity Ambassadors enjoyed filling the cars full of donations from the generous families of our school. They hand delivered them to NightSafe and had the opportunity to look around and understand the facilities they provide for these young people. The ambassadors spent the afternoon celebrating with those supported by NightSafe for their Christmas dinner, quiz ( which they won) and watched people receive their Christmas gifts. This was a very heartwarming experience for the children and we can't thank the people at Nightsafe enough for their kind hospitality.
Spring 2
Our Charity Ambassadors have come back after Christmas with a spring in their step, ready and excited to continue making a positive impact on the lives of others. They have discussed and created another donation list for our local partnering charity Nightsafe where the children are asking for food, toiletries and cleaning product donations. They are also looking at how we can support them during childrens mental health week from Monday 3rd February - 7th February.
They are currently putting together some fun activities for the children to learn the language of the school, Rukiga.
