Charity Fundraising & Community Activities

Poppy Appeal

Thank you to all those children and families who supported our Royal British Legion fundraising, by purchasing items from their Remembrance Day sale. As a school, we raised an amazing £225.76!

On Remembrance Day itself, Mrs Foad led a special assembly for us where we learnt about Remembrance Day and took part in the two minute silence.  

Fundraising for Huff & Puff Equipment

Connie, Una, Leona and Ayse have been busy fundraising for new Huff & Puff lunchtime equipment for the playgrounds. 

They have raised a terrific £137.30! 

The girls are busy choosing the new equipment for the playgrounds, which will be enjoyed by all the children. 

Well done and thank you! 

Harvest Festival, for the Food Bank

On 23rd October 2025, we had our annual Harvest Festival assembly, where we talked about Harvest and Mrs Foad read the children a Harvest poem. It was lovely to hear the children singing Harvest songs, particularly the ‘Harvest Samba’!

Thank you to all those families who donated items for the local Food Bank – it was amazing for the children to see the huge amount of donated food, as part of our Harvest Festival assembly. Mrs Foad and Mrs Norwood delivered all the bags of food to the Food Bank - they were very grateful for our donations, and sent the following message:

  ‘Thanks to the incredible generosity of individuals, schools, and businesses during the harvest season, our stock levels at Rickmansworth Foodbank have begun to recover. We are deeply grateful to everyone who contributed. Your kindness and compassion make a real difference in the lives of those we serve.’

Kidney Research UK Fundraising

Very many congratulations to Evie and Olivia, who have been busy making and selling loom band bracelets in aid of Kidney Research UK. 

They have raised an amazing £161.00!

Chess Charity Disco!

Today, children across this school had a wonderful time at the Chess House lunchtime disco, raising money for New Hope UK. 

Congratulations to Chess who raised £54.36.

Thank you to our Colne House Captains, James and Hazel, and to Mrs Grace and Mrs Davison  for helping Chess to organise their special fundraiser. 

Fundraising for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice

Today we held a very special fundraising day for Rennie Grove Peace Hospice, in memory of Mr Patel, a parent at our school, who very sadly passed away earlier this year. 

We raised an amazing £400.

Thank you to our whole school community who supported our fundraising day, by coming to school in non-school uniform and by buying ice-creams at our ice-cream sale! 

Colne House Charity Fundraiser for the RNIB

Congratulations to Colne House who have been running their House charity fundraiser this week, in aid of the Royal National Institute of Blind People. To mark the start of the women's Euros this week, children have been guessing how many chocolate balls were in the jar!

Colne raised a wonderful £56.25!

Congratulations to Archie who correctly guessed that there were an incredible 253 chocolate balls in the jar!

Thank you to our Colne House Captains, Lewis and Mateo, and to Mr Charter and Ms Zimmatore for helping Colne to organise their special fundraiser. 

Ver House Charity Fundraiser for Great Ormond Street

Congratulations to Ver, who have been busy selling ice lollies at breaktime this week, in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

They have raised an incredible £181.70!

Thank you to our Ver House Captains, Letitia and Rosie, and to Mr Turton and Mrs Freuchen for helping Ver to organise this fundraiser. 

Gade House Charity Fundraiser

Thank you to Gade House, who have raised a wonderful £28.60 for the charity 'MIND',

with their 'Guess the name of the teddy' game!

Congratulations to Maisie in Year 5 and Josie in Year 1 who correctly named the teddies 'Lola' and 'Moonlight'!

Thank you to Mrs Dilloway and Mrs Taylor for organising this event with our Gade House Captains, Suzanna and Trinity.

Colne House Charity Fundraising for Comic  Relief

This week Colne House have been running their charity fundraising event – Guess how many Easter eggs are in the jar 

Congratulations to Ifsath who correctly guessed that there were 77 eggs in the jar and won the jar of eggs and a Comic Relief red nose!

Colne raised a fantastic £30 for Comic Relief, their chosen charity. Well done!

Fundraising for the Royal British Legion

A huge thank you to all our children and families for supporting our fundraising for the Royal British Legion, where we sold poppies and other Remembrance Day items. We raised an incredible £352.57!

Bracelet Sale for the Dogs Trust

Aurora, Daria, Alice, Jess and Lillian made over 60 bracelets to raise money for the Dogs Trust.

Today I was delighted to present them with a certificate each, in recognition of the £29.21 they raised for the Dogs Trust. Well done! 

Charity Plant Sale

Very many congratulations to Jasmine in Year 6, who sold tomato and squash plants that she had grown herself at home, at the end of Sports Day on Monday.

Jasmine raised £115 for CW Wildlife Rescue, a charity that we fundraised for in the Autumn Term. Well done, Jasmine!

Cancer Research Fundraising

Thank you to all those children who supported Sara (Year 5) and Isabella (Year 6), by buying one of their wonderful handmade bookmarks and bracelets.

Sara and Isabella have raised an incredible £105 for Cancer Research, a charity that is very close to the hearts of a number of Shepherd families.

Today I presented Sara and Isabella with very special certificates and a big cheque for the money they raised, to congratulate them on their fundraising.

Ukraine Charity Cake Sale

THANK YOU so much to all the wonderful families who made cakes for our cake sale, as well as The Kitchen Croxley Ltd who donated delicious cupcakes and Mrs Foad's Dad who so kindly decorated beautiful cupcakes for us as well!

We were truly overwhelmed by your creativity and your generosity - I am absolutely thrilled to tell you that we raised an incredible £520 - this has been match funded by a local company, so the total doubled to £1040!

We have been quick to pay this donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal so the government should match this donation, meaning that our total donation to Ukraine is an incredible £2080!

Wildlife Rescue Fundraising Day

Wildlife Rescue came and visited us at Shepherd with several of the animals they have rescued, including a fox cub and an owl. The children absolutely loved seeing the beautiful animals.

Wildlife Rescue is a lovely local charity, and several members of our school community volunteer at Wildlife Rescue, helping to take care of all the animals.

As so many children were enthralled by the animals, we decided to follow up with a fundraising day for Wildlife Rescue – children were invited to come to school dressed as an animal and were asked to make a monetary donation to the charity, or to donate one of the items that Wildlife Rescue need. As well as collecting lots of donations, we have also raised over £270 for Wildlife Rescue.