Fund-raising update

The Bake 'n' Take on Monday/ Tuesday raised £136, a fantastic amount! Thank you to all who contributed, either in sending in some wonderful baking (my husband and son can testify to the taste of the chocolate fudge cake and the chocolate cake lasted approximately one hour in the school staff room after I bought it as a leaving present!) or in buying the baking.

The bags for the Bag2School Recycling Day on 14th November have now been sent out, so maybe half-term could be a time of cleaning and clearing out unwanted items? Clothing, bedding, bags, belts and shoes are all welcome. Please bring them in to school on the morning of 14th November. Last time, we raised £70 from this, so please help us to raise further funds for the outdoor play area.

The next Planning Meeting will be on Monday 11th November at 7.30 p.m. in school. Come along and help sort out details for the Christmas Fayre on 29th November.

Updates

Many thanks to all who provided home baking for the Bake 'n' Take yesterday. We had so much provided that we will be selling again this afternoon (22nd October) at 3 p.m. Please do come along and buy the lovely cakes and buns!

Thanks to everyone who sponsored Mr Felton in the Ring O'Fire event during the summer holidays. The total raised was £295 which is a fantastic amount! Many thanks to Mr Felton, for his willingness to endure great hardship in order to raise funds (this was no ordinary 'sponsored walk'!) and for all who have given so generously.

Please note that the next Planning Meeting will now be on Monday 11th November at 7.30 p.m. (a change to the previously advertised date) and that the Bag2School Recycling Day will be on Thursday 14th November. Bags have been sent out with pupils this week and all items of clothing, bedding, curtains, belts, bags and shoes should be brought in to school on the morning of 14th November only. It's a great opportunity to have a clear-out during half-term!

Coming soon...

Forthcoming fund-raising events are:

Bake 'n' Take Monday 21st October at 3 p.m.
Please bring along your home baking on that Monday and ensure you and your child have money to spend at the end of the day!

Bag2School Recycling Day Thursday 14th November
Bags will be sent out shortly. We need unwanted clothes, bedding, curtains, bags, shoes and belts for this easy way of clearing out your stuff and raising money at the same time!

Christmas Fayre Friday 29th November 3-5 p.m.
This is our main fund-raising event for the second half of term and we need your help NOW! If you can provide items for the food & drink hamper or the toiletries hamper competitions, please send these in to the school office now (remembering to let us know the value of the hamper.) We also need bottles for the 'Lucky Dip' bottle stall.

We hope to have a range of home-made produce, home baking, cards and gifts on sale as well as competitions and games. The cafe will be open to serve refreshments, so we are hoping this will be a great afternoon. Put the date in your diary now!

Planning meeting

Just a reminder that the next FHHS Planning Meeting is on Monday 7th October at 7:30 p.m. in school. Do come along and be involved in making plans for the Christmas Fayre on 29th November.

We still need items for the bottle bank 'Lucky Dip' (any bottles of wine, beer, non-alcoholic drinks or other items that come in a bottle!) and for the two hampers (food/drink and toiletries) as well as volunteers to help with the stalls and to provide home baking. If you can help at all, please let us know at the school office.

Don't forget also that the school's new website has now gone live. You can view it here.

Maintenance Day (3)

Su, our organiser, was feeling silly by this time!


People wanted proof I actually did some work other than taking photos!

Getting there now...

We filled the skip to overflowing and took numerous bags of rubbish to the dump-it site as well:

Team spirit was high!

At the end of the day, it looked like this:

Many thanks to all who helped, and apologies that I have no photos of the afternoon shift in action. We had a veritable army of willing workers:
* Mark & Su Wood
* Paul Dunning
* Dave Wagstaff
* Julian Grummett
* Tim Clee
* Tim Allen (with thanks for his wife's brownies!)
* Tim Barker
* Tom Isherwood
* Erica Bagshaw
* Joanne Darlington
* Sarah Dodd
* Biing & Jane Hen
* Mr Sutton
* Donna Withers
* Kath Sykes

Altogether, these fantastic workers put in 44 hours 55 minutes of work. Not bad for a day's work, eh?! We were scheduled to finish at 5 p.m., but these workers worked so hard that we'd finished by just after 3 p.m. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Maintenance Day (2)

Whilst we were clearing the outdoor area, Paul Dunning was climbing high to solve a pigeon problem:

This is the plan we are working to create (not that you can see it well here!):

After two hours' work, you could finally see the ground:

As we worked, the skip was getting full!

So full, it needed compacting!

New blood arrived later in the morning:

Maintenance Day

Today was the first maintenance day for sorting out the rubble and debris in the area that will soon (we hope!) become an outdoor play area. A huge THANK YOU to all who helped out; everyone worked so hard and the difference we made to the area was incredible!

This is how it looked at the start of the day:

Here we have willing workers, digging well!

More work:

At the skip:

Yet more work: