CUMBERWORTH FIRST! Five share pounds 10,000 for top collection.Byline: JOANNE Joanne is a common given name for females, being a variant of Joanna, the feminine form of John and is derived from the Latin name Johanna and has a hebrew meaning of "God is Gracious" People with the given name Joanne: THE waiting is finally over! Today we announce the winners of this year's Schools Collect for Cash contest. And the lucky winner of the top prize, sponsored by Barclays, is Cumberworth First School. This year's event was the biggest ever with Examiner staff counting their way through a mammoth mammoth, name for several large prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus, which ranged over Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene epoch. 61,302 paper tokens and 4,938 online tokens. The pounds 10,000 pot of cash was divided five ways with Cumberworth First School getting the pounds 3,000 main prize. Second is Wilberlee Junior and Infant School infant school n. Chiefly British A kindergarten. infant school Noun (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 5 and 7 Noun 1. , Slaithwaite, which gets pounds 2,500. Netherton Infant and Nursery School nursery school, educational institution for children from two to four years of age. It is distinguishable from a day nursery in that it serves children of both working and nonworking parents, rarely receives public funds, and has as its primary objective to promote is third, receiving pounds 2,000. Fourth place, with pounds 1,500, goes to Rawthorpe's Ethos Pupil Referral Unit A Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) is a centre for children who are not able to attend a mainstream or special school. Each local education authority has a duty to make arrangements for the provision of education in or out of school for all children of compulsory school age. and fifth place, with pounds 1,000, goes to Wellhouse Junior and |Infant School in Golcar, who were last year's overall winner. The Examiner printed tokens in the newspaper for more than five weeks in September and October, with the schools collecting the most tokens in relation to the size of their school, winning the big cash prizes. Examiner editor Roy Wright Gordon "Roy" Wright (born 23 February 1929, died 30 July 2002) was an Australian rules football player with the Richmond Football Club in the VFL during the 1940s and 1950s, and television personality during the 1960s. said the effort by all the schools involved had been "phenomenal" adding: "Cash for Schools has really caught people's imagination with pupils, staff, friends and relatives all rallying around doing all they could to win cash for their local school." Barclays has again put up the pounds 10,000 cash for the scheme as part of its community investment programme. Stuart Ambler, Huddersfield branch manager, said: "Congratulations to all the winning schools. "We are delighted that after all their hard work the schools can spend the money in such a positive way." |
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