Friends of the school
The Friends of West Jesmond School are our school parents' organisation. They do a fantastic job in supporting our school.
All parents and guardians automatically become members of the FWJS when their child joins the school. Staff and governors are also Friends and membership extends to interested members of the local community.
Friends support the school all year round by organising a variety of social and fundraising events for children and adults during the school year. The Friends’ aim is to ensure parents and guardians have a chance to socialise and have fun while raising money for the school.
FRIENDS OF WEST JESMOND PRIMARY SCHOOL
FRIENDS OF WEST JESMOND PRIMARY SCHOOL
Meeting 8th February 2010
PRESENT: Sue MacDonald, Suzanne Armstrong, Anne O’Brien, Kate Mills, Julie Wilkinson, Alison Duncan, Val Lyons, Jo Elliot, Sarah Clemmetson, Elaine Whetstone, Cathy Howe, Louisa Hicks and Suzanna Pulman.
APOLOGIES: Dee Pass and Emma Peach
Suzanne gave the results of the lottery draw.
Sue MacDonald ran quickly through the fundraising events of the past term, all seem very successful.
The Autumn disco was very successful raising £303.35
The Book Fair made £550 which gave the school £300
The fabulous Christmas cards made by the children made a wopping £707.95, very successful and will be doing again next Christmas.
The Christmas shopping evening once again did well and made £1121.31
The Christmas fair made £1368.09, suggestions were made that an outside area could be used also and maybe to include the choir next time.
The School managed to raise £30 towards the Air Ambulance. We will be giving the £30 back to them.
Mrs Lyons has said the school are going to start using the money raised by running the cake stalls, parents/classes will be notified as to what has been bought.
The Christmas quiz was very difficult, we sold plenty but only had 3 entries. Helen and Alex Bell came first receiving £10.
Still to come
Wine tasting has been organised for the 4th March at Holy Name Church.
Jesmond festival 13th March, 12.30-4.00. we have been asked to run a stall if anyone interested. Maybe leftover sweets/ drinks. Possibly children from year 6 to help.
Adults only disco at the Cluny confirmed 19th June with Dashboard Elvis. Louisa Hicks said she could make the tickets
Summer fair dates were discussed and decided on the 12th June.
The FWJPS donated:
Christmas trees £260
Playground equipment £1640.80.
Kate Mills ran quickly through the accounts (see website for details)
We have £12000 in the Friends account at present, lets get it spent.
AGM date 24th March @ 6.00 and maybe out for a meal.
New date for AGM 6.00-7.30 main school hall 20th April.
AOB
Friends' of West Jesmond News
New Dates for your diary-Autumn Term 2009
There will be more detailed information to follow about each of these events. This is the chance for you to save the dates.
Christmas Fair
Saturday 12th December. 11am.-1.00p.m.
Previous Events- Round-up
Second-hand Uniform Sale-Autumn 2009
Thank you very much for all the donations of uniform. The recent sale (Friday 16th October) raised £77. We still have some items of good quality uniform left and will be holding another sale at the Christmas Fair on Saturday 12th December. There will be a collection of any more used uniform, that is still in good condition, the week before the Fair.
School Summer Fair (Saturday 4th July, 11.00am - 1.00pm)
We had great weather to run our first school fair at the new school - it was so hot that we had to set up stalls in the shade - a possible first! Once again the layout of the school was perfect for a fair with all the stalls set up outside, games going on in the football pens, beat the goalie on the grassed area, a perfect spot for the bouncy castle in the Reception yard and the chance to sit indoors and enjoy a cup of tea and some home baked cakes.
It was a stunning success and we made £1912.28 profit!
An eagle-eyed ex pupil found an undated 20pence coin in the takings and the Friends have sold it on Ebay for £115 - an easy bit of profit!
Many thanks go to parents and staff alike for helping on the day, setting up, running stalls and clearing away. We feel that all the effort made it a really fun day for both the pupils and the parents.
Cake stalls
Weekly cake stalls have been held in the KS2 yard each Friday at 3.20pm. Many thanks to Louisa who has coordinated the stalls and all the helpers that come along on the day. The stalls have been a huge success with all the proceeds going to the class who baked!
All classes have done extremely well with some record amounts being raised (the total so far for 5 year groups is £1835.80 - that is a lot of cakes!). This year’s 'winners' were R3 who raised £174.59! Year totals are below. Years 2 & 4 will have their chance to beat the top earners in the Autumn term!
Reception £499.85
Year 1 £410.45
Year 3 £353.37
Year 5 £315.32
Year 6 £256.81
Well done to everyone!
My Design Made
The Friends of West Jesmond agreed in cooperation with one of the school mums - Rose Mockford from 'my design made' - to have the year one children produce their own unique greeting cards, created from their artwork (as part of their 'growing' theme for the term). The class teachers and the children have put so much effort in and they are very proud of the results. Rose has then taken the work and produced the beautiful cards.
Year one have been selling the cards to their friends and families and Rose also displayed the cards at the summer fair. For each pack sold a percentage of the takings will go towards the Friends. Depending on how much is raised, we will discuss how best to use the money to celebrate the effort Yr1 have made.
Year 6 leavers
Time to say farewell to our Year 6 pupils. The Friends once again organised leavers t-shirts with all the children’s names on them. We sold 62 in total and they looked great on the pupils.
The Friends also donated £100 towards an end of year party which will be held at the Jesmond Cricket Club. Have a great evening and good luck for the future!
The School Garden Project
Once again a huge thank you to Hugh and Jenny who continue their great work at the school allotment. Jenny brought along a fantastic selection of plants to the school fair - a lot of allotment items and managed to raise £161.00 for the project. Whenever possible they have also sold produce on Friday's alongside the cake stalls to raise some extra funds.
It was agreed that the Friends would fund a banner for the School Garden Project that could be used when they sell plants at school and when their fantastic 'hangings' are on tour and also to use for the allotment show in September at the Civic centre. We provided £245 for this.
| Role | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Chairperson | Suzanne Armstrong | |
| Vice Chairperson | Sue McDonald | |
| Secretary | Anne O'Brien | |
| Treasurer | Kate Mills |
