GAMECHANGERS for NEPAL 2024

As part of our Collective Worship this year we have been learning all about Gamechangers. The children have found out about gamechangers for the environment, in the Bible,  in art and in other contexts such as sport and education. They have been thinking about what is takes to be a gamechanger and how anyone can be a gamechanger - a small action can have a BIG impact! 

Following on from Miss Walton's visit in September, we have continued our partnership with Freedom to Learn and Kushadevi School out in Nepal.

In the build up to our Sports Days, the children at both schools have been exchanging photos and videos in order to learn more about their favourite sports, who inspires them and what sports they do in and out of school. It is clear that the children at Kushadevi School LOVE sport, just like the children at MOSPS. Unfortunately though, the children at Kushadevi School don't have the same opportunities as the children at MOSPS when it comes to sport. They currently don't have any PE teachers, and their teachers do not know how to effectively teach PE as they have not had any training, despite having various sporting equipment like rugby balls and kit that has been donated to the school. Having met with Joey and SK from Freedom to Learn, we have found out that it would cost £3000 to fund a PE teacher for one year for Kushadevi School. 

Having shared this information with the children, we have set them a challenge to be gamechangers for our friends out in Nepal. We have set them the challenge of raising £3000 in order to fund a PE teacher for a year for Kushadevi School. Our challenge is called '3 is the Magic Number' and the children have been coming up with lots of different sporting challenges that they could do to raise money. Ideas have included:

• 3km run
• 30 keepy uppies in football
• 30 swimming laps
• 300 minutes of football
• 30 skips
• 3 mile bike ride
• 30 km run over 30 days
• Learn 3 different dances
• Hula hoop for 3 minutes
• 30 cartwheels in a row
• 3 stroke swimming competition
• Try 3 new sports
• Skateboard or roller blade for 3 hours
• 300 squats

We have set up a Facebook fundraising page in order to collect any donations from challenges that children choose to complete. Click this link to take a look: https://www.facebook.com/donate/992266392296587/.  Don't forget to post to say what the challenge was and how much was raised - teachers would love to hear via Gmail about any challenges too so we can celebrate them on this page. SK, out in Nepal, will be sharing our progress with the children at Kushadevi too.

As part of our collaborative learning about sport, we found out that schools in Nepal start their day with an exercise routine. So, to kick start our '3 is the Magic Number' challenge, we have set the whole school the challenge of learning Kushadevi School's morning routine. This will be performed at our Sports Days and Joey from Freedom to Learn will be coming along to take a look and film this to send to the children at Kushadevi. They are also hosting their own Sports Day event this year too and we are looking forward to receiving pictures of this! 

Take a look at some of the pictures and video clips from Miss Walton's worship below. There is also a link at the bottom to watch the full assembly routine that we are practising in school for Sports Day and the videos that the children at MOSPS have made to send out to Kushadevi School.

Joey Visits MOSPS - 24th February 2025

On Monday, the whole school enjoyed a presentation delivered by Joey Owen from Freedom to Learn.

She gave us an update on how things were in Kushedevi after the devastating floods and also shared some videos of pupils starting to enjoy the PE lessons delivered by a sports teacher that has been funded by our appeal.  Sport is a huge part of life at MOSPS and when the children found out that their friends in Nepal did not have access to high quality PE lessons, like they do, they were determined to change this by raising money for this and they will thrilled to see it in action. However, our target is £3000 which will enable the PE teacher to deliver lessons for one whole year. So far we have raised £720.35 so we still have a way to go.  

Children and families are encouraged to raise money anyway they can through the theme of ‘3 is the magic number’.

It might be:

1. Walking 3 miles

2. Completing 30 burpees  

3. Reading 30 books  

You may want to take on a bigger challenge than this, like  Emily, in Class 7, who is planning on climbing Snowdon in the Easter Holidays and has already started raising money for the appeal.  Once challenges are completed you can put your donation onto our special ‘Just Giving Page’ link below or simply donate what you can.

We really look forward to as many families getting involved as possible.