When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and the community?


THE SIBFORDIAN 2018


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upils and students from across the school have let their lives speak and supported a wide range of charities in the past year.


Zoë Simms, Senior School charities coordinator explains: “In the Senior School each tutor group nominates a charity and it is then up to them to sort out how they raise funds. This year, for example, has seen 7VM hold a cake sale for the Blue Cross; 8DS raising money for Quaker Homeless Action; 10NM selling sweets for Cotswold Riding for the Disabled; and 13DE holding a weekly tuck shop for London based charity Helping Hands, which was started and run by former Sibford student Beth Whitaker.


“We also support whole school charities including the Banbury and Stratford-upon- Avon Foodbanks. In the Autumn Term we held a ‘Foodbank


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Friday’ where pupils in both the Junior and Senior School brought in food in return for swapping their uniform for casual clothes. This was a great success (see picture above)and the Foodbanks were amazed by the response when they came to collect! We also continue to support the Trussell Trust FSCI Christmas Box Appeal and in 2017 sent over 45 boxes to children and families in Bulgaria and Serbia.”


There have been some impressive individual charity efforts. Dominic (Year 12) completed an ultra- marathon of 36 miles raising more than £1,900 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust; Year 8 pupil Lily had her long hair cut short and raised nearly £600 for The Little Princess Trust


Toby Spence takes the razor to Ben during the head shave in aid of OddBalls


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and Sixth Form students Dan, Ben and Ajay went one further and had their heads shaved in aid of the OddBalls Foundation, which raises awareness of Testicular Cancer.


The school continues to support FairTrade and this year the FairTrade tuck shop helped us to send £500 to the Nchima Trust in Malawi, to be used to provide lunches for girls so that they can attend school all day.


In the Junior School, members of Gillett House organised a cake sale in aid of Children in Need, the Junior School Council organised an Asian animals mask day towards twinning a block of Sibford toilets in Uganda, and Fry House organised a ‘Wear it Wild!’ initiative to raise money for the WWF.


Our parents have also been raising money for charity and were able to present a cheque for £6,000 to Home-Start Banbury and Chipping Norton as a result of their charity May Ball.


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