Christmas Lunch

We are all looking forward to our annual Y3-Y6 Christmas Lunch in the Junior School Gymnasium. This week, our students in Years 3-6 received their personal invitation to this special lunch, to be held on Thursday, 30 November. Students in Y3-Y6 should handwrite an acceptance to attend the lunch and post it in the red ‘Christmas Lunch’ Post Box in Reception.

There is also a separate consent form for parents to sign which was sent to parents via Operoo today. Next week, our CSPA Vice President for Junior School will reach out to our families to ask if they would like to help with this event.

This year, with so many worrying things happening around the world, we have opted for a slightly simpler lunch menu which will come at a lesser cost, and we will still have all the fun activities we usually do as part of the lunch. We will be asking every Y3-Y6 student to consider what small jobs at home they could do to help to raise some money to donate to UNICEF. We are fundraising to support UNICEF, so they can continue their life-saving work for children. Every day, UNICEF is working around the world to help children realise their full potential by providing access to clean water, life-saving vaccines, quality education, and health care. UNICEF works to ensure every child is safe and protected from harm and is always there during times of emergency.

We hope the boys can feel happiness in knowing they have actively done something to help other children who are not living in such a peaceful and safe part of the world. Donations are, of course, entirely optional, but it would be wonderful, as a whole community, to collect a sizeable amount for this worthy cause. Details about what the boys will need to do and a link to make a donation can be found here UNICEF LINK and in the parent note on Operoo.

During the lunch, the students have the opportunity to meet staff from across the entire School, especially those who work in ‘behind the scenes’ roles. This can help our students come to appreciate how all these people work together to provide the wonderful education they are so fortunate to receive. The lunch is one way the Junior School staff and students say thank you to the many people who work at Cranbrook in non-public roles, but without whom we could not function!

We also ask our students to bring in a donation of non-perishable food and/or children’s gifts for Anglicare (Toys’n’Tucker). Information about this has already been shared in our newsletter.