£1,300 Raised At St. Francis C of E PTA Summer Fair 2013

Spot on: Penalty Shoot Out Proves Popular

We were blessed with gorgeous weather for our Summer Fair 2013 this year. This meant many stalls were held outdoors and our outdoor events were able to go ahead. The fair is traditionally one of our biggest fund raisers and most attended events of the year. This year didn't disappoint as lots of people came through the gates and had a look at the various games and challenges on offer. The classes put on a stall which varied between pick- a - stick, Name the Teddy, Electric Wiggle and the regular Bottle and Chocolate Tombolas.

Outdoors there was plenty on offer including the very popular Beat The Goalie with Mr. And Mrs. Wooton doing the honours for the day (Mr. Wooton in the nets of course & Mrs. Wooton keeping a tally). A Netball Challenge was manned by Mrs. Lowes and Miss Lowes and our new event was kept busy the ‘Tin Can Alley’. We also had a Bouncy Castle, Face Painting and we put the dinner tables outside allowing people to sit down and relax whilst the children had fun on the field and spent their parents money.

It was regarded as a great success and many kind comments were made by visitors and we were delighted when our Treasurer counted up the money and found we had raised £1,300. A brilliant sum on a brilliant day!

PTA Bake Out Raises £82-50p and Uniform Sale Raises £27

St. Francis C of E PTA Summer Fair 2013 is on 8th June This Year

We are now counting down to our Summer Fair 2013 and hoping the weather will be kind to us this year as last year we couldn't hold any outside events because of the rain. We hope you can make it and help raise funds for the schools children and have some fun. Who knows you might even win something!

St. Francis C of E PTA Family BBQ Cancelled

St. Francis C of E PTA Bunny Bounce raises a remarkable £1,600

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St. Francis C of E PTA Christmas Fair Is Coming To Town Soon

This years Christmas Fair is to be held on Friday 30th November and will start @ 3-30pm. We hope you can find time to visit the fair as there's plenty to see and do and you may even pick up some Christmas presents. It is also one of our main fund raisers so we hope to see you there.

(NB Click on the poster image above for an enlarged version)

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St. Francis C of E PTA Joins Forces With The School Council To Host a Successful Macmillan Coffee Morning Raising £68

Latest St. Francis C of E PTA School Disco generates £331

Disco Fever to Break Out @ St. Francis C of E School Hall This Friday

St. Francis C of E hands over cheque for £3,500 for PC's and WiFi equipment

PTA Committee Members (Simon Bennett - Chair, Suzanne Parker and Jo Eccles) hand over a cheque to a grateful Mrs. Thomas and some equally grateful pupils.

Olympic Disco Passes The Finishing Line With £271

Two Girls Having Fun And One Boy Too Shy To Face The Camera!



Oops Upside Your Head! I say....!

Report To Follow

St. Francis C of E PTA Olympic Disco this Friday

Rain Rain Didn't Go Away But We Still Managed To Raise £1,131

Year 6 Cube Game Proved A Popular Draw

Despite the many pleas to the man above good weather wasn't forthcoming but the show must go on and on it did. Everything was held in the hall along with everybody making it nice and cosy! This year we decided to have more 'in-house' stalls manned by Year 4, 5 & 6. This year we also trailed offering a more varied range of food. This proved popular and we will be continuing and expanding this for our Christmas Fair 2012. 

Queues Formed Tor The Ever Popular Bottle Tombola

The Crowning of the Rose Queen ceremony and the official opening had to be held indoors and once the formalities were out of the way all the stalls opened. Our big favourites the chocolate tombola and the bottle tombola soon had queues forming. The ping-pong game was brought back this year and was manned by Year 5 and along with The Cube game manned by Year 6 testing the skills of some parents and children alike.

We had some new stalls incuding a hair braider also there was Mrs. Newmans card and gift stall with Mrs. Havards and Mrs. Lowes cup cake stall and if one cake stall wasn't enough there was also Harry's Grandma's Cake Stall making a second appearance. We ran our sweet stall and a Teddy Tombola both adding to the variety.

Plenty On Offer

It was great to see so many children running around with their faces painted  courtesy of Mrs. Emberley-Peers, Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Algar. Our raffle rounded things off and we can be pleased that despite the awful weather we still managed to have some outside dancing and a Maypole Dancing performance alibiet cut short. We'd like to thank those that attended and despite the weather and the reduced turn out and having to cancel the outdoors events we managed with your help to raise £1,131 a little more than last year .We will carry on with the new format next year and hope to have fine weather and we feel we could raise a considerable amount. 

St. Francis C of E PTA Summer Fair 2012 This Coming Saturday 1pm - 4pm

First PTA Sweet Stall Nets £51

Our PTA Volunteers Being Kept Busy

Our new fund raising initiative was a great success but then again selling sweets to children was always going to be well received by the pupils especially on the last day of term. We were lucky the weather wasn't adverse meaning we could set up outside and catch everybody as they were leaving the school. Plenty of committee members were present and all were kept busy as demand was high and things got a bit frantic and manic at one stage. Plenty of our stock of crisps, drinks, sweets, etc were sold resulting in us raising £51 which is a terrific amount as most things were 10p, 15p or 20p each. With this fund raising idea it was also great to meet many people we wouldn't normally see and as ever with the St. Francis C of E pupils Mums and Dads the event was very well supported. We shall be repeating this event again soon.

Calm Before The Storm!

Grand Spring Draw Raises £60 For Our Funds

The Grand Spring Draw was drawn today at the school assembly with two lucky parents walking away with the First Prize of £40 and the Second Prize of £20. The draw was well supported and has left us with £60 for our funds after paying out the cash prizes. Many thanks for all the parents who entred the draw and even if you didn't win you can be assured your children will still be winners as the money made will go towards the school.

Fundraising Sweet Stall At School This Coming Friday

St. Francis PTA Infant and Juniors Disco Adds £290 to PTA Funds

Report and pictures to follow.