A look at our chosen charities and what's been happening already.
A huge total of £6021.76 was raised by students at Varndean School during 2014-2015.
This year students from each school have chosen the following charities:
Angelou - Bethany's Wish
Russell - Daisy's Dream
Turing - Action Aid, focusing on children in Myanmar
Ellis - British Heart Foundation
We have already made a fantastic start with the Ellis Extravaganza raising an impressive £665, a Turing Christmas Fair with uniquely designed Christmas cards, hand made Christmas gifts and home baked festive treats, Russell School have an end of term raffle, and ahead of their plans for the New Year Angelou School are sponsoring Ms Robins to come dressed as an elf on the last day of term.
Hot off the press: congratulations to everyone involved in the Turing Christmas Fair on 14th and 15th December - they raised £196.72! A fantastic start to this years fund raising.
Friday 18th December is a non-uniform day with all money raised going to the four charities. Students will also shortly be given their first opportunity to convert achievement points to cash to donate to their charity.
Final training session with @TheCfEY before we start our listening to identify what #MentalHealth priorities we should focus on. Looking forward to working with @BHASVIC @varndean @VarndeanSchool @HpsHove @BACA_UK @BlatchMill @MyOneChurch @SussexUni @SussexCampaigns on this!
It's our favourite time of the week...#HotChocFri! A massive well done to this week's nominees Louis (7MWE), Reece (7DBE), Maggie (7JBA), Isaac (8SXD), Ashley (10NJR), Ben (9CMC), Cameron (11EVA), Martha (8HEM) and Jav-El (7KCO). Keep up the amazing work #TeamVarndean https://t.co/Vebhs9OT0U
We had wonderful feedback from students after watching our virtual staff performance of "The Case of Four and Twenty Blackbirds" by @neilhimself! Thank you to Mr Owen, Mr Rayment, Mr Trott, Mrs Turner, Mr Roberts and Mr Katz for taking part! @VarndeanBooks https://t.co/uphmQ1iXdI
We are recruiting! Our wonderful English Department are looking for a new full-time English Teacher to join #TeamVarndean. For all the information and how to apply, please click the link below: #teachingvacancyuk @MccreaEmma https://t.co/rGY6xd5XtD
For #WorldBookDay , our students took part in our annual #BookJacketPotatoCompetition in which students dress jacket potatoes as book characters! See some of our best potatoes below, including "Albus Dauphinoise", "Spuder-Man" and "Murder Most Un-Spudulike": @VarndeanBooks https://t.co/5UH29LdIHG