The total from events held on and around Friday – the official appeal fundraising day – looks set to easily top an astronomical £4,500.

Hundreds of schools and workers took part in dress-down events and other fundraisers to boost the £150,000 appeal for Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for ill and premature babies.

The Lynn News thanks everyone who took part.

Here is just some of what was going on:

l Norfolk’s smallest school decided to do its bit for West Norfolk’s smallest babies by backing the appeal. Children at Grimston, Church Hill School, spent last week bringing in coins and balancing them in scales with a kilo (2lb 2oz) weight – similar to the weight of some premature babies. Between the 11 pupils who make up the entire school, they had raised £36 by Friday lunchtime and were still going.

l Park High School, Gaywood, made a monstrous effort to support the appeal on Thursday. Sixth form students dressed in Hallowe’en costume to generate donations for the appeal and the school has also started selling the official Special Care Baby Appeal calendar.

l Pupils at North Wootton Community School also held their fundraiser on Thursday and used the opportunity to celebrate their all new kitchen.

The kitchen was created from a store cupboard with £7,000 from the school’s Parents Teachers Association and £1,500 secured by the school council from Dow Chemical and kitted out with investment from school funds and money raised through a non-uniform day.

For the Special Care Baby Appeal, Year Six pupils baked cakes and made coffee in the kitchen and sold them to parents, raising £120.

l Downham High School raised a huge £1,300 with students paying £1 each to ditch school uniform for the day. A couple of brave students and staff arrived in fancy dress.

l It was at the request of several parents that Whitefriars Primary School, Lynn, joined in the day. The school raised just under £300 through a non-uniform event.

l Children at Snettisham Primary School had a good insight into why the appeal is so important as they added their support. Pupil Erin Tasker, who has already held her own sponsored event, inspired the school to take part in the day and raise £62 through a non-uniform event.

l Dressing as book characters and a second hand book sale was the focus of the fun at Gooderstone Primary School.

The school had already organised a fundraiser for the day to pay for a toys and games box for the playground, but the school council agreed to split the money with the appeal on the request of parent governor Sharon Wilson.

Miss Wilson’s four-year-old twin daughters Amy and Alice, who are in reception at the school, were premature and cared for by the unit.