Friends of Plymtree School FOPS

Magical pictures of Christmas nativity plays in Devon

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Magical pictures of Christmas nativity plays in Devon Schools have shared their adorable pictures of their displays

100 Club Winners!

The December draw took place at school last Friday. The winners are as follows and your cheques will be with you in the New Year. Thank you for all your support this year.

Congratulations and Merry Christmas!

1st - £20 - Fran Batten
2nd - £15 - James Persey
3rd - £10 - Ann Coombes
4th - £5 - Val Gooding

📮Letters to Santa 📮

It’s the final few days to post your letter to Santa with one our our special stamps to get a personalised reply back!!!

If you have not purchased your stamp please drop us a message or see a committee member!

All letters must be in the post box by 3pm on Wednesday 7th December.

In pictures: Plymtree Primary School open event

Pictures from our recent Open Day at Plymtree

In pictures: Plymtree Primary School open event The event aimed to raise the school's profile

✨✨Ash Class Request✨✨

Ash Class have asked FOPS to fund 12 cones for their construction/bike role play area. These are the cones that they have asked for as they are the right size and weight for what they need. If you know of anywhere we can source these for less than £10 each (inc vat) we would be very grateful. Thanks for your help.
FOPS

100 Club Winners!

The November draw took place at school on Friday. The winners are as follows and your cheques will be with you shortly. Congratulations!

1st - £20 - Gary Dolling
2nd - £15 - Sally Bloomfield
3rd - £10 - Laura Retter
4th - £5 - Ann Coombes

❄️ The cost of living is affecting us all this winter, and with rising fuel and energy costs, no one wants to be left out in the cold. Cullompton Library is a FREE warm space to enjoy, relax, and socialise this winter – and is here for you for life.
🗝️ Your library card is the key to unlocking thousands of FREE resources, from books, eMagazines, eNewspapers and eAudiobooks to an abundance of clubs and library activities – your library has so much for you to discover.

A reminder that from Monday 7th November, we will be extending our opening hours for 4 days a week, closing 1 to 3pm to enable this.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 9am to 1pm and then 3pm to 7pm.
Closed 1pm to 3pm.
Wednesdays and weekends remain unchanged.
Wednesday 9am to 1pm
Saturday 8am to 1pm
Sunday 8.30am to 11am.
All thanks to new and existing volunteers.
Interested in helping out? Email [email protected].

Don’t forget the next committee meeting is being held on Wednesday

Date for the diary. Please come along and support your FOPS committee.

🎄Christmas Fair 🎄

Please support Plymtree Pre-School’s Christmas Fair!

We have an amazing selection of stalls plus some great activities!

🎅🏼 Santa’s Grotto - £3 per ticket and available to pre book.

✍🏻 Letters to Santa - £3 per stamp. Writing station available at the fair!

🎁 Raffle - £5 per strip of tickets to win from a selection of prizes from local suppliers and businesses

🎨 Children’s Festive Crafts

We look forward to welcoming you to our fair and supporting the Pre-School to raise vital funds.

Don’t forget tomorrows Open Day. If you know of any families choosing their primary school do invite them along, no booking required.

If you could share our post with friends, family and any other networks you have to promote this upcoming open event at Plymtree we would be very grateful. Thank you.

⭐️⭐️School Open Day⭐️⭐️

Plymtree C of E School
Saturday 5th November
11am-1pm

This is a great opportunity for prospective parents to meet the wonderful staff at Plymtree CofE School and get a feel for the school and explore classrooms, bring your child/ren along to find out more about our friendly village school.

If you are interested in finding out more about our provision from reception through to year 6, please do come along.

If you can’t make the open day but want to find out more, please do contact us and we can arrange a visit at a time that suits you email: [email protected]
T. 01884 277294

🎅🏼 🎄Please come and support this lovely little local pre-school! We are very excited to have a wonderful Santa and a selection of lovely stalls to kick start your Christmas shopping 🎄 🎅🏼

Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for Secondary School places in September 2023. If you apply after this date, the application will be classed as late and only looked at after timely applications.

Apply below-
http://soc.devon.cc/W3NQw

Reminder of our upcoming open day. Please help us promote this by sharing as widely as you can.
Thank you
FOPS

If you could share our post with friends, family and any other networks you have to promote this upcoming open event at Plymtree we would be very grateful. Thank you.

⭐️⭐️School Open Day⭐️⭐️

Plymtree C of E School
Saturday 5th November
11am-1pm

This is a great opportunity for prospective parents to meet the wonderful staff at Plymtree CofE School and get a feel for the school and explore classrooms, bring your child/ren along to find out more about our friendly village school.

If you are interested in finding out more about our provision from reception through to year 6, please do come along.

If you can’t make the open day but want to find out more, please do contact us and we can arrange a visit at a time that suits you email: [email protected]
T. 01884 277294

100 Club Winners!

The September and October draws took place at school on Friday. The winners are as follows and your cheques will be with you after half term. Congratulations!

September 2021
1st - £20 - Val Gooding
2nd - £15 - Mandy Mills
3rd - £10 - Rowan Parker
4th - £5 - Emma Postlethwaite

October 2021
1st - £20 - Judy Bloomfield
2nd - £15 - James Persey
3rd - £10 - Steve & Julie Greenwood
4th - £5 - Louise Northwood

Look at all the fun things we have happening at the library over the Half Term!

Date for the diary. Please come along and support your FOPS committee.

Why not try our new book club for children aged 8-12 years, starting this Friday here at the Hayridge at 4pm, spaces still available. A fantastic way for children to socialise, build confidence and make new friends

If you're in Cullompton tomorrow (Saturday 15th October) please pop into the Cullompton History exhibition at the The Walronds and find out a little of the history of Cullompton, plus lovely medieval costumes.

Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon, organized by FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School

The children did amazingly well this morning, they ran around the village twice a full 3 miles, which is a long way for little legs. All of the reception through to our year 6 Children completed the challenge. Thank you so much to the teachers, stewards, parents and everyone running with the children to make this possible. There is still time to donate if you would like to, we are almost at our target! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🎉🎉

Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon, organized by FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School ‍♀️‍♂️Mini London Marathon‍♂️‍♀️ Plymtree School will be… FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School needs your support for Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon

If your child is due to start secondary school next year, you'll need to apply for their place by Monday 31 October 2022.

Do this via our website - http://soc.devon.cc/of3ye

Or call us on 0345 155 1019 to ask for a paper copy of the form to be sent to you.

Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon, organized by FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School

Please sponsor the children at Plymtree running their Mini Marathon on Friday 14th October. The whole school will be running the 2.6 miles around the village to raise funds for FOPS. Money will be ring fenced for a school wide project focusing on the outdoors/being active.

If you aren’t able to donate at this time, please share this fundraiser with friends, family and others in your community and come along and cheer them on from 9.30am on Friday

Link for fundraising:

Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon, organized by FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School ‍♀️‍♂️Mini London Marathon‍♂️‍♀️ Plymtree School will be… FOPS Friends Of Plymtree School needs your support for Friends of Plymtree School Mini Marathon

Do you want to be part of the FOPS 100 Club?

The 100 Club is a lottery type draw with the chance to win up to 4 cash prizes each month. There are only 100 shares available and we have had to turn people away the last 2 years as we sold out, so please buy early to avoid disappointment!

There are 11x draws of £20, £15, £10 and £5 and 1x draw of £100, £50, £30 and £20, which will be the final draw of the year in August 2022. When you buy a share you are entered into each and every draw with your allocated share number. If your number is drawn you win!

The profit raised goes directly to FOPS to support the school with resources, equipment, activities and improvements to the school environment.

For more information or an application form, please speak to one of the committee.

🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏻🏃‍♂️Mini London Marathon🏃‍♂️🏃🏻🏃🏼‍♀️

Plymtree School will be taking part in this years Mini London Marathon for Schools. The children will be running around the village to complete 2.6 miles as part of the London marathon event on Friday 14th October!

The school have decided to fundraise for FOPS with the intention of ring-fencing any money raised to go towards a school-wide project relating to the children being outside and active.

If you are able to please sponsor the children for taking part on the marathon, for a number of them this will be the furthest they have ever run.

https://gofund.me/29a3a6ce

As with all village runs, we are looking for volunteers to help steward the event. The run will be at 9:30am and last no more than an hour. If anyone wouldn’t mind volunteering their time to cheer on the children and cover one of the roads that would be amazing!

If you could share our post with friends, family and any other networks you have to promote this upcoming open event at Plymtree we would be very grateful. Thank you.

⭐️⭐️School Open Day⭐️⭐️

Plymtree C of E School
Saturday 5th November
11am-1pm

This is a great opportunity for prospective parents to meet the wonderful staff at Plymtree CofE School and get a feel for the school and explore classrooms, bring your child/ren along to find out more about our friendly village school.

If you are interested in finding out more about our provision from reception through to year 6, please do come along.

If you can’t make the open day but want to find out more, please do contact us and we can arrange a visit at a time that suits you email: [email protected]
T. 01884 277294

Only 3 more sleeps until Cullompton Autumn Fest 2022 on the 8th October 🤩🥳We are so excited to welcome Higher Beings Circus skills to The Walronds walled garden next Saturday! They’ll also be Willow harvest crown making with Weird Sticks CIC and woodwhittling with Sylvan Adventures
Don’t miss these FREE family activities in the Walronds garden along with a lovely in the garden.
There’s also , circus themed crafts and more at The Hayridge🥳🎪
Spread the word it’s going to be a lovely Autumn day in our 🍁🍂

Ready…set…BAKE

FOPS is bringing back the ever popular class room bake sales on the last Friday of each half term. Pine class will be first up on 21st October. FOPS will send home a paper plate with each child in pine class at the beginning of that week with a request to bring in some treats on Friday 21st October. These will be sold in the playground at collection time on the Friday. The money is then held by FOPS for pine class to decide how they wish to spend what they have raised. Thank you for your support as always. FOPS

Thank you!

Every penny makes a huge difference so thank you so much to everyone who sold or bought raffle tickets for FOPS, good luck for the draw!

If you haven’t signed up for the 100 Club yet this year, don’t forget to get your share while you can, for £15 per share you are in with a chance to win a cash prize each month 🎉

Ask us for more info or a share form :-)

Please join us in welcoming our new FOPS Committee. All previous members stepped down at the last meeting and your officers now look like this:

Chair - Kelly Le Page
Treasurer - Shane Martin
Secretary - Emma Board

Don't forget all parents and carers are automatically FOPS members and are invited to attend meetings and events. Please continue to support Friends of Plymtree School FOPS.

DCC Public Health Nursing has launched two new websites to provide school age children and their parents/carers with health and wellbeing advice.

• Health for Kids provides information for primary school aged children and includes games, videos and quizzes. The site consists of four different worlds: Staying Healthy, Illness, Feelings and Getting Help. Each world is populated with different areas for children to learn about their health. There is a separate area for grown-ups for in-depth guidance and localised information (www.healthforkids.co.uk/devon).

• Health for Teens provides information and advice for young people, including videos, listicles, quizzes, health information, truths and rumours. There are several different sections ranging from feelings, health, lifestyle, relationships and growing up. There is also a ‘your area’ section which includes information on Devon services and advice from local practitioners (www.healthforteens.co.uk/devon).

Open Evening is coming up! Come and see our school on Wednesday 5th October. We can't wait to meet you and show you how great Cullompton is.

This isn't FOPS news as such, but the shop is an important part of our community and we are at risk of losing it. Please get in touch with them if you can help.

Following on from our last post, this is a plea for volunteers to help out in the shop to keep the present opening hours but ideally to extend them.
Whether that’s manning the till, stocking shelves, ordering produce, opening and closing or other back room tasks. It could be for an hour (or more), a regular slot or filling in gaps on the rota.
Training will be provided.
If you want to find out more or you would like to help keep our shop open please email
[email protected].
Until our volunteer numbers have swelled, you may see more of the shop committee temporarily sharing the jobs to be done. This reflects how other community shops operate where all the jobs are shared amongst the volunteers.

We encourage all children to walk, cycle or scoot to school if they can, because teachers tell us that pupils who travel actively arrive more alert and ready for learning as well as generally happier.

Even if your family can only make the change a couple of days a week, or for just one leg of the journey to and from school, it will make a big difference.

If your child isn’t able to walk, cycle or scoot, could they use public transport instead? Or perhaps they can combine the two? And if you do have to drive your child to school, please consider parking a 10 minute walk away to help keep the school entrance clear of traffic.

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We have just received notification that Amazon has donated £11.45 to FOPS as a result of AmazonSmile programme activity between 1 April and 30 June 2022. We receive donations quarterly and they cost parents and carers nothing!

If you use Amazon PLEASE SIGN UP! It's really, really easy - just go to https://smile.amazon.co.uk and search for Friends Of Plymtree School (use the caps otherwise it doesn't find us!)

Just use your existing Amazon login - it works and looks exactly the same as 'normal' Amazon. The difference being that Amazon Smile donates a small percentage when you buy things.

BIG Corporations giving little charities money 😍😍😍

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*Plymtree Parents & Carers*

Please come along to our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 14th September at 8pm. It will be held in the school hall and will be followed by a brief Committee Meeting.

The current committee are all stepping down and new officers will need to be elected for the charity to continue. If you have never been to a FOPS meeting before please do come along and find out more about the things we have funded and organised.