Charity, Education, Poole | Posted on July 24th, 2024 | return to news
Poole junior school fun run raises over £2k for local charity
Canford Heath Junior School held its first ever fun run on 19 July, raising over £2,000 to support Julia’s House Children’s Hospice.
Canford Heath Junior School held its first ever fun run on 19 July to support Julia’s House Children’s Hospice, with schoolchildren raising over £2,000 for the charity.
Children were asked to run a distance of 1.5km, 3km, or 5km and could wear fancy dress costumes. Over 200 pupils, teachers and staff braved high temperatures to complete the run across the school’s sports field and playground, all while dressed up as colourful characters including Darth Vader, Spider-Man or even as a banana!
Canford Heath Junior School will use the money raised to sponsor the creation of a giant mermaid tail as part of the charity’s Great Tail Trail, which will see more than 40 sculptures displayed across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for eight weeks from 5 April to 1 June 2025.
Headteacher Mark Wilson explained more about how the idea for a fun run came about. He said: “We planned a bake sale that raised a good amount of money, but then we were sent information about the tail trail and looked into it.
“You needed to raise around £700, and then we came up with the idea of putting on another quick event this year. Suddenly, the fun run grew from being a quick run around the field into this big event.”
As a result of amount raised, the school will get to display a tail next year. Mark added: “We are now running a competition where the children are designing what they would like the tail to look like, and the winner will be chosen next year.
“Julia’s House is a really good local charity to raise money for.”
The sponsored fun run was organised by Year 3 teacher Ellie Carne. She said: “We didn’t expect it to be such a huge success. We’ll definitely be doing it again next year, just making it even better.”
Along with other fundraising activities held throughout the school year, including a bake sale, Canford Heath Junior raised over £3,000 for Julia’s House.
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