Kids make cash grow

Dec 22 2007 by Andrew Baldwin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

CONGRATULATIONS to enterprising children who have raised money for improvements at Meltham Church of England School.

Their head teacher gave them £1 each, together with a challenge to make the money grow.

And they did just that, bringing back around £2,500 through a series of ventures which included requests to celebrities for items to sell at auction.

The kids did well to rise to a challenge inspired by the leaking roof at their school, but many will wonder how it got to this situation.

Headmistress Maggie McLean had reported that the roof needed attention – then was forced to wait and wait...

Once upon a time, former Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that his mantra was education, education, education.

It cannot be right in this day and age that children should have to undertake schooling in a building in such poor condition that buckets have to be used to catch the rain coming through the roof.