Philanthropy Day at Churcher's College Junior School and Nursery

As part of Churcher's College online learning projects the children have engaged in virtual expedition days and most recently Philanthropy Friday. The highlight of the day was to climb Everest via the children's stairs at home.

What a success this day was! A huge congratulations to all the children who managed to give their time for the benefit of others. The children were aiming to climb to the summit, a height of 8,848m but in fact climbed Everest four times between them, a total stair climb of 32,226m.

Children were sponsored to each meet their individual target of just under 200 stairs and a target was set of £400 to raise funds to support the children in our partner school UWS Mude. This target was smashed and an incredible £1742 was raised for our friends in Nepal. If you would like to help the link is below.

https://www.unitedworldschools.org/Fundraisers/climb-everest-for-uws-mude

As if the total raised wasn't enough of a climax to the day, Rebecca Stephens, the first British female to climb Everest, left the children a special recorded message to congratulate them on their achievement. We were beyond excited and the children were delighted to see her on our virtual learning platform.