Hello,
We hope you all had a great time at the Winter Fair, which raised over £1,700 for the school. Huge thanks to all the helpers, bakers and volunteers who helped make this wonderful event happen.
We had over 50 parents and carers helping, which is amazing for a school of only 200 pupils or so. And of course a big thank you to Santa and his elves who took time from their busy schedule to stop at Grasmere, and to Waitrose Holloway for supplying us with lots and lots of free treats!
All our big events such as the fairs and the jumble sales take a lot of work, but they are an essential part of our fundraising and help create the sense of community that Grasmere is well-known for.
If you would like to help with organising these events for the next school year, please get in touch through your Class reps or by email frogs.grasmere@gmail.com. We always need new parents to take over as older ones leave the school.
HOW WE’VE HELPED THE SCHOOL RECENTLY
In the past few weeks we have spent over £1,000 for new flip charts for each classroom, as requested by the school; over £400 on play bark to for the garden (thank you to our volunteers who helped spread it around, there’s still work to do if anyone else is around!); and over £100 for little chocolates, candy canes, paper hats and stickers for the school’s Christmas lunch.
HOW YOU CAN HELP NEXT YEAR
There are lots of ways you can help FROGS in 2024:
We will need volunteers for the Cinema Night on Friday 26 January, the Jumble Sale on Saturday 16 March and the Easter Egg Hunt on Wednesday 27 March. Please look out for our volunteer sign up sheets which we will share in January.
We are looking for help to paint the toilet block and repair the murals in the Spring.
We will also need work to plant herbs, trees and shrubs etc in the garden in the Spring.
We are thinking of organising a GalaBid silent auction so if you would like to help organise this or have some big prizes to give away for this let us know!
We need a volunteer organiser for the Enterprise Fair in June.
We are planning to redecorate and transform the 1st floor reading room, if you can help by painting a wall or know a professional who could install wallpaper on one feature wall please get in touch. We have armchairs and a light but we will be buying new furniture including a new table and chairs, as well as magazine files to hold the school’s Read Write Inc teaching resources. Here’s how it looks now:
If you can help with this project please let us know!
The SEASON FOR GIVING
At the moment we are collecting money for the Grasmere staff’s Christmas present. The total will be divided equally between everyone who works at the school – teachers, teaching assistants, office staff, kitchen team, caretaker etc... Please donate here (or simply leave a message).
We are also supporting the Winter Toy Appeal and the Hackney Food Bank. (You can also leave food and toiletry donations on the FROGS shelf in the covered walkway – no jumble items please).
SAVE THE DATES
We’ve lots of great events planned for the Spring Term, please save the dates:
Thank you and have a lovely break,
FROGS