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St Albans School cadet to swim the Channel
School children “fired up” for new school
Year four pupils who are leaving their first school to go to middle school have had fun creating lasting memories by being creative with pottery. Students at Warkworth First School in Northumberland have
designed images on ceramic mugs to capture lasting memories about their time at the school. The designs include thumbprints of classmates, faces, insects and nearby Warkworth Castle. Each mug also includes elements of art, maths and literacy and each is personal to the child. The unique mugs are the brainchild of Warkworth entrepreneur
An air cadet from St Albans School is preparing to pull on their goggles for a cross channel swim for charity. Cadet Under Officer Ross Ferreira, aged 16, of St Albans School’s Combined
Cadet Force is joining a team of intrepid swimmers from across the country to battle tides and jellyfish on a relay swim of the English Channel this summer. The challenge in early July is just one of many events the RAF Air Cadets are
holding this year to celebrate their 75th anniversary. The 21-mile swim is expected to take upwards of 12 hours, with each
swimmer - in two teams - bracing the 16ºC waters for an hour at a time. Ross said: “We have all put in a massive amount of training and had to go
through a rigorous selection process so it will be good to get into the water – we’re all very excited and hopefully we will also raise a good sum of money towards the Air Training Corps 75th Anniversary fund.” His Commanding Officer, Major Kenny Everitt at the School said: "Ross has
been a member of the School swimming team throughout his time at St Albans School. He is currently one of the senior swimmers at the School and a very strong swimmer at that! We wish him the best of luck with this mammoth event. He has trained extremely hard and has earned his place in the squad.” Ross is raising sponsorship through his large network of friends and family
and will continue to do so. Mike Neville, RAF Benevolent Fund Director of Strategy and Fundraising,
said: “Ross is a shining example to the Air Training Corps and the Cadets in his Squadron. It is the RAF Benevolent Fund’s absolute pleasure to support the Cadets in this endeavour as thousands of Cadets have supported the Fund over the years, volunteering their time to support our fundraising activities. Good luck to all taking part!”
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Soltan Sun Ready brings Cheshire school’s dream adventure to life with The BIG Exploration
inspiring positive sun-safe habits in a mission to find the country’s “most prepared explorer”. The competition received more than 400
Boots UK has surprised Witton Church Walk School in Cheshire by bringing one of their pupils’ “dream adventures” to life and taking them on a big adventure to ‘Madagascar’. As part of Soltan Sun Ready, the sun safety
education campaign, the BIG Exploration competition was launched to encourage more young people to get active and get outside while
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entries, taking pupils’ imaginations across the world to the Arctic, Africa, outer space and fictional lands. The lucky winner, 8 year-old Rico from Witton Church Walk Primary in Cheshire, impressed the judges with a video outlining his plan to “travel all the way from Britain to Africa” and explore Madagascar. With his bag packed with a camera, bug repellent, sun hat, sword and sun cream, he was ready to become a BIG Explorer. On Wednesday morning, a crack team of
“adventurous explorers” burst into Witton Church Walk School, transporting Rico and his class to their Base Camp in Delamere Forest, Cheshire, which had been transformed into a Madagascan jungle. Kitted out in gilets, sunglasses and hats, along with Boots Soltan sun
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cream and trusty umbrellas, they were prepared to take on the great outdoors. Rico was delighted that the whole class could
join in with his prize, saying: “This morning when the BIG Explorers came I didn’t expect it at all. I was proud and happy that my class got to go on an adventure today, out of every school in the competition.”
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Lorna Watkinson who set up her business, Rainbow Pottery Painting in 2012 after taking her redundancy after working for 17 years for Procter and Gamble in the media-advertising department. Her mobile pottery- painting studio goes wherever her customers need her and lately she has had a large amount of success across schools in Newcastle, North Tyneside and Northumberland. The unique and individual designs are made by the children and then
fired in Lorna's professional kiln. Once fired, the mugs gain vivid colours, a gloss finish and are presented to the children as a memory of their time at the school. Form teacher Pam Coils was delighted with the pottery paining
session. "This was a lovely fun activity for our leavers which also allows them
to reflect as learners about what aspects of the curriculum they have enjoyed and have strengths in. "The session also contributed to a more strategic purpose for our school too as it creates confident individuals and successful learners who care about the community through the core school values of love, forgiveness and friendship."
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