CHARITIES & VOLUNTEERING APRIL 2025 • ISSUE 16 •
ROWATHON FOR COMIC RELIEF On the 21st March, the senior school students and staff fundraised for Comic Relief by completing a Roawathon. Comic Relief and Sport Relief are major UK-based charities that are working towards creating a world free from poverty. They raise funds through fun events like Red Nose Day and Sport Relief challenges, encouraging participation of people of all ages. The money raised is then used to support projects that tackle issues such as homelessness, mental health, education, and providing clean water and essential resources to communities in need. A fantastic day of rowing took place in the lower atrium from 7:45am and carried on during various parts of the school day until just past 4:30pm, with some of the 6th form teachers and students ending off the event. Although Miss Newman may have overestimated the goal for the rowathon (by a thousand km's), everyone had a wonderful time pushing themselves during their 5 minute row. Our top staff rowers were Dr Pearce with 1300m and Mr Gregor and Mr Coxhill with 1292m, while the top student rowers were sixth formers Caterina V with 1295m and Zoe D with 1228m. We also had a competition where students and staff guessed how many sweets were in the jar, and the closest guess to the actual total won the jar of sweets. With a very good guess by Miss Dunkley and Miss Millns, Ella C in Year 9 guessed the closest total by 1 number. It was a fantastic day filled with lots of music, cheering on others, staff finding 5 minutes to out-row some of the students and overall having a good time for charity. A grand total of £135.30 was raised and 148.32km was rowed during the day.