Motions Day turned into a huge fundraiser to raise money in support of the charity Knæk Cancer
Last year, you will remember, that Mr Ryan and Mr Bettger teamed up together for a new initiative during our Autumn Break Motions Day. Motions Day is a yearly event that takes place in schools throughout Denmark. The purpose of Motions Day, on the last day of school before Autumn Break, is to encourage students (and staff!) to participate in physical activity and promote healthy lifestyles. This year at AIS, all the students took the day out of the classroom. The EY students went outside into their playground to play team games, our PYPs went down to Tangkrogen to do as many laps of 1km within 45 minutes, our MYPs took part in a 5km cross country run through the woods and along the sea in Marselisborg.
As part of the imitative last year, Mr Ryan and Mr Bettger encouraged the PYPs to turn their laps into a sponsored run, inspired by the Terry Fox Foundation, in order to raise money for KnækCancer. This year, we repeated the success of last year, this time opening up the sponsorship to the entire school.
Well, we are delighted to announce that the our school community raised 15,482kr during our sponsored run for this year’s Motions Day – a record amount of money that we could donate to such a fantastic and worthy cause. The donation has been sent to KnækCancer to support cancer research projects in Denmark. You can read more about KnækCancer here – https://knaek.cancer.dk/da
Thank you to everyone who took part and donated money. It is truly amazing what we as a school can achieve when we work together for a common goal!