For their outstanding achievement of raising £5,589 for charity in this school year, the staff and pupils of Tenby Junior School have been awarded a prestigious award, by the Rotary Club of Tenby. The award - 'The Mallow Shield' - was founded in 1976, when the Tenby club was twinned with the Rotary Club of Mallow in Ireland. The Mallow Club president at the time, Rotarian P. Roberts, donated the 'Mallow Shield' to the Tenby club and asked for it to be awarded to a young person or organisation of young people in the Tenby area for outstanding achievement in the community. At the presentation ceremony, held at the School Assembly, Rotary Club president Graham Fry said that this year, Tenby Junior School, under the leadership of head teacher Mrs. Jan Llewellyn had fully deserved the award for their fund-raising endeavour throughout the year. Tenby School head teacher, Mrs. Llewellyn, in turn, thanked the Rotary Club for recognising the school in this way, and also thanked everyone at the school, staff and pupils, for their tremendous efforts, which had seen many successful and enjoyable fund-raising events. The events Mrs. Llewellyn highlighted this year started in October 2005, with the 'Jeans for Genes' day. Now in its 10th year, the school has supported this charity since inauguration, and this year raised £359 to help research into genetic-related illness. The school's Harvest Festival, held at St. Mary's Church before half term, focused on two appeals, a 'Belarus Children's Hospice' (a Rotary supported project, that the Tenby club had invited the school to help) and the local Salvation Army. The collection for the hospice raised £300, and the children also brought in tins and produce for the Salvation Army, which were used to help them provide Christmas hampers for needy families locally. On November 11, the school held a special Armistice Day service, where past pupils of the school who had died in the war were remembered. The school has a lovely wooden plaque with their names on and these are read out. In addition to raising £93 for the Poppy Appeal, at 11 am, Year 6 pupil, Corey Morris played the Last Post and Reveille on the playground and all pupils took part in the two-minute silence. On the Sunday, members of the school council took part in the Tenby Armistice Parade. During December, the school raised money for Cancer Research; this has become an annual event in memory of popular former pupil Daniel Burrows, who died in 2004 from cancer. This year, the school also thought of one of their own staff who had been treated for cancer since May. All proceeds from the Christmas concerts and Carol Service, over £550, had been donated to Cancer Research. On the last day of the Christmas term, all classes decorated the trees outside the school with recycled materials. Clr. Sue Lane judged them and congratulated the school for their sustainability work. Parents also came along to watch. During the Christmas holidays, pupils continued to fund raise, with a magnificent £1,694 raised at the Boxing Day Swim. The money was used to develop the school's nature area, and the rest to subsidise the Year 6 trip to London. In the new year, the school took part in the health promotion campaign, 'Jump Rope for Heart', skipping rope activities that raised £190 for the British Heart Foundation, and just before the February half term, Geoff Lane, a Christian from Cardiff, spoke to the school of the sad life faced by children in that country. Staff and pupils bought £43 worth of cards to help this worthy cause, and the school has pledged that this will be the focus of next year's Harvest Festival. To round off the year, a sponsored event was held, when, after a presentation about a young boy by Sue Hunt from the NSPCC, the school took to heart the story and raised a magnificent £2,360 in only two weeks. Mrs. Llewellyn rounded off by saying that as a school, everyone was thrilled to be able to make a difference to the lives of both children and adults, and thanked everyone for their support, before thanking the Rotary Club of Tenby for recognising their efforts and honouring the school with this prestigious award which was very gratefully received.