Hello,
We hope you are well and wish you all the best for 2024. Please find attached the minutes of our last meeting and the latest financials. Please read on to learn about our plans, our events this term, and how you can help. Please get in touch via your class reps or frogs.grasmere@gmail.com if you would like to offer help, ideas or suggestions, and use the volunteer sign up sheets below to make our fun events happen this Spring term.
As you know the school is organising a technology fundraiser and you can donate money here. The school has just raised £100 with their Fairy Tale Day and the photos with Princesses Anna and Elsa, thank you for supporting them! Please see below how FROGS will be contributing to this fundraiser.
And also, congratulations to Year 3 who raised £205 for their end-of-year trip to the beach!
Our latest plans
Hall transformation
Around £5,000
To be completed by the end of this school year
- We are buying floor-to-ceiling curtains for the hall. These will hide the storage area & divide the hall, and help make lunchtimes and afterschool/breakfast clubs more efficient. This was requested by the school and we are spending over £3,500 on this.
- We are installing a mural by Toby Marsh on the kitchen wall in the hall. We have sent him some inspiration in the form of drawings by the school kids, and are waiting to see what he comes up with! Watch this space.
- FROGS will buy a new AV system (including screen, projector etc) for the school hall, which is a big item on the technology fundraiser wish list and will benefit the entire school. This is our contribution to the school’s fundraiser and will be paid for using our existing funds. We are looking into costs at the moment and will share our budget for this soon.
Woodland Play Area Project
Around £10,000 in total
Phase 1 to be completed by the end of this school year
We are also planning to revamp the garden and install a play area and a nice mud kitchen as well as lots more plants. We have already raised over £2,000 for this on our fundraiser page (you can donate here). We have collected lots of different quotes and are meeting this Friday at 2.30 to discuss how to plan this and what the priorities are and how to best zone the space. We are hoping to use our existing funds and the ones we raised on Kindlink to pay for this.
Reading room project
Around £2,000
To be completed by the end of this school year
We are transforming the quiet space on first floor just above library with a new wallpaper and cushions and a storage system for the school’s large Read Write Inc collection of teaching resources.
We will keep you updated on any development on these projects, we think they are going to make a massive difference to the school as these are spaces used by all the children all the time.
Our Spring term events
Cinema Night – this Friday 26 January!
Please join us this Friday at the Grasmere Cinema for a screening of Luca. Please bring cushions, blankets, onesies – anything to get cosy. It’s free!
There will be lots of snacks for sale & you can use your leftover stamp cards. Kids who are not really into movies will of course be running around in the playground, and that is fine too!
We now have enough volunteers to make this event happen, thank you for you help!
Quiz Night – Tuesday 27 February
The annual Grasmere quiz night is back! Leave the kids at home and join us at The Shakespeare for a fun night. Come hungry: we will be selling chilli (including vegan option) and sides. There are only 90 seats available so get your ticket now from the FROGS shop.
You can also get a team together (6 people max) or just wait and we will sort it on the night. See you there!
Jumble Sale – Saturday 16 March
Our spring jumble sale is very popular and we need lots of donations and help to make it happen. Please start sorting your jumble now! We would love toys, books, clothes, bric-à-brac (nothing broken or dirty please!). We’d need them on the Friday 15 March but can’t take them before that sorry, we don’t have any space to keep the bags.
We will need cake and treats donations on the day, and we need parent power to make sure we have all the stall on and ready for our loyal customers.
Please sign up here if you can help put posters up, sort or sell. Thank you!
Easter Egg Hunt
Wednesday 27 March
We will need lots of chocolate for our annual egg hunt in the garden, so keep an eye out for any chocolate bargains (no nuts please!). If you would like to be one of our Easter bunnies (who hide all the eggs for each class in the garden) then please sign up here.
Thank you and take care,
FROGS