KEEP DANCING!
On October 12th pupils at the Susan Handy School of Dance in Ickenham embarked on a 5 hour danceathon challenge in St Giles’ Church Hall to raise money for “Save the Children”. And with the support of our teacher Mrs Demitra Moore we succeeded! There was lots of fun for all pupils aged 3-16, many of whom dressed up in their favourite outfits.
We started with our normal ballet lessons at 9am when our 3-4 year olds got us under way. By 1pm all our age groups up to 13-16 year olds had shown what they could do. Then we had an hour of street dance, taken by a great teacher called Zoe. The school’s owner, Miss Handy, came along and was delighted by the standard of dancing and enthusiasm from the classes.
In total we raised over £500 and are very pleased with the result. And over £40 of that came from selling homemade cakes which were baked by some of the mums.
Isobel Dungey
THE THREE FARMERS
It was a Family Service with a difference when Liz Wadland organised the Harvest Festival in St Giles’. Over the years we had grown accustomed to the bringing-in of edible tributes but this time we had the “farmers” from across the world to go with them.
Introduced with a trumpet fanfare, the three growers brought forward their crops – each native to their places of birth – and explained what had motivated them to grow them. First Alan described vegetables grown in his Ickenham garden, then Caroline presented crops grown from seeds brought from Zimbabwe. Finally Najla displayed a variety of dried fruit and spices grown in Iran.
The obvious hymn to finish with was “We plough the fields and scatter”. Then, in the Church Hall, Adrian auctioned off the three farmers’ produce, along with the other fruit and vegetables which had been brought in by the congregation. This raised well over £100 which was donated to the Hillingdon Food Bank, along with the mini-mountain of non-perishables which had also been brought along by the congregation.
