Last week, Prior Park College students spent their time masterminding and running a range of activities to raise money for their chosen charities.
Charities Week at Prior Park College is an annual tradition that takes place at the end of the Lent term.
It is a chance for students to come together and do their bit to raise money for those less fortunate than themselves.
This year has been no exception, with students and staff throwing themselves whole-heartedly into a range of fun activities during the week.
Each of the school’s Houses came together separately to choose which charity they wanted to support and then masterminded a range of fun ways to fundraise.
Some of the most popular activities throughout the week included “Sponge a Teacher”, “Pie a Student”, “The Rugby Challenge” and a car wash that was offered to parents as they came to collect their children at the end of the day.
Perhaps the most celebrated fundraising activity of the week was a scheme by girls’ day house, Arundell, who asked for donations in order for the Headteacher, Mr James Murphy-O’Connor, to wear an inflatable sumo suit for the entire day.
This caused a great deal of hilarity throughout the school and raised vital funds for Arundell’s chosen charity, local charity Second Sight.
The week was an enormous success at the College, with the Head describing the event as: “A wonderful reflection of who we are as a community – staff and students working together for a common cause. In this case for charity – with much fun had at the end of an extraordinarily busy term.
“Our senior students, in particular, took the opportunity to let their hair down before the serious business of settling into a study programme for their exams.”
