Just a Drop Week

Last week all the pupils of SPS were busy raising money for ‘Just a Drop’ – a charity who helps to provide clean, safe water for people in countries where they don’t have clean water to use.  We learned a lot about why it is important to have clean water.  We enjoyed drinking our bottles of safe, clean water and then filling them up with coppers to raise money.  Some of us also got our face painted and wore blue on Thursday.  As a school we raised over £300 which will provide a lot of clean water for people in Kenya.  Well done SPS!

We learned that boys and girls the same age as us have to walk quite far to get water and even then it isn’t even clean, safe water.  To give us a feeling of what it is like to have to walk for water we walked around the school to the distance of 1km.  We had to walk around the school 4 times to make the equivalent of 1km.  We carried some water with us as the boys and girls have to carry around 20kg of water back with them.  We all decided that we are glad we don’t have to walk for water.  We were tired after our 4 laps but if we did the same distance as the boys and girls in Kenya we would have had to walk around the school 26 times!!  We are glad we can get water so easily but we were feeling proud we had raised money to help other boys and girls.  Here are some pictures of us on our walk.