Christmas fair - held at Highbury
Massive thanks to everyone who helped out, came along and helped set up and tidy. The children all really enjoyed this lovely start to Christmas

Whitehill Disco 4th November 2010

Hi everyone,

We had a lovely time at tonights disco, the children had a really good time and many thanks go out to the parents who leant a hand.  It was very much appreciated.

For future reference, these are the things we sold over the 2 discos

8 x 2ltrs of Pepsi Max (Bookers)
2 x 2 ltrs of 7up (Bookers)
5 bottles of squash
120 mega dust straws (Bookers)
160 packs of chewitts (Bookers)
40 bags of Walkers crisps
120 sweet necklaces (Bookers)
6 bags of funsize chocolate bars
40 Freddos
and probably 30 other bits and pieces that we found in the cupboard at Highbury
and about 500 omnilites (Glo Company)
We would have sold tattoos as well but we couldn't find them in the cupboard (Baker Ross)

Kind regards
Sue

Christmas Fair 2010

Hello Everyone,

As you may or may not be aware, I'm taking a back seat for a whilst and Harriet McCauley has volunteered to organise the Christmas Fair.  It's a big job and would be made much easier if you could find the time to offer a little help.  Keep an eye out for meeting dates or if a letter comes round asking for donations (and there could be a few!) please understand that all of our requests are for the benefit of the school and most importantly, our children.

Harriet is going to send out letters stating where she needs the help most but if you have anything specific you would like to do or organise, then please get in touch with her via either of the school offices or by email; harrietmc1@yahoo.co.uk  You can always get in touch with me if it's easier and I can pass any messages on. susanbraybrooke@yahoo.co.uk

The fair has been planned for Friday 3rd December from 5-7pm and food will be available on the night as well as lots of fun activities for the children, plus a few stalls to help you with your Christmas shopping.

Kind regards
Sue

Whitehill Open Afternoon for New Parents

Hello everyone,

We hope you enjoyed your visit to Whitehill today to see your new teachers and classrooms and our thanks go to the Whitehill Cookery club for their fabulous help serving refreshments to our visitors. Many thanks as always to my friends (who also happen to be in the PTA) for keeping watch over the event and a special mention for Cara our Cook who made the delicious biscuits and answered any questions regarding school dinners as they arose.

If any of you are new to the school and would like to become involved in the PTA, we would love to have you. There's loads of ways to get in touch; either leave a comment on the blog, email Sue at susanbraybrooke@yahoo.co.uk or just leave your details in either of the schools reception and we'll be in touch in September.

I'll see some of you whilst serving cakes and refreshments during the evening performance of the year 6 play but for a lot of people, the next PTA events will probably be the October discos and Mrs Avey's Family Learning day; so have a lovely break and see you in the new term.

Best wishes
Sue Braybrooke

Summer Fair Update

Just to say a huge thank you for the amount of support that we have received as we prepare for this years Summer Fair. Last year, the event and raffle raised £3,500 so it would be great if we could match or even better this amount.

We could still do with a few more people to commit to helping us set up on the day and if you've volunteered to be on a stall from midday, is there any chance you could get there for 11.45am to allow Phil and Jen to hand over the floats?

We've got so many fun things on offer this year, we have the usual tombolas, crazy hair, face painting, nails and tattoos, BBQ, refreshments and cake stall, ice lollies, cold drinks and perhaps a few beers and then we have a few new additions. Alan is trying to get together a paint balling area, Charlotte is going to organise Tin Can Alley and Jenny is making a jam jar game. We've even got a couple of mums to put together an origami activity, we've got Rising Stars coming along with a couple of inflatable activities (possibly gladiator style podiums or flywall - whatever they do, it will be great fun!) There's so many things, it would be impossible to list them all, so you'll have to come along on the day and see what we have!

We are having a meeting on Wednesday 9th June at 1.30pm in the dance studio at Whitehill and Tea and coffee, squash for the children and biscuits will be available, so please come along if you can. Everyone is welcome.

We look forward to seeing you either at the meeting or fair and would like to thank you once again for your continued support.

Kind regards
PTA Team

Summer Fair 26th June 2010 12-3pm

Hi Everyone,

It's time to think about the Summer Fair again and as always, we can't do anything without your help. Please don't under estimate the amount of work that's involved or the amount of people we need to help on the day - it's a biggy!

I always think that if there's a few games, something to eat and drink, an ice lolly, a bit of cake, face painting and some crazy hair styles, then everything else is a bonus!

If you helped out last year and would be willing to be on board again this year, then please let me know and anyone who is new to the school that would be happy to help, I would love to hear from you as well (we had so many mums leave from Year 6 last year that provided such staunch support and therefore need new parents to come on board to fill the gaps).

Also, we can't get our usual bouncy castle and tea cup ride this year, so if you know of anyone who can help out - please let me know.

Hayley Cross (Ben, Year 4) is handling the raffle this year so if you have any prizes you would like to donate, then forward the info onto me and I can pass it to Hayley.

Also, if you have any nail varnish in good condition that you could donate, last years went all 'gloopy' and we need new supplies.

That's it for now.
Sue Braybrooke
On behalf of the PTA

End of Term Cake Sale and Easter Egg Tombola

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The Easter Egg Tombola is back!! Thanks go to Nadine Turner and Sam Addison at Highbury and Heather Randal and Natalie Noble at Whitehill. We are also holding an end of term cake sale at the same time.


Easter Egg Tombola and Cake Sale - Whitehill School will hold their event on Tuesday 30th March 2010 and Highbury have theirs planned for Wednesday 31st March 2010. Both will take place at the end of the school day.


In order for this event to be a success in the eyes of the children, we need to ensure that we have enough chocolate eggs for all of the children that want to take part (more or less every child in the schools!) Therefore, we are asking if parents could donate an egg or two to make sure that we have enough to go around. Just send your donations into the appropriate school anytime between now and 29th March. The tombola itself costs the children £1 a go and if you could have the correct change, it would be really helpful. (Please remember all of our events raise valuable funds for the schools and we can only make a profit through the very generous efforts of the parents, teachers, carers and the businesses who sponsor us).


If anyone would like to donate some home baked goods for the cake sales, please could you take them into the appropriate school on the day of the sale.


Many thanks for your continued support.

Kind regards
Sue (on behalf of the PTA)