Showcase of FoodAid Fundraising

FoodAid 2007

Hill House school held a soup kitchen fro the staff. Mountains of soup was made and staff paid £1 for a bowl of soup and a roll. This was extremely popular as staff get very hungry at lunchtimes! We also had a popcorn sale for students who paid 50p for a cone of popcorn.

All the students took part and enjoyed preparing for the day by making posters and making food to sell. Everyone had a fun FoodAid day and raised money for a worthwhile cause.
Louisa Burden, Assistant Head at Hill House School, Lymington, Hampshire.

The children at our school were very proud of themselves for raising an amazing £1000 for FoodAid. We had a sponsored five a day where the children had to eat five portions of fruit or vegetables a day for a week which they recorded in a diary and our fussy eaters tried a new fruit or vegetable each day for a week. It was extremely well supported by our parents who are trying to get their children to eat well and this also formed part of our healthy schools project. The FoodAid posters and resources were brilliant and our Year 6 enjoyed and learnt a great deal from the FoodAid quiz. Thank you for letting us take part - we are already thinking of ideas for next time!
Ruth Bevan, Henllys Church in Wales School in Cwmbran.

Pupils at Poulner Junior School, Hants, raised funds for FoodAid with a cake sale and they learnt about food issues around the world using the FoodAid slide show.

This year as part of our harvest celebrations we held a bring and buy food sale in support of FoodAid. Our keystage 2 pupils baked lots of cakes and biscuits to sell and parents and children also bought in other items.  We had a great day and even though we are a small school, with just 41 pupils, we had a very successful day raising over £121!
Ms Sandle-Baker, St Martin in Meneage School, Cornwall

Our day of diversity involved the students exploring the different religions of the world. They made things like calendars and tea-light holders showing images from all religions. We are a very multi-cultural collage and so we encouraged all students to take part in the fun with entertainment from drum playing to drama. We also had many visitors and parents, along with interpreters to help break down the language barriers. Visitors were just as diverse with nationals from Bosnia, Poland, Africa and China, who are all now living in Scotland. It was a really great day.
Elizabeth Little, John Wheatley College, Glasgow.

Our World Food Day promoted tolerance, respect, cultural understanding and lovely food. We had over 20 food stalls and we raised over £1,500. Food from Indonesia to Somalia, the Middle East to Mexico represented the diversity and creativity of Drayton Manor High School.
   There were Dhol drums and singing. It was hot, lively and rowdy, as the students enjoyed tasting some foods for the very first time, knowing they were helping to make a difference to some of the poorest people in the world. 
   It was truly wonderful to see young people working, eating, singing, dancing and celebrating together and realising that their actions can have such positive effects. We hope that our FoodAid World Food Day 2008 will be even bigger and better!
Simon Green and Lucia Johnstone-Cowan, Drayton Manor High School, London.

St. Nicholas Primary School in Hull, East Yorkshire, had a great time raising £126.53 this year by writing the word 'HARVEST' on the playground using coin art.  The children collected coins from staff, parents, and school council members gave too and they covered each letter of the word with coins. They also held a school assembly showing a drama about raising funds.

Class 6 did a first class job fundraising for FoodAid by making lots of cakes as part of thier catering course and selling them to the other pupils.  We were also well supported by staff and a local group, Contact a Family, sold some of our cakes at one of their coffee mornings.  We raised a wonderful £70.00 for FoodAid!
Marina Brett, Class 6 Tutor, Heart of the Forest Community Special school, Gloucestershire.

The children bought in coins from home and we covered the outline of a target (similar to a dartboard) on the school playground. All 88 children in the school took part who thoroughly enjoyed the task. The parents were all very supportive too and were all interested to know why we were doing this and where the collected money would be going. We held an assembly for FoodAid shortly after our Harvest Festival using the posters, stickers and other resources from the pack. And we made a display in the corridor using photographs of the children and staff placing the coins on the target as well as sending some information to parents to show what we were doing. The money came rolling in! We all made an amazing effort raising over £100 for FoodAid.
Lou Bolton, Bysingwood School, Faversham.

The students of Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, held their second Alternative Tie day in aid of World Food Day and raised £338.86, double the amount raised last year. Letters were sent out to parents in advance, helping raise awareness of World Food Day and posters put up all around the school.  As the whole school wears uniform it made a nice change for students to add their own personal touch.  Ties ranged from the sublime to the whacky, some being specially purchased, some being creatively home made, some borrowed.  The Sixth Form girls joined in too, although they do not normally wear a tie.  Staff also participated, and we saw yet again a wide variety of styles.  The whole day was a great success and we hope to make this an annual event!

An amazing 350 pupils at New Ford Primary School in Stoke on Trent, clubbed together to fill out a giant outline of the map of Africa using coins.  All the children brought in all the loose change they could gather from family, friends and staff! The collecting was organised by the staff but the children were ultimately responsible for counting up the money.
   They also had a number of assemblies explaining to the children
about why and who they were collecting the money for, using the FoodAid PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate.  The children ended up collecting a fantastic amount of £320!!!!!! Well done all.

Queen Katherine School, Kendal, held an ‘ethical’ cake sale, where pupils brought in the ingredients of organic flour, free range eggs and fair-trade sugar and stayed after school to bake around 300 cup-cakes.  These were sold the next day at break time and raised over £90.  The event was used to promote fair-trade produce as well as raising money for FoodAid.
   “We held a coffee and cakes afternoon where we invited parents of our pupils and staff from Derbyshire County Council Children & Young Adults department.  Our pupils produced flyers and posters in ICT and baked cakes for sale. We were so proud of our pupils. They were polite & gave service with a smile!”
Jill Oakland, Breadsall Support Centre, Derby

"Our FoodAid week was themed around ‘keeping ourselves and others safe and healthy’, where we spent the entire week linking our curriculum to this topic with assemblies, talks and our ‘FoodAid shop’. 
    We held an assembly to raise awareness of FoodAid and asked parents to donate tins of food for our harvest celebrations, and have been overwhelmed with the response.  Parents were then invited to visit our ‘FoodAid shop' where they could buy back the tins and raise money for FoodAid!
    Each class have been involved in the organisation of the ‘FoodAid shop’ and their tasks were allocated as part of a production team.  Each year had something to contribute from our Foundation classes who donated tins, to Year One children who made signs and posters to Year Two children who acted as ‘shopkeepers’.  We also contacted our local superstore who very kindly donated more tins for our shop.
    As part of the safety awareness, we also organised visits from the fire brigade, ambulance service, and the school nurse, who highlighted the importance of exercise and a healthy diet."
Wendy Walker, Teacher and Healthy Eating Coordinator, Newnham Infant and Nursery School, Middlesex
 
"I usually arrange Harvest in my role as RE co-ordinator.  During that week when I see each class for PHSE I will be using some of your lesson plan ideas to raise awareness.  Staff then organise their form groups to help.
   The main thrust of our event will be our Harvest Festival Celebration on 19th October when the whole school (100 or so) will come together for a traditional celebration.  Each class will do a 'turn' on Harvest themes.  My class will kick things off with the FoodAid quiz to raise more awareness with the parents - and of course money!
   We will also have a cake and biscuit sale.  The children who are cooking in food tech that week will be making something and one evening a number of staff are getting together to have a ‘bake-off’ to make cakes and biscuits to sell to parents and children too.  These children enjoy their food!"
Wendy Sharp, Highview School, Folkestone

"This year we plan on doing a number of events to raise funds for FoodAid. We will be having an assembly to help raise awareness using the CD-Rom to illustrate a healthy diet.  We have our key stage 4 pupils following a hospitality and catering course, which involves them running a lunch club at the end of each month. Staff can order either a baguette or soup and crusty bread. A colleague and I will be making a "wishing well" cake, this will be iced and filled with chocolate money and raffled. We also have a large water bottle that we ask pupils to fill with coins. We will mark the bottle showing financial targets and a chart that will show pupils what their money will help with. All proceeds from these events will go to FoodAid.
   We are a small special school so parents and staff are always getting involved too."
Bev Sharpe, HLTA (Higher Level Teaching Assistant) Pheonix Special School, London

"We have had a brilliant week fundraising for you! I used your excellent materials to make a powerpoint presentation for our Monday assembly and we then gave every class a teacup adorned with one of your stickers. They were challenged to see how many teacups they could fill with small change before Friday. We made a huge map of Africa on the hall floor with all the small change we had collected. We also learnt a South African song!"
Pip Bridge, Head teacher, Boxgrove School, Surrey

"We are planning to begin the week with a Harvest Festival assembly led by our local Vicar. The Infants will decorate the stage and staff will provide 'veg' for the table display. Then the School Council will use the vegetables to make soup for a Soup and Crust sale to the teachers. There will be an on-going collection of coins in empty water bottles in all the classes and a competition to see which class can fill the most bottles with coins. And we are still planning activities for the rest of the week!"
Sonja Banks, PSE teacher Simms Cross Primary School, Widnes, Cheshire

"We were talking about Harvest during August and the beginning of September. We looked at fruit and vegetables from different places, particularly in this country and drew our favourites. From there, we discussed how there is enough food in the world to feed everybody, but in some countries, people are starving - the children decided that they would like to do something to help.
    We decided to support FoodAid and brought in vegetables to make soup, which we did in groups of 4 and 5. We made 6 different varieties with the help of parents and grandparents - Carrot and Orange, Cock-a-Leekie, Tomato, Lentil, Tattie and Potato and Cauliflower and the school kitchen made some bread rolls for us. This was then offered to the rest of the school to buy at our Harvest Soup Kitchen on Friday, 13th September and it was well supported.
    The CD-Rom was also used by the Head Teacher who used some of the pictures and information in Assembly on the morning of the event! We have about 200 children in the school, and 2 even came from the nursery with their pennies for the map and for soup!  
    We are also collection 1p and 2p coins to put inside a map of Africa which has been painted on the hall floor!"
Anna Vedat, at Penninghame Primary School, Kirkcudbrightshire