Students at Saltus Grammar School have organised a week of events to raise money for cancer care charity PALS among other charities and causes.

Among the fundraising events are A Walk With Your PALS charity walk by lower primary school involving sponsored laps around the field at their Cavendish campus.

Foundation students have created three class paintings which are to be raffled off while the secondary department will hold a grub day.

The week will culminate in the upper primary department hall on the St John’s Campus where almost 90 students and some staff members will take part in a sponsored head shaving to raise money for the St Baldrick’s Foundation — an international charity that raises funds for childhood cancer research.

Some of the funds raised will also go towards the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre’s SunSmart programme.

Some of the girls will be donating their hair to Locks of Love.

A number of hairdressers and barbers have volunteered their time to make this event possible.

Almost fifty members of staff have signed up to enter as a team into the Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre’s Relay for Life on May 29 and 30 at the National Sports Centre.

The Upper Primary St Baldrick’s event on Friday 13 will run from 8.30am until approximately 10.30am; and the Lower Primary sponsored walk on Wednesday, A Walk With Your PALS, will take place from 10.50am until 11.50am. A Saltus spokesman said: “The mission statement for Saltus Grammar School includes: ‘a commitment to academic excellence, personal integrity and service to others’. Academic excellence is perhaps easy to measure with examination results and university placement.

“However, personal integrity and service to others are the drive to develop good citizens and good people. As a part of these life lessons the students are all contributing to helping those struggling with cancer. Many of the Saltus family have had to deal with cancer within their families and this is an opportunity for a real team effort to show support for those who are working to help patients and those working to eradicate the disease.”