Hello,
Thank you to all who helped and donated food for the International evening & autumn fair. We’re very lucky to be such a multicultural school, all the dishes were so tasty and colourful. A big thank you to all the children who worked hard on creating some beautiful flags to decorate the hall, and also to the school staff and parents who helped set up and tidy up the hall.
If you’d like to try some Grasmere recipes, you can download our Cookbook as a PDF for free.
Our next meeting will be via Zoom at 8pm on Wednesday 2 November. Please join us to help us decide where we should focus our work/funds next, and plan our next social and fundraising events. You will find the agenda here.
If you’re looking for activities to do during half-term, why not try our Treasure Trail (£3)? It will take you around the neighbourhood and can be done over 2 afternoons, with the half-way point being Newington Green. Along the way you’ll learn lots of things about the area.
If you want to support our charitable work and help us raise money for the school, we also have lots of Grasmere T-shirts and bags available in our online shop – from which you will be able to order your Christmas tree very soon.
Our autumn fundraiser is the Art Projects for Schools scheme. The children are all creating artwork at school, but if families want to create artwork at home it needs to be brought in by 1 November. This year there will be option to buy cards, wrapping paper, gift tags, mugs and tote bags.
Families should receive the artwork their child created in school and a leaflet explaining how to order on or around the 8 November.
Our next cake sale is the Year 5 cake sale on Friday 4th November and our next big event is the Winter Fair on Friday 9th December. We’re looking for a coordinator to help on the day and volunteers to man the stalls. Please could each class start thinking about which stall they’d like to run. These are easy to set up and run as we have a lot of the material needed, each class should pick one (or come up with their own idea) and let us know:
– Teddy tombola (Year 5)
– Bonfire and marshmallows (Year 6)
– Winter bingo or Tinsel obstacle course
– Craft stall (Reception)
– Lucky dip & Guess how many baubles (Year 1)
– Gingerbread decorating (Year 2)
– Hot drinks and cakes & Veggie food (Year 4)
The Santa’s Grotto is usually a joint effort, we do need some volunteers to help plan and decorate it. We’re also planning a grotto gift wrapping session on Friday 4 November, 9am in the school library, so please let us know if you can help.
Finally we’d like to make sure we have enough small prizes and gifts – if you have any unopened toys & games (including small items such as party bag fillers) you’d like to donate, please let us know so we can plan ahead.
Events like the Winter Fair are great for our community and a lot of fun for the children – probably the one thing they will remember from their school days! We really depend on parent power to make these fun events happen – many hands make light work. So if you have an hour to spare, please volunteer so that all parents have time to enjoy the fair with their children.
Have a great half-term,
FROGS