Hello,
Did you know you could help us raise money for the school by buying your Christmas Tree through our website or filling in a form from the office? Please see below for more info on this initiative.
You should also be receiving an information leaflet and your child’s artwork this week as part of our Holiday card scheme. You will then be able to order cards, wrapping paper etc through the Art Projects for Schools.
We’re always looking for great ideas for projects and fundraisers, and we will be meeting on Zoom this week to discuss our plans for the year, please join us if you can – see below for more details.
Well done to Year 5 who raised over £100 with their cake sale.
Order your Christmas tree now
Every year Christmas Trees for Schools allows us to buy top quality trees at discount prices, and we pass the discount on to you. The company we buy the trees from are members of the British Tree Growers Association who source all their trees from sustainable crops. The trees are available in a variety of sizes. We’re hoping to raise about £400 for the school with this scheme.
Please order your Christmas tree from our online shop before the 18th November. If you prefer to pay cash, please ask the office for a form. Trees will be available to collect from the 9 December from the playground. Please note that the measurement of the trees is taken from the butt of the tree to the top to the spike. All trees will be delivered in nets, for easy handling.
You will also find Santa’s Grotto tickets, T-shirts and craft kits on our online shop.
Planning the Winter Fair
Our Winter Fair will be held on 9th December after school. As ever we need plenty of parent power to make this event happen! Please sign up here to help at the Winter Fair.
Each year is in charge of one stall, and we usually work in 1 hour shifts so that everyone gets a chance to enjoy the fair with their children. Just like at the summer fair, we will sell stamp cards for the activities (and free stamp cards for those who need it will be available from the office).
Reception & Nursery: Winter crafts
Year 1: Lucky dip and Guess how many baubles (small prizes donations welcome!)
Year 2: Gingerbread decorating
Year 3: Winter nails and tattoos
Year 4: Hot drinks, veggie food and cakes (cake donations welcome!)
Year 5: Teddy tombola (teddy donations welcome!)
Year 6: Bonfire and marshmallows
We also always need help setting up and tidying up, so please sign up if you can!
The more stalls the better: If you would like to run a stall that is not on this list then please let us know. A physical/throwing/jumping activity would be great – we were thinking of a obstacle course with bells and tinsels, and we also have some elements for a coconut shy stalls.
Calling all crafters and artists: There will also be a boutique at the fair. We are looking to sell homemade gifts such as jams, soap, knitted teddies etc, so if you or your children would like to make things to sell that would be great. We can also sell second-hand festival decorations (Christmas/Diwali/Eid/Hannukah etc) at the fair so please get in touch if you have any to donate.
A magical Santa’s Grotto: We will also need help to decorate the Santa’s grotto. We are thinking of housing it in a gazebo in the garden or we are also exploring the idea of having the grotto in a campervan parked in the playground (which means we would have more time to decorate it). If you have either a gazebo with sides (the one we used last year is broken), or a campervan that you wouldn’t mind lending us for a day, then please get in touch! Thank you.
Christmas jumpers & Sharing shelves
We’re going to set up a clothes rail near the shelves in the hall (from Thursday morning) to start a Winter clothes & Christmas Jumper swap (kids and adults). Hat, gloves scarves and other warm clothes also welcome. Please leave your donations on the rail, and/or take what you need. If you can, a QR code on the rail will take you to our donation page, where you can leave a small donation.
The sharing shelves need restocking, please donate non-perishable food and toiletries if you can. We also have books for all ages, please donate any that you don’t need anymore. If you have Christmas/Winter books that you would like to give away, please let us or the school know as they could have them for their reading corners, or we could use them as prizes at the fair.
Next FROGS meeting
The next Frogs meeting is this Wednesday 9 November at 8pm on Zoom. Log in details will be sent on Whatsapp groups as soon as possible; you can see the agenda here. Please join us if you can, to help us decide where to focus our efforts this year, and plan some fun events for the kids!
Thank you and take care,
FROGS