Hello,
Here are the minutes and financial statement of our last meeting. The final FROGS events of the school year will be:
Thursday 13 July, 3.30: Y6’s Ice Lolly sale
Friday 14 July, 9-11am: Library volunteers needed to add new books to the system.
Friday 14 July, 3.30: Book sale. Kids can pick up second-hand books (50p each) for the summer
Thursday 20 July, schooltime: Mr Bubbles is coming back to Grasmere!
A FROGS end-of-year treat for all the children.
SUMMER FAIR
Thank you to all who braved the rain to make our Summer Fair a lovely event! We hope everyone had a great time and enjoyed the stalls, delicious food, great playlist and the Year 6 band. Despite the weather we raised a whopping £1,664 with this event – well done to all organisers and volunteers! Taking out about £500 for expenses including bouncy castle hire, and supply caretaker to open the school and help set up/tidy up, we’ve made a profit of £1,164.
One of our parent volunteers is able to match fund this through his employer, which mean an extra £1,000 for the charity. So a total of £2,164 for our last event of the year! (If you work for a big company you might be able to match fund too! Get it touch if you need help finding out how it works: grasmere.frogs@gmail.com).
Here’s a picture of the one second the sun came out (right at the end!):
And here’s the rest of the fun:
With special thanks to…
– the managers at Tesco Matthias Road, Waitrose Holloway and M&S Dalston who all gave us lots of goodies for the fair, including biscuits, ice lollies, chocolates and burger buns.
– all the volunteers who manned their stalls in the rain, and all those who did the planning/donating/buying beforehand, it wouldn’t have happened without you!
– the parents who built and painted our first Splat the Rat stall ever, and William, the school’s caretaker, who built new stands for the wonderful coconut shy stall.
– the Year 2 parents who manned a total of four stalls!
– the handful of volunteers who did double shifts and barely had time to eat, helping the stalls stay open and making sure the kids had the best time.
END-OF-YEAR STAFF 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 before Wednesday 19 July, 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).
NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
Here are some dates for your diary for next year!
Friday 8 September 9am: Coffee morning for new parents & tour of the school
Friday 22 September 9am: FROGS AGM – we will be voting in our new treasurer Magnus and new co-chair Jay. Everyone is welcome, and we are always looking for new committee members. Please join us if you are free that day, and if not, you can always email frogs.grasmere@gmail.com with any queries or suggestions. We would love more dads, and parents and carers of all backgrounds, to be involved, as FROGS should represent the school community in all its diversity.
Please see below the events and projects that we are hoping to organise next year. We are so lucky to have lots of volunteer organisers already (huge thank you all – it’s the most organised we’ve ever been!), but we will need everybody’s help to make these happen. As ever our motto is ‘Many hands make light work.’
September: Evening Garden Party for parents (Nicola)
September-October: Tea towel project (volunteer needed to manage this project with the school’s help)
October: Jumble sale (Léa & Jay)
October: Halloween trail (volunteer needed to help organise a trail around the neighbourhood)
November: Disco and Bonfire Night (Jenny, volunteer needed to organise the bonfire/outdoor)
December: Winter Fair (2 volunteers organisers needed)
January: Cinema Night (Caroline, Nicola)
February: Pub quiz (Nicky, Andrew & Karen)
March: Jumble sale (Léa & Jay)
March: Easter Egg Hunt (Jay, Nicola & Gill)
April: Spring feast/International day/bring a bread from your country day, after Ramadan (school and volunteers needed for this)
June: Enterprise fair (volunteer organiser needed)
July: Summer fair (Megan)
To run an event you will have the support of the FROGS committee who will take care of the sign-up sheets, shop tickets, posters etc as well as give you all the tips and advice you might need. By donating your time to organise the Winter Fair for example, you will help raise between £1,000-£2,000 for the school in one afternoon – and make lots of kids very happy!
As you can see from the list above, most of the events are run by mums, and we would love dads to step up too! (There’s bonfires involved so no excuse). And we are also looking for Class Reps for next year, let us know if you would like to help – it involves mainly passing on messages & questions and recruiting volunteers for our Summer and Winter fairs.
If you can’t donate your time, you might be able to help in other ways – we are also looking for some local businesses to sponsor our events in exchange for some publicity in our newsletter and posters. Please get in touch if you have a local business to promote, or know someone who is interested.
Thank you and take care,
FROGS