The Salopian Summer 2023

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SCHOOL NEWS
VOLUNTEERING
the shelves and put together packages of food to send out to the
local community, as well as helping with other errands. It’s
great work and it’s incredibly rewarding to know that we are
doing our bit for the community, I will continue to help out
as I get older. I also really enjoyed working with my friends to
help at the Christmas Fair held in Quod, where we sold crafts
from Thai villages as well as Christmas Cards designed by our
Headmaster in order to raise money for the Foodbank.”
This year our volunteering programme has gone from
strength to strength. With 180 students eagerly wanting
to help out in the local community on Thursday afternoons,
we were able to deploy willing teams to The Grange Primary
School, The Martin Wilson School, Shrewsbury Cathedral
School, Woodfield Infant School and Radbrook Primary
School to help support young children in the classroom,
with a particular focus on reading. Other volunteers were
dispatched to the local Mount Care Home, St Barnabas
Foodbank, an array of local charity shops, Severndale
Specialist Academy, Restart Kenya (via a video link),
Beekeeping at School and at Longlands Primary, Headway,
our Homework Club for local refugees and the Royal
Shrewsbury Hospital. Within each of these placements is a
plethora of activity and, most importantly, a great deal of
good work being done by our students.
The students have benefited greatly. Scarlet Sim of The
Grove, who has helped out at the local Foodbank all year,
writes: “I work at the Foodbank with a group of other students
every Thursday as part of my afternoon activity. We restock
Logan Penty commented about recent bee-keeping lessons
he gave at Longlands Primary School: “I really enjoyed
hosting ‘all things bees’ at the school. We created activities to
help educate young children about the importance of bees,
including taste-testing, candle-making and trying on a childsize
bee suit. It was brilliant to see how keen the children were,
and I can’t wait to go to more schools to keep sharing our
knowledge.”
Natasha Loumidis and Florence Belcher (friends from Moser’s