Don’t forget to bring in your donations for this year’s Foodbank appeal!
The foodbank collections began on 6th December and will finish on 17th December.
Mr Purdie’s S3 Modern Studies class have been learning about all inequality in the U.K. , including how severe the poverty issue is. They would like to give the people in need some food parcels. The class have decided they will have a food bank collection for their local foodbank, the Trussel Trust Foodbank in Airdrie. This class has organised a meeting with the head teacher to explain why they are donating, creating posters and describing why it’s a problem which has to be fixed immediately and they are trying to raise awareness of this in their local area.
Their donations are being collected in the school, with points being awarded to the house to which each pupil who donates belongs. This will help involve a lot more of the pupils as the house with the most points at the end of the year receive prizes.
Pupils can put their donations in boxes which are situated at the school office. Pupils are trying to involve the local community as well as just the pupils in the school. The class are taking donations such as cereal, rice, and tinned food including tomatoes, fruit, soup, pasta, veg, meat, beans etc. Also toiletries would be helpful such as feminine products, toilet paper, shampoo and shower gel. If every pupils in the school donated one item there would be 500 meals to people who are starving throughout the day and night, but if everybody donated 2 items there would be 1000 items donated, this would feed a lot of people who are suffering from starvation.
