By GEORGIA WESTGARTH
EYE patches, swords, parrots and black beards took over the classrooms at Yarraman Oaks Primary School as students sailed aboard a ship of giving.
Friday 12 June was unlike most Fridays at the primary school with students and teachers dressed up in their finest pirate attire to raise money toward prevention and cure for childhood brain tumours.
Pirate Day Friday is a national fundraising day for what is the biggest killer of children in Australia with more than 620 cases diagnosed every year.
School wellbeing officer Alyssa Sewell said the school raised $244 towards the cause.
“We had a pirate parade in the morning and a colouring competition organised by Coles Noble Park who gave out lots of prizes and their manager also dressed up as a pirate,” Ms Sewell said.
The annual event was designed to help raise awareness and funds towards new treatments for the deadly cancer.
Ms Sewell said the children have been briefed on what the day was all about.
“There’s been a focus on why we are dressing up and brain cancer was mentioned at the morning assembly,” she said.
To get on board with Pirate Day Friday visit www.piratedayfriday.com.
