Friends of Christchurch School

Have a fantastic summer holidays and goodbye and good luck to all of the year 6 leavers.

The Friends x

Looking for things to do in the school holidays? Check out the sessions Christ Church Hanham is organising - they look fab! 🙌

We can’t believe it’s nearly the end of term but please join us for some ‘last day of term fun! 🍦🪴🎈🎁

Nominate our school and help us win £1000 for our library!

This summer, National Book Tokens are offering five schools the chance to start rebuilding their libraries by inviting teachers, parents, carers and communities to nominate their school for our big prize draw. Each winning school will receive £1,000/€1,000 in National Book Tokens and a year’s free membership to the School Library Association – PLUS one overall winner will also get £500/€500 to help them create a fun and welcoming library space for all.

Nominate a school** using the form on the link below, and if yours is one of the five winning entries, you’ll also win a £100/€120 National Book Token to spend in your favourite bookshop! Remember, the more entries received for your nominated school, the higher the chance they’ll win – so don’t forget to spread the word. If you work in a school, check out our downloadable banners and posters below.

Winners will be drawn at random after Monday 31st July and announced in September 2023.

https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools?s=09

Thank you 😊

Job alert!!! There are currently 2 vacancies at the school - please see details below 😊

Cleaner - https://www.eteach.com/job/school-cleaner-1355349

Lunchbreak Supervisor - https://www.eteach.com/job/lunchtime-supervisor-1355346

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Bags to school tomorrow morning - please drop your bags into the car park before 9am and please take a look at the list of accepted / not accepted items below - thanks 😊

Wow wow wow - what an incredible day! It rained but it still didn’t dampen the atmosphere or fun! We loved the day so much and we hope you did too?

Thank you so much to each and everyone one of you who braved the rain and helped make our fayre a huge success and thanks to our amazing volunteers - we couldn’t have done it without you.

The entertainment run by Mr Harding and Stevie B was brilliant 🙌

Food was lush - thanks to the Hazlehursts 😍

Congratulations to our Bake OFF! Winners - amazing cakes!

1. Amanda Simmonds
2. Pam Adams
3. Zoë Slinger

And thanks to Miss Weldrake (Prue) and Mr Turner (Paul) for being fantastic judges!

The school office will be in touch next week if you were lucky enough to win a prize in the raffle.

Here are a few photos from the day 😊.

Preparations are under way for our Summer Fayre tomorrow! The marquee, gazebos and bunting is up and we can’t wait to see you there tomorrow afternoon!

Remember to purchase/ return your raffle tickets back by 3.30pm and to also bring some cash with you please. We do have a card machine but only one, so they may be queues for this 😊

There will be a huge plant sale with over 100 plants, bake off judging with Prue & Paul is at 1.20, 3 epic inflatables and donkey rides - plus amazing tombolas, games, water fun, food & music!

Thanks for your generous donations this morning - we will be collecting bottles and raffle tickets again at pick up 🙌🧴🍾🧴🍾🧴🍾

Here is a list of our fantastic prizes in this years raffle. Please return Stubbs to the office or on Thursday before or after school when we will be collecting bottles for the tomobola! Thank you 😊