English Martyrs’ School is running a number of events during week commencing 13th  November to raise money for ‘Smile Train’.

‘Smile Train’ is an international children’s charity which provides 100% free life-changing cleft-palate repair surgery to children in over 85 developing countries. For more information, visit the ‘Smile Train’ website at www.smiletrain.org.uk.

On Wednesday 15th November, the children will be holding a ‘Dance-a-Thon’ in the morning and a ‘Make a Smile’ art competition in the afternoon. To take part in these events, the children will need to bring £1 to school on the day.

Friday 17th November will be a non-uniform day when the children can wear their own clothes – again, a contribution of £1 is required.

All monies collected from these two events will be sent to ‘Smile Train’

Please help us to support this very worthwhile cause.

Harvest Festival Fund-raising

As Part of our Harvest Festival fund-raising, we are asking our children with parents support to bring any of the following items into school to donate to the Sparkhill Food Bank.

Suggested Items:

• Breakfast Cereal
• Pasta Sauces
• Soup
• Instant Mashed Potato
• Tinned Fruit
• Instant Noodles
• Milk (UHT or powdered)
• Sponge Puddings (Tinned)
• Rice Pudding
• Tinned Meat
• Biscuits or Snack Bars
• Tinned Hallal Meat
• Fruit Juice (Carton)
• Tomatoes (Tinned)
• Tea Bags/Instant Coffee
• Tinned Fish
• Cooking Oil (Small)

Thank you for your support

Lenten Fundraising

As always I have been totally amazed by the generosity of our parents and children at English Martyrs’. During the period of Lent we have been looking at times in which not only the Christian faith but our many other faiths in English Martyrs’ consider the needs and give alms to others.  This year we have been supporting the work of Father Hudson’s Care which is a charity who work with many different needs in our local community. The children have raised money through the following activities

Fundraising during Advent

Following on from the success of last year- we are once again raising money to create shoeboxes of goods for the homeless. These are given to the Sifa Fireside Centre, who give them out at their Christmas party. Any extra money is donated to the centre to buy sleeping bags or other goods they need to keep the centre running.

This year we hope to raise money in 2 ways

- making and selling a product or organising games.

Year 6 will be creating the shoeboxes - we link this to our theme which is

'People without Homes'

Timetable:

Health for Life is an exciting initiative funded by the Mondelez International Foundation as part of a broader programme fulfilling the organisation's commitment to help make 'a sustained, demonstrable improvement in healthy lifestyles across Birmingham schools'

The four key elements that we are focussing on include:

• Healthy eating and cooking skills
• Growing food
• Physical activity
• Family involvement 

On 22/06/15 some children from the school council attended a celebration of work ceremony at Edgbaston Cricket ground. Please view the pictures below linked to the work we have done so far at English Martyrs' to promote a healthier lifestyle.