Hello,
In this Newsletter you will find an update about our fan fundraiser, the Enterprise Fair, and how to help at our upcoming Summer Fair, as well as lots of other dates for your diary, the agenda of our next meeting (the last one for this school year), and our end-of-year gift collection.
FROGS’ 24H Fan Fundraiser
A fan-tastic result for our 24H Fan fundraiser: we raised £1,850 to help Grasmere stay cool, which FROGS matching £1,000. With this money we have bought 25 tower fans for the school, enough for 2 per classroom (as requested by the school), plus a few extras for the common rooms such as the library and creative room. We’re looking to buy some blinds with the leftover money, and in the longer term, installing some kind of shades or awning on the building’s south façade.
Special thanks to The Clarence Tavern for their generous donation, and to Filiz and her colleagues at John Lewis who helped us bulk buy 15 fans and offered us a free delivery!
Enterprise Fair
Thank you to everyone who took part in our first ever Enterprise Fair! The sun was shining and the stalls were packed with homemade treats. We raised around £150 for FROGS just from the stalls booking and delicious curry. This new event will be back next year for sure!
Dates for your diary
Saturday 8th July, 12-3pm Our next big event is the Summer Fair. Please sign up here to volunteer for a slot; the more help, the more fun at the fair! We particularly need help to run the kitchen stall, and we’d love to have a jumble stall too (with children’s clothes and toys only).
Friday 30 June, 9am: Our next and final FROGS meeting of the year. Please join us in the school’s new library. You’ll find our agenda here.
Friday 30 June, 3.30: Year 6 ice lolly sale
Friday 15 July, 3.30: Book sale – stock up on good reads for the summer
Thursday 20 July, schooltime: Mr Bubbles is coming to Grasmere
END OF YEAR GIFT
We are collecting for the end-of-year staff gift. This gift is from every child to every staff member at Grasmere and it is the only collection you will be asked to contribute to this year (except Year 6 who are doing something different on top of this for their teacher and TA). All of the classes are coming together to collect one pot of money which will be equally divided into vouchers for all of the staff at Grasmere, whether they work in the classroom, kitchen, office etc…
You can add to the pot here and include a note for the staff on the 'wall' of the pot (if your budget is tight, don’t worry, you can still add your child's name and write on the wall of the pot).
Thank you and take care,
FROGS