Year 3 Chester Roman Experience

Boys from Year 5 and 6 took part in an invitational football tournament in Chester.

 

Children were joined by Patricia Hardman from the charity 'Samaritan's Purse' in today's assembly and found out how the charity helps thousands of children around the world, at Christmas time. Two volunteers enjoyed the task of unpacking shoeboxes, one for a girl and one for a boy. The inclusion of items such as tooth brushes, toothpaste and face cloths were not items that the children expected to find! However, Patricia explained how children who may be living in an orphanage would not have these personal items and would delight in having their own for Christmas. Of course the children found more familiar items such as sweets, toys and colouring pencils and enjoyed sharing ideas about the gifts that they would like to put in their shoe boxes.

If you would like further details please see the website link below. We kindly ask that shoeboxes are brought into school by Friday 4th November, in readiness for collection at the local depot.

https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

Each year, the children and parents of Avalon School bring gifts and offerings to our Harvest festival which are donated to Charles Thompson's Mission in Birkenhead.  The work of Charles Thompson's Mission was founded in the late 19th

We were joined in assembly today by two champions from the Alzheimer's society and Dementia Friends association.

Diabetes UK representative, Mr Ken Herbert, joined us for a very special assembly this morning to present Avalon School with the ‘Good Diabetes Care in School Award.’