A HEADINGTON school raised funds in loo themed activities yesterday to help flush away poverty.

The fundraising included chicken poo bingo and emoji poo cakes, which helped raise enough money to twin both toilet blocks at St Andrews Primary School in Headington, with one in a developing country.

Toilet Twinning is a scheme which aims to provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene information to the world’s poorest people by linking loos in the UK with a latrine in Africa or Asia.

Each toilet or block linked will become the proud owner of a certificate, complete with a photo and GPS coordinates of the twinned toilet on Google Maps.

The idea for linking the school’s blocks, which cost just shy of £500, came about at a school council meeting, organised by the 12 members from across years 1-6.

The council agreed that everybody in the school should take responsibility and action to improve the cleanliness of the cubicles.

Bryony Mccraw, Year 5 teacher and organiser of yesterday’s event said the ‘toilet twinning day’ was a more inventive way of getting the outcome of the meeting to stick into all the pupil’s memory.

She added: “It’s a fun way of realising our own resources and how lucky we are.”

During the day assemblies were lead teaching the youngsters about the realities for people living in developing countries.

Pupils were able to pay £1 to turn up in non-school uniform and wear white or light-coloured clothing.

Members from each class who had made an effort to keep clean throughout the day were chosen to dunk the teachers in gunge, made by the reception pupils as part of their science curriculum.

Other activities included wheeling a toilet around Headington to collect spare change from local shoppers, and a squat challenge with the target of reaching 60 squats in 60 seconds, the current world record for the most within a minute was set at 70 in 2007.

Students in Year 3 also decorated cakes with poo emojis which were sold after school to those watching the teachers get dunked.

Enlisted the help of the school’s chicken yesterday, squares on the grid of the pen were sold off by the pupils and the winner, the owner of the square the chicken chose to do their business in, bagged themselves a chocolate egg.