We did it!
Find out how these three schools came up with imaginative events for their pupils…
‘WE RAISED £5,123 TO FUND MATHLETICS FOR EVERY PUPIL FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS’
‘Several parents at Malorees Infant and Junior School in Kilburn wanted Mathletics for their child at £59 a year, so our PSFA thought we’d use our collective purchasing power to get a discount. This got us thinking – if the service is so good then every child should have it, regardless of income. Our school was also keen to try new ways to make maths fun. We were aiming to buy a three-
6 SPRING 2019 FundEd
year Mathletics subscription for every child, but we didn’t want the service to be taken for granted; we wanted pupils to feel they’d earned it, which is why we decided to run a sponsored event. We gave pupils a week to gain
sponsorship, with prizes for the classes that attracted the most sponsors (not the most sponsorship). Armed with sponsorship forms,
the children were set a “catch and count” challenge with the local rugby team, the Kilburn Cosmos. We worked with Cosmos to come up with the challenge as a way to learn about rugby, while making counting fun. Organised by the PSFA, the fundraising morning began with players from the team attending the school for a morning to teach all 440 of our children how to throw and catch in rugby. Our PE lead, Mr Cleary, then set the two-minute catch and count challenge, which was the element sponsored by
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