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• Cake Raffle

  Mon 30 Jan 2017 R.King

  Dear Parents and Carers,

  We are hoping to start a Cake Raffle to raise funds for some projects we wish to undertake around school.

  The idea is that we set up a rota for parents providing a cake on a Friday morning (bought or made, either is fine!) and then school council sell tickets on a Friday morning play and last play to the children (and staff!) for 20p per ticket. At the end of last play the winning ticket is pulled and the winner gets to take the cake home for eating over the weekend. There will be no limit as to how many tickets can be bought, but if every child in the school buys at least 1 ticket a week, that could be £200 per month that we can raise.

  All we need is a number of willing volunteers to put their names down for the cake rota (the more of us there are, the fewer times our names will come up on the rota) and bring a cake in on the nominated day. I am happy to put my name down for Week 1 – Friday 24^th February.

  If you feel that you are able to support this, please fill in the attached slip and we will organise the rota. This will be distributed ahead of half term so you have plenty of notice for your turn and also we will put it on the website under FSA if you ever need to access it.

  Many thanks for your continued support – I look forward to tasting… I mean viewing all those lovely cakes.

• Photos from the Tag Rugby

  Mon 16 Jan 2017

  Many thanks to Mrs Weaver for sending us some photos from the tag Rugby tournament for Y3/4.

   

  

• Would you like to be in the FSA??

  Mon 16 Jan 2017 R.King

  Dear Parents and Carers,

  Financially, the climate for schools – particularly for stand-alone academies like us, is not looking very positive at the minute.

  You may have read in the press about schools making cuts and having to take difficult decisions in order to balance the budget and here at Long Bennington I think it is fair to say that we too are feeling the pinch.

  We would therefore like to harness the fantastic ideas and fundraising powers of our parents –and I am aware that many of you recently have mentioned that you would be keen to get on board to help fundraise for our fabulous school. We have got a core group of very committed parents already, however I know that there have been lots of you enquiring how you can get involved in supporting the school.

  I would like to invite you to a meeting where we can examine the capacity within the existing body of parents for re-launching the FSA (Friends of the School Association) and see if we can work together to make our school an even greater place for our children!

  If you are interested and would like to get involved, please come to the school hall on Wednesday, 1^st February at 6.30pm. All of you are very welcome!

   

  Regards,

  Mrs R J King