Our Community - Highfield Infants' School's community interaction and involvement

We have strong links with the local community and church. We have frequent visits from the School Liaison Police Officer and the Fire Service. We issue regular press releases to the local newspapers and have links with a number of companies and stores. The public library is not far away and several classes make visits to the nearby shops and park as part of their ongoing work.

Charitable works at our school include support for the following (all during the Autumn Term 2008)

Wear it pink for breast cancer	All the children and staff wore pink on Friday 24th October. We raised Ł181.43 for breast cancer.
Demelza House	We have been supporting Demelza House for several years now. You will be interested to know that they officially opened in June 1998 and welcomed their first families on 7th September. Demelza House caters for children up to the age of 19, all of whom have life-threatening illnesses which will not improve and who are unlikely to reach adulthood. The hospice has a home from home environment catering for the needs of the whole family. It also provides respite care. It serves Kent and the South East and will take over Ł1.25m per year to run as no charge is made to the families who use it. After our nativity play at St Mary's church we had a collection for Demelza House and raised Ł218.97 When the choir sung at the library we also had a collection for Demelza House and raised Ł18.
Macmillan Cancer Support	We had a coffee morning on 26th September so that parents could get together. There were craft stalls and a cake sale and we raised Ł410.32
Samaritan's Purse	"Operation Christmas Child" - a simple way of providing a gift to a child who is suffering from the effects of war, natural disaster, poverty, illness or neglect in various parts of the world. The children and parents filled shoe boxes with Christmas gifts for children in eastern Europe or Africa. We managed to donate 131 boxes.
	Jenny Berridge visited assembly and talked to the children. We then had a grow a bean challenge and raised Ł266.90. Freddie in class 4 won the challenge.
	Our Harvest Festival gifts were collected by the Salvation Army who have added them to their emergency food store for distribution to the needy and elderly in Bromley.
	We asked for donations for the vegetables grown and harvested by the children and raised Ł58.94. The money has been use to buy more plants and tools.