Mrs Russell's Skydive for Malawi!

On Saturday the 17th of October, at the end of 

our October holiday just there, our teacher 

Mrs Russell did a tandem free fall skydive 

to support our fund raising efforts for 

Mphunzi School in Malawi.
 
Through the events which we all took part in 

back in June this year, it was hoped that we 

could raise enough money to allow Mphunzi School 

to finish building their new classroom.

These events included our bad hair day, back to 

front day, soak the teacher and beat the goalie. 

Mrs Russell's P7 class last year also made DVDs 

of their Hollywood movies and sold them to 

parents.
 
As well as all of us taking part in these 

activities in school, Mrs Russell tried very 

hard to get as many people to sponsor her jump 

as possible, with people living as far away as 

Dubai being so kind as to donate money to this 

worthy cause.

Initially the skydive was to be held at the end 

of June and then it was postponed until August, 

however due to cloudy and windy weather it 

wasn't safe to jump and it was postponed again 

to October. 

On Saturday Mrs Russell woke up and saw that 

the sky was a beautiful shade of blue and there 

wasn't a cloud in sight.... It would finally go 

ahead!!

Mrs Russell went to Glenrothes to the airfield 

and her and Miss Sheldon, who taught in P2 last 

year, carried out their jumps. 
 
Afterwards, Mrs Russell said that it was an 

amazing experience and she loved every minute of 

it!! She was even happier when she got home and 

counted up all the money that had been raised from

both our school events and her own sponsors and 

found out that £2496.31 had been raised!!!! 

This is even more than she had ever expected and 

will definitely be enough to help finish building 

Mphunzi School's classroom - and a lot more!!

Mrs Russell showed us all the DVD of her jump. Her 

plane went up to 10,000 feet before she jumped out 

with an instructor and free fell until she reached 

5000 feet high. The parachute was then pulled and 

she was able to control it until she landed in a 

heap on the grass!!!

Everyone deserves a huge round of applause for 

raising so much money for Mphunzi School, and 

we are glad Mrs Russell and Miss Sheldon made it

back safely to the ground!!! :)

Have a look at Mrs Russell's photographs of her 

experience...

 Primary 7, Room 19.