Christian Courageous Advocacy

We have held a number of events to support courageous advocacy including a charity close to our hearts: Just George. One of our pupils chose to cut their hair raising money for this charity and we also hold an annual 'Go for Gold' day raising awareness of Children's Cancer Month.

Following a Collective Worship on Creation, the School Council asked to hold an Environment Week where they could organise a range of activities to care for our planet. Activities ranged from creating bug hotels and recycling their packed lunch waste to holding a no-paper day.

In the run up to Environment Week, the School Council also challenged our Fordham families with the following:

What can you do to save water?

What can you reduce?

What can you reuse?

What can you recycle?

A couple of year ago, we held a fundraiser for the Toilet Twinning charity. One of our school council members was keen to support this charity by raising money to twin our toilet to enable people living in poor communities to have clean water, basic sanitation and to learn more about hygiene education. We had Madeleine from the charity to come and speak to the whole school about what this charity do. We held a charity day and raised £332. The school council then researched and chose the location for their toilets and chose to build a toilet block in Uganda and a household latrine in Malawi.

Our school council this year (2025-2026) have also chosen to raise money for this charity and hope to provide more toilet blocks. We are awaiting their decision of where in the world these should go.

Examples of our children's courageous advocacy:

We have also had many children who are keen to raise money for charities close to their heart. Please see below for some examples of our wonderful children's courageous advocacy or our newsletter where these are celebrated:

- One of our children wrote an insert for the school newsletter raising awareness for children in Africa who can't play football league games because they have not got any kit. He asked for donations of any unused or old kit for all age ranges and had a brilliant response.

- One girl asked that instead of receiving birthday presents that people make a donation to the Donkey Sanctuary to support this charity.

- We have had a number of children brave enough to cut their hair and donate it to the Little Princess Trust.

- One boy wanted to raise awareness for epilepsy and not only organised a raffle but also went on a 10 mile sponsored cycle ride.

Here are some of are certificates recognising our fundraising efforts organised by the House Captains and School Council.