St Josephs celebrate Cerebral Palsy day to create awareness

Students and staff celebrated this year's theme unicorns and rainbows, to help raise money for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. 

St Joseph's Primary School Principal Sharon Grimmond said the event was celebrated each February 26 on student Ally Robb's birthday, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy to help raise money and awareness about the condition. 

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"This year's awareness day was organised by Rochelle Rope, Joanne Deebank and the Student Representative Council kids," she said.

"Each year we have a different theme and this year it was rainbows and unicorns, two of Ally's favourite things."

To help raise money students had a cake stall with decorated cakes and had hair chalk and face painting activities. 

Students all got in the spirit of the day donning their brightest colours.

"The kids all got in the spirit, there were groovy kids with unicorns on their heads, everyone was brightly coloured, we also had a bright pink showing with the boys with the Sydney Sixers being bright pink," Mrs Grimmond said. 

Mrs Grimmond said altogether the day raised just over $400 which will be used to help Ally's mum with her needs or to the Cerebral Palsy Alliance to help other kids. 

"Ally's a very, very special member of our school, she's greatly loved by her friends and everyone here, and it's just our way of helping out a little bit," Mrs Grimmond said. 

"In the scheme of things it's not a lot of money when you're dealing with things that are needed with the lifelong condition, but it's just our little way of sharing the love."

Mrs Grimmond said the annual event offers a fun way to help create an awareness of Ally's condition with students.

"We've been running the day for Ally, who is now in Year 3, since she started school in Kindergarten, and it's a way to raise awareness with the kids about the condition," she said. 

"We always talk to the kids about the condition, it's just a matter of sitting down and answering those questions and discussing what it means to have Cerebral Palsy."