Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 completed the annual school walk, from the waterfront, St Helier to Corbiere and back, a total of 14 miles each. 420 students each walking 14 miles equals a grand total of 5,880 miles. That is equivalent to Jersey to New York (5,514 miles) with over 300 miles to spare. An amazing total of £2400 was raised, shared between the school minibus appeal, and our partner school in Nepal, the Shree Gram Sewa Vidhyshram Secondary School. The first running students to complete the 14 miles were Edu and Mia in Year 8 with a time of 1 hour 44 mins and 2 hours 37 respectively. The first staff member home was Mr Scott in 1 hour 42 mins closely followed by Miss Anderson 1 minute behind. The majority of students and staff walked rather than run, completing the 14 miles in wet and windy weather in under 4.5 hours. A big thank you to all the staff for their support and to the students for their resilience and determination to finish.
In 2015 Grainville School students got on their bikes and pedaled hard to raise money to help rebuild a village in Nepal destroyed in an earthquake, the largest to hit the Himalayan nation for more than 80 years that claimed the lives of at least 7,000 people. Grainville has a particularly close connection to this village in the Dandakharka region, which had been devastated. Chairman of the board of governors Jeremy Johnson was a member of the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission team who helped to build clean-water systems in the village earlier that year.