{"id":59198,"date":"2026-03-18T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=59198"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:53:16","slug":"cant-wait-to-be-king-walkley-primary-school-to-raise-950-for-lion-cub-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/cant-wait-to-be-king-walkley-primary-school-to-raise-950-for-lion-cub-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"“Can’t wait to be king!” – Walkley Primary school to raise \u00a3950 for lion cub sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost \u00a31k is to be raised by St Mary\u2019s CE primary, Walkley to adopt a lion cub sculpture from the Pride of Yorkshire trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Mary\u2019s have made \u00a3180 by hosting a bake sale with cakes donated by their catering provider, The Pantry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school have been involved with the \u2018Pride of Yorkshire\u2019 trails for ten years and have continually been committed to raising money for the children\u2019s hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylvie Roux, the event organiser and cover teacher for the school said: \u201cIt is one of the most valuable charities that we have locally.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school plans to hold a raffle on the 20th of March to reach their goal of \u00a3950 for the sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Mary\u2019s has received a range of donations from Sheffield united football tickets to vouchers for local restaurants and businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pantry’s valentines day themed biscuits for the school bake sale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ms Roux added: \u201cIt has been lovely to see how generous people are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joy Burgess, the school\u2019s head-teacher said: \u201cStaff and parents and the community have generously donated and bought raffle prizes to raise funds and our own PFA are busy organising an Easter disco with our very own resident school DJ! It really shows how everyone\u2019s kindness can help bring a community together, by everyone playing their part to help.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Pride of Yorkshire\u2019 have been famed for holding their successful trails from the bear trail in 2021 to \u2018Herd of Sheffield\u2019 in 2016, now with \u2018Feel the Roar\u2019 they aim to raise over \u00a32.8 million for the children’s hospital on its 150th year of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sculpture trail opens in June and will be found all over Sheffield and surrounding areas featuring lions, lionesses and cubs to spread colour and creativity across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Burgess said: \u201cThe project is an amazing opportunity to work together with the whole school community to help raise vital funds for an amazing charity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sculpture will be painted by the children, inspired by the school\u2019s curriculum of celebrating nature and biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Roux said: \u201cWe are proud of the biodiversity in the local area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school encourages anyone who wants to support their efforts to donate raffle prizes or buy tickets to reach the \u00a3950 target . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost \u00a31k is to be raised by St Mary\u2019s CE primary, Walkley to adopt a lion cub sculpture from the Pride of Yorkshire trail.\u00a0 St Mary\u2019s have made \u00a3180 by hosting a bake sale with cakes donated by their catering provider, The Pantry.   The school have been involved with the \u2018Pride of Yorkshire\u2019 trails for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":59662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59688,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59198\/revisions\/59688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}