Staff and students have teamed up to raise £2,000 in memory of a schoolgirl who died of meningitis.

Teachers at Our Lady's Convent Senior School, in Radley Road, Abingdon, helped raise money for the Meningitis Trust by dressing up and performing songs from the 1920s and 1930s during a theme event.

The 320 girls at the school have also done their bit by holding fundraising events.

The money has been raised in memory of 17-year-old Emma-Jayne Nuttall, who died in the John Radcliffe Hospital last summer a day after developing symptoms of the disease. The teenager, of The Warren, Abingdon, was in the school's sixth form and is still fondly remembered.

Penny Roker, who helped organise the theme event, said: "She is still very much in our minds and we are trying to make ourselves feel a bit better by raising money for the Meningitis Trust."

She added Emma-Jayne's ashes had been scattered in the churchyard at St Edmunds, which is just yards away from the school.

A cheque was presented to the Meningitis Trust by the school this week yesterday (Tues, Sept 29).

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