A Busy Week

Last week was a busy week for S.O.N. We had our first meeting with our parents, Faith + Football and EBP, where we received our basic itinerary for the trip to Goa in November. We learnt about how we will be visiting a boys and girls orphanage, a handicapped school, as well as visiting an old peoples home and feeding the poor.
We also talked about what vaccinations we needed having, and asking questions in general about the holiday, such as food we would be eating and money we needed taking with us.

Throughout last week, we we planning our sponsored walk we would be undertaking, in order to raise more money for when we go to India. We have decided that we are going to go to Brecon Beacons for this walk, and have almost come to the decision of the route we will be doing. We do know that it will be around 20km, and will be going for 2 days in August, during our summer holidays. Our teacher, Mr Rogers, is familiar with the area, and has given us suggestion for possible route to do.

As well as all this, we also all received awards on Thursday on our school's Awards Evening, where we were talked about to the other students and their parents, and how much effort and commitment we put into the challenge. When it came to going on the stage, we got an amazing applause, showing how much all our work was recognised.
Finally, we had a photo shoot with the photographer for the evening, of both us five, and us with our headteacher and Head of Governors.

Citizenship Coursework - Continuing the Challenge

It's been a while since the last post, but we now have more reasons to continue this blog. We are just starting our Citizenship coursework, in which we must take part in a Citizenship activity, keep a record of how it works and decide how well it went. As we have taken part already in a Citizenship activity (be competing and winning the Linvoy Primus Enterprise Challenge), we have been allowed to use it as part of our coursework for Citizenship. Everything we did over the 6 month period had been recorded on this blog, and the business plan showed all our planning, evidence and evaluation.
However, rather than stopping there, we will be working on how we will raise more money for when we go to Goa in November, so that we can buy presents for those in the orphanages and schools, and extra money for those that really need it. We have fully decided on how we will raise this extra money yet, but we have some initial ideas which we think will be successful in raising money. We were going to be raising extra money before we were informed of this coursework, but now we have more reasons to do so.