Hello,
A big thank you to everyone who offered their help to make our next event happen – there are so many volunteers for such a small school, it’s amazing! (But we do need a few more, please see below).
The Winter Fair is on Friday 9th December straight after school – please come in using Albion Road entrance as the Church Walk gates will be closed. The stalls will be spread around the hall, the main playground and the garden.
Help wanted!
To make this event as lovely as possible, we still need:
one elf (no need to dress up!) – all you need to do is check the grotto tickets; please sign up here if you can help for 1 hour, thank you!
a team to supervise the new winter minigolf stall, please sign up here if you can!
lots of cakes and treats to sell from the kitchen – sweet or savoury, home-baked or not, we’d love your donations (though we have plenty of mince pies already). Please bring your donations on Friday 9 in the morning (leave with Patsy) or from 1pm (leave with our volunteers in the hall).
donations of handmade gifts to sell in our shop, or anything Christmassy/festive (any festival!), Christmas jumpers, etc. Please bring your donations on Friday 9 in the morning (leave with Patsy) or from 1pm (leave with our volunteers in the hall), thank you!
Tickets & stamp cards
If you would like to buy your Grotto ticket (£2) in advance, see our online shop. Santa will be handing out gifts to all his visitors. Tickets will also be available on the day, along with stamp cards (£5), from the shop at the Winter Fair. Stamp cards can be used to buy activities at stalls or food and drinks. You’ll be able to pay for the stamp cards using cash or card.
For those who need them, free stamp cards and grotto tickets will available from Patsy’s office from Monday 5th December.
Christmas trees
If you have ordered a tree, you will be able to pick it up on the 9th from the main playground during the fair. Each tree will be labelled with colour/size and name. You might be able to pick them up in the morning, but we will confirm this via Whatsapp as soon as we know the exact delivery time. Please contact frogs.grasmere@gmail.com if you have any questions.
WINTER Toy appeal
FROGS supports the Winter Toy Appeal. Every year this local project collects new toys to make sure that every child in Hackney and surrounding boroughs gets at least one present at Christmas. There’s lots of ways to donate, and you can support local businesses at the same time. Deadline: 15 December.
NEXT UP
We hope you have enjoyed the cake sales, jumble sale and international evening; our next events will be the Winter Fair, a movie night for the kids, and a pub quiz for the parents. Also in the works are a disco; spring jumble sale; our traditional Easter egg hunt and the Summer fair. We will also pay for a Circus workshop for all the children to attend (during schooltime) and we are hoping to organise a Sport Challenge in June. You can read the minutes of our last meeting here.
This year with the money raised we will be completing the garden transformation by adding sheds and tidying up the kitchen garden; refurbishing the reception/nursery classrooms; and installing a new traverse climbing wall in the main playground.
In other news, the Art Club, run by two FROGS, has raised £638 for the school. The bulk of it will pay for the school’s Design and Technology wishlist (including a sewing machine, glue guns etc), and the rest has been used to buy a cardboard construction kit for the creative room.
Please do get in touch with your reps or by emailing frogs.grasmere@gmail.com if you can help with any of the events above – especially with the movie night and pub quiz as these are coming up in the new year. Thank you and take care,
FROGS