Operation Christmas Child mercy mission
Last updated 05:16, Friday, 21 November 2008
WIGTON school pupils have already been helping to bring Christmas cheer to children in need.
Youngsters from St Ursula’s Primary School in Burnfoot have been busy filling shoeboxes with gifts for disadvantaged children in Romania for Operation Christmas Child.
Headteacher Jean Monkhouse said: “They walked up to the local ironmongers on Monday and left their boxes full of love to be collected.”
The school also raised more than £166 for last week’s Children in Need appeal with a talent show for parents, grandparents and friends.
Mrs Monkhouse told The Cumberland News: “The children played various musical instruments, sang, recited, acted and two boys put on a gymnastic display.
She added: “The children worked very hard practising their acts.”
