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  • Fair Trade profits to help orphans in Lesotho

    Mon 06 Feb 2012
    Today we set up links with Lesotho in Africa. Rob Bianchi, from Durham Lesotho Link,  taught us all about the devestating lives of children in Lesotho.  Unfortunatly, due to health problems hundreds of thousands of children are orphaned and robbed of their childhood as they head their households.

    The charity (www.durham-lesotholink.org.uk) will use our profits from Fair Trade tuck shop, not only provide water taps, but also to help children have a taste of childhood in their activity village. Please go on their website to find out more.

    We hope you are as excited as we are about helping out orphaned children in Lesotho.

  • School Savings Scheme Named

    Fri 03 Feb 2012

    Today Mrs Wilkinson announced the name ofour school bank. Mrs Fitzpatrick had been around the classes with voting forms this week and we could not wait to see what  it wil be called.

    The results were: 

    3rd place Money Monsters
    2nd place Bankers and cash
    1st place Save it,  Spend it,  Invest it 

    Now we can open accounts so we can save for holidays, our future and toys we would really like.

    Keep an eye out for our bank logo which we are now designing!

  • School Savings Scheme Launhed

    Wed 01 Feb 2012

    Today Mr Rooke, the manager of Durham County Credit Union came into our awards assembly to tell us about how good it is to save money. He talked to us about our school bank. 

    In the assembly we learnt that once we have picked the bank name, there will be a competition to design the logo. Mr Rooke promised that £10 will go into the winners account. He also said to help us get into the habit of saving money he will put £1 into our accounts every time we have saved some money for seven consecutive weeks.
     
    He also spoke to our Mam’s and Dad’s about the loans they can get from the school bank to make sure they are not paying massive amounts of interest. Durham Credit Union is currently in 20 schools across County Durham.
     
    The bank will begin after half term and we can bring our bank books in on a Tuesday to pay money into our accounts. Mrs Fitzpatrick is going to run the bank for the school and will be in every Tuesday to collect savings.
     
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