Christmas Pudding 'Stir-up'
Girls took part in an centuries-old Christmas tradition, stirring Christmas pudding mixture, to raise money for charity. Donating 20p for a stir and a wish, the money raised will go to Cambridge charity Blue Smile, a children’s charity that provides counselling and therapy for pupils in schools between the ages of 3 and 13. The mixture will be cooked to become special 120th anniversary Christmas puddings which will go into the raffle at the School’s annual Christmas Fayre. To honour the School’s 120th anniversary, the Circle of Friends will be selling 120 mini Christmas puddings at the Fayre.
St Mary’s students taking their new Leiths Introductory Certificate of Food and Wine demonstrated in a school assembly the process of making a Christmas pudding mixture, and Head of Religious Studies Daniel Bennett explained the significance of “stir-up Sunday”, before the whole school took part in stirring up the pudding mixture. From Reception to Upper Sixth, the girls got stuck in and had fun. For some, it was the first time they had helped to make Christmas pudding!