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Little Heath School
Date/Time 15th November 2011

Little Heath School

In 2010 my daughter Sabrina Spring came home from School and nonchalantly said “I nominated SLWT as our class charity”; two days later she rapturously announced that SLWT had been selected by her class. Since then Little Heath School has embraced one of our projects - FAWE Primary School, Freetown Branch.

The First week in December 2011, Sabrina came home with a large box and said “Mummy Mrs Zegallo asked me to give this to you!” In the box were Christmas cards with little token gifts from each of the 30 pupils in Year 5 in Little Heath School for the FAWE pupils in Class 5. These cards were then sent to Freetown and were presented to the FAWE School by Mrs. Marion Morgan, the Vice President of FAWE.

On Monday 12^th December I attended Sabrina’s last carol concert at Little Heath School and at the end Mrs Custis, the school Head Teacher, announced that the retiring collection was for a school the Year 5 pupils had links with in Sierra Leone called FAWE. “Wow”, I said to the parent next to me “I wasn’t expecting that”. Little Heath School (LHS) and their Year 5 pupils continue to surprise us at SLWT with their commitment and enthusiasm in supporting the pupils of FAWE School – it is very impressive.

Matthew Dowdle

Back in November 2011 Little Heath sent us a cheque for £50. Matthew Dowdle, a Year 6 pupil, had entered a competition (at home) and won and unbeknown to the school donated his winnings to SLWT. What an inspirational thing for an 11 year old to make such a gesture of his own willingness and give to other children less fortunate than him. Thank you Matthew you are an inspiration – so many children in the western world take too much for granted and expect everything without always appreciating what they have. Well done.

To maintain the link between LHS and FAWE, SLWT has decided to create the Little Heath School – Matthew Dowdle award and with the money Matthew donated we will buy a trophy that will be awarded annually to a FAWE final year pupil for Literacy. Matthew won the prize for writing a piece on Robots through a Radio Waves competition.

Little Heath School Year 5 – Class of 2011/12

So this morning (14^th December 2011) I visited Year 5 pupils at LHS to thank them for their support and to tell them about FAWE and what SLWT does. The class were extremely enthusiastic and asked me lots and lots of questions about SLWT and FAWE; from “what was the school uniform…” to “what do the children need or want for their school”. What was heart-warming and heart felt was their genuine interest as 9 year olds about children thousands of miles away whose circumstances and way of education was very different to theirs. The children at Little Heath cherish the relationship they have with the children at FAWE School. Thank you to all the children in Year 5 – class of 2011/12.

Renee Horton-Coker

Trustee

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Charity Number

1085628

Registered Address

7 Thornton Road, Little Health, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire EN6 1JJ

Email Address

info@slwt.org

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