Sefton Schools say #kNOwKnifeCrime

As a school we are always looking for opportunities and ways to educate our pupils on how to keep themselves safe. We have decided to team up with #kNOwKnifeCrime campaign and London Marathon 2024 and we will be fundraising for bleeding control kits and cabinets for outside our schools in Sefton. We want to keep our community safe and be well resourced in the event someone needs medical assistance.

Nursery to Year 6 pupils – Mini marathon

We will be having a mini marathon event in our school the week of 15th April 2024 where all pupils will participate in running in our school grounds. For participating in this event all children will receive a London mini marathon certificate and our school will receive a trophy.

Next week we will be informing the children about this campaign. As a school we will be making a donation for a bleed control kit cabinet outside our school. Younger pupils will focus on important lifesaving facts of how a bleed control kit can keep someone alive whilst waiting for medical assistance. It will also focus on keeping healthy and achieving ambitious goals by setting ourselves the mini marathon challenge.

Pupils in Year 5 and Year 6 will be having a virtual assembly from the the #kNOwKnifeCrime campaigner Laura Hughes (who established in Memory of Colin McGinty) a -kNOwKnifeCrime initiative to educate young people on the wider lasting impact of knife crime. The assembly will be age appropriate and help children to consider the choices they have. As part of our safeguarding work, we need to educate our pupils on the dangers they may be exposed to. The purpose of the fundraiser is not to scare or worry our community but to raise awareness of the possible risks and donate money to purchase bleeding control kits for our local community.

On Wednesday 17th April representatives from Year 5 and Year 6 pupils will be participating in a relay event where they will be handed the ‘bleed control kit baton’ from St Phillip’s School pupils and then run from our School to Springwell Park passing on a ‘bleed control kit’ to show how we are working as a community to keep our community safe. If your child is running in the event on 17th April, you will receive additional information.

All children in Year 5 and Year 6 will be supporting the event in some way, should they not be part of the running relay group. 84 schools in Sefton are also participating in this event which is set to be covered by the media.

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Thank you

Mrs Dowell