Charities

Learning to be of service to our community is a vital part of education. Through our Service Pillar we taught our learners about their responsibility towards their community and nurtured their social awareness.

We held four Civvies Days in aid of a charity organisation this year. Boys were allowed to wear casual clothes on the day for a minimum donation of R10. All proceeds collected were donated to the selected charity.

In Term 1, our donation went to the Children’s Hospital Trust. The trust raises funds to support projects and programmes which advance child healthcare through the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. Funds raised went to the Victoria Hospital Paediatric Outpatient project. We raised a total of R12 610.40 towards this project. Please click on the link to read about this project: Victoria Hospital Outpatient Unit.

We also held an Easter Egg Charity Drive for the underprivileged every year.The Easter Egg Drive was well supported by our generous school community and we were pleased to have donated a total of 19 130 eggs to charity.

The Term 2 Civvies Day was to aid the work of the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA). Find out more about the Peninsula School Feeding Association

A total of R11 724.75 was donated to the wonderful work of this organisation to feed hungry and underprivileged school children for many years.

Our Term 3 Civvies Day was on Friday, 02 September, in aid of St Luke’s Combined Hospices. St Luke’s Combined Hospices has provided specialised end-of-life medical and nursing care, known as palliative care, to people with life-limiting illnesses, for 42 years. We were able to donate a total of R13 790.85 to this very worthy organisation.

The Term 4 Civvies Day is annually committed to the Douglas Murray home for the Aged. The generous donations towards gift hampers and tea was always well received and deeply appreciated by the beneficiaries.

The organisations we support received our donations with gratitude and letters of appreciation. We send our heartfelt thanks to our school community for their generosity, and to the very worthy charities we support for the invaluable work they do.

Mrs L Daniels