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‘In order to raise much-needed funds to support the school’s work with a speech, language and communication specialist, our fun-loving Head came up with the idea to hold an I’m a Celebrity-inspired event, where she competed against staff members to complete messy challenges! I organised the event together with my husband. We
coordinated a team of parents who held some ‘top secret’ meetings to devise the challenges, taking charge of one each. As the trials were to be kept secret from the teaching staff, we had to set up the whole thing without their involvement. The admin team, who wouldn’t be taking part, helped us sign off key ideas – funnily enough they seemed very happy to do this! We realised that there had to be a focus on “yucky” rather than “scary”, as our children are age four to eight, so we had to be careful that they wouldn’t fi nd any of it too upsetting! We tried to think of things that were tricky yet entertaining. The equipment, which included tinned beans, Tupperware, old clothes, water balloons and manure, was all donated. In the end, our trials included messy dressing up in jelly wellies and custard-fi lled hats, shaving foam-fi lled balloons, fi shing shapes out of porridge with your mouth and a water balloon-bursting challenge. The worst was the blindfold taste challenge involving stinky cheese and sardines! It all fi nished with a ‘Gangnam Style’ tiebreak dance- off, and the teachers were crowned the winners. We used ParentMail and the school newsletter
to get the message out, as well as using the parents’ Facebook network. Our class reps were able to rally support directly. We gathered donations through an online page, which also meant my husband’s company would match-fund the fi rst £500 of donations. It was a lot of work, but turned out to be the most gunky, gungy, stinky, family-friendly fun, and the children loved every minute. We raised a grand total of £3,724.69!’ Michele Pattison, Press Liaison Offi cer, The Heights Primary School, Caversham, Reading (223 pupils)
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