From Jumble Sale to Easter Egg Hunt

Hello,

Don't miss the Year 2 cake sale this Friday after school and please see below for the latest volunteer opportunities, the results of our spring Jumble Sale, and our upcoming Easter Egg Hunt.

Also this Friday 21 March, we are looking for a few volunteers to help transfer the FROGS resources from the cellar to our new storage space. Please sign up here if you can help from 2pm. We’re still looking for super strong helpers – just think of it as a free workout! If you can help, even for 30 minutes, please get in touch! Thank you.

JUMBLE SALE

Well done to everyone who helped and shopped at the Jumble last Saturday – we raised £1,540 for the school (plus between £50-100 due to come in from the leftover books sold online.)

Here’s a message from organisers Jay and Firuze:

We would like to say a *huge thank you* to everyone who volunteered & supported to make the jumble sale such a busy and positive event again.

Massive thanks to everyone who donated jumble, helped to set up, ran the stalls, and to everyone who came along and found some bargains. Thanks too to the amazing bakers and soupmaker. And lastly to the clean up crew (a wonderful egalitarian pool of Grasmere mums and dads!). It wasn't as packed out busy as last October but it was a good turn out and we have a lot less leftover than last time.

Thanks also to all those who couldn't volunteer this time but shared their positive vibes and well wishes, they were received!

Highlights of the jumble this year included a pogo stick, a Dusty Knuckle cookbook, a floor-length red dress ‘perfect for playing the harp on stage’, a pair of delicate vintage mugs that got snapped up as soon as they went on display, a brand new Twister game, and the cutest little Pokemon soft toy – with most items costing 50p or £1. The next jumble will be in October.

EASTER EGG HUNT

The Frogs' annual chocolate Easter egg hunt will be on Thursday 3rd April, during school time. Each class, Nursery - Year 6, enjoy their own hunt in the garden, one class at a time.

To run the Easter egg hunt we need hundreds and hundreds of chocolate Easter eggs (no nuts) to be donated please. Burcu will kindly help us to receive and store the eggs from next Monday 24th March if you drop them off to her in the office.

We also need help to divide all the eggs between classes (on Weds 2nd a.m), and then to hide the eggs for each class (on Thurs 3rd a.m.). If you can help Julie and Jay with this, please sign up here.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

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March news

Hello,

Here's the latest on this term’s FROGS events, including the Pub Quiz, pancake sale, football game and upcoming Jumble sale and Easter egg hunt…

Our recent spends include paying for authors’ visits for World Book Day (around £550). We hope your kids enjoyed the workshops of Joshua Seigal and Ricky Baxter!

This term so far we’ve doubled our fundraising from events including the cinema night, pub quiz and pancake sales thanks to matched funding – if you work with a big company please check if they offer this and, if so, get in touch with our treasurer Magnus who will explain how it works!

GRASMERE PUB QUIZ

Thank you to everyone who attended our Pub Quiz last week! Huge thanks to our quiz master Paddy, to our hosts Jana and Richard at the Shakespeare, and to our crew of cooks and waiters, Lindsey, Nicky, Firuze, Mada and Darryn. And the winners are:

1. The Magnificent 7, with 43 points
2. The Reception Outcasts, with 38 points
3. The Sun Bears, with 37 points

Congratulations to The Magnificent 7, our winning team, with an outstanding performance of 10/10 on the Name the Band round!

With tickets and food sales we raised £482, and we’ve doubled that amount to £964 thanks to a parent’s matched funding.

PANCAKE SALE

Thank you everyone who bought a pancake or two. Year 6 made £156 on the day, and thanks to a parent’s matched funding, they now have £312 to spend on their end-of-year party.

THE DOGS WIN aGAIN

Well done to the Dads of Grasmere School – aka the DOGS – who won 6-2 against Grazebrook last Sunday. The next game is on Sunday 30 March at 4pm at Stoke Newington School.

JUMBLE SALE

Thank you to everyone who has already volunteered to help at the Jumble Sale – you’re amazing! We still need help, please sign up here if you can spare an hour or bake a cake!

EASTER EGG HUNT

Our last event this term will be the Easter Egg Hunt on 3 April during schooltime. For this we will be collecting chocolate egg donations (no nuts!) from Monday 24 March. Please leave with Burcu at reception.

We need lots of small eggs – we usually collect around 3,000 eggs. We also treat the teachers to a bigger chocolate egg – if their class can find the Golden Bunny hidden in the garden that is! Our volunteers will split them equally between all year groups; any leftovers will be given to staff and to pupil premium families.

We’ll also need Easter bunnies to help hide the eggs in the garden throughout the morning of 3 April, so please look out for the sign up sheet.

If your child has a food allergy: The school will share a list of allergies with us and we will make sure there are treats for everyone. If you would like to donate some eggs specially for a child with an allergy please leave them clearly labelled with their name and year group. The children will all hunt for standard chocolate eggs in the garden and then our volunteers will swap them for those that they can eat.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

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February News

Hello all,

It’s half-term already and it’s time for a little recap of FROGS’ events and how the money we have all raised together has been spent by the school. It’s also time to book your ticket for our upcoming Pub Quiz, on Wednesday 5 March at the Shakespeare. Please see the minutes of our last meeting here, and below for more information!

OUR LATEST EVENTS & SPENDS

In the past few weeks, we’ve organised a Cinema night for Grasmere families, which raised £1,274 (half of this amount came from our volunteer’s company matched funding scheme – if you work for a big company, you might be eligible too, so please check!).

We also organised and paid for yoga workshops for the children during school time, as part of the annual Children’s mental heath week (a cost of around £350):

Now you might be wondering what we do with all the money raised, so here’s an update on how we have spent our funds in the past few months:

• £12,890 went to installing a brand new screen, projector and AV equipment for the hall

• £1,056 was spent buying chess and board game picnic tables for the KS2 playground

• £1,000 raised by the Tesco blue token grant was used to buy outdoor play equipment including footballs and basketballs, giant four in a row, table tennis bats, giant tumble blocks, skipping ropes, hoola hoops, football goals and basketball hoop and stand…

• £892 for some new storage sheds for outdoor learning resources in the garden

• £649 for an easel set and various outdoor storage for Nursery/Reception

• £600 was spent supporting Year 6 families to send their children on the residential trip

• £200 per class – a total of £1,600 – was spent on Class treats (using the money raised by cake sales throughout the year). These included board games and jigsaws, play sand, role play costumes, building blocks, balls, counters and giant dominos, as well as items such as beanbags for the class reading corners.

We collaborated with the school on all of these projects, and they chose the items that they needed the most at the moment.

We will also be paying for a writer’s visit to celebrate World Book Day in March, and the Nursery/ Reception team has a further £850 to spend on items to transform their space.

PUB QUIZ

Our next event is the Pub Quiz on Wednesday 5 March at the Shakespeare. You can buy your ticket (£5) here, we will be competing in teams of 6 and we’re aiming to have at least one team of 6 per year group. There will be homemade food on offer too. Join us for a fun evening, and help raise money for the school and support a lovely local business.

The pub quiz (for parents only) will be followed by other events including an after-school pancake sale to raise money for Year 6 hoodies and party (everyone welcome); our spring Jumble Sale (a favourite of the entire local community); and our annual Easter Egg Hunt (for the children during school time).

We will be asking for jumble donations, as well as chocolate egg donations very soon, so keep an eye out for any Easter bargains and start sorting your clothes, books, toys and bric-à-brac!

EASY FUNDRAISING

We have raised £174 in just a couple of months of using Easyfundraising, a company who partners with over 8,000 brands who will donate part of what you spend to a cause of your choice. You can sign up here and help us whenever your shop online (it won’t cost you any extra; the cost is covered by the brand).

LEAP CONSULTATION

Finally, just a reminder regarding school news: there is currently a consultation for the school to become part of the LEAP federation. All the information is on here, and there will be consultation drop in sessions for parents and carers on 7, 12 and 27 March.

Thank you and have great half-term everyone!

FROGS

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January News

Hello,

Here are the latest FROGS news, including our next meeting, our events for this term, and some images of our latest event, the Cinema night, which saw the launch of the school’s amazing new AV system. A request from the school who said it was their No 1 priority, this new projector, screen etc cost over £11,000 and was funded entirely by FROGS. Thank you all for making this happen!

Our next meeting is this Friday 31 January at 9am at school. Everyone welcome! We will be discussing our next events, latest spends and upcoming projects. Please find the agenda here.

Our events this term include a Quiz night, for which we need more volunteer organisers – please get in touch with your rep or Paddy if you can help!

Please look out for more information on these events, and the usual volunteer sign up sheets, in our next newsletters.

CINEMA NIGHT

A big thank you to our organiser Caroline and all the volunteers who helped run this lovely event. We had two screenings, some amazing snacks, and a great atmosphere. We hope you and your children enjoyed it, and were happy with the new AV system too!

And finally, big thanks to everyone who has signed up on Easyfundraising – we’ve raised just over £120 so far. And please don’t forget our next events: the FROGS meeting this Friday, and the Year 3 Cake sale on Friday 7 February!

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

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MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION

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A wonderful Winter fair

Hello,

We hope you all enjoyed our Winter Fair! If your child has missed their little gift from Santa please pick up from the office this week (you can also pick up online shop orders there). See below for more information on the amazing Winter Fair, as well as the Grasmere football team win; how to shop and raise money for FROGS; and also how you can help other parents.

FROGS CHRISTMAS SHOP

If you are looking for one-of-a-kind Christmas presents, there are still a few cookbooks, as well as Christmas cards and tea towels left. We will be selling them this Friday after school (cash or card). Or please order online and we will leave your items with the school office to collect asap. You can also now download the cookbook as a PDF (£4). And if you’d like to pay it forward and give a tea towel to a Grasmere family, please see below in How to help.

And a big thank you to everyone who ordered a Christmas tree – we raised just over £325 for the school with this scheme!

A Wonderful Winter Fair

Well done Kathy and Elspeth and the Winter Fair team for organising such a wonderful event! With stalls including teddy and bottle tombolas, winter crafts, snowman toss, find the snowman’s nose, knock the elves off the shelves, gingerbread decorating and lucky dip, plus a great raffle, and the bar, kitchen and veggie food, we took in £3,500 (including grotto tickets, tea towels, cards and cookbook sales, and before expenses). An excellent result – bravo!

And of course huge thanks to Santa and his Elf for making time in their busy schedule to stop at Grasmere – the kids were over the moon to meet them both.

Special thanks to the Grasmere carol singers, who made the event feel extra Christmassy!

Here’s a message from the organisers:

“A massive thank you to all of the volunteers who helped out at the Winter Fair on Friday – from those involved with prep behind the scenes, to the many volunteers on the day (and of course the wonderful carol singers!). We really couldn’t have done it without you all! A big thank you also to everyone who came along and supported.”

Kathy and Elspeth

And finally, huge thanks to all the local businesses who kindly donated prizes for the raffle:

Escocesa – Stokey’s Delicatessen – De Beauvoir Deli – Jolene – Primeur – Creative Mash – Oi Vita – Buller & Rice – Brags & Brams – Hackney Peddler – Shine – Know & Love – Oeno Maris – What Mother Made – The Ark – Sophie Macbain – Made in Little France – Spence Bakery – Belle Époque – Lizzy’s on the Green – Yogahome – Cod & Brew – Lily’s – Bless – Nando’s

Remember to shop local this Christmas if you can!

Who let the DOGS out??!?

Congratulations to the Dads of Grasmere School AKA the Dogs, who won 6-4 against Betty Layward on Saturday, and raised over £300 for the school! Well done DOGS!

We all look forward to the next game against another local school very soon. And if you’d like to join the pack, please get in touch with your class rep, with Mark R, or any of the players above!

Shop and support FROGS

Local wine shop, deli & bar Yield N16 is raising funds for our school again this year starting now until 3 January 2025. When shopping at the deli or going for glass of wine, beer, charcuterie & cheese, just mention Grasmere School and Yield N16 will donate 10% of the total bill back to the school on 20 January. The shop is open daily 10am-10pm.

You could also sign up to Easyfundraising and donate as you shop. We’ve already raised £20 in a week with this. It’s very quick and easy to sign up! Plus you can decide which websites you would like to include in the donation reminder app on your browser. There’s over 8,100 shops and brands, including all the big supermarkets.

STAFF collection Pots

Apologies for having so many pots at this time of the year! Please donate if you can.

We are collecting money for the Staff Christmas present, to be divided between all 35 staff. You can donate here – at the moment we’re at £28 per staff member – let’s try to get to £50!

We are collecting money for Sharon’s retirement gift – please donate here if you can.

We are collecting money to Shannen’s leaving gift – please donate here if you can.

The deadline for these pots is Sunday evening, to let the organisers buy presents/distribute to staff.

HELPING EACH OTHER

If you can help restock the food bank shelves in the hallway with rice, pasta, sauces etc, and Christmas items then please do – these are being used and stock is low.

If you can donate a tea towel or a cookbook for one of our Pupil Premium families, please order it from the online shop and email us to let us know – we will then give it to the office to distribute. We’d need about 30 tea towels.

If you can donate to the Winter Toy Appeal, you’ll help make sure every child in the area gets at least one new toy for Christmas.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

The winter fair is coming!

Hello,

Thank you everyone who attended our online meeting last week, please find the minutes here. At the school’s request, we are using just over £11,000 from our existing funds to buy a new AV system for the hall. It should be installed in time for next term, when we will launch it with our annual cinema night. We are also planning a parents’ pub quiz, yoga workshops for the children, and the traditional Easter Egg hunt for next term. Watch this space!

Congratulations to Year 4 who raised £241.90 with their cake sale. We’re looking forward to see what the different classes decide to buy with their class treat money.

We’re also organising a Christmas Present collection pot for all the staff at Grasmere, which will be shared equally between them, including teachers, teaching assistants, office staff and kitchen team. You can donate here.

Christmas Trees Deadline

A little reminder to please order your Christmas tree before tomorrow evening (Saturday 30 November). You can also pre-order the Grasmere Cookbook, tea towels or cards from the online shop. All these will be ready to pick up on the 6 December.

WINTER FAIR

A message from the Winter Fair organisers:

It’s not long now until the Winter Fair, which is happening after school on Friday 6 December. We still need lots of volunteers to make this a really fun event for the kids, so please sign up here to volunteer if you can. If we don’t have enough volunteers we’ll have to cancel some stalls, which would be a real shame!  

There’s also lots of other ways to help. You could donate:

• teddies and bottles for the tombola (bottles can be anything from alcohol to bubble bath!)

• second-hand Christmas books, decorations and jumpers to sell in the shop

• homemade treats and crafts (such as chutney, jam or knitted gifts) to sell in the shop

• unwanted Pokemon cards and small toys for the lucky dip stall

• bottles of mulled wine for the bar

• homemade cakes for the kitchen stall

We will have a Santa’s Grotto where children will be able to meet Santa and his wonderful elves and receive a little gift – you can buy your ticket here, or on the day. We will be selling stamp cards & grotto tickets on the 8th in the morning if you want to skip the queue, and reception will hand out stamp cards and tickets to those who need them as usual. 

We are also holding a winter raffle and have lots of amazing prizes lined up! More information on prizes will follow next week via reps, and tickets will be on sale in the Christmas shop at the fair.  

Thank you in advance – it should be a great event and will hopefully get everyone in the festive spirit! 

Kathy and Elspeth

FOOTBALL GAME

The Grasmere Dads' football team will be playing against Betty Layward on Saturday, 7th December, at 3.30 pm on the Stoke Newington School pitch, to raise money for both primary schools. Please come and support them, and donate on this JustGiving page!

EASYFUNDRAISING & ASDA Cashpot

FROGS is now set up on Easyfundraising, which means over 8,000 retailers will donate to us for free every time you use easyfundraising to shop with them. If you are shopping online for Christmas presents, please sign up here to support us – it’s free and doesn’t take long.

We’re also signed up for the Asda Cashpot for Schools, so if you shop there, select Friends of Grasmere School on the Rewards app and the supermarket will donate a percentage of your shop to us each time you shop and scan.

WINTER TOY APPEAL

For the 11th year running the Winter Toy Appeal is collecting new toys for children experiencing extreme hardship in North and East London. Without this appeal, many wouldn't receive a gift at Christmas. They’ll be distributed via schools (including Grasmere!), children’s centres, councils and more to children in most need. (We will be donating any leftover Santa’s grotto gift to the appeal).

Thank you all for your support in helping raising money for our school!

FROGS

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DONATE TO FROGS

Donations to FROGS are always welcome. Please take a look at our latest projects to see how your money might be used. You can also set up a monthly direct debit donation on Kindlink.

MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION

MAKE A KINDLINK DONATION

Find out more on how to help here, including more info about the matched funding and workplace giving schemes, which are available for employees of some large companies.

November News

Hello,

The next FROGS meeting will be on Wednesday 20 November, 8pm, online (meeting agenda & details to follow via the class WhatsApp groups); and the last cake sale this term will be the Year 4 Cake sale on Friday 22 November.

In this newsletter you will learn all about the Autumn Disco, the FROGS Christmas Shop, where you can order trees and gifts such as the Grasmere Cookbook and tea towels, as well as our last event of the term: the Winter Fair on Friday 6 December after school.

Autumn Disco

We hope you all enjoyed the disco last Friday! Big thanks to organiser Jenny and her dream team of volunteers who made it such a fun event for the kids, whether they liked doing the Macarena or not!

Here are some images of the disco; thank you to Grasmere parent and photographer Henny of iCapturedThattt for taking some of the lovely portraits!

And there was lots happening outside the hall too:

This was planned as a fun social event rather than a fundraiser, but we even managed to raise £263 for the school after paying the DJ!

FROGS’ CHRISTMAS SHOP

Our Christmas shop is now open, you can now pre-order your Christmas Trees, the Grasmere Cookbook or a Grasmere Tea towel.

Thank you to everyone who has helped with the cookbook – it is currently at the printers, and should be delivered in time for the Winter Fair. It features 70 recipes from Grasmere families and friends, including 8 recipes by local businesses The Clarence Tavern, Lily’s Greengrocers, The Dusty Knuckle, Tranga, The Good Egg, Esters and Romeo y Giulietta.

Here’s a sneak peek to whet your appetite!

WINTER FAIR

Here’s a message from the fair organisers:

Our Winter Fair is just around the corner and we have a great line-up planned! Santa and his elves will be headlining, supported by Grasmere’s very own carol singers.  We’re also bringing back the raffle, which was such a success in the summer. Hopefully there will be some exciting prizes to be won! Other entertainment on the day includes the following stalls, each run by a different year group:

Reception and nursery: Find the snowman’s nose
Year 1: Snowman ball toss
Year 2: Knock the elf off the shelf
Year 3: Gingerbread decorating
Year 4: Bonfire and marshmallows + Christmas carols
Year 5: Winter crafts
Year 6: Bar + veggie food
TBC: Christmas shop, cake and hot drinks, teddy and bottle tombolas, lucky dip, raffle 

This is one of FROGS’ big fundraisers and a great opportunity to get into the festive spirit, so we really do need your help to make it a success. Please sign up here to volunteer if you can. You can volunteer with your children (apart from the kitchen) and it’s very easy! As we have a really short window to set up for after school events, each year group will need to be in charge of setting up their own stalls.  

We will also be looking for your help with:

• Raffle prizes: if you’re a business owner and are able to donate a voucher or other prize, we would be so grateful!

• Tombola prizes: this year, we’ll be running a bottle tombola (for adults) and a teddy tombola (for the kids), so please look out for those bottles and soft toys!  

• Homemade treats and crafts: we’re looking for things to sell in our Christmas shop, so we would love contributions of homemade crafts or treats (fudge, chutney etc).

• Small prizes: unwanted party bag toys or small gifts (to be used as prizes) would be gratefully received.

• Baking and snacks to sell in the kitchen.

We’ll send more details via class reps soon. Thank you all so much in advance! 

Kathy and Elspeth

AND FINaLLY… NITS ALERT!

There seems to quite a problem with nits at the moment… According to the NHS and our local GPs, you don’t need to buy any special lotions to get rid of them: the only thing that works is using lots of conditioner on wet hair and leaving it for at least 10 minutes, and then using a good quality nit comb, on section by section of hair, before rinsing. You’ll also need lots of patience…

Good luck and take care,

FROGS

Happy half-term!

Hello,

The first six weeks of school have gone at lightning speed! To celebrate, don’t miss Year 5 cake sale this Friday. Please see below for our latest FROGS news, including jumble sale results, and what’s coming up after half-term, including the Autumn Disco!

LATEST EVENTS

In case you missed it, we raised £440 with the lovely garden party, and £2,327 with the October Jumble sale! A great result in only a few weeks of school.

A massive *thank you* to the more-than-50 amazing volunteers who worked together to bring the jumble sale to life over the weekend. We’d also like to thank those who brought along their jumble, and of course every individual who came and shopped and supported. None of this would’ve been possible without each and every one of you, we appreciate you all!
Firuze & Jay

AUTUMN DISCO

The amazing DJ Dancemasters are back with their great set that is guaranteed to make you dance – and perhaps even do the limbo! As ever we need lots of volunteers to make this event happen, so please sign up here if you can spare a bit of time.

To help pay for the DJ, please buy a £2 ticket on our online shop (tickets will also be available on the day, but you’ll have to queue). As usual, there will be free tickets/stamp cards at the office for those who need them.

There will be a short session for Reception and Nursery during school time as they might find dancing with the bigger kids a bit overwhelming. If not they can go back onto the dance floor of course! Everyone else is welcome on the dance floor from 3.30. Provided we have enough volunteers, the fire pit will also be on for those who prefer marshmallows to dancing.

If you are sharing the childcare with other families and taking their kids to the disco along with your own, please note there is a maximum 4 children per adult at the event.

Coming up

Thank you to everyone who has submitted a recipe for the cookbook, we are working on it and it’s looking great, with lots and lots of wonderful recipes. We will send more information on the cookbook, as well as our tea towel project, after half term. They will all be available to order from our online shop, along with the usual Christmas Tree fundraiser.

And finally, save the date for Friday 6 December, our Winter Fair. It’s going to be amazing – Santa is coming, and there will be carol singing and delicious mulled wine!

Happy half-term!

FROGS

October news

Hello,

Thank you to all the FROGS who helped organise and who attended the Garden Party on Friday, we hope everyone had a great time!

Please read this newsletter for some photos of the party, information on our Cookbook project, and on our next event, the Jumble sale.

THE GRASMERE COOKBOOK

The Grasmere Cookbook, 2024 edition, is hoping to bring together the recipes that mean the most to our community. Please find out more and send us your recipes using this link or, if you don’t have a gmail account, by emailing frogs.grasmere@gmail.com.

Thank you to those families who’ve already sent their recipes: we’ve a Palestinian dip, Austrian strudel, Swiss cheese tartlets and a delicious pancake recipe. Recipes just have to be family favourites, and the quicker you send us yours the more time we’ll have to take some nice photos to go with it. We’re also looking for some nice illustrations from your children, such as cute little ingredients and illustrated dishes – you can see the full book here for inspiration.

Here are three recipes from the first edition to whet your appetite:

We need your help to get the recipes in as soon as possible as we have a tight deadline to meet if we’d like to produce and sell the cookbook in time for Christmas – it will make such a great present! Ideally we’d love to collect at least 30 recipes from Grasmere families and staff members.

JUMBLE SALE

The Jumble Sale has been a hit at Grasmere for over 20 years! Help us reuse and recycle by donating your unwanted items and shopping for second-hand items. From brand new cookbooks to designer coats, there are always some real gems, and most items are 50p. It’s also a lot of fun for the children, who run around with their friends and play with the new toys bought with their pocket money.

We still need some help on manning the stalls, and preparing some soup and cakes to sell. Please sign up here if you can help!

Any leftovers will be donated to charity.

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DONATE TO FROGS

Donations to FROGS are always welcome. Please take a look at our latest projects to see how your money might be used. You can also set up a monthly direct debit donation on Kindlink.

MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION

MAKE A KINDLINK DONATION

Find out more on how to help here, including more info about the matched funding and workplace giving schemes, which are available for employees of some large companies.

Upcoming events and fundraisers

Hello!

In this newsletter you’ll find information on our October events, including the Garden Party and the Jumble Sale, as well as on our main fundraisers this year: the Grasmere Cookbook and teatowel.

But first, huge congratulations to the Summer fair team again – they raised way more than initially thought, due to late transfer of Square card takings. The fair raised over £3,000 for the school, congratulations Megan and Sally and co!

Don’t forget the first cake sale of the year, the Year 6 cake sale today at 3.30. Cash, cards and FROGS stamp cards accepted, most cakes £1.

Here is a copy of the FROGS AGM minutes, and below what we were up to last year:

We’ll update you as soon as possible on all our current projects, but in the meantime, please take a look at our main fundraisers for this year…

GRASMERE COOKBOOK AND TEATOWEL

As voted at our AGM our two main fundraising projects this year will hopefully be a community cookbook and portrait tea towels. Please help if you can!

Have a look at the 2020 edition of the school’s cookbook here to have an idea of what we’re planning. We’ll need help collating the recipes, quotes and portraits, contacting local restaurants to ask for their recipes, and taking high-resolution images of the dishes, so if you want to help with any of this, please look out for a link on your Whatsapp Group to join Team Cookbook. The team will then be sending out some information on how to submit your recipes.

We’re also looking for helpers to coordinate the Tea Towel project, which will be a teatowel printed with self-portraits of all the children at Grasmere this year. The goal is to get each child to draw a self-portrait (or thumbprint for nursery!) with a black pen on a bit of square paper. If you have time to help with this, please lookout for the WhatsApp Group invite to join Team Teatowel.

The aim is to have these done in time to sell before Christmas, so expect more info about these very soon. As ever these projects cannot happen without your help, so please volunteer if you can!

The Garden Party

Please join us on Friday 4 October after school for FROGS’ Garden Party! There will be drinks and snacks as well as free pizza, squash and kids activities. It’s a great opportunity to meet other Grasmere parents and carers. If you can help with this event (we need volunteers for the firepit and setting-up/tidying up), please sign up here.

Members of the FROGS committee will also be there to answer your questions about our charity, and listen to your suggestions.

The Jumble Sale

Please note that the Jumble Sale now has a new date: it will now be held on Saturday 12 October. We need enough jumble to fill the blue container, and lots and lots of volunteers.

Please sign up here if you can help.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

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DONATE TO FROGS

Donations to FROGS are always welcome. Please take a look at latest projects to see how your money might be used. You can also set up a monthly direct debit donation on Kindlink.

MAKE A PAYPAL DONATION

MAKE A KINDLINK DONATION

Find out more on how to help here, including more info about the matched funding and workplace giving schemes, which are available for employees of some large companies.

September news

Hello,

Here’s our first newsletter of the year! Welcome to new parents and welcome back to all the other FROGS. We hope your kids liked our new banner on the first days of school:

Our first event of the year was the Kapla workshop (delayed from last year) which involved each year building giant Kapla constructions in the school hall. We hope your children enjoyed it! A big thanks to Jennifer from Kapla Clubs UK who ran the workshops with such great skill.

And of course the tidying up was lots of fun too!

Please save the dates! We’ve lots of exciting events planned for this year:

As usual we’re starting the year with our AGM, this Friday at 9am in the school hall. As you might know we are a registered charity and as a parent, carer or staff member at Grasmere you are automatically a member of FROGS. We’re looking for more committee members, new volunteers, and new organisers (and perhaps a Santa too) for our Winter Fair.

Please find here our annual report; our latest financials; and the agenda for the meeting. Everyone is welcome and the more volunteers the better, so please join us if you can.

We’re looking forward to meeting all the new parents and children at our Garden Party on Friday 4 October. On that day we will need you to bring your jumble to school in the morning, and also lots of volunteers to sort it. We’ll be sharing the Volunteer sign up sheet for the Jumble sale very soon. In the meantime, please start sorting your clothes, toys, books, and homeware!

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

Have a great summer!

Hello,

Thanks everyone for your contributions to the various leaving gifts, we raised £435 for Neela’s leaving gift (flowers, chocolates and a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital) and £470 for Debbie’s gift (flowers, Oneforall gift vouchers and a Yield voucher).

Thank you also to everyone who contributed to the staff’s end-of-year gift, we raised £2,410 which will be split between all staff members (that’s almost £100 each).

We hope your children enjoyed our last event of the year, Mr Bubbles’ workshops, and a big thank you to all the parents volunteers who helped on the day!

Big thanks also to the Year 6 parents leaving this year, who have helped so much over their years at Grasmere, you will be missed!

And of course thank you to all of this year’s volunteers, organisers and class reps, for your support, hard work and enthusiasm in making Grasmere such a lovely community and school.

The FROGS calendar is already full of fun events for the autumn term, and we look forward to continuing our projects in the garden and elsewhere next year!

Thank you and have a great summer,

FROGS

What a Summer fair!

Hello,

Many thanks to our wonderful organisers and all our many, many volunteers who helped make the Grasmere Summer Fair such as special event. We have raised £1,415 for the school (we made £1,920 before expenses). An excellent result and so much fun for the children. It is really magical what we can achieve when everyone helps out! What a great way to end the year for our little community.

We had so many excellent stalls, beautiful decorations and delicious food including freshly made salad, burgers and veggie dishes. Special thanks to the volunteers who made the Human Fruit Machine come to life, what a team!

And well done to Kareem in Year 6 who holds the Floor Is Lava record: under 17 seconds to rescue the Pink Panther from its lava inferno.

Huge, huge thanks to The Clarence Tavern on Stoke Newington Church Street for sponsoring our free donkey rides by Kelly’s Donkeys.

And of course, well done to our lucky raffle winners! Thank you so much to everyone who donated such excellent prizes for the raffle, including the following local businesses: Jolene, Push Cycles, Shine on the Green, Creative Mash, Sparks Arts Islington, Spence Bakery, Stokey’s Delicatessen, Gaia Eros Florals, Nook, Yield, Early Bird, Stokey Toy Shop, Whole Foods, Stoke Newington Bookshop and Romeo & Giulietta.

Please support them if you can, they are what make our neighbourhood so special.

LEAVING GIFTS

Last call to donate for Neela’s leaving gift and the staff’s end-of-year gift, please contribute if you can – this will be split equally and gifted to all remaining staff from teachers and TAs to kitchen and office staff.

There’s one last FROGS event this school year – the Mr Bubbles workshop on Tuesday (unfortunately for the kids only!). We hope your children enjoy it.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

July news

Hello,

Our last event this year is the school’s Summer Fair on Saturday 13 July, please read below for more information, as well as some pictures of Billy’s leaving do and links to the various gift collections we’re organising. Please find the minutes of the latest FROG meeting here.

Also, well done to Year 6 who have raised £127 with their ice lolly sale to help pay for their leaver’s hoodies, party and year book.

BILLY’S LEAVING PARTY

Thank you to everyone who helped organise and attended Billy’s leaving party last Tuesday. It was great to see old friends and have Billy leave in style after 19 years at the school.

THANK YOU BILLY!

A million thank yous on behalf of FROGS for all his help: not only did Billy carry countless tables up from the cellar for us, but he was also instrumental in helping transform the school, from building the decking in front of the container to creating the medical room and creative room, and installing shelves in the new library. What a star!

We raised just over £1,000 for Billy’s leaving gift – thank you so much for your generosity, he is chuffed!

OTHER STAFF GIFTS

Thank you also to everyone who donated towards Carmen’s gift, we raised over £800. The school has been given a card with your messages & gift and will give it to Carmen as soon as possible.

We’re also saying goodbye to Debbie and Neela, please donate for their leaving gifts if you can!

And finally we’re also raising money for the staff’s end-of-year gift, please contribute if you can – this will be split equally and gifted to all remaining staff from teachers and TAs to kitchen and office staff. Thank you!

SUMMER FAIR

Coming up is our final event of the year, the Summer Fair on Saturday 13 July! This year we are very lucky to have The Clarence Tavern sponsor some free donkey rides and cuddles by Kelly’s Donkeys.

As ever we need lots of volunteers, please sign up here if you can. The more stalls the more fun. We’ll also need your donations – cakes, sandwiches, cookies, ice lollies, drinks etc – for the kitchen. Please let Megan, Sally or your class reps know if you can donate anything for the kitchen, or any small prizes.

NEXT YEAR

Please note that the FROGS AGM, which we hold annually since we are a registered charity, will be on Friday 20 September at 9am at the school. Everyone is welcome! As a parent, carer, staff member at Grasmere you are automatically a member of FROGS.

We are still looking for volunteers for next year, whether it’s helping on the committee or organising events. If you are not sure what it involves, please get in touch with one of the committee members (Jay, Magnus, Léa & Caroline) and we’ll answer your questions as best as we can!

Our small community is a big part of what makes Grasmere so special and having regular events is a key way to help the community spirit thrive. But as a single-form entry school, there’s not that many of us parents and carers, so we really need to have all hands on deck if we want to continue having such an amazing program of events throughout the year.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

All the fun of the fairs

Hello,

In our latest newsletter you’ll find updates about the Enterprise Fair, information on the various leaving gifts we’re organising, and how to help at our next and final event of the year, the Summer Fair on Saturday 13 July.

Enterprise Fair

Thank you so much to everyone who took part in FROGS’ second Enterprise Fair. Thankfully there was not a drop of rain and we had some very creative stalls on board selling everything from handmade T-shirts and freshly squeezed orange juice to homemade bath bombs and mystery boxes.

Well done to all the children (and their parents and carers!!!) for all the hard work, we hope you raised lots of money and have lots of great ideas for next year.

And of course a HUGE THANK YOU to the generous children who decided to donate the money they raised to FROGS – with their donations and the ticket sales we made just under £200!

SUMMER FAIR

Coming up is our final event of the year, the Summer Fair on Saturday 13 July! This year we are very lucky to have The Clarence Tavern sponsor some free donkey rides and cuddles by Kelly’s Donkeys.

As ever we need lots of volunteers, please sign up here if you can! The more stalls the more fun, but we’re a very small school and every little help counts.

LEAVING GIFTS

Unfortunately we’ve had to organise quite a few leaving gifts lately:

• Billy’s leaving gift – last call to donate for Billy’s gift. He’s been working as the school’s caretaker for 19 years.

• Carmen’s leaving gift – Carmen has been a dinner lady at the school for 24 years.

• Debbie’s leaving gift – our current assistant headteacher and SENCO lead, Debbie has been at Grasmere for 26 years.

• Neela’s leaving gift – our headteacher is also leaving, after 3 years at the helm.

As usual we’re also getting a whole school end-of-year collection ready for the rest of the staff, which will be divided equally between every member of staff, from the kitchen to the classrooms.

Hall MURAL

FROGS is working with artist Toby Marsh to help us design a new mural for the kitchen wall in the hall. You can the various ideas in full colour and detail in this presentation, and you and your kids can vote for your favourite option or leave your feedback using this form.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

Frogs News

Hello,

Thank you so much to everyone who attended our meeting last week, you will find the minutes here. We will have one last meeting this school year on Wednesday 3 July in the evening, so you have some time to think about perhaps joining our committee, becoming a class rep next year, or volunteering to organise one of our future events!

Talking of which, coming up this Friday is our Enterprise fair. The kids and their grown-up assistants will be manning the stalls, and they have big plans!

On offer: popcorn, candy floss, muffins, cupcakes, freshly squeezed orange juice and lemonade, fruit kebabs and pancakes. But it’s not just food: there are also homemade gifts including bracelets, bath bombs and dreamcatchers, as well as second-hand clothes, books and toys.

Please bring some cash – lots of change! We will also be selling FROGS tote bags and T-shirts.

Chess Tournament

A huge thank you too to everyone who attended our first ever chess event – we hope you enjoyed it! We raised £504 with this event which will go towards buying a couple of picnic tables with chessboards tabletops for the KS2 playground.

It wouldn’t have happened without Ruth, our international chess champion, and the team of volunteers. Big thanks to them and to the parent who generously donated the bespoke tote bags, as well as to Chess in School for donating lots of great gifts.

HALL MURAL

We’re very lucky to have a FROGS working with artist Toby Marsh to help us design a new mural for the kitchen wall in the hall. Here are the three initial sketches; you can see the various ideas in full colour and detail in this presentation.

You and your kids can vote for your favourite one or leave your feedback using this form. We could also use the other mural ideas throughout the school, but let us know what you think!

LEAVING GIFTS

You can donate here for Billy’s leaving gift. He’s been at the school for 19 years and we’re planning a little something for him on 2 July.

You can also donate here for Neela’s leaving gift. Thank you!

As usual we’re also getting a whole school end-of-year collection ready, which will be divided equally between every member of staff, from the kitchen to the classrooms.

SUMMER FAIR

Thank you so much to everyone who has offer to help with the summer fair on Saturday 13 July, we will be sending more info as well as a volunteer sign up very soon.

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

June News

Hello,

We hope you all had a great half term! Well done to Reception & Nursery and Year 1 who respectively raised £184 and £207 with their cake sales just before the break, and a big thank you to all bakers, sellers and buyers.

Our next meeting will be this Friday 7 June at 9am at school. You will find the agenda here, please join us if you can. We are looking for committee members and volunteer organisers for next year’s events, so please come along if you have any questions or suggestions. Alternatively you can email frogs.grasmere@gmail.com with your queries and ideas.

We will be discussing the ideas for a new mural in the hall; the garden project; the purchase of basketball hoops and chess picnic tables for the playground. Many thanks to all the FROGS who have been working on these various projects!

LEAVING GIFTS & PARTY

Thank you to everyone who helped us give Patsy an amazing leaving gift of over £1,200. She says:

“Wow I am speechless! Thank so much I am overwhelmed with all that support. Please thank everyone for me.”

Sadly Grasmere’s caretaker Billy is also leaving us this year and he is hoping for a little party on Tuesday 2 July – and perhaps Patsy will be able to join too. Please get in touch if you can help organise something after school on 2 July.

Of course we’re also collecting for his leaving gift, you can donate here.

And we are also collecting for Neela’s leaving gift, you can donate here.

GRASMERE CHESS TOURNAMENT

We’re very lucky to count among our talented FROGS the International Chess Champion Ruth Sheldon, who was a World Girls’ Chess Champion and played for the England Women's Olympic Team. She says:

“I started playing chess at primary school and fell in love with the game. I soon started travelling to play children from all around the world, including in India, Brazil, and Poland. More recently, I taught chess in local primary schools and am very excited to be part of Grasmere's first ever tournament!”

You can still buy your tournament ticket here. This is a friendly competition and everyone is welcome to join, children, parents, friends and neighbours… You don’t need to be a champion, just to enjoy the game! Thank you to Chess In School who are providing some great prizes. Of course non-chess players are welcome too, and there will also be lots of free, fun activities for the kids.

As ever we are very grateful for any cake donations for this event, so if you can bake something for this Friday, please let us know!

ENTERPRISE FAIR

Also coming up very soon is our Enterprise Fair – we have a few stalls left, please book here. Your kids can raise money for themselves or their favourite charities. Please invite friends, neighbours and family to see what the budding entrepreneurs have come up with.

Please also save the date for our Summer fair on Saturday 13 July!

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

Upcoming FROGS events

Hello,

Our next meeting will be on Friday 7 June at 9am at school. You will find the agenda here, please join us if you can! We are looking for committee members and volunteer organisers for next year’s events, so please come along if you have any questions or suggestions. Alternatively you can email frogs.grasmere@gmail.com with your queries and ideas.

A reminder that you can still donate money for Patsy’s leaving gift here.

And another reminder that the school governors, who play a key role in the long-term strategic direction of the school and the selection of a new headteacher, are looking for a new parent governor to join them. Please see this letter for more information.

Please read on for information on FROGS’ upcoming events, including the Chess Tournament, Enterprise Fair and Summer Fair.

Chess Tournament

We’re looking for chess players to compete in our tournament, please buy your ticket here as places are limited. This is a friendly competition and everyone is welcome to join, children, parents, friends and neighbours… You don’t need to be a champion, just to enjoy the game! Thank you to Chess In School who are providing some great prizes.

Of course non-chess players are welcome too, and there will also be lots of free, fun activities for the kids. Please help us make it a success!

SUMMER FAIR

Here’s a message from Sally and Megan, who have volunteered to organise the Summer Fair. Please put Saturday July 13th in your diaries for the Grasmere Summer Fair, everyone welcome!

Planning is now in full swing for our annual Grasmere Summer Fair! We’ve got loads of fun things in the works and are determined to drum up as much commitment and engagement as possible, so that it really is an event to remember. For the Kids, for the Teachers, but for us Parents too – we deserve it! 

For now, we need each Year Group to choose from the following list of stalls and let us know, via your reps, by Wednesday May 22nd what your class has chosen. We’ll go ahead and allocate them if that’s easiest, but please let us know if there’s one you’d particularly like, or if you have a suggestion for something different. We will make your lives as easy as possible by providing you with a full kit list and instructions. Prizes will be collected, sorted and allocated to each stall nearer the time. 

Once we know who’s doing what, the usual volunteer form will follow. 

It would be AMAZING if some Year Groups could volunteer for more than one stall!!

AVAILABLE STALLS:

- Hair, Nails and Tattoos (2x people per shift)
- Floor is Lava (1x person per shift)
- Hook a Duck (1x person per shift)
- Bouncy Castle (1x person per shift)
- Guess the Teacher’s Baby photos (1x person per shift)
- Craft Stall: Paint a plant pot or up-cycle a t-shirt with fabric pens etc (2x people per shift)
- Drinks and baked goods bar (4x people per shift)
- Bottle flip challenge (1x person per shift)
- Lucky Socks (washing line with odd socks pegged to it. Choose a sock blindfolded and look inside to find a treat/prize) (1x person per shift)
- Pin the Tail on the Donkey (1x person per shift)
- Pimms stall (2x people per shift)
- Gem stall (1x person per shift)
- Pokemon Lucky Dip (1x person per shift)

ALLOCATED STALLS (TAKEN)

- Splat the Rat (reception)
- Veggie food stall (Megan and Bobby Year 5)
- Burgers and salads stall (Year 3)
- Coconut Shy (Sally Year 3)
- Human Fruit Machine (Year 3)
- Ice cream float stand (Bart)
- Sticker making stall (Sammy Year 5)
- Donkey Rides (YES, DONKEY RIDES!!) - external

Please consider helping out with this event. It’s incredibly rewarding, brings Grasmere together, welcomes new families and all it really requires is a donation of your time. We’re also very excited to let you know that we’ve secured two little Donkeys to provide free rides and/or Donkey petting for the kids courtesy of The Clarence Tavern and a wonderful donkey sanctuary called Kelly’s Donkeys!

We look forward to hearing back from everyone and putting together a mega team effort! 

Best Wishes,

Sally and Megan 

We’d also like to remind you of our other event this term, the Enterprise Fair, for which you can book a stall here. Your kids can raise money for themselves or their favourite charities. They can sell handmade things (including food, drink and art); preloved toys, books and clothes; collectables; father's day gifts; services such as car washing... Anything they want!

Thank you and take care,

FROGS

May Newsletter

Hello,

We hope you had a nice Easter break and are ready for this term’s FROGS events. Please see below on how to book your Chess tournament ticket or your Enterprise fair stall!

We’re sorry that we have had to cancel our meeting on Friday; we will share a new date very soon.

In the meantime we are looking for organisers for next year’s events (including Jumble sales, Winter fair, etc), as well as new committee members. Being a committee member would mostly involve voting on FROGS spends and checking communications such as newsletters. It could also involve planning, admin, looking for grants – or anything that makes the most of your skills.

If you are interested, please let us know if you have time of a quick chat on Friday morning or any other time, by emailing frogs.grasmere@gmail.com or letting Jay, Caroline or Léa know. Thank you!

Our next cake sale is the Reception/Nursery sale on Friday 10 May.

Patsy’s leaving gift

We are collecting donations for Patsy’s leaving gift. Please donate here if you can. Deadline: 24th May. She’s been nominated for a Hackney School Star award – thank you so much to everyone who took the time to vote for her. The event is being held on Monday 13 May at Hackney Town Hall.

GOVERNORS MEETINGS

The governors, who play a key role in the long-term strategic direction of the school and the selection of a new headteacher, are organising a series of meetings to explain their work. There is currently a vacancy for a parent governor.

If you’d like to learn more about this, please join them on Monday 13 May at 9am in the school hall, or Tuesday 14 May 3pm in the school hall and at 6.45pm online.

SUMMER TERM

We’ve got a great programme for this Summer Term, including giant construction workshops, a visit from Mr Bubbles, and even donkey rides at the Summer Fair. Please make sure to save the dates!

Our next big event is the Chess Tournament, now on Friday 7 June:

Everyone from our community, adults or children, friends and neighbours, is welcome to join the tournament and try to beat our champion Ruth Sheldon, who can play 12 teams at the same time.

You can buy your £5 ticket here (all proceeds will go to buying outdoor chess tables for the school). There will be also be free children’s activities, great prizes from Chess in Schools, cakes and drinks etc. So please join us on Friday 7 June after school!

Please also save the date for the Enterprise Fair on Friday 14 June after school. Your kids have just over a month to make or sort things to sell, to raise money for themselves or their favourite charities. They can sell handmade things (including food, drink and art); preloved toys, books and clothes; collectables; father's day gifts; services such as car washing... Anything they want! Book a £3 stall at our Enterprise fair now.

HALL CURTAINS

We’ve spent over £4,000 on new curtains for the hall. This helps with acoustics during assembly and allows the hall to be used for two different activities at the same time. We’ve also installed some smaller curtains to hide the storage area. We’re also planning a mural for the kitchen wall, as well as a new AV system or interactive screen for the hall.

We really hope to see you all at our next events! Thank you and take care,

FROGS

Happy Easter Holidays

Hello,

We hope you are all well and ready for the Easter holidays. Please find the meeting minutes here, and see below for more information on our latest events, and plans for the Summer Term.

STAR OF THE WEEK

This week we had to say goodbye to Patsy, who has been at Grasmere for 30 years! She is the heart of the school and will be missed by everyone. We will be organising a gift pot and video messages soon. Please save the date: the school is organising a special assembly on Monday 29 April at 2.30.

Thank you to our volunteers who organised a last minute celebration and everyone who turned up – what a great community we have.

We’re also saying goodbye to our very own FROG Nicola – thank you for everything you’ve done for the school in the last few years, on behalf of all the parents and children.

Easter Egg Hunt

Thank you to everyone who donated eggs, including the lovely people at Waitrose Holloway who donated over 500 little chocolate eggs! We distributed over 2,000 eggs and the kids had lots of fun. And if they managed to find Gilbert the Rabbit, their teachers got a big Easter egg too. Plus there were eggs for the staff room, and for pupil premium children to take home.

This couldn’t have happened without our volunteer bunnies who spent the entire morning hiding eggs in the garden, so thank you so much Easter Hunt team!

Jumble Sale

Thank you to all our volunteers and shoppers, we raised over £1,400 with the spring jumble sale. It’s a big event to organise and we had over 50 volunteers – not bad for such a small school! The next Jumble sale will be in October and we are looking for a volunteer organiser.

RECENT SPENDS

In the past few weeks we’ve supported the school by funding some Science Week workshops run by Happy Squares. And thank you to the parents who also came in to support World Book Week!

We’ve also spent time and money on revamping the garden beds, with planting and new arches:

NEXT TERM

Please save the dates! We’ve lots of great events coming up this Summer Term:

As ever volunteers will be needed. We’re also looking for another volunteer to help organise the Enterprise Fair. Kids will be able to run their own stall at this fair, so perhaps they would like to start making/planting things now so they are ready to sell in June!

Thank you and take care,

FROGS