Chase is on in paper contest

COLLECTION time... Megan Riley (left) and Lizzy Ogden with fellow classmates

CHRONICLE PAPERCHASE
PUPILS at Hey with Zion Primary School are making headlines in the Chronicle Paperchase competition.

We are asking primary schools to collect as many Oldham Chronicles as possible for us to recycle, in exchange for a superb prize of a class trip to Camelot for the winners — so the more papers collected the better.

We were so impressed with what the Lees school are doing to collect the most, that we decided to write a story about them!

Year 6 pupil Megan Riley saw the competition in the Chronicle and asked her teacher, Andrew Clowes, if her class could enter.

The youngster set about finding ways to encourage her classmates to take part and even ran a school assembly about it.

So far the children have made great progress, putting up their Chronicle posters advertising the competition around school.

Year 6 pupil Abigail Jones has made posters to put up around Dobcross Bowling Club, Will Dickinson has enlisted the help of Ashton police station.

Lauryn Oldham’s great-great-grandad in Wales, who receives the Evening Chronicle by mail, is sending them back once they’ve been read to help the competition.

Even some of the parents have been roped into saving the papers at their businesses. Lucy Fletcher, Patrick Kenworthy, Logan Aspinall and Amelia Simm have been publicising the competition via the children’s own TV news channel.

Mr Clowes said: “Whether or not we have the most newspapers as a school, only time will tell, but this particular effort has been tremendously energetic.

“I’ve been hugely impressed by their enthusiasm to pull together for a common cause.”

Schools who want to enter the competition should contact us today — and besides free Camelot tickets for a whole class, the rest of the school will receive discount vouchers for the theme park.