Welcome Pack redwhiteblueday.co.uk

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1 Welcome Pack 2015 redwhiteblueday.co.uk

2 Photo by kind permission of Heather Ridge Infant School, Camberley Welcome to RWB Day Thank you so much for signing up to take part in this year s Red, White & Blue Day. As you will have seen from our website we hope that your pupils will get behind the campaign and come up with some great fundraising initiatives. We were delighted with many of the ideas used last year to raise valuable funds to help the work of the three main Service charities who will be benefiting from your participation. This pack contains: 1 Welcome 2 A few things to mention 3 Activity suggestions 4 RWB Day logo outline 5 RWB Day poster 6 Foreign coin poster Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities Page 1

3 A few things to mention This year s Red, White & Blue Day is to be held on 9th October 2015 but you and your school can raise money anytime before the end of November. We ask schools to collect at least 1 from each pupil to help our fundraising. You might like to consider having someone from the Armed Forces, or a recently retired member of the Forces, come and speak at one of your assemblies. We found last year that schoolchildren were fascinated to hear, first hand, what life is really like serving the country in some extremely hostile locations. Whilst we cannot promise, we will certainly do our best, given sufficient time, to arrange a visit to your school. Please pwallis@soldierscharity.org for more information. Newsletters are produced during the year, as we as updates on our campaign. These are sent to you electronically but will also be available to download from the RWB Day website. The newsletters will give you information about new partners, news stories and updates on how we spend the money you help raise to support children and their families. After your own event we would be very grateful if you could send us in your cheque, or you can pay money in at any branch of HSBC in the UK. It is really important that you give us the name of your school, particularly when depositing cash at the bank, as we do send everyone a specially designed and printed certificate showing the amount raised. Details of where to pay are clearly shown on our website. If this could be done by the beginning of December, to avoid the usual Christmas rush, it would be most helpful. Whenever people return from an overseas trip, invariably you have some foreign notes and coins that are just put away in a drawer somewhere. By encouraging your pupils to bring in these unwanted currencies we can, with the help of our partner Easy Coin, turn your spare foreign currency into much-needed cash to help our Armed forces and their families. Please use the enclosed poster for your notice boards. At the end of the campaign all the notes and coins can be sent to us. Please pwallis@soldierscharity.org for details on how to send your package using our prepaid address. We hope to get even more companies signed up this year if you know any that would be interested in joining us do please let us know. If you have any ideas on how we can make RWB Day even bigger and better please us we would love to hear from you. Patty Wallis Project Manager, Red, White & Blue Day pwallis@soldierscharity.org We have produced a special RWB Day Sticker to give to your pupils who donate 1 to take part. If you would like a supply please pwallis@soldierscharity.org stating the number you require and your full postal address. I m supporting redwhiteblueday.co.uk Page 2

4 Activity suggestions Bake a cake Our television screens have been awash with baking programmes encouraging people of all ages to bake at home. Last year Hazel Oak School make cup cakes to sell during their fundraising day. Using red, white and blue your school could run a competition and give a prize for the best entry. Thanks to Andrea Cox for producing this lovely cup cake. Have a WW2 school lunch Instead of your usual lunch why not make one using ingredients to make dishes such as corned beef hash and teach your pupils about rationing at the same time. Design bunting Using off-cuts of red, white and blue material, which many shops sell quite cheaply, encourage each pupil to produce one piece and then as a team effort stitch them all together to decorate your assembly hall. A cheap way to produce a stunning visual effect. Invite a member of the Armed Forces to speak at your school assembly Many schools now have service children and we have found that their parents often make excellent speakers and are happy to come along and talk about their own particular experiences serving our country. Heather Ridge School was fortunate in having not only a couple of soldiers but also a Matron from the local barracks visit them last year. Smarties tube Suggest students fill a Smarties tube with 1 coins whilst sharing them out to their friends. Be creative with the RWB Day logo All Saints Primary School in Wales produced an amazing version of our logo using red, white and blue. You could do something similar perhaps using your own school logo or even one of the WW2 planes a Spitfire or Hurricane. Colour the shapes of our RWB Day logo The Union Jack is our national flag and is flown regularly throughout the year but can you remember the colour scheme? Print out our black and white logo on page 4 and let your pupils have fun colouring in the blank spaces. A wall of pennies Longfield Academy asked its pupils to save their one and two penny pieces during the summer months and then bring them into school to make a long line against the assembly wall. It was amazing to see and the wall raised a lot of money for the campaign. Page 3

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6 We re supporting RWB Day is on: We are encouraging the children to come to school dressed in red, white and blue and donate 1 to go towards helping children in need whose families are serving our country. Read more at redwhiteblueday.co.uk Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities

7 Don t let unwanted foreign notes and coins lie idle at home! As part of our involvement with the Red, White & Blue Day campaign our school will be collecting unwanted foreign notes and coins. Money from any country in the world, including former EU currencies, can be donated as well as old coin collections and medals. Please ask your family and friends to check and see what they have at home and bring them in to school. Read more on our website redwhiteblueday.co.uk Working in partnership with Easy Coin Your support today will help Service children tomorrow. Your donations will help support the work of the three national military charities

8 Thank you! redwhiteblueday.co.uk