This is Class 5

Class 5 saw the needs in their community and decided to act.

Using their unique strengths, they organised food drives, uniform swaps, and fundraisers, helping families in need and creating lasting traditions at their school.

Class 5’s Social Signature lives on.

Class 5 decided to begin to explore what the needs were in their local community, a deprived area of the city.

From their findings and the personal experience of some of the pupils of Class 5, they soon realised that many families were struggling with the cost-of-living crisis in the streets around where they lived and went to school.

Class 5 could see how some of their friends found it difficult to buy what they wanted, and they cared enough to try and do something about this.

Groups of pupils used their different strengths and passions to organise a school penalty shoot-out, with each participant bringing an item of food for the food bank held at the school. Other pupils decided to contribute to the efforts by approaching local businesses to provide items for food hampers, and a final group planned a uniform and clothes swap.

Working in partnership with the school, fifty hampers were created and delivered by staff to those families in greatest need. Seeing the difference that all these activities made, Class 5 and their school have taken steps to leave a lasting legacy by creating a termly uniform, clothes and shoe swap. The penalty shoot-out has now become an annual event.