Pupils up for a challenge

A Christmas fair will be held by pupils from Newark Academy on Saturday to help raise money towards a trip to Morocco.

The fair, at the school’s Lilley and Stone site in Newark, has been organised by James Lane, 14, Lucy Duckmanton, 14, Isabel Moncaster, 16, Georgia Travers, 16, and her brother Jake, 14.

The group is among 30 pupils aged 12 to 16 who will be taking part in the trip to Morocco where they will help to build a school and take part in a trek in the Atlas Mountains.

To make the trip each pupil has to raise £1,000.

Jake said there would be a range of different stalls at the fair selling crafts and Christmas-themed items.

He said: “We have done some smaller fundraising things but this is the biggest we have done as a group.

“I wanted to go on the trip because it will be a chance to get a different view of things and have a different experience.”

Geography teacher Miss Judith Evans, one of the members of staff who will accompany the students, said the trip was an opportunity to develop team-building skills.

She said: “The aim of the trip is to make them think outside the box and to experience something a bit different.”

The fair will run from 10.30am to 1pm.