Kirkby schoolgirl's Christmas snow globe project brings festive cheer to elderly

Ruby Giugno, who is in Year 7 at Ashfield School, on Sutton Road, had been making the traditional glittery Christmas ornaments with her mum Natalie Giugno for several years and the pair had regularly donated them to the Aldercar Residential Home residents, to bring a little bit of festive cheer.

At school, Ruby mentioned what she was doing to Ashfield’s head teacher John Maher who was so impressed by the idea that he arranged for snow globe making sessions to be introduced into pre-Christmas science lessons for the school’s Year 7 pupils.

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Ruby was also roped in to help her class mates by giving tutorials on how she made the magical snow globes using a jam jar, a Christmas cake ornament topper glued to a plastic coated lid, and with the addition of lots of sparkly glitter suspended in a water and glycerin solution.

With an estimated 400 globes set to be made by the children, it was decided to donate the snow globes to even more care homes as well as the children’s and elderly care wards at Sutton’s King’s Mill Hospital.

Elderly care homes receiving the globes include Loxley Lodge, Hazel Grove, Ashdale, Pathways Complex Needs Care Home, and there are plans for others to be added to the list.

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Head teacher Mr Maher said: “Ruby was so enthusiastic when telling me one lunchtime about the amazing family effort to bring Christmas joy to the elderly that I thought we should recognise and support her idea.

"I also thought of the Art, Design and Science curriculum opportunities that the snow globe project could offer to the pupils and it appears to have snowballed from there – if you pardon the pun!

“This lovely gesture was something Ruby and her mum had done for a number of years now, and they felt that under the current circumstances, with many care home residents unable to see their families, it was even more important to spread some festive cheer.”