The team was made up of parents and Year Five students from the school who were raising money for Momentum Children’s Charity, and for the school’s Parent Staff Association (PSA).
The school’s chosen charity, Momentum, was nominated by Alba Fransson, a parent from the school, whose family received support from the charity when her youngest son, Jack, was diagnosed with cancer in 2021 at just two years old.
Alba took on the Snowdon challenge alongside her 10-year-old son, Liam. Her 12-year-old daughter, Marina, had also completed the challenge two years earlier when she was a pupil at the school.
The Snowdon Summit Challenge saw the team climb to the summit of Mount Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres (3,560 feet).
The demanding nine-mile trek involved a significant ascent and descent, meaning it took around 8 hours to complete. On reaching the summit, the pupils and their parents were rewarded with spectacular views across Snowdonia National Park.
Talking about the challenge, Alba Fransson, from Richmond, said: “It was an amazing weekend – I feel so proud of my son Liam and all his school friends. We all felt a real sense of achievement when we reached the summit – we all collectively shouted ‘Momentum’ when we got there. It was a hot day with temperatures of more than 30 degrees, and the terrain was very uneven and stoney, which definitely made it more challenging. It was an emotional weekend with everyone proudly wearing their Momentum green t-shirts. Lots of people would stop us and ask why we were doing it and who Momentum was, so it meant a lot to be able to raise awareness of this wonderful charity.”
