Hello,
Here are the latest FROGS news, including some images of our lovely Bonfire Disco, plans for our Winter Fair, and some dates for your diary:
Wednesday 15 November 8pm Online FROGS Meeting
Please find the agenda here and get in touch if you have any queries or can help with any of the projects: frogs.grasmere@gmail.com
Friday 17 November 3.30 Year 4 Cake Sale
Sunday 19 November Deadline to order trees and cards (artwork will be with you shortly)
Friday 8 December 3.30 Winter Fair
You can order your Christmas tree and Santa’s grotto tickets from our online shop.
We will be selling stamp cards on the morning of the fair (and as usual free ones will be available from reception for those who need them).
Bonfire Night Disco
Thank you so much for supporting our Bonfire Night Disco starring Dancemasters DJ. He lived up to his name and got everyone on the dance floor. With this event we raised more than £500 for our charity, and more importantly children and parents had lots of fun! Thank you to all our amazing volunteers (including Grasmere staff, and a former parent who came back especially to run the Photo Booth) who were so generous with their time and resources.
Winter Fair
Our Winter Fair is fast approaching and we’d like to make sure it’s the most fun for the children. Here are the stalls for this year (other suggestions very welcome but these include the most popular stalls from past years).
Reception Nursery: Splat the Grinch + Guess how many baubles
Year 1: Winter Craft stall
Year 2: Gingerbread decorating
Year 3: Bonfire & Marshmallows + Santa’s Grotto
Year 4: Winter nails & tattoos
Year 5: Hot drinks, cakes + Veggie food + Pokemon lucky dip
Year 6: Teddy, toys and book tombola
TBC: Get the elves off the shelf (Coconut Shy)
There’s lots to do and this is one of our big fundraisers so please sign up here to volunteer if you can. You can volunteer with your children (apart from in the kitchen) and it’s very easy! If you can’t help on the day, we will also need cakes and sausage rolls etc to sell in the kitchen, as well as any unwanted gift/party favours etc that we can reuse as prizes, or for the tombola and lucky dip. You can leave these with reception. We also sell handmade items in our shop so if you are an expert crafter or jam-maker then we will welcome your donations!
Please note: each year is responsible for setting up their stalls so that everything is ready for the start of the fair at 3.30. We will be letting you know what items are already in the cellar via the Class reps to make sure that everything is ready to go. The team setting up the fair is in charge of tables, gazebos, lighting and decorations, they only have 2h to do all this and will not have time to do jobs such as counting the baubles, labelling the tombola items, setting up the crafts on the table etc.
We are still looking for a volunteer to take over the organisation of this event for next year – which involves mainly being there to set up and tidy up on the Friday, plan the layout and stalls, and order grotto gifts. Let us know if you can help and we can show you the ropes this year!
Thank you and take care,
FROGS