Walk for Water

Walk for Water, 1 July 2022

It was a frosty morning. We knew we were in for a big day. From the get go, Prefects and House Leaders were dotted out around the 500 metre course.

In parts of Africa kids have to walk up to 6km to get water that sometimes isn’t clean.

The course started next to the Year 5 classes and went out through the Creyke Road Car park, right around the outside of the School, coming back into the grounds through the Clyde Road gate.

The whole school were carrying buckets of water of all different sizes. They were full to start but by the end they were pretty much empty. This was the ‘Walk for Water’, the main Medbury School fundraiser for the 40 hour Famine.

But this wasn’t all, the House Leaders and Head of Community Service had thought of another great way to raise money: ‘Chuck a Bucket’. Students could donate a set amount, either $108 for a teacher, or $32 for a student, then they choose one of the House Leaders, Prefects, the Head of Community Service or a House Leader to dump a bucket of cold water on. It was a cold day and we were not looking forward to it!

All of the leaders were nominated and many teachers too, including Mr Durant (Acting Headmaster). There was lots of laughter in the crowd as the whole school watched during lunchtime, and hundreds more dollars were raised for the great cause.

We would like to thank everyone who set themselves a challenge and raised money for World Vision. All the boys showed responsibility by getting family members and friends to donate. Medbury School smashed our goal of $10,000, raising $11,199, thanks to everyone’s hard work and generosity.

World Vision presented Medbury School and Tom Eyre-Walker (Head of Community Service) the ‘South Island Auahatanga, Most Creative Fundraising Award’ in recognition of the ‘Teacher and Leader Water Bucket Dumping Challenge’ and ‘Walk for Water Campaign’. In addition to this award, Medbury School received World Vision’s Platinum Award for being in the top 2% of fundraisers based on the average amount raised per student.

George Hegan 8E, and Oliver Innes, 8E