Yass High School Principal Sandra Watson joined in with great spirit the student organised "Lock Up Your Boss Day" last Wednesday to benefit Kids HelpLine. A National Day attracting support all over the country, at Yass High $332.60 was raised when students held a non-uniform day for this worthwhile cause.

Kids Help Line is Australia's only free 24 hour, confidential and anonymous telephone and online counselling service for 5 to 18 year olds. Each week 10,000 cries for help from kids across Australia are answered with thousands more going unanswered. Kids Help Line is a service of BoysTown.

Students at Yass High choose charities to benefit from their non-uniform days when each student who comes out of uniform donates money to the cause.

With a quick blare on the siren, Sgt Bob Monkley arrived to "arrest" Ms Watson who was in the midst of an address at a school assembly. Her "crime": trying to improve the lot of Yass High School students and staff.

Ms Watson was handcuffed and escorted from the hall, taken in the paddy wagon to the front of the school and then to "jail" in the school's quiet room where the door had been "barred" for the day.

One of the organisers, Madeleine Tewes in Year 11 says the students would love to be able to raise their target of $500 for Kids Help Line and welcome further donations.

"Kids Help Line really does need support. It's a confidential service, which I haven't used but I know a couple of kids who have and it really does help.

Just one suicide prevented in the nation is fantastic.

Kids Help Line's motto - "We care - we listen."