Money raised in memory of Westbury Junior School admistrator Lynne Wareing, who died of cancer last year, was presented to Dorothy House Hospice during an assembly this week.

Mrs Wareing, 50, who died in May last year, had worked as finance administrator at the school for 19 years and was remembered during an assembly on Tuesday.

The ceremony was split into two halves with children handing over a cheque of £800 to Dorothy House representative Yvonne Brunton followed by team rector for All Saints Church, Jonathan Burke, blessing a wooden cross on the wall of main hall.

Headteacher Richard Hatt said: “This is the largest amount we have ever raised for charity by far. I am so proud of the children as we only have 200 but yet we managed to raise £800.”

The money came from a sponsored bounce organised by the family of Mrs Wareing, who arranged to have three bouncy castles in school one day in November.

Mr Hatt added: “The children and staff had to see how many bounces they could do in five minutes and some children managed 1,500.”

The rest of the money was donated by the carpenter who made the cross and who asked for the money to go to Dorothy House in Mrs Wareing’s memory.

Mrs Wareing’s colleague, Caroline Ayton, said the two women were so close they were like ‘sisters’.

She said: “ Lynne was a very bubbly person. We had a very close relationship at the school, we worked together for 15 years.

“She would do anything for anybody, Lynne was a lovely lady.

“We were on the school association together for years and we were both governors.”

Mrs Wareing left husband Chris and sons Andrew and Simon who live in Westbury.