Summer Disco

This is always a fun event to help out on, more so this year as we are having wine for the helpers! Highbury disco is planned for Wednesday 9th July and Whitehill discos are going to be held on Tuesday 15th July. If you can lend a hand, please put a comment on this post or drop an email to suebraybrooke@yahoo.co.uk
Just a thought - someone mentioned a disco for the adults! What are your thoughts on this?

Easter Basket Raffle

I want to fill a basket or box with some lovely goodies as an Easter raffle prize. So far the contents will include a really nice chocolate cake with little eggs on and some shortbread. A good egg, a big bar of Toblerone and maybe a couple of other bits and pieces. If you have something you could contribute, please could you let suebraybrooke@yahoo.co.uk know. We are only doing one basket for each school so we are not asking for huge donations but if anyone can make home made fudge or perhaps you have a pottery skill and you could make a couple of egg cups, it would make a lovely gift for someone.

Thank you so much.

Summer Fun Day

OK, this is a biggie. We are going to need so much help and it's never to early to start planning. Experience has told us that we need to do something now and the first steps have been put in place by sending out information letters to parents, asking for help.

This year, we want to do something different and so we are thinking along the lines of a car boot and table top sale, combined with a fun day to be held at Whitehill, rather than the usual summer fair. We know nothing about organising a car boot. If you do, we really need your help! Someone to help work out how many cars we can fit in, how many pitches for table top sales. Even things like directing traffic will need to be organised. The fun day is going to include a Tug of War. Perhaps the teachers would volunteer to put together a team against the rest of the world! Who knows but if you can sort this out, we’d love to hear from you. Of course we will need refreshments so a beer tent and bar-b-q will be required along with coffee and cakes. We’d like to have a Bouncy castle or one of those big slides. Do you know someone who rents these out? The usual raffle will take place, as will the magician. Has anybody got any ponies? Would you be willing to bring them along for children’s rides? How about a pamper stall for the kids. Get your nails done, your face painted or crazy hair (perhaps you fancy a blue Mohican!) Ideally, we need a team of people for each activity. Someone to lead and others to help. Why don’t you have a word with your friends and see if they would be willing to share a task with you but I can’t stress enough, the important part you play in this. We cannot do these things if we don’t have enough people. Please help us. You can reply by paper mail, adding a comment to this post or by emailing susanbraybrooke@yahoo.co.uk to let her know you can help on the day.

Friends are getting together.........

OK, I know the picture isn't great but it really was the best I could do!

We've planned a Friends meeting for Monday 25th February and it's due to start about 7.30pm in the dining area at Highbury. Don't worry if you can't make it for the beginning, just come along when you can - wine and nibbles will be provided.

If you can't make the meeting, just add a comment to this post and let us know what you are happy to take part in or help with. You don't have to be Wonder Woman, all contributions are gratefully accepted.

Hope to see you there!

Do you have any skills or special ‘things’ you’d be happy to share? Can you do something that would enhance the events we put on? Project Managers, face painters, organisational skills, perhaps you could plant up hanging baskets for sale. You may have a children’s portable carousel you would be happy to lend us! A holiday home in the south of France you would be willing to donate a week in the raffle for. A caravan at Clacton! All things much appreciated. If you do anything well at all, we would like to here from you. We appreciate you may not want to attend every event but maybe you would be willing to contribute a few hours a year. Please let us know. You can add a comment by clicking on the logo at the bottom of this post, email us at friendsofwandh@gmail.co or you can do paper mail via the school office.

Thanks very much.

Service Directory

Have you ever needed a plumber, an electrician, or someone to fix a window or door and had to trust to pot luck and the yellow pages? We thought it would be a really good idea to try and get a directory put together of people you would recommend doing a job. It could include anybody – decorators, grass cutters, window cleaners, baby sitters, entertainers - who knows, the list could be endless. No job too large or too small. Do you have this kind of experience? Could you put a booklet together?. Please let us know either by clicking on the comment logo at the end of this blog, by emailing the friendsofwandh@gmail.com or by dropping a note into either school office with your contact details.

Teaching Awards

I recieved a leaflet the other day and this is an extract from it;

"The Teaching Awards is an annual celebration of teaching and learning. You can nominate a school, teacher, headteacher, teaching assistants and governors and anyone can make a nomination".

"Make a nomination on line at http://www.teachingawards.com/" The deadline for nominations is 1 March 2008. Rather than nominate a particular teacher, we have been asked to recognise everybody's contribution and nominate the school. What a nice idea!

Easter Egg Tombola and Cake Sale

We'd love this popular Easter egg tombola to run again this year. The children love it.

This year we plan to run it on Wednesday 19th March but we need your help. Would you be willing to take this challenge on? We have some lovely ladies who have done this in the past who I'm sure would offer some really good advice (because they were so good at it last year!).

As well as the tombola, we plan to run a cake sale and so if anyone has any baking skills, we'd love your contributions.

Please get in touch via the blog, or by dropping a note into either of the school offices.

Thanks very much.

Easter Cup Competition

It's that time of year again!

Very soon, we will be sending home some plain white cups for your children to decorate. This year, the cups will be judged by our teachers. So even if they do end up looking a little on the unique side, as long as it's been made by your child with a lot of love and effort, then it's got a good chance of winning. This years winners will receive a certificate and cream egg.

Easter Egg Hunt

We are gate crashing Sharon Coopers' annual Easter Egg hunt extravaganza on Easter Sunday (and she doesn't mind!) It's going to be held in the grounds of Whitehill School and will start at 11am.

It's always been a huge success but in order to maintain her fabulous rep., we need your help.

Please can you give us a little time either before the event, to help with all the jobs that need doing, or can you actually help on the big day - maybe put up a banner or two, man the refreshments or for the very brave, simply say yes to an unknown task! Everyone's invited from both of our schools, so there's going to be lots to do.

Please get in touch via blogg or drop your name into the school office with a phone no or e-mail.
Hope (very much) to hear from you soon.

Chocoholics

A tasty way to fund raise!

Get a copy of the new Spring Chocoholics brochure from the school office now. Great ideas for Mothers day and Easter. Lots of gift ideas for all you chocolate lovers.

Netball Rally

Please can you help.

Whitehill school is running a netball rally

Saturday 1st March 2008. Bright and early from 8.45 til 1030.

We need parents and friends to serve teas and coffees through out.

Please get in touch via blogg or drop your name into the school office with a phone no or e-mail.