Children at Flowery Field Primary School in Hyde have rallied round to help the people of Ukraine.

The eight and nine-year-olds in Year 4 were moved to help and collected an overwhelming volume of items for the Ukraine Appeal with enough to fill no less than 110 boxes of aid in just two days.

Those boxes are now heading off to Poland to help those most in need as the crisis continues to escalate.

Year 4 teacher Nadine Thornley said: “We would like to thank the children, their families and the entire school community for their fantastic generosity and this fabulous response.”

She explained  that the children had been studying a book entitled ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ which is about a Syrian refugee, when the Ukraine crisis began.

“Obviously we want to shelter, protect and reassure children when it comes to war and they were nervous and scared about what they were seeing on the news and hearing from their parents,” she said.

“But our Year 4s really wanted to do something to help too after hearing about all the refugees, and this has really given them something positive to focus on, plus has provided a way where they can physically help too.”

The Year 4 children organised a ‘Day of Kindness’ to collect the donations. 

They contacted the charity to find out what kinds of things were needed and made posters for the day with the entire school community ultimately becoming involved.

On the day donations including tinned food, clothing, baby bottles and more flooded in.

The children helped sort all the items to ultimately pack the incredible volume of boxes all now on their way to help those fleeing Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

Images by Nigel Wood

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