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Prestwood pupils don caps to raise cancer awareness
School kids donned a variety of hats to raise money for a good cause.
More than 240 youngsters at Prestwood Junior School, in Clare Road, sported caps, berets, stetsons, and trilbies in an attempt to raise cash on Friday (Feb 13) for International Childhood Cancer Day.
All 148 children at Prestwood Infant School in Moat Lane were similarly supportive and, like their compatriots at the junior school, proved similarly inventive when it came to securing a wide variety of caps.
The day was coordinated by the Thomas Ball Children's Cancer Fund, which oversees a wide variety of initiatives from providing restorative breaks for families with children suffering from cancer, to organising trips to Disneyland in Paris.
The children at both schools were sponsored to arrive first thing in the morning wearing their special headware and the organisers were confident of raising several hundred pounds for cancer research.
Aside from the efforts being conducted in Prestwood children at a host of other schools took part in the day, again demonstrating an original dress sense.
The other schools were: Denham Village Infant School, Haydon Abbey Combined School in Aylesbury and Aylesbury High School.
Elaine Ball, a trustee of the Thomas Ball Children's Cancer Fund, said: "All funds raised will be used for research into Neuroblastoma, a rare cancer, which took the life of the charity's founder, Thomas Ball, when he was just 14 in 2003."
Matt Deans, acting head at Prestwood Junior School, said: "This was a fitting event which reminds us all so much of Thomas who would have been tickled to see the efforts of the youngsters. We still remember him."
Jean O'Keeffe, head at Prestwood Infant School, said: "The children loved it. They were so excited coming in to school today."
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