The News at Sixth

The News at Sixth December 2009

02/12/2009	Adumasa Group
	Kingsbridge Community College has been a part of the Adumasa project for many years now. Recently a group of year 12 students have formed the Adumasa group which meet every Wednesday afternoon as their option for enrichment. They are focusing on fundraising in many different ways for the project and are designing posters to inform people of what we as a college are doing to help. So far ideas that the group have come up with include; having a cake stall, hosting an arm wrestling competition, hosting Battle of the Bands in 2010, putting donation pots in the canteen, selling wrist bands, and making posters.
	Another idea which has been raised by the group is to have the teachers making cakes which will then be sold and eaten by the students. A vote will then be taken to see which cakes were the best and all the money raised will go to the Adumasa project. The group will continue to meet every Wednesday to discuss new opportunities of raising money.
	by Misha Baddeley, News at Sixth

02/12/2009	Books for Africa
	As part of our curriculum, year 12 have ‘Enrichment’ on a Wednesday afternoon. This gives us the opportunity to do something new and different that we may not have experienced before. It includes things such as sports, yoga, learning languages like Chinese, outdoor education, being a part of the media team and fundraising for the Adumasa project. Another option this year was to be a part of a group called ‘Books for Africa’. The group contacted an organisation in America which was sending their books to Africa and discovered that there was no equivalent here in the UK.
	The group was then set up so that students can collect books from around the school which are no longer used in lessons and send them to schools in Africa which may not be able to afford them. The group are now concentrating on things such as costs of packaging so that the money can be raised to send the books. The American group were very helpful and gave them details of the African Rotary Club who will distribute the books in Africa. The students have been contacting other schools in the area to try and get them involved in the project; if this is successful they hope to expand to the rest of England.
	by Misha Baddeley, News at Sixth