It may be a calendar month until Santa comes down your chimney, but Christmas has absolutely started at FHS. On Wednesday, girls from Year 7 crafted Christmas cards for the Elders at Katherine Low Settlement. Fuelled by cookies, juice, and amazing dedication on such a cold evening, the girls wrote over 50 cards, which were delivered to KLS on Thursday morning by our Year 7 Charity Reps.  Huge thanks to Mrs Catherine Heitmeyer and her team of SSPA reps who braved the cold weather (on the night before Thanksgiving, too!)

As previously mentioned, the Year 7 Charity Reps visited KLS on Thursday morning to deliver the cards to the Elders Team and to decorate KLS for Christmas. This is a huge honour and longstanding tradition that celebrates our enduring connection to the Katherine Low Settlement.

The headline event of the week took place later on Thursday: The Charity Christmas Fair. With stalls ranging from ‘guess the sweets in a jar’, to ‘arm wrestling’ (?) and participants from Year 7 to Year 13, this was a fair for the ages! Over £1100 (!) was raised for our four school charities (Mvumi School, KLS, In-Deep, and The Hammersmith and Fulham Foodbank). One of the great privileges of my job as Head of Outreach is seeing our youngest pupils use their teamwork, creativity, and entrepreneurial nous to sell lots of homemade wares for charity – and seeing how well they are supported by our older pupils and our staff. Huge thanks to all members of our community that came together to support the true meaning of Christmas – giving!

Mr Galloway, Head of Outreach