Welcome Walk - Rebecca Thomson

On the 8^th of September 2015, Balwearie took to the Beveridge Park for the Welcome walk for our 2^nd time, and once again it was a big success. Our global citizenship class spend a lot of time organising the walk before the day, so we were all very excited for the day to come around. We asked people to come into school dressed in South African flag colours, but on the day the pupils had went above and beyond with everyone wearing the colours and loads of people wearing fancy dress. I wore my Welcome Primary t-shirt and my Cape Town jumper, as did lots of the other people who went to Welcome last year. In the morning our class all met up in the school library where we got to count the money which people had raised for the school, and the amount which was coming in was amazing, especially knowing the cause it is going to. After being in the school last year really put it into perspective of how much of a difference our fundraising makes, so seeing the money coming in this year was very exciting!

 

After we had counted all the money that had come in that morning, the fun really began to start as we got closer to the walk actually beginning. After me and Rachel painted South African flags on everyone’s faces, we had to then go out and set up the walk. Soon after the walk was about to start and you could feel the excitement around the school as all the different houses headed out to walk around the park. We got to walk around the park first with our classes and then went off to our stations to help the rest of the people get around the park.

 

All in all, it was a really good day and it was great to see everyone having a good time. We are all very excited to see how much we have raised, knowing it’s going to a great cause.