Events
We love to organise events for the children of Walberton & Binsted Church of England School!
Our aim is for everyone to have as much fun as possible (including the adults), while at the same time fundraising which helps further the education of our children.
Throughout the year, we organise and fund a range of events. We appreciate ALL help, including participation leading up to the events and/or helping out on the day.
CHRISTMAS FAIR
We are very pleased to announce, this year our Christmas fair will be open to all family and friends. It will take place after school on Friday 6th December 3.30pm-5.30pm. We hope to have lots of families and members of the community come along to join in the festive celebrations. As with all PTA events we do need a little help. Your help is always much appreciated and really will assist making the Christmas Fair a HUGE success.
Breakfast with the Elves (Year 6 children)
Last year we held a very successful ‘breakfast with the Elves’ over the few days before the Christmas Fair. We will be offering this again on Mon 2nd December, Tuesday 3rd December and Wednesday 4th December 8.15-8.45. The cost of this is £2 per child. Breakfast will include pastries, fruit and a drink. To book your space please talk to one of us in the playground or Studio where we will be collecting the donations. There will be 70 spaces available per day. Any questions please send me a message via facebook or the PTA email.
Year 6 Elves - We will be having 10 Elves per day, please let us know which day you would like to be an Elf by talking to one of the PTA Reps in the playground or Studio. We will initially be offering just one day per child, but if there are spaces on other days you will be welcome to do more. Everyone will also have the chance to be an Elf on the Christmas Fair morning.
Presents for Parents Stall
‘Presents for Parents’ is a stall which gives the children an opportunity to buy something for their parents/carers (1 present per child) To enable us to run this stall we need donations of gifty type presents that mums/dads/grandparents/carers may like. The presents cost £1 which can be paid via classlist or in a named envelope into our post box in reception. During the school day on Friday 6th December the children will be taken by our school elves (year 6 children) to visit Santa in his grotto and then to the studio to purchase their gift. Where the PTA helpers will help them wrap and label their gift ready to put under the Christmas tree.
WE WILL BE COLLECTING DONATIONS MOST MORNINGS IN THE PLAYGROUND OR STUDIO, ALTERNATIVELY, THERE WILL BE A BOX IN RECEPTION FOR DONATIONS. THANK YOU
Tombola
As usual we will be running 3 tombola stalls, they are all extremely popular stalls so any donations will be much appreciated.
Toy Tombola
Chocolate Tombola
Bottle Tombola
WE WILL BE COLLECTING DONATIONS MOST MORNINGS IN THE PLAYGROUND OR STUDIO, ALTERNATIVELY, THERE WILL BE A BOX IN RECEPTION FOR DONATIONS. THANK YOU
Christmas Jumpers and Topic Costumes
This year we will have a stall to purchase Christmas jumpers and topic costumes. We would very much appreciate any pre-loved jumpers or pre-loved topic costumes you may have.
WE WILL BE COLLECTING DONATIONS MOST MORNINGS IN THE PLAYGROUND OR STUDIO, ALTERNATIVELY, THERE WILL BE A BOX IN RECEPTION FOR DONATIONS. THANK YOU
Christmas Stall Poster competition
If your child/ren would like to design a poster for any of the stalls, they will be entered into a competition, with a chance to win a prize. Can we please make sure these are returned to school by Friday 29th November. A box will be available in the reception area to place the children’s artwork in. We look forward to seeing the children’s creations.
Class Christmas Hamper Competition
This year each class will be making up Christmas hampers containing coloured items relating to each class, eg, Red class will donate red items. These can be passed to their class rep/s. The class with the most items will receive some tokens for each child to spend at the Christmas Fair. We will include all the hampers into the Christmas Fair raffle. We would like these to be completed by Wednesday 4th December. Thank you in advance for all your donations!
Class Reps are:
Year R - Charlotte Cook
Year 1 - Lara Thompson
Year 2 - Charlotte Cook and Emma Rioseco
Year 3 - Lara Thompson
Year 4 - Emily Turner and Jenny Williams
Year 5 - Ali Staker
Year 6 - Clinton Borely and Emily Turner
Raffle Tickets
We already have some amazing prizes for this year’s raffle. If you know anyone who can donate a prize, please do let us know. Tickets will be £1 each. We will be sending tickets home with children, for you/family/friends to purchase. Whether it's just one ticket, or the whole two strips, they will need to have full names and class name or mobile number clearly written on each purchased ticket, and placed with the cash into the envelope and posted into our postbox in reception. They will also be available to be purchased via classlist, and on the playground or Studio most mornings. A full list of prizes will be published shortly.
Tokens and cash
The Christmas fair will be run using tokens and cash. All stalls will be priced between 50p - £2 and tokens can be purchased via classlist for 50p each, or in the playground or Sudio most mornings. Some stalls, like refreshments, will be cash only.
Non School Uniform
As a thank you for bringing in all these goodies to support the Christmas Fair, there will be a non-school uniform day on Friday 29th November. The theme of the non-school uniform day is ‘Christmas’
Volunteer Helpers
As with all our events, we need your help. We couldn’t run these amazing events for the children without it. These are the four times we need help:
- Presents for Parents – This will start immediately after drop off from 8.50am on the day of the Christmas Fair (Friday 6th December).
- Set-Up – from 1.00-3.15 we will be setting up the main hall and the atrium.
- During the fair – all hands on dec to run a stall.
- After the fair – we will need as much help as possible afterwards to tidy everything away. Please stay and help if you can.
Please let us know asap if you can help at any of the above times, The stalls list will be available in the playground and in reception shortly.
We need to make the Christmas Fair as much fun as possible, so please bring things to decorate your stalls with if you have the (festive tablecloths etc.) and don’t forget to look festive if you can....Christmas jumpers, reindeer antlers, flashing noses are ALL acceptable on the day.
THANK YOU
We are always needing new ideas for fundraising to help our children.
If you have an idea, please email the PTA
