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THE Staffords’ wristband appeal is set to smash its fundraising target.
Since last November, members of the public have been able to show their support for 3 Mercian in Afghanistan by purchasing an official wristband.
FUND-RAISER: The Staffords wristband.
STAWELL – Skene Street School is selling inspirational wristbands and biros to help raise funds to put the finishing touches on its new facilities.
Since students moved in at the beginning of 2011, more improvements have been taking place.
The surface of the central quadrangle has been completed with a covering of artificial turf, bark chips and a garden bed.
The area is sheltered by colourful shade sails providing outside classroom space for groups to utilise.
A MOSMAN couple has managed to make maths fun by inventing silicone wristbands with the times tables.
Michael and Landy Randall own Handband, a company that makes and sells customised silicone wristbands.
They started the company in 2005 and have created several different versions of the wristbands, including the Mediband, which provides the bearer’s medical information such as allergies or blood type in case of emergencies, customised promotional bands and silicone digital watches.
The idea for the times table band came up late last year.
The bands, particularly the colourful ones that glow in the dark, had proved popular with children and the couple tried to devise ways to also make it educational.
“We were just talking about ideas and said ‘oh, we could probably fit the multiplication times table (on the bands)’,” Ms Randall said.
The pack comes with 12 bands with one times table on each, and the idea is to give the child one band to learn at a time.
Team passes out wrist bands to opponents at meets to stop the madness
At first the Western High School gymnastics team was skeptical about an idea their coach had. They thought the opposing teams would think that they were crazy, fake or trying to portray themselves as “better” than others. That was not the case.
After some thought, the gymnastics team agreed that something was needed to be done to stop the madness with school drama and bullying.
This was not to say that there was a major problem on the Western team. It was a wake-up call after seeing how much society had changed. Coach Margie Lea said she has noticed a change over her 30 years of coaching gymnastics and it wasn’t for the good.
