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This is your space to share what you have been doing with the Friendship Funday community.
Take a look at the gallery and explore what other groups have been up to in the past few years. Once your group has celebrated Friendship Funday 2010, please send your photographs and captions to friendshipfunday@savethechildren.org.uk. We’ll then add a selection to the gallery.
- Where:
- Grange Park Junior School, Middlesex
- When:
- May
- How many:
- 310 children
- What:
- Children and teachers held a Save the Children Disco two nights in a row. The next day, the children had a morning friendship assembly, played friendship games, gave out friendship tokens, and talked about other children’s friendships around the world. Everyone also played outdoors at the bouncy castle and sponsored goal shootout.
- Raised:
- £731.00
- Where:
- St. John’s School, London
- When:
- May
- How many:
- 180 children
- What:
- The students raised money by paying £1 to dress up as "someone who helps others." They picked names out of a hat to see who their special friend for the day would be and painted pavement friendship murals that afternoon to show the rest of the neighbourhood what friendship meant to them.
- Raised:
- £130.00
- Where:
- St. Stephen’s C of E Primary School, London
- When:
- May
- How many:
- 30 children
- What:
- Year One teacher Emma Mulvey helped coordinate activities for each class, like making friendship bracelets, friendship cakes, framed artworks, and a donut eating competition! At the end of the day, the parents helped raise money by buying the cakes and artwork that were for sale. Miss Mulvey’s class also watched the Kroo bay video and were inspired to make musical instruments out of everyday trash and make a Friendship Book that explored the lives of children from Kroo Bay.
- Raised:
- £88.00
- Where:
- Bures CE VC Primary School, Suffolk
- When:
- May
- How many:
- 160 children
- What:
- Bures had a non-uniform day to raise funds and organised a variety of other activities to celebrate friendship. They painted friendship murals and filled pages for each other about why they are such a good friend. The children made a friendship chain and took to the yard to give three cheers to friendship!
- Raised:
- £140.00
- Where:
- St Peter’s Primary School, Kent
- When:
- November
- How many:
- 210 children
- What:
- Friendship Funday was the highlight of a week of activities for National Anti-Bullying Week. Each child wrote a message of friendship or drew a picture on a postcard and attached it to a balloon that they released later that day. Each postcard asked finders to pin point where the balloon was found on a specially designed map on the school’s website. Two of the balloons got as far as Holland and messages of friendship were sent in return.
- Raised:
- £185.00
