Hello,
Please find below some information on our latest news and fundraisers, as well as links to sign up to volunteer to our next events.
Turkey & Syria fundraiser
The school is holding a fundraiser this Friday for Choose Love; children can dress in pink/purple/red and you can donate via Scopay.
We’re holding a special cake sale this Friday at 3.30 to raise funds for the White Helmets and the Turkish Red Crescent. Please help/bake/give generously if you can.
If you would like to donate items, please contact your local mosque, including Aziziye mosque on Stoke Newington High Street, as they are organising deliveries to the affected areas.
If you have been affected by the earthquakes, please know that you have the support of all Grasmere staff and families.
CHILDREN’S Mental Health Week
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and we’ve distributed some little notebooks to each Grasmere child in the hope that it can spark conversations about feelings and how to deal with emotions. Just writing down a few sentences, or simply doodling or colouring, can be really beneficial to our mental help. You can find free activities for families on the Children’s Mental Health Week website. If you need help on this subject, please talk to Debbie, who is in charge of wellbeing and family coaching at school, or email the school to book an appointment.
Our next events
Our Grasmere Pub Quiz for parents, carers and staff is on Tuesday 28 FeBruary at The Shakespeare Pub
• Book you ticket
• Pre-order your food
Please join us if you can – you can either join as a team or buy a single ticket (we will find a team for you on the day). Everyone welcome!
(If singing is your thing, the school is organising a parents’ choir to perform at the music recital in March – please see Schoolping message for more information)
Our World Book Day Disco (with laser show!) is on Thursday 9 March after school.
We’ll need lots of cake, sandwiches etc donations on the day. Thank you!
Our next jumble sale will be held on Saturday 18th March
• Start sorting your jumble now! Please bring your clothes, toys, books and bric-à-brac etc to the school on Friday 17 October. Nothing broken or dirty please. If dropping off your donations at 9am, leave them by the blue container. If dropping off your donations at 3.30pm, leave them by the main hall
• There is lots of ways you can help, from sorting out the clothes to manning a stall, preparing a soup or baking a cake!
We need lots and lots of volunteers for this big fundraiser, please sign up here if you can.
Our current projects
If you’re looking for something for the kids to do during half-term, we would love to create a Grasmere teatowel with portraits of all the children, and some artwork for the new library.
TEATOWEL
We’d love to produce a teatowel with portraits of all the children at Grasmere this year. For this we will need every single child to hand in a portrait of themselves. Please see below for the guidelines:
• Children need to draw their portrait in a square with their name close to it. The end pictures will be 3x3cm so if so the drawings should not be too big – they don't have to be exactly 3cmx3cm, as long as they are square it will work. For smaller children they can do a fingerprint/handprint with a smiley face or similar.
• Children need to use paint or felt tip pens or thick black pens (no biros or pencils) – see examples above
• Each portrait should be labelled with year in light pencil, just outside the square frame of the portrait.
LIBRARY ARTWORK
We are hoping to decorate the new library with lots of book covers created by the children. Can they draw the cover of their favourite book? Or create a cover for a book of their own creation? We’d need the artworks to be as bold or colourful as possible, and fill a full A4 piece of paper (portrait).
There are boxes for both of these projects in the covered walkway, please leave the artwork in the correct box, making sure it is flat and not creased.
Thank you and take care,
FROGS