On Thursday 6th June, Pupils from Boteler joined ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ supporter, David Walliams, for a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday and call for action to tackle global hunger. Boteler pupils who attended were Lucy Meakin, Jake Singleton-Bennike, Dominique Haughton, Erica Griffiths and Ozan Gulan. Sir Thomas Boteler were the only school who got to hand the Prime Minister the 30,000 signature petition!

The Prime Minister was presented with specially crafted plates from each of the children, representing more than 30,000 plates that have been decorated by school children across the UK. The plea came ahead of the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland later in the month and the Nutrition for Growth Summit that the UK Government hosted in London on Saturday, 8 June.

Lucy Meakin, 15, from Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England School, handed over some of the children’s plates to the Prime Minister. She said: “It was a great experience today. This was a really good opportunity for us to make our point to the Prime Minister directly. He seemed very passionate about the issue of making sure that children everywhere have enough food.”

David Walliams joined the children, chosen as one of 21 schools, in support of the ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ campaign, to show the Prime Minister that they are calling for action to tackle the global hunger crisis that is responsible for almost half of child deaths every year.

Around the world one in eight people do not have enough food to eat and nearly one in 4 children under the age of 5 are also affected by poor nutrition, leaving them unable to reach their full potential.

 It’s good to pray. Jesus says, ‘ask and it will be given you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you’ (Matthew 7v7). Moses set up a tent of meeting where he would meet with the Lord on behalf of the people.

At Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School, we have set up our own tents of meeting, where we can gather together to pray for our year 11s as they prepare for their exams.

Great things happen when we join together in prayer! From Monday April 22nd through to Friday May 24th every pupil will visit our prayer space, which has been set up in our Peace Garden. There are five prayer stations, Hopes and Dreams, Casting cares on Jesus, Seeing through God’s eyes, Stained Glass prayers and Twitter prayers.

At each station pupils have the opportunity to reflect on the love of God and to pray for those taking exams and preparing to leave school. Year 11 students are invited to visit the stations before they begin their exams so that they may read the prayers being said on their behalf and spend time in prayer themselves to the Lord Jesus.

During the last weekend of the Easter holidays dedicated volunteer staff and pupils from Sir Thomas Boteler descended on Lancaster University to run the seventh HOBY UK Youth Leadership residential seminar.  Eighteen Sir Thomas Boteler pupils (more than every before!) combined with 42 others from schools around the North West and delegates from Ireland at the biggest HOBY UK event yet.  The event ran from Wednesday to Saturday and incorporated a mixture of ice breaking sessions, guest speakers, workshops, a talent show, a ’Question Time’, a disco and the returning Action Jackson.  Staff and pupils from Sir Thomas Boteler as well as other school such as Birchwood, Parklands and Great Sankey, gave up their holiday to the programme.  These pupils had already been through the programme and have now returned as Group Leaders, Group Leader Assistants and even working alongside staff on Media and Logistics.

All delegates had a life changing experience and despite some post HOBY blues are ready to take what they’ve learnt and throw themselves into volunteering for the many charities that gave presentations.

Jack Hasleden came runner up in the Catering Academy National Salon Culinaire Pride Live 2013 in the School Bake Off category. Jack is a credit to himself and the school. He received a high street voucher and certificate. Jack is pictured here with Mr Sharples and Mr Brian Bryne, Catering Academy Area Manager