This is for the children...

Sue Mungia (front) celebrating the total with fellow pupils.

PUPILS and staff have ditched their blazers, made a splash and taken to the stage to raise a staggering £8,314 for Children in Need.

Breeze Hill School has held a variety of events — from non-uniform days and sponsored swims to cake sales and a Shakespeare performance — to support the charity since 2003.

This year’s total alone was nearly £2,000, the last before Breeze Hill merges with Counthill in a new academy. Elizabeth Westmerland, head of personal, social, health and economic education, said: “This is the last year at Breeze Hill so we are pleased we are going out on a bang.”

The pupils all really enjoy it it and some have received citizen certificates because they really go out of their way in their own time to plan things.