A primary school is aiming to create 7,000 angels for staff members at Cumbrian hospitals. 

Hayton CofE Primary School has taken on the crafting challenge with the goal of delivering a handmade angel to every member of staff hospitals within the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC).

The school, which is fronted by headteacher Sarah Threlkeld-Brown, launched the ambitious project on Thursday, October 17, with the goal of fulfilling their crafted angle quota by Friday, November 29. 

(Image: Supplied) As part of the challenge, Sarah and Hayton Cofe Primary School are encouraging collaboration with schools locally, nationally, and internationally. 

Alongside the primary school pupil's angel-creating efforts, it has also had hundreds of angels pledged by Cumbrian schools such as William Howard School, a school in London, and a school in Spain.

As the school embarks on its mighty crafting challenge, Sarah explains how it fits into the school's ethos.

She said: "We are a church school and we have our Christian values of love, joy, aspiration, and wonder which we live by every day and we have come up with learning virtues which we have decided that our children need.

(Image: Supplied) "Those are optimism, adaptability, kinship, and service and what we wanted to focus the children on is service and selflessness, doing something for somebody else and not expecting anything in return.

"For this challenge, they need to give the time, the love, and the energy and they might not get to know where their gift goes but they know it is going to an amazing person.

"It's a token of thanks to everyone who works for the NCIC and we are keen to emphasise that they are for everybody no matter their faith, and let's be honest, the people who work in the NHS are angels.

Once the school completes its 7,000th angel it plans to deliver them to Cumberland Infimary's chaplaincy and is hoping to have some of its pupils hand deliver their creations to members of staff at the hospital.

(Image: Supplied) Despite launching the challenge within the school just over a week ago, Sarah expressed her delight at the initial response. 

She said: "I am delighted at the response but it is all about the more the merrier.

"We have had angel lunchtime and after-school clubs where the students have been creating a production line of angels.

"I have got angels all over my office, the children have really embraced the challenge and we have an 'angel-ometer' in the school where we are tracking the amount we make."

Sarah also encouraged anyone who may be interested in helping the school complete its challenge to get involved.

She said: "Anybody can do it, I've even got my mum knitting angels.

"On our school website, there is a page called Angel for Angels 2024 which has all the information on how to get involved.

(Image: Hayton CofE Primary School) "They need to be robust as they need to travel to the hospitals but they can be made out of card, wood, felt, clay, knitted whatever.

"You can make one angel or 100 and hand them into the chaplaincy and the idea is that by Friday, November 29 we are as close as possible to 7,000 angels."

Anyone interested in assisting Hayton CofE Primary School's angel challenge can do so by scanning the QR on their poster.