Hello,
Thank you to all who attended and volunteered at our last meeting. We’ve lots of lovely events and plans for the school, please watch out for some volunteer sign up sheets coming up very soon!
You will find the minutes of the meeting here. We’re going to add a climbing wall to the KS2 playground, painted walls, signage and noticeboards to the school’s entrances.
Well done to the Year 4 team who raised £202.80 with Friday’s cake sale! Tip for next sales: the marshmallows dipped in chocolate and sprinkles require no baking and flew off the shelf.
Our latest spends include a little gift to each child for Children’s Mental Health Week (£250) as well as paying for a local author to come in to do workshops for the World Book Day celebrations (£355).
There are lots of tins and cake boxes left in the hallway (just behind the door on the right) please collect yours as soon as possible or it will go into our next jumble sale, thank you!
SAVE THE DATES
Our next cake sale will be the Year 3 Cake Sale on Friday 24 February. To avoid a crush and allow the little ones to actually reach the tables, we will ask you to queue for this one please!
Our next big event is the Grasmere Pub Quiz, we’ll be sending more information soon on how to buy tickets, prizes etc. In the meantime, please save the date: Tuesday 28 February at the Shakespeare.
Our next events will be the World Book Day Disco on Thursday 9 March and the Jumble Sale on 18 March.
STRIKE DAY & HALF-TERM ACTIVITIES
If you’re looking for something for the kids to do on Wednesday, or 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).
COLLECTION: We will leave 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.
HELPING EACH OTHER
RECEIVING HELP: The school has a Hardship fund, please get in touch with Mel, or email the office if you need help – they can provide you with online supermarket vouchers for example. You can also sign up for free Breakfast club spaces for your children, and ask for support for lunches too.
Please feel free to take anything you need from FROGS Sharing shelves.
DONATING: Please help us keep the Sharing shelves fully stocked – at the moment we could do with pasta, rice, pasta sauce, tea, coffee, kids’ toothpaste/toothbrushes etc. Thank you!
We would also like to share this appeal by the Hackney Food Bank: “In 2017, Hackney Foodbank spent just £2,000 per year on food, in 2018 the figure was £7,000. In 2022 we spent around £125,000 and this year, as conditions worsen for poorer families, that figure is expected to reach £250,000. £39 could help towards feeding a family of 4 for three days with a parcel of food and household items.”
Thank you and take care,
FROGS