We take pride in showing our core values of love, respect and kindness by supporting a number of different good causes throughout the year. Please take a look at the photographs of the organisations we work with and of us doing some weird and wonderful things to raise money.
We worked with our partner schools to raise money to pay for two wells in villages in Nepal. We learnt about the impact this had on the lives of those who previously did not have access to clean water.
In April 2025, we worked alongside an organisation called Feed the Hungry. Children from our federation schools travelled to Horton St Michael’s so that we could work together. We learnt about food poverty and how the organisation works to support children and their families in 92 different countries.
We worked in teams to pack food parcels that were then sent to Zimbabwe. We each had a job on our mini production lines. Some of us were measuring different ingredients into the packs; others sealed and stuck labels to the packs.
We were very excited to see the photographs of the food we had packed arriving in Zimbabwe!
Working alongside our Christian youth worker we decided to raise money for a toilet twinning charity. Jordan came and worked with Classes 2 and 3. We looked at the different types of toilets in places like Kenya and Pakistan. We then completed a class quiz looking at statistics about toilets around the world. The children found out that 26% of the population are without a toilet. As a school we discussed how we would feel if we had to go to one of these toilets. We came up with ideas to help people around the world to have access to a toilet. It only costs £60 to build a toilet for a community. To help raise money for this charity we have had non-uniform days and we held a cake sale where we sold ‘poo’ cakes that we had decorated in school.
The children spent time learning about poverty and some of the causes of it. Through our Christian youth worker we made a connection with the One by One school in Kenya.
Children learnt about what it is like to live in Kenya. The children decided that as a federation they wanted to raise £600 which would pay for a pupil to attend the school for a year. The school supports children who have previously at risk of starvation, child labour and even torture. Our school council organised a ‘Cake off’ where children paid to enter cakes in a competition. The cakes were then sold with all proceeds going to the One by One school.
We are immensely proud to have raised money with St Augustines, Draycott, St Peter’s, Alton and Dove Academy to provide a well in a village in Nepal. Before the well was installed, villagers had to walk miles every day to find water which was not clean.
In November 2021, the whole school took part in our annual Children in Need sponsored walk along the old railway line in Denstone. We raised an amazing £1,134.00.
Children from our Year Three and Four classes joined with children from St Peters, St Augustines and Dove school to pack food for the charity Feed The Hungry. The charity helps children and families in countries where they are unable to grow or buy food to live off.
Before we could pack the food we took part in lots of fundraising events to raise money to buy it. At All Saints we held a pyjama day where everyone came dressed in their pyjamas.
The food that was packed was dried so that it could travel long distances by lorry. It would be made into meals when it reached its destination. Children and families in Burkina Faso would be eating the food we packed very soon!
With the help of parents, our children filled a shoebox with many items such as a small cuddly toy, a warm hat and gloves, soap, flannel, toothbrush and toothpaste that could be sent to a child in another country on Christmas Day.
The shoeboxes were sent from the church altar along a line of children that each sent their love as the box passed through their hands. We hope our beautifully decorated boxes made the children smile as they opened them
SUAT supports and leads in the set-up of new academies joining the partnership. The services provided by the central support function cover both educational and non-educational support. In terms of educational support, SUAT is linked to the School of Education of Staffordshire University, which is an outstanding ITT provider.
