News
On Friday 16th April a Fundraising night was held as the Eston Labour Club. The night involved tombola, raffles, karaoke, a disco and an auction. The night was great and everyone had fun!
With recent events going superbly; the previous two bag-packs raising just over 1,000 and the ongoing ‘Walk to Sri Lanka’ is currently around 1799 miles, but we still need to raise 50p for every mile we manage to walk so more sponsors would be very much appreciated. More events are also coming up in near future, with a big fundraising night in the local Eston Labour Club on April 16th (tickets can be purchased fromLauren Lloyd (Y6) and anyone over 18 years of age is welcome to come and join in!) and the Easter raffle beginning very soon, we hope to raise much more and become even closer to our £35 000 target.
A huge thank-you to all who are supporting our cause, and we will be keeping you updated with our progress.
Many thanks, the Sri Lanka Team.
24 - 02 - 2010
We have finally got round to updating the websites after a busy few weeks of Sri Lanka fundraising. Check out the updated donator, totaliser, Itinerary and Walk to Sri Lanka Pages! The girls sleepover is on Friday and the boys bag pack is on Saturday!
12-02-2010
Walking That Extra Mile
In summer 2010 a group of young people to Sri Lanka on a ‘volunteering working visit’ therefore within this we need to fundraise £40,000 to get there and help. One way in which we will get raise money is we have decided to have a fundraising walk of 5468 miles which is the distance from Eston Park School to Sri Lanka.
A group of 20 girls have volunteered to walk the distance from Eston Park to Sri Lanka in aim to raise money for a group of young people to go volunteer in Sri Lanka in which they will build schools and teach children. To do this we need to raise £35000, so every girl is walking 250 miles, 5 miles a day for 50 days to give a total of 5468 miles which is the distance to Sri Lanka. We also aim to get 50p per mile and that way we will "make a difference" and raise a huge amount of money that will greatly assist our target of raising £35000
Map and poster about further details will be displayed around school showing the distance we have covered. Donation buckets are located in reception.
If you would like to donate please see Miss Talbot, Charlotte Hierons or Melissa Tyreman.
The girls set off walking on the 8th of February and we aim to have covered all the miles by 30th March.
06/01/2010
A big thanks to everyone who took part in the non uniform day. We managed to raise £500!!
Well done to the staff and students that took part in the Bag packing at Morrisons, a further £938 was raised bringing the total raised so far to £8000
26/12/2009
Sri Lanks fundraisers brave the cold for the Redcar Boxing Day dip
Photos From The Dip
09/12/2009
Sponsored leg wax and head shave to raise funds for the Sri Lanka Appeal
On December the 9th, staff and students took part in a sponsored leg wax & head shave to raise money for the trip to Sri Lanka.
The team would like to thank the following who took part.
- Mr Goodwill - Waxed by Mrs L Illingworth, Miss Tait & Miss Holian
- Mr Ruddock
- Mr Grainger
- Mr O'Neill
- Mr Johns
- Mr Hill
- Sam Skillcorn
- Scott Williams - Head shaved by Mr Hassack
- Connor Massey
- Josh Holden - Head shaved and Legs Waxed!!
- Michael Lee
- Andrew Lodge
- Adam Lincoln
- Daryl Howe
- Andy Thompson
From the entry to the waxing the team raised £69. The students also collected sponsor money, yet to be counted.
03/12/2009
As part of our Sri Lanka fundraising activities, we have recently been completing numerous bag packs across the area in stored like ASDA, Morrison’s, Tesco and Sainsbury’s. These bag packs are currently going rather well, as from only four bag packs we have raised over £2000, but this is only a minor amount compared to our needed total of £40,000.
So please, if it is possible, come and support us on our bag packing, the dates, times and places of which will be shown on the Sri Lanka calendar. Thank you and any support will be grateful.
Photos taken over the weekend have been added to the Sri Lanka gallery
23/11/2009
First bag pack on Saturday was very successful. Sum raised to be advised.
The flights have now been booked!!
19/11/2009
- The boys are working on a sponsored wax
- Thanks to the school council for helping out with funds - for the christmas fair (11 dec)and there will be a special sri lanka stall.
- York bike ride and cake sale went well and raise £87 - thanks to all that took part
- Some members of the team will be doing carol singing and the upcoming cinderella production - so watch out to see some interesting performances from the group
We have aranged the students Bag Packing days. Dates that have been decided can be seen on the fund raising calendar. Here
Please keep these dates free. Further details will follow.
12/10/2009
You can now get updates from the team by checking out the students blog page.
08/10/2009
Pupils have now been selected for the trip, sorry to those who couldnt go. Sucessesful students are listed on the Team Members page.
To those lucky ones who did get selected there will be a meeting held on Wednesday 14th October in D1 at lunch time.
Students should have lunch with them - or if they have school dinners get this immediatly at the start of lunch and bring in to D1.
Students should come prepared with some ideas of a fundraising activity or a link with someone who may be able to help us fundraise.
Finally they should have any major dates to which they cannot attend any activities eg. bag pack.
Students must bring along their confirmation letter to hand in.
05/10/2009
The students are now back from the residential at Commondale. Well done to all the students who completed the challenge.
They had a fun packed weekend which saw them river walking, dancing, pitching tents and doing morning exercises. They all impressed working well both as a team and a group and fun was had by all.
Photos taken over the weekend have been added to the Sri Lanka gallery
28/09/2009
First Stage of Selection is now complete and the sucessful students are through to the residential stage.
The residential will last for 24 hours from noon (Saturday 3rd October) to noon (Sunday 4th October).
A copy of the letter given to sucessful students can be found in the letters section.
Good Luck to all the students involved.