Hello,
Please see below for our latest news and upcoming events. Get your tickets now for the Grasmere Pub Quiz which takes place just after half-term! And make sure to scroll down to find out more about our plans for the garden – kids can vote here to help us choose some climbing elements.
Also, we’re looking for ideas for something fun for this year’s Leap Day (symbol: the frog), which will be the school’s first relax day (when kids can bring their slippers to school).
Cinema Night
Thank you to everyone who attended our Cinema night; we hope your kids enjoyed it! We raised just under £300 by selling snacks and drinks at our screening of Luca.
School Parent’s Dinner
Well done to the school for organising a lovely fundraiser. The dinner was amazing and so was the music!
Garden pROJECT
We’ve come up with a plan for the garden and we need your help! Our scheme involves a loop of activities starting from the sensory maze, going all around the garden with some new climbing elements, a refurbished mud kitchen, and building area full of exciting material. We are also working with forest school club to add some natural habitats and a woodland area.
We need your children to tell us which climbing element they would like us to install in the garden. Please get them to vote for their favourite trim trail elements using this google form (we will also share it with the school so that as many kids can vote!)
In the meantime, we’re starting with the mud kitchen. We’ve ordered two wooden kitchens (around £450) and some trugs (around £50) to add to this corner of the garden. They are arriving during half-term. And we’re asking you to donate any old kitchen utensils, pots, pans, cake tins etc. Please leave in the cardboard box by the FROGS shelves, thank you!
Then we will be installing some metal arches to create tunnels and planting the sensory maze; the Forest club will be helping us adding more plants and natural habitats to some corners of the garden.
FLIPCHARTS
It’s always lovely to see how our fundraising helps the school directly. One of our latest spends was over £1,000 to buy flipcharts for each class. Here are a couple in action:
OUR NEXT EVENTS
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!
Also coming up: the Jumble Sale and Easter Egg Hunt!
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.
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 13 March at 8pm on Zoom.
Thank you and have a lovely half-term,
FROGS