New Year, New Activities

A bit of a delayed happy New Year to you all! The snow has caused some major disruption but hopefully it'll be clearing and we can get back on track. The next Friends meeting is MONDAY 18TH JANUARY in the dining hall after drop off. We'll be discussing upcoming fundraising events including our Valentine's raffle and our school-wide cake bake in aid of Woking Hospice. Details of all events will be sent home in book bags but please do come along to the meeting if you are able to. As always, hot drinks and biscuits are available for adults and toys are provided for little ones. We hope to see you then.

Also, the Puffin class cake bake will be next Friday, 22nd January. Please see your class reps or contact me if you have any questions.

What a Success!

What a great, fun day the Christmas Fayre was! Everything went smoothly and we received some very positive feedback...and raised a lot of money for the school! While the exact total still needs to be figured, we estimated takings of around £2,300 so a job very well done. It was fantastic to have that extra hour this year and the stallholders in the hall were a wonderful attraction. Thank you very, very much to everyone who helped with the Fayre in any way. There will be a Friends meeting sometime soon, this week or next, to discuss the Fayre and upcoming fundraising activities so please do join us and share your input.

Ok parents and carers, it's officially crunch time! The Fayre is less than 2 weeks away and we still have some vacancies on the stall helper list so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sign up to do an hour!! We'll be sorting through bric-a-brac and labelling bottles on Thursday from 3pm and on Friday we'll be setting up from 1pm in the hall so again please help out for any length of time you can. We're all volunteers but if there aren't enough of us great days like the Fayre can't happen. Thank you all for your support and help.

Christmas Planning Meeting

We've got a meeting this THURSDAY 12TH NOVEMBER at 9am. Please join us and see how you can help out at the Fayre, which is of course SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER from 12-3PM. Sign up sheets will be going up this week for stall helpers and set up and clean up so please do put your name down and support us and the school.

Upcoming Events

The next Christmas Fayre planning meeting will be tomorrow, Wednesday, at 9am & 2pm. Please join us for a hot drink and biscuit and give your vital input and opinions on this year's event.

The Weeidng Party is this Saturday, 17th October, from 10am-12pm or any part thereof. Our Sensory Garden is in need of a clean up so if you've got green fingers or just like to garden please come along and bring the whole family.

CHRISTMAS MEETING

The Friends Christmas meeting was last Thursday and went very well. A lot was decided on for the Christmas Fayre and if you would like a copy of the minutes from the meeting please email me. We still need help with setting up on Friday 27th November afternoon and the Saturday morning plus clean up after the Fayre. The Fayre will run for 3 hours this year, 12-3, and we hope to make it a really fun, exciting event for children and parents. We've got a lot of 'outside' stallholders this year, from homemade jewellery to personalized chocolates and Usborne books. We think these will be very successful and huge attractions. And speaking of attractions we also have an old-fashioned carousel this year which the children will love. We'll be offering photos of your child(ren) with Father Christmas in addition to some really fun crafts for the children to make. Please remember, we rely on parent, carer and teacher support to make the Fayre possible and if you are able to help in any way for any amount of time please get in touch.

Also, a reminder that the Friends Annual General Meeting will be Thursday 8th October at 9 & 2pm in the dining hall.

Important Dates

The Friends news update has gone out today in bookbags but thought I'd still bring to your attention 3 important upcoming dates- the KINGFISHER CAKE BAKE on FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER after pick up. Also the next Friends meeting will be next THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER at 9am & 2pm to discuss the Christmas Fayre so PLEASE make every effort to attend- your input is vital!! Lastly, the Friends Annual General Meeting will be THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER at 9am & 2pm. Hope to see you there.