STAFF, students and parents at Court Fields School in Wellington raised more than £2,000 during Madagascar Week.

Fundraising activities included sponsored silences, cake sales, nail bar, quizzes, non-uniform day plus lots more. A fantastic trio of singers – Rebecca Watts, Elaine Robinson and Megan Leslie – won the Madagascar’s Got Talent show.

The week finished with the annual sponsored walk to Wellington Monument and back, students carrying bricks and planks of wood, as this is how children in Madagascar often have to walk to school each day. The children use the wood and bricks for desks and chairs when they get to school.

The money already raised this year means the school will now be able to pay for a classroom extension. That will allow older students to go to school nearer their homes and not need to walk long distances for their education, or carry planks of wood and bricks each day.

Court Fields has raised more than £20,000 over the last nine years, which has paid for three water projects and a primary school.

A group of students will be going to Madagascar this summer to see the results of the fundraising. The next main fundraising event is a Christmas craft fair on Saturday, November 10, 10am-4pm. Applications are now being taken from stallholders – and already more than 100 enquiries have been made. Contact Mrs Robertson at the school for more information or to offer help with fundraising.