Friends of Thirsk Community Primary School PTA

We are always looking for new ideas and ways to raise those vital pounds. If you think something worked well, let us know. If you think something needed tweaking, let us know. If you can offer any time or help again please contact us.

Fill | Event planning Would you be interested in the following events? By saying "Yes" it does not commit you to attending. We are looking at different fundraising ideas. 

The first event of the school year is here .. a glow / neon disco! 💃🕺🪩🕺💃
Ticket prices include a hot dog and unlimited drinks.
Other items will be available to buy on the night from the tuck shop.
Please fill in the form below.
No payments on the night and everyone attending must fill out the form before hand.

https://forms.office.com/r/siZCcu9kyw

If you can help with the event please join out what’sap group.

https://chat.whatsapp.com/BYuFOZzqcMCJXKRhTjIoa8

Thank you

Having a clear out ? We have a Bag2school collection booked for Thursday 19th October.
Please bring to school on the day due to over flowing collection bin.
Also if you are in need of any uniform please let us know and we can see if we can help.

WHAT WE COLLECT

We accept the following ‘good quality’ items for RE-USE*:

Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s clothing
Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
Handbags
Hats
Bags
Scarves and ties
Jewellery
Lingerie
Socks
Belts
Soft toys
Household linen
Household curtains
Household towels
Household bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers)

* We reserve the right to refuse any unsuitable items
We DO NOT accept:

Duvets and blankets
Pillows and cushions
Carpets, rugs and mats (including bath, shower and toilet mats)
Soiled, painted, ripped or wet clothing
School uniforms with and without logo
Corporate clothing and workwear
Textile off cuts, yarns or threaded material

**update**
The willow structures are fine and no damage they just need a good prune. We have replanted the trees that had been pulled up but the canes are still in the beck. We will attempted to retrieve them tomorrow.
I have been give some names of those who were seen in the grounds and with the canes. These will be passed onto school and the police. Thank you for all your offers of help it means a lot.

Absolutely gutted today to go to do maintenance on our willow structures to find the canes have all been pulled out, thrown in the beck behind school and the trees have also been ripped out. Hours of care and patience has been put into this area to make it somewhere nice and relaxing for our children to explore to come into this ..

Head on down to Thirsk market place and support our friends over at Friends of Thirsk School and Sixth Form

Our friends at Friends of Thirsk School and Sixth Form are in urgent need of a chair person. If you might be interested in this post then email or ring the school.

Urgent – Chairperson required.

At the AGM of the Friends of Thirsk School last night we had no candidate for the post of Chair.

Sadly, without this position, our successful Friends team will need to disband.

Therefore, we are urgently looking for a candidate to take this role. They will be supported by an experienced and highly successful team with a track record of success.

The funding we have brought into this school over recent years through the Race Night, Colour Run and Quiz Night is significant. Our next event is the Beer Festival on 6th October.

Please contact me in school on 01845 522024 or [email protected].

Join hands with us, let's make a team,
At Thirsk Primary, where we all dream.
Compassion, respect, excellence in sight,
With enjoyment and perseverance, our future is bright.
We're Ready, Respectful, and Safe, day by day,
In this warm community, we learn and play.
From fairs to trips, events that delight,
Year 6 leavers' hoodies, memories take flight.
Books open doors to new worlds, it's true,
And panto, discos, make us laugh and groove too.
In this PTA, we find happiness and joy,
Come, join us, let's make our school soar and deploy.
Thirsk Community Primary, together we thrive,
With your support, we will continue to strive.
Join our PTA, be part of the crew,
Let's make a difference, it starts with YOU! 📚🎉🌟

Wednesday 11th October 5:15/5:30 in the school hall or live via zoom ….

**Date for your diary**

We will be holding an EGM on Wednesday 11th October 5:15/5:30 in the school hall to discuss planning and events as well as positions within the PTA for our next year. This should last not longer then an hour.
Doors are open to everyone, all are welcome. We will also be streaming live via zoom for those unable to attend.

Look forward to seeing some new faces

EAST THIRSK OUTDOOR SPORTS AND RECREATION – COMMUNITY SURVEY

Thirsk Community Primary School is looking to construct a Play Zone for school and community use. A Play Zone are multi use games area with an artificial pitch surface and floodlighting. We hope to apply for funding and need to be able to show that there is a need for this type of facility, and identify the type of activities people want to use it for.

To help us with this we would be grateful if you could complete our survey so we can find out the demand for a facility like this and what activities people would like to be able to do – it will only take a couple of minutes. Please feel free to share this link with your family, friends and groups as the more people that complete it the better our funding application will be.

Here is the link: https://online1.snapsurveys.com/w3xi64

Thirsk Community Primary School Logo
Thirsk Community Primary School
Hambleton Place
Thirsk
North Yorkshire
YO7 1SL

Starting survey...

Good morning!!!
There seems to be a strange yellow thing appeared in the sky this morning …🌞

Who’s heading down the Thirsk and Sowerby Festival 2023 ??

We will be there with a few fun games - hook a duck, lucky dip, find the treasure and bulls eye so why not come and have go.

We have 4 of these available from outside school today if anyone would like them. Free.

As another school academic year comes to an end it’s not just year 6 pupils completing their school journey. For some families it marks the end of a parent’s or carers time with their school as their children move on to high schools. And for some of you here that marks the end of your PTA journey.

So for all you PTA supporters out there, volunteers, games makers, candy flossers, cake bakers, committee members, elected officers, ex-chairs/secretaries/treasurers, and the 1000 & 1 other ways in which you have all helped, thank you. Thank you for your unending support, your camaraderie and your friendship. Go forward knowing that you have left your schools having made a difference. Not only directly in things funded but also in developing community spirit within school, in forming new friendships between parents and between children spanning year groups and social circles and in creating children’s school years memories of fairs and events that you ran that they will always carry with them.

On behalf of all pupils, schools, families & PTAs, we thank you for your support and we wish you and your families the very best in your next chapters of family life together.

See something that belongs to you? The office is open tomorrow to collect belongings.

As you are all probably aware, Friday is Mr Chandlers last day at Thirsk Community Primary School as he’s heading off to pastures new. Personally I am very aware I have probably been the cause of one or two of those greys hairs on his head due to the events I keep planning and bringing to him… from our very first BooBash to the colour run and planting the Platinum woods and Turkey run. Which in my defence the latter was his idea!
He took part in all these events with so much enthusiasm and supported us whole heartedly, getting stuck in in paint, live raffle draws and inflatable turkey suits! We have had the best few years with the support of Mr Chandler and would like you to join us in wishing him all the best. Here are a few of his best bits, he’s camera shy…… (I might need to step down tomorrow..🙈🙈😬)
Kelly and the PTA team

Have a fab week at high school year 6!
Go smash it!

Absolutely blown away with the support we have had tonight for our inflatable bouncing bonanza!!
It was lovely to see so many smiley, happy faces pass through! Same again next year?

Everything is starting to take shape for our inflatable bouncing bonanza!

See you at 5 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼

Who’s excited for our inflatable bouncing bonanza ?
After school on the back field. We have a giant assault course, rodeo bull, unclimbable ladder and a bouncy castle. We also have hair braids and face glitter as well as chocolate and bottle tombola. Food will be served and refreshments and the live raffle draw.
For these who room advantage of the flash sale your bands will be waiting on the gate.

The weather is looking tiptop for Friday for our inflatable bouncing bonanza!
There is Still time to get your wristbands online. All the £8 ones have now unfortunately been snapped up so £10 on the gate for the first band, £8 per band after . Payment can be cash or card payment on the gate. (Or bank transfer)
We look forward to seeing you there 🦖🦄🦩

Reminder for year 5&6

Tomorrow is non uniform day - instead of Thursday
Donations to be put in the trolly on the play ground or via the office

Nursery, reception, years 1,2, 3&4 your non uniform day is still Thursday
Eyfs and ks1 are to bring in a sweet/chocolate treat
Years 3&4 bottles for the bottle tombola

Thank you

Also if you need any more raffle tickets just ask

Not many half price wristbands left. Make sure you don’t miss out and snap them up now!

Who's looking forward to the inflatable bouncing bonanza?
Friday 7th July, 5-7pm on the school field.
Entrance via the gate near Wrap Around Care.
Take advantage of the special offer - the first 30 wristbands will be £8 each - please ask for bank details.
The wristband gives you unlimited use of the inflatables. There will also be hair braiding, face glitter, tombolas and garden games for the children to enjoy, as well as serving refreshments and hot food.

Little reminder that donations for the rainbow raffle are due in tomorrow
Thank you

Can you spare a few hours to help and support the events we hold at school.
We will be looking for volunteers and committee members for positions in September to help plan, organise and hols events. If you think you can spare a few hours please get in touch.

We are looking for helpers for our inflatable bouncing bonanza. If you can spare a few hours to help man the inflatables 5-7 pm please let us know.

Or fill in the form below

Fill | Event helpers Friday 7th July 5-7pm 

RE. Sports day postponed

Dear Parents and Carers,

Due to the high chance of rain throughout the day, we will be postponing all Sports Day events. A new date for the will be shared shortly. We are sorry that Sports Day cannot take place today however, the likelihood of rain is high and a wet field/ sports track has meant that we have to postpone.

Yours sincerely

Richard Chandler

Headteacher

Friday 7th July, 5-7pm on the school field.
We will have face glitter, hair braids, and tombolas alongside our inflatables. We will be serving hot food - burgers and sausages in a bun, chips, crisps and drinks.
There will be two options for paying £10 wristband per child, which gives unlimited inflatable fun or £3 per go.
We look forward to seeing you there!!

Please can all donations be brought into school for Friday to allow time to crate the rainbow hampers. We really appreciate the support you have given us over this school year.

Movie night was huge success!!

Last call for movie night …
Sign up will close lunch time Friday to allow registers to be made. You can sign up via the link below or the school office.

We have been made aware of an issue with the movie night link

https://forms.office.com/r/19TiQ3wJVM

This should be the correct form

* Open to the nursery children who will be starting reception in September *

Frozen Friday was a sell out … thank you so much for those who supported us by buying an ice pop and thank you to our year 5/6 helpers.

Frozen Friday today after school on the back field.
50p an ice pop 😎

Ice pops or ice poles? Mmmm what do you call them ?

Who wants to join us for our first frozen Friday of 2023??
The PTA will be selling ice pops on the backfield after school every Friday until the end of term (weather depending)
Ice pops are 50p each and you can buy as many as you like.
Please be aware if there is a queue your child may be slightly later home than usual.
We will be raising money to replace the the 🪩discobus/partyrocker/boombox🪩…. In time for the year 6 production 🌪️🏚️👠👠🧙🏼‍♀️

To be able to hold our summer fair we need lots of volunteers, something which has rapidly declined over the last few years as children move on.
Instead of a summer fair we are looking to hold an inflatable fun event on Friday 7th July 5-7 pm. A Giant assault course, loopy ladder, maybe even it’s a knock out, a rodeo bull and a bouncy castle for the smaller people. We would put on food and refreshments, face painting and tombolas BUT we need your help. Is anyone able to offer a couple of hours to help at this event? It could be setting up, watching the inflatables, serving refreshments or packing away at the end.
We wont be able to organise it without enough volunteers and we would hate to have to fold.. 😞
If you can help at our inflatable event or would like more information please fill in the google form below and someone will be in touch.

We will also looking for class reps.
A class rep is someone who liaises with the parents in the class either by messenger groups or what’sap. I know most year groups have a year group chat and the clas rep will be in charge of posting a gentle reminder about events coming up.
I will also add this to the bottom of the form.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAANAATPwTf5UMEVCRk4wR0EzWDBPVENOVFJCMzhYQ1ZDRi4u

Thank you for your support
Kelly and the PTA team

Fill | Event helpers Friday 7th July 5-7pm 

Ice pops or ice poles? Mmmm what do you call them ?

Who wants to join us for our first frozen Friday of 2023??
The PTA will be selling ice pops on the backfield after school every Friday until the end of term (weather depending)
Ice pops are 50p each and you can buy as many as you like.
Please be aware if there is a queue your child may be slightly later home than usual.
We will be raising money to replace the the 🪩discobus/partyrocker/boombox🪩…. In time for the year 6 production 🌪️🏚️👠👠🧙🏼‍♀️

So today we gave our year 6 children their leavers hoodies. Don’t they look so smart! They were so grateful and so appreciative of them, a truly fantastic group of mini humans who will achieve great things !

What an amazing experience our year 6 children have had this week. Can’t wait to hear all about it tomorrow. A massive thank you to Mrs Kirkman and Mr Challenger for taking them and staying over. Memories they will remember forever.