Eradication of World Poverty Festival

Eradication of World Poverty Festival

This year, BISM have chosen to join the fight against world poverty. This was demonstrated during the Eradication of World Poverty Festival here in school. The preparations for the event started in the classroom, with the children focusing on poverty within their PSHE lessons. The Music department also included the emotional songs as part of their music teaching.

On the day of the festival, the Foundation Stage children starred in a sponsored Sing-a-Thon in order to raise money for ‘the people who don’t have as much as we do’ (Sienna, Reception Class). They raised a huge 209€.

The Lower School performance included a some beautiful singing across the Key Stage.

Year 1 made posters that really capture the key elements of the fight against poverty. Year 2 made some insightful poems. Year 3 shared their own thoughts on poverty. Year 4 shared their acrostic poems that really encouraged people to act now.

The Middle School started their festival with thoughtful speeches after watching a ‘hard hitting’ (Esme, Year 5) video about war. This was followed by a powerful video message from Year 6. Year 7 considered ways that we can work together to help eradicate poverty and Year 8 explained about our chosen charity for the year Hogar Betania. Again their musical input was a credit to the school and the music department.

Thank you all for your help and support at all of our charitable events, we really appreciate it.

Mrs Rutherford

PSHE Coordinator