What happens at the Christmas Fayre?

The Christmas Fayre is on Fri 7 December this year and runs for the full school day.

In the morning the children come down a class at a time with their teacher and spend some time going round the stalls buying cakes, toys/books. From 1.30pm – 3.15pm parents and carers are invited to come along. You can pick up your children early from their class to go round the fayre with you if you want. A café runs in the dining hall in the afternoon selling tea, coffee, juice and cakes.

The money we raise makes a huge difference to the school. Last year the Fayre raised over £3,200 and over the year we raised around £7,000 in total. This helped fund playground improvements and teaching resources.

Here’s how you can help:

See below for a stall by stall guide to the type of donations you might want to make and for details of where to drop them off.

If you are interested in volunteering to help out on the day contact Linda McCormick lindamccormick1@googlemail.com

Donations – what, when and where to donate

Raffle

Raffle prizes are made up of donations from parents and local businesses. Past raffle prizes have included:

• Items for a Hamper
• Bottles of wine / champagne / whisky
• Gift vouchers for butchers, opticians, Debenhams, cake shop, coffee shop and more
• Hairdressers vouchers
• Gift sets
• Round of Golf
• Restaurant vouchers

If you have something you can donate, please email details to hyndlandxmas@gmail.com & hand into the office Mon 3 or Tue 4 Dec

Auction

Higher value raffle donations will be auctioned in an ebay type paper bidding system. In the last few years these included:

• A meal for 4
• Concert/theatre tickets
• Bed & Breakfast at hotel

Do you have anything that would be suitable for auction or know any businesses that might donate? If so, please email helen.newstead@gmail.com

Home Baking

Any home baking would be very welcome for the home baking stall and for the café, including:

• Large cakes
• Small cakes
• Mince pies
• Chocolate crispy cakes
• Fairy cakes

No nuts please!! Please label any containers with your child’s name and class if you need them back

Please bring to the gym hall on the morning of the fayre

Craft Stall

Items such as knitted or sewn home made xmas tree decorations would be very welcome for the craft stall.

Please drop off in the basement from Mon 3 to Thurs 6 Dec, or bring on the morning of the fayre

Lucky Dip

Small items such as bouncy balls, small toys etc that could be wrapped up and used in the lucky dip.

Please drop off in basement from Mon 3 to Thur 6 Dec

Toys & Games

• Cuddly toys in good condition
• Toys & games
• Please no jigsaws with loads of parts as we don’t have time to check them!

Please drop off in the basement from Mon 3 to Thur 6 Dec

Gift Stall

Any items in good condition that could be sold as a gift, e.g.:

• Photo frames
• Gift sets
• Candles
• Christmas cards
• Any unwanted gifts

Please drop off in the basement from Mon 3 to Thur 6 Dec

Children’s DVDs & Books

• New or used DVDs for children
• Please no videos – no one buys them!
• New or used children’s books

Please drop off in the basement from Mon 3 to Thur 6 Dec

Jam Jar Stall

• Fill a jam jar with small sweets and/or small toys, balloons etc.

Jam Jars are sold for £2 each

Please drop off in the basement from Mon 3 to Thur 6 Dec

This year’s Xmas Fayre will be on Fri 7 Dec and there are a few things you might be able to help us with.

1. Call to Craft!

We’re looking for keen knitters and sew-ers to help us to create Christmas Decorations and other saleable items for our craft stall. If you’d like any knitting patterns emailed to you, contact Alison Mussett.

2. Keep your jam jars

Following the success of last year, we’re repeating the Jam Jar Stall. At the Jam Jar stall we ask you to fill a jam jar with small sweets (and toys/small items if you want) which we’ll then sell on the day of the fayre. So save up any jam jars now!

A huge THANK YOU to Martin Melvin for arranging for contractors to in-fill the eroded area of the top playground last Saturday and to all those dads (Martin, Pat, John, Grant, Les, Chris, Steve and James) who turned out on Sunday to perform the onerous task of laying the astroturf. This is what they achieved:

From this…

… to this!

Thanks to everyone who came along last Friday night and/or donated raffle prizes.

Phil was a great quizmaster, Pat and Grant enjoyed their night off and we raised £347.

Sunday 7th October, from 10am

As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the playground we are looking for some strong chaps to lay astroturf in the top playground.

On Saturday the eroded ground by the trees along the fence is going to be in-filled and levelled by contractors. On Sunday, weather permitting, we need to lay the council-donated astroturf. The rolls of astroturf weigh one and a half tons… so we need at least 10 volunteers to complete the job. The current astroturf in the middle playground has proved extremely popular with the children. Let’s make a difference to the top playground too.

Can you help? Email Jane if you can make it.

Wednesday 10th October, 7.30-9pm in the School Dining Hall

Maybe you haven’t been along to our meeting yet… all parents and carers are welcome. It’s a great way to find out what’s going on!

We still have a vacancy for P2 rep and hope to elect a volunteer at the next meeting.

The minutes of the Parent Council AGM in September are now available in our Minutes archive.

Friday 5th October, Hyndland Bowling Club, Queensborough Gardens, 7.30pm
Tickets £5
Adults only – get your sitter sorted!

The next deadline for Scholastic book club orders is Friday 5th October. Please either order online at http://clubs-school.scholastic.co.uk/hyndland-primary/ or via the order form at the back of the catalogue sent home. Remember, for every £1 you spend, 20p goes back to our school to spend on much-needed books for our library.