High school donates over 100 gift-filled shoeboxes to appeal

Janet Emsley, Beth Givvons-Collinge, James Robertson and Carol Hartley from Operation Christmas Child

Wardle High School has donated 123 gift-filled shoeboxes to Operation Christmas Child’s Shoe Box Appeal.

The school’s contribution to the appeal was coordinated by the Sixth Form and saw them break their record of 67 boxes from the previous year.

The boxes sent by Wardle High School will go to Ukraine, an area south of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Emma Coulman-Butterworth’s year 7 form contributed 29 boxes to the appeal and held a bake sale raising £140 to contribute towards the cost of sending the boxes, meaning a donation of £65 was also sent.

Sixth form students Beth Givvons-Collinge and James Robertson joined the Director of Performing Arts, Janet Emsley, on a non-school day to ensure that the shoeboxes could be collected.

Mrs Emsley, said: “This is our second year participating in Operation Christmas Child. We pledged to beat our last year's number of boxes and we honoured that pledge by sending 123, almost double last year's total.

“Special mention should be made of Beth Givvons-Collinge who prepared and presented assemblies to all the years and houses to launch our appeal and to 7 Birch who donated the most boxes.”