The Harrisfield Primary School Junior School Council with teachers Steve Lynch and Pam Barnhill.
STUDENTS at Noble Park’s Harrisfield Primary School were compelled to raise funds for meningococcal disease research after receiving a touching letter from a dead boy’s father.
It may have been Jeans for Genes Day last Friday, 4 August, but the school’s students were dressed out of uniform for a much different cause.
The Junior School Council earlier this year received a letter from a father whose son died from meningococcal disease.
In a letter to Star, the Junior School Council said its members were touched by the letter because the boy was a grade five student much like themselves.
“So we are doing a fundraiser for it and giving the money to meningococcal research,” the school council said.
“We hope we have raised a lot of money for this disease.”
