Two key activities to promote

to schools:

• Summer of Hope Fundraising as part of Coronavirus

Emergency Appeal

• National Assembly “Hope in the time of Coronavirus”

You are invited to recreate at home the events you will miss this summer and have fun transforming them into a sign of hope through raising money for CAFOD’s Coronavirus appeal.

The ask:

Could be done as

• a whole school effort (even if closed) – set

up a school JustGiving page with a

collective target

• As a family

• As individuals

• As a parish

Ideas: Virtual Summer Fair

Fill a jar with sweets and

photograph it. Get your

friends and relations to

pay to guess how many

sweets

Variations

could be

Guess weight

of cake or

Name the Bear

Virtual competitions as a

family such as bake a cake,

paint a picture, make a

model. Family and friends

Pay to enter by sending a

photo if not in same

household could be on their

social media

Ideas: Sports Day at home Challenges

E.g. Keepy

upey’s

Traditional school sports day races in

garden

Ideas: Summer Virtual Gatherings

Mocktail Hour online Virtual Garden or Beach party

Ideas: Go the Distance

How far can you run, walk, cycle over

a period of time on your daily

exercise outdoors

How far can you

run, walk, cycle,

row over a period

of time indoors,

using exercise

equipment

including climbing

stairs etc

Olympics in your living room? BBC are showing London 2012 again

Wimbledon in the garden or park?

Euros 2020 on your playstation?

Glastonbury @50

Recreate other cancelled major events…

Donate the money you would have spent on refreshers etc, get sponsored …

Two students went back garden camping and an outdoor film night instead of Guide Camp and raised money

Riding distance from home in Devon to Parliament over month

Whole school cycling and walking distance from Manchester to Western Spain where Y6 should have been on residential

Ideas suggested by young leaders:

o Virtual summer quiz

o Themed photography competition

o Virtual music festival or gig

o Camping in garden

o Play games online and get sponsored

o Student v. teacher quiz – one school already did a Y13 v. teachers quiz

o Online birthday party

o Funny dressing up – use one toilet roll and some sellotape, all turn up to a zoom meeting ready!

o Beat the teacher – set them a challenge (e.g. longest handstand or something silly) and donate to

see if you can beat them

o Bake off (judged by looks and not taste)

o End of year virtual dinner dance/ prom – pay to get your choice of song on the playlist

o Teacher talent show (get teachers who sing or do magic to do them online and students pay to

attend and vote)

Date : 18th June

Time: 10 am

Watch online via Youtube

The National Assembly is a fantastic opportunity for schools to gather online, reflect on the pandemic in the light of their faith and know how to take action to bring hope to both their own communities, and the communities that are most vulnerable. 15 minutes long, suitable for KS2 and secondary

Online national Summer of

Hope assembly

Online national Summer of

Hope assembly

Key messages when promoting to schools:

• Can be watched ANY TIME after 10am 18.6.20

• Watch in school or at home (way of joining school community together)

• Please promote to your students as part of homelearing