Felpham Community College ended a busy half term holding a non-school uniform day, fundraising for the Little Princess Trust. Students and staff were invited to pay a £1 fine to wear what they wanted on Friday 10^th February, with sixth form students getting involved and dressing as what they wanted to be as grown ups when they were little.

Georgina Chester, FCC Charity Co-ordinator, commented: “Within the first half term of each academic year, students across year groups vote for what charities we should support each year, through a variety of events. We always try and choose a mixture of local, national and international charities. Since September we have supported My Sister’s House, UK Harvest, The Royal British Legion, Save the Children, Stonepillow, Age UK and now the Little Princess Trust – and we are only half way through the academic year!”

For more information, please visit https://www.littleprincesses.org.uk/

The Felpham Community College year 5 primary events continued this half term, welcoming year 5 students from Bersted Green and Bishop Tufnell.

Bersted Green students got involved developing their spellbinding ideas with our drama department, and Bishop Tufnell looked at Ancient Magic with our Religion, Philosophy and Ethics teacher, Miss Wyatt.

Mr Whiffin, Deputy Headteacher commented:
“It was great to see the students, supported by our FCC Student Helpers, have some fantastic ideas and work so enthusiastically with their activities. It was also an opportunity for them to tour a secondary school and ask lots of questions about how things are different from primary, so that they can start to look forward to it instead of them possibly worrying. Year 5 students from Downview primary school visited us before Christmas, and we are now looking forward to continuing next term with a number of other local primary schools”

Felpham Community College started the new year off continuing their busy programme of charity events, this time co-ordinating a school-wide collection for Age UK. A wide variety of goods were donated, including clothes, books and toys, which were then delivered to the Bognor Age UK donation shop at the beginning of February. 

Lucy Oliver, Head Student, commented:
“We have a packed charity annual timeline at FCC including non-school uniform days, donation drives and sponsored events such as dog walks, quizzes and sporting activities. Students and staff vote for what chairities  they want to support each year and we try and choose a wide variety of local, national and international charities. It is great that the FCC community come together and do so much, we are proud of what we achieve!”

For more information on the charity please visit Age UK.