News Schools Green Schools
Holmwood House Prep School, Colchester, celebrated the annual Girls’ Schools Association “Girls Go Green Week” (3rd – 7th October 2011) in support of St Helena Hospice. Pupils in Land House took part in a “Dress Down– Be Seen in Green” Day with every student donating £1 in order to don green clothing for the day, in place of their school uniform. A cheque of £285 was presented to the Hospice.
Meanwhile Burgess Hill School for Girls played their part in raising £184.93 for Cool Earth, which secures protection for three acres of the endangered Peruvian Amazon.
Meanwhile, Heathfi eld School, Ascot, has risen to the challenge by signing up to gain
Eco School Status. Among the schools’ alterations is the ShowerSmarts, donated by Veolia Water, which save up to
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11,000 litres of water per year from each individual shower. While a new compost heap has been installed which will be fi lled with vegetable waste from the school kitchens once a week. Heathfi eld work closely with the
Woodland
Trust and will be planting
three hedgerows round the school’s
grounds as part of the Woodland Trust’s “Trees for Schools” project to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year.
Over in Devon, The Maynard School’s Head of the Junior School, Mr Smerdon, offi cially opened their new outdoor play facilities and gave special thanks to the Maynard Parents’ Association for funding
the new eco-friendly climbing equipment. The play area now boasts a climbing wall, swinging ropes and balancing ropes and beams.
Just for charity
● LVS Ascot’s RAG week raised £1,300 for the charity DebRA who work on behalf of people in the UK with the genetic skin blistering condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
● St Swithun’s, Winchester, hosted a charity fashion show and raised £2,000 for CHASE Hospice Care for Children, Guildford. Girls from St Swithun’s and boys from Winchester College walked the catwalk while local hairdressers from the renowned Guy Kremer salon gave a helping hand.
● City of London School raised £60,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust marking the end of their fundraising year. Events which contributed to the cause included a jazz evening, Christmas Fair teacher sumo- wrestling, a 48-hour sponsored row, and a Lands End to John O’Groats bike ride to name a few.
Late news...
Dr Helen Wright, President of the Girls’ School Association and headmistress of St Mary’s Calne has announced she is moving to Australia to take up the reins in January 2013 as headmistress of Ascham, Sydney’s leading girls’ school.
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Pumpkin Faces
Amaya, Thomas, Mia and Edward see their winning pumpkin designs come to life at the Froebelian School, Leeds.
Heads on the move
● Sandra Lewis- Beckett took over the reins this month as Headmistress
of Queen Mary’s, North Yorkshire, and was formerly of Downe House, Berkshire.
● Christopher Hutchinson has begun his appointment as the next Head of Royal Russell School, following the retirement of Dr John Jennings.
● John Floyd has been appointed Headmaster at Bruern Abbey
while parents wave a fond farewell to Philip Fawkes.
● Andrew Salmond Smith has joined St George’s School, Windsor following the retirement of Roger Jones.
● Sophie Green is the new Headmistress at Herries, Berkshire.
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