Bourne Academy Supports BRM Day

Students from Mays House helping to pack the event programmes

Students from a local secondary school have taken part in a 'team challenge' this week, to help pack 10,000 event programmes into carrier bags, to be sold on the day.

Around 200 students from Mays house of Bourne Academy worked hard to support the event during the first part of this week, preparing the programmes to be sold at the event on Sunday.

The house has been named after Raymond Mays, founder of BRM, which is why the students were so keen to help the event in whatever way they could.

Sally Sutcliffe, Head of Mays House, liaised with the BRM Committee to offer help for the 50^th Anniversary of BRM in Bourne.  Mrs Sutcliffe commented “As a local person I am really looking forward to the day and I thought my team at school should get involved.  When we volunteered our services we didn’t know exactly what we would be asked to do.  Packing 10,000 souvenir bags wasn’t one of my thoughts!  However the students have all helped out, setting up their own little production lines in their classes.  It was great to see them working so well with each other!”

However, due to circumstances the turn-around of the job had to be quick.  Mrs Sutcliffe added “We only received the programmes and bags on Tuesday morning, so it really was a case of all hands on deck to get the job done by Wednesday afternoon.  I’m immensely proud of all my students and the Form Tutors who co-ordinated and supported them to achieve this challenge.”

 
Mays House student Ellen Hicks (Year 12) added: "It was great to be able to help getting the resources ready for the BRM Day". 

The programmes being loaded into a double-decker bus

Once students had packed the programmes, BRM Day Committee Member and Managing Director of Delaine Buses Ltd Anthony Delaine-Smith came to the school with a double-decker bus to collect the programmes, ready to be sold on the day of the event.

The souvenier programme will be available to buy on Sunday for £5.00, and includes a timetable of the day, a brief history of BRM, information about Graham Hill, Damon Hill & Sir Jackie Stewart, a map of the activities going on in the town, and information on the cars that will be included in the parades.