Our acts of service for 2025-26...

 

We are only at the end of Lent term and we have already achieved all of our goals for CAFOD World Gifts!!!

Our Advent term fundraising raised £503. During Lent term, we raised £324 from the Mufti Day and Year 3 raised £79 from their Easter raffle - a total of £403 during Lent term. 

This means we have raised £906 so far! We can buy all the gifts voted for by our children with £30 left over! Y1, Y2, Y4, Y5 and Y6 are yet to carry out their year group fund-raising!

Watch this space to see what the children choose as their next gifts. At St Bernadette's we truly live out the Catholic Social Teaching Principles!

1) Community Water Supply (£750);

2) Medical support for a newborn baby and mum (£43);

3) Chickens (£20);

4) Education programme (£63)

 

The Humanitas School Ghana

Whilst our main fundraising focus for 2025-26 is to support CAFOD WOrld Gifts, we never forget our friends in the Humanitas School, Ghana. We had a MUFTI day and a special Friendship Cafe. This made a generous contribution of £534.25 towards fabric for uniforms and writing materials. 

Our fundraising in autumn term (Mufti Day, sweet-treat sale and Foundation Stage Christmas Crafts sale) have set us well on the path to achieving the children’s first goal of funding a community water supply through CAFOD World Gifts.  Our current amount raised is £503 - we hope to reach the £750 needed by the end of spring term.

 

In November, we launched CAFOD World Gifts as our main charitable focus for the year. Year 1 – Year 6 pupils were given the very important task of voting for their preferred gifts. Mrs Zamora was very impressed with their decision-making as they recognised that without a supply of water, the other possible gifts available would not be sustainable.

These are their choices for the academic year ahead:

1) Community Water Supply (£750);

2) Medical support for a newborn baby and mum (£43);

3) Chickens (£20);

4) Education programme (£63)

The children always astound us with their depth of thought, empathy and understanding - we are so proud of them. Each year group has been tasked with planning their own fundraising activities across the year to help them reach their goals. The last day of this term – 19^th December, we will have a whole-school Mufti Day to get our fundraising off to a good start. 

You can find out more about CAFOD World Gifts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWfe-nfKJc&feature=youtu.be

Thank you so much for your generous donations to MK Food Bank. Thanks to your help, the Food Bank will be well-stocked to provide food for some of the most vulnerable individuals and families in Milton Keynes.

 

 

Some of our acts of service for 2024-25...

Humanitas School, Ghana

 

       

We recently received the above thank you letter from the Humanitas school in Ghana for the wonderful support our charitable fundraising achieved last year. In addition to the items listed above, we were also able to fund several months of a Malaria Prevention Programme for the local area of Ayensuako. Through their own hard work, the children achieved so much more than we could have hoped.

Some of our acts of service for 2023-24 ...

Together we have managed to fill an amazing 50 Bags of Kindness with lovely Christmas gifts for vulnerable individuals and families in in Milton Keynes.

The Mufti day last half term raised £433, added to the money raised at the Year 5/6 Carols and Readings (£194) and the sale of Foundation Stage Christmas crafts (£137) comes to a grand total of £764 for this term. This means that in time for Christmas, we have achieved our pupils’ chosen aim for this academic year – to pay for a year of hot school dinners for the 40 most deprived children at the Humanitas School in Ghana (costing £745). What a wonderful achievement!

In addition, your response to the appeal from the SVP to support a local family in crisis was amazing – we were able to send numerous bags of beautiful clothes and shoes to each of the children affected. Your generosity is incredible and makes such a difference to so many – I cannot thank you enough. The Christmas spirit is most certainly alive and well at St Bernadette’s!

Fundraising for the Humanitas School 

Throughout this academic year, our aim is to fundraise to enable the Humanitas school to achieve all of the following:

• Art materials - paints, pads, pencil

• Free school meals every day for a year for 40 children who are from families who live in extreme poverty and are unable to provide dinner at home

• Sponsor a teacher

We are hoping to raise £1000 this year, which will cover the costs of the above.

There will be fundraising activities carried out throughout the year across the year groups. Please look out for details of these as the year progresses

WE ARE ALREADY NEARLY HALF WAY THERE!! WE RAISED A HUGE £433 ON THE MOST RECENT MUFTI DAY. THANK YOU TO OUR WHOLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROSITY. 

MK Can World Record

(MK Foodbank Donations)

Your generosity in donating cans of food to MK Foodbank and other food items has been incredible! They asked us for 350 cans to help break the world record by producing a 10km line of food cans. You provided 800 cans!! Your generosity helped them to smash the world record. More importantly, you have helped to ensure that the Foodbank will be well-stocked throughout the year to help feed some of the most vulnerable individuals and families in Milton Keynes. Special thanks also to Mrs Watkins, Miss Zapotocka, Mrs Rodricks, Mrs Nelta and Mrs Perry who were at Campbell Park for many hours setting out our cans and looking after our section of the line. Thanks also to our Community Mini Vinnies who helped to pack the cans ready for transportation. 

'Because We're Happy'

Our friendships with pupils at the Humanitas School in Ayensuako, Ghana continue to grow and develop. The pupils at Humanitas School have been helping to enrich our curriculum through joint learning projects, whilst our fundraising has supported them in developing their school - most recently supporting the construction of a new library. 

Both schools have had great fun creating our own versions of the Happy Video to share with each other.

The videos can be seen by clicking on the images below.

The first link is St Bernadette's full video.

The second link, via a private Youtube channel, is an amalgamation of St Bernadette's pupils and the Humanitas School pupils  - ENJOY!!!

  

Our Community Mini Vinnies have been sharing letters with our friends in Humanitas School.

You can see some of the letters below.

Advent Charitable Work

Together we have managed to fill an amazing 72 Bags of Kindness with Christmas gifts for vulnerable individuals and families in the local community.

The Mufti day in aid of Willen Hospice raised an incredible £608.98 and the collection at the end of the Y5/6 Carols and Readings performance on Tuesday raised £181.76 to support the Humanitas School in Ghana.

Your generosity is incredible and makes such a difference to so many – we cannot thank you enough!