Update - Due to illness the walk has been postponed to the 17th of September 2021

Some of you may be aware that recently our friend & colleague Simone Glennen tragically lost her beautiful daughter Lyla in April after she suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage aged just 5.

Lyla and her family are part of an amazing community who over the past months have rallied and created some amazing tributes to her in support of the family, the latest and most adventurous being a book bus for her school.

Lyla was a beautiful, kind and caring child with a love of life. The school and community have been hit hard by her loss and her school felt it was important not only to celebrate and remember Lyla, but to build a legacy for her that would be something she would have loved and can continue to be appreciated by all children. Work is well under way to create an amazing space for the school to use but they need help. YOUR HELP.  And, to further encourage you, myself, Lyla’s mum Simone and the rest of the RCA team will be taking on Mount Snowdon on July 31^st to raise funds and awareness of this project.

This is a huge project, and we really need as much help, both
financially and practically as you can give. Any donation you can give will be hugely appreciated and help build a legacy for Lyla for years to come. Please feel free to share this far and wide to help us spread the word. Thanks in advance for your support 💜💜💜

Reading is the most important skill for children to develop and a love of reading has life-long benefits. Currently, we have a small non-fiction library (in a corridor) but we have no space for children to browse or snuggle up and enjoy a good book. We came up with the idea of renovating an old double decker bus as a Book Bus, with space to read, and relax! After writing lots of emails, Ensign Bus Company in Purfleet generously gave us an old bus which is now on our playground! Tragically, in April, one of our pupils suddenly died, aged 5. After such a hard half term following Lyla's death, we thought that working together to create a book bus, dedicated to her memory, would bring us all together and be a positive and creative project to undertake. There is a huge amount of work to do to transform the bus into an exciting library for the children and we are hoping that parents, staff, children, friends, the local churches and the wider community will come together the help us achieve