The head teacher of Bel Royal, Sonia Burton, said that the school had been ‘extremely fortuitous’ to win the prize.
‘We have a large area at the back of the school we are looking to develop into a play area and we have been searching for items to put there, so to have won the prize is absolutely amazing,’ she said.
‘It will go a long way to helping us with the project, and I am sure the children will have lots of fun with the new equipment.’
Sheila Ponomarenko, the head teacher of St Clement’s School, said that pupils were overjoyed to hear the news.
‘We try to give the children lots of different activities and games to keep them occupied at playtime,’ she said.
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‘We have been trying to bring in new equipment, but we haven’t had the budget, so it is fantastic to win these prizes out of the blue.
‘The children are going to be very excited to try out the equipment when it arrives.’
Now in its final week, the annual month-long competition, in connection with the One Foundation and playground equipment suppliers Form CI, will be giving away £18,000 to the primary schools that have registered to collect tokens published in the JEP every day.
Tomorrow will be the last day that tokens are published, with the winning schools and the runners-up in each of the three school size categories being announced soon.
In addition to the £9,000 competition prizes (£2,000 for first place and £1,000 for second place) the foundation will be presenting £5,000 to one school and Form CI will be giving away £4,000 in spot prizes.
In previous weeks, Rouge Bouillon, St Peter, St Mary, Jersey College for Girls Prep, Mont Nicolle and Les Landes have also won £500 worth of equipment in the weekly draw.
- Organised by the Jersey Evening Post and The One Foundation, the four-week promotion will run from 21 September until 17 October, during which period schools are once again being encouraged to collect the tokens published daily in the JEP.
- Participating schools have once again been given collection boxes into which pupils can post their tokens.
- All tokens have the same value so students can keep track of the schools progress and see the box filling up each day.
- At the end of the promotion, boxes will then be weighed to find out which school has collected the most tokens. The winning boxes will then be verified to ensure that nothing other than tokens have been dropped in.
- The cash can be spent on anything that will benefit the school community. Schools could use it to improve a current area of their school, or to create a new area. Or they could spend it on school resources such as books, new sports equipment, computers, or play equipment.
- As this is a community initiative, as well as collecting the daily tokens themselves, pupils, staff and parents are also encouraged to get their friends, families, neighbours, and even local businesses to collect them on their behalf. The more tokens you have, the more chance youve got of winning some cash!
