Over half term, on Sunday 28 May, Assistant Head of Sixth Form, Rod Isaacs, completed the Edinburgh marathon in an amazing 3 hours 47 minutes and 33 seconds. Rod was running in aid of the Princethorpe Malawi 2024 expedition, helping to fulfil the school's commitments to raise £2,000 to fund work at Namatubi School in the northern part of the country. You can find out more and support his efforts here.
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Sunday 2 July
It's a long road...
Princethorpe Lower Sixth students will be walking up a storm on Sunday 2 July as they take on the 24/7 Challenge in aid of Mary's Meals, the amazing charity that can feed a child for a year for just £19.15 With over 40 pupils and more than a dozen staff taking part plus many parent helpers on checkpoints there is strong support for the event that is in its 13th year.
This year some pupils in Year 10 and 11 are also taking on the walk to support the Malawi fundraising through Bwengu Projects to fund two new toilet blocks for girls and boys at Namatubi School in Northern Malawi.
Beginning at 8.00am at the Queen's Head Pub in Meriden the walkers will follow the official Coventry Way route for 17 miles until Ryton and then branch out on a figure of eight route for a little over 7 miles for the remainder to end at Princethorpe College sometime around 4.00pm. This year the route distance has been carefully recalibrated to equal exactly 24 miles.
Please use the links below to our fundraising pages to support either of the two charities. The Mary's Meals charity commits to using 93p in every £1 on their hands on work feeding hungry children in their place of education. We are not far from this year's target to feed every child at Makalanga School in Malawi. Anything over and above this will go to Mary's Meals vital work providing food for children in Yemen and Tigray as well as next year's fundraising for Makalanga.
Bwengu Projects Just Giving Page
Maybe you were lucky enough to get away over the May half term break and now there are a few foreign coins or notes lurking in a pocket or a handbag?
Why not round them up and put them to good use? All donations would be gratefully received and all money raised will be split between UK projects of the SVP (St Vincent de Paul Society), including support for the homeless, elderly, handicapped and those coming out of prison and an overseas SVP project helping to fund secondary school education children - especially girls - in India. Click here to discover what the SVP organisation is about and how your donation can help.
The money can be current or out of date, British or foreign; anything is welcome.
Click here and watch the video to see how cash4coins works. This is what you can donate:
Please send in money in a strong envelope labelled ‘Rod Isaacs - Cash4Coins’. This can be handed in to form tutors to pass on. We raised nearly £170 last year.
Many thanks
Rod Isaacs
Assistant Head of Sixth Form
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