Fun day helps school raise £720 for Oscar Knox Appeal

The school council were challenged to organise and manage the last day of term as a fun day and so did so by raising money for the charity.

The fun day l included a non uniform day, rock concert, bun sale, guess the sweets in the jar, guess the Teddy’s name, nail painting, bungee run and soak the teacher.

School Council Members Brooke Johnston, Reeve Brown, Josh McCartney, Leah Sherry, Thomas Orr, Megan Dickson, Jordan Graham, Zoe Mulligan and Tiarnan Moore, would like to thank all the pupils and staff for participation in the event.

Little Oscar had just died weeks prior to the fun day.

Oscar was born on September 10 2008. Early days everything seemed fine, but as the weeks and months went on we started to become increasingly concerned about Oscar’s development.

Oscar (5) was diagnosed with Jacobsen Syndrome and later diagnosed in november 2011 with Neuroblastoma, a rare children’s cancer which affects only one in every 100,000 children. Sadly Oscar lost his fight for life May 8, 2014.

His family launched the Oscar Knox Appeal campaign during his illness to raise awareness of the condition.

After intensive treatment, ‘Wee Oscar’ was finally given the all-clear in April 2013, but it returned four months later.

His battle against neuroblastoma captured the hearts of many people in Northern Ireland.

In October 2012, he received specialist treatment in America after his family reached their £250,000 fundraising target to pay for the immunotherapy treatment.

After his initial diagnosis, his parents set up a Twitter account so they could update friends and family on Oscar’s condition each time he was in hospital.

However, the account quickly attracted thousands of followers.