Students Step Out for Sponsored Walk
June 23rd, 2008
Pupils at Tollbar Business and Enterprise College have walked miles to raise money for charity.
The New Waltham school hosted a sponsored walk to raise money for Grimsby's St Andrew's Hospice and the Blue Cross Animal Hospital.
Teachers and pupils took part, many in fancy dress, which included pirates, footballers and even pieces of fruit.
The school field was marked out one mile per lap, and participants completed between one and five laps.
Eight hundred sponsor forms left the school, with assistant principle and event organiser Dave Mitchell hopeful that most pupils took part in the event.
He said: "We've had one or two taking forms, but then saying they couldn't do it.
"However, we are certainly looking at well over 600 participants.
"It's a fantastic turnout that shows Tollbar students in another light and it also shows the pupils care, which is very heartening.
"I think it reveals that academic success isn't all we care about.
"We wanted the students to make the event what they wanted it to be and they have joined in the mood."
To help inspire the walkers there was a live band and some dancers, but for some, the opportunity for fancy dress was all they needed.
Class joker Tom Crump (13), of Scartho, completed five laps dressed as a banana.
He said: "I thought dressing like this would raise me a bit more money for charity.
"I've raised £24 for a good cause and I was allowed to make an absolute idiot of myself in front of everyone."
Ellie-May (12), from Grimsby, raised £15 for five laps.
She said: "I'm doing it for the fun of it and I'm raising a bit of money as well."
Fifteen-year-old Ryan Hulatt, from Scartho, dressed as a pirate to raise £20.
He said: "I enjoy exercising and I like to raise money. I have done it lots of times."
Mr Mitchell said: "It is difficult to say how much we will raise.
"But all we know is the students will do their best - so whatever they do will be worthwhile."
Article from the Grimsby Telegraph date 21 June 2008
