While the debate rages on as to whether schools should open to a wider range of pupils on 1st June or not, at Buile Hill Academy staff have been going in to make up food parcels after the school emailed parents to see if there was a need.
The response was massive, with 155 parents asking for help, so over thirty members of staff went back into the school last Wednesday to make up the parcels, and delivered them on Thursday.
"Children don't pay to participate in food technology lessons at Buile Hill, we provide the majority of the funding for this lesson so we realised a few weeks ago that this money wasn't being spent and wondered if we could support some of our families who were facing difficulties during the government lockdown for whatever reason" says Anna Simmons, Associate Assistant Headteacher at Buile Hill Academy.
"We emailed all parents asking if they would like a food parcel delivered with ingredients for delicious recipes they could make at home" she adds "The response was incredible so we set to ordering the food and emailed staff asking for their support. Over thirty staff have been into school working on organising the food into parcels, including weighing the right portions of flour and sugar to make a fruit crumble!
"Staff delivered to 155 families in our community ingredients to make a vegetable curry, Italian potatoes, fruit crumble and ratatouille pasta bake as well as bread, eggs, cereal and other basics" she says "As a school we care so much about our 'Buile Hill Family' whether they are in the building or not and want to do everything we can to support them during this unprecedented time. We have already made and donated over two hundred visors to the hospital, Pendleton care home, Hindley Prison and other workplaces of pupils and staff to ensure they are safe, and we wanted to continue to support our 'family' as much as we could."
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