Friends of Gotham School - FOGS

12/11/2025

Christmas is coming, watch out for stars coming home later in the month…. 🎄🎅🏻

12/10/2025

📣It’s Penny Wars time ….. The class with the most pennies win a special treat 🎉

03/10/2025

🎃🦇👻 It's competition time!
HALLOWEEN WREATHS
We've now entered the month of Halloween and it's time to get spooky!
All children are welcome to enter our challenge to make the spookiest Halloween wreath.
As we like to do at FOGS, this is a free to enter competition and there will be a spooktacular winning prize for each year group.
With the stormy weather this weekend why not get out those crafts and let your child(ren) get creative!

03/09/2025

👋We hope everyone had an enjoyable summer break and all the children have had a fabulous first day back. ☀️🎒

This was the last year for myself as Chair, and Helen as treasurer - we now hand over the reins to the rest of FOGS committee.

But as Helen and I say goodbye, we would like to thank everyone for supporting us and we leave you with our roundup of the 24/25 year in our newsletter.

Find out how much we raised, what we spent money on and how you can help.

Thank you and farewell, Lisa 👋

02/08/2025

We may have been one of the last schools in the country to have broken up... but we got there. 😁 It was wonderful to see so many people celebrating on the park after school on Tuesday and our y6 having a mega water fight 💧🎈 🔫

Happy summer holidays to you all. We hope you all have a wonderful break and enjoy making memories. 🌞🎉

At FOGS HQ, like you, we'll be spending time with our families, but our newsletter 📰 will be sent out in a couple of weeks to share with you how much you have helped raise 💰, what we have funded 🤑 and a bit about the future of FOGS. 😁

Enjoy the holidays; they'll be over before you know it ☺️.

25/07/2025

Can you remember back to March 30th when the awesome Pippa and her mum, Nicole, ran 5km to raise money for FOGS and achieved an incredible £365? 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️💰

Given that she raised such a spectacular amount - we wanted this money to be visible for each class to recognise the power of fundraising - so FOGS topped that up (only by £10) and have given each class £75 to spend on their choice of goodies 😁

For some this will be craft items, maybe games, outdoor toys - or maybe even a foodie treat.

We will soon be sharing our end of year newsletter; so please read it, share it and help us continue building something that we can all be proud of. 😍

22/07/2025

We hope everyone is looking forward to welcoming our visitors from Wonderdome tomorrow. 🎉😁

Another superb opportunity for our children to have a fun experience whilst learning about the Solar System. 🌍☀️🌒🌙

15/07/2025

Wowzers - thank you for all for your show of support today. 😍

We hope you all enjoyed yourselves maybe won a prize, partook in some circus skills and had a look in an emergency vehicle. 🏆🤹‍♂️🚒

One last thank you from FOGS before the end of term - we have more visitors coming in next week 😲

WONDERDOME 🌎🚀🧑‍🚀
https://wonderdome.co.uk/ will be bringing their 3.7m high inflatable planetarium.

WonderDome mobile planetarium shows are presenter-led, curriculum-focused to inspire the next generation of space explorers. 5 star reviews

15/07/2025

MINI SUMMER FAIR: 3:30pm – 5:00pm 🎉

A reminder that straight after school tonight we are hosting Gotham’s first mini summer fair – we may not be able to count on the weather, but we can hopefully count on your support! 🥳🙏

In school today we have Shooting Stars Circus Skills 🤹‍♂️🤹‍♀️and they are staying for the Summer Fair so your children can share with you what they’ve been learning and perhaps you can have a go 😁– at no charge, funded by FOGS.

Along with Circus Skills, we will have several stalls –
Tombola 🎟️
Stick Lotto 🍭
Guess the Weight of the Sweets 🍬
Play your Cards Right ♠️♥️♦️♣️
Fun Toys to purchase ⚽🎈👑
Refreshments 🍩☕🫖🥤🍪
And fingers crossed for no local emergencies so that the police and fire can attend. 🚓🚒

We had hoped to operate a token system and payments by card, but unfortunately this hasn’t been possible, so it will be CASH ONLY. 💰🪙💵

So even if the rain arrives - you can keep dry in the hall, be entertained and make memories! 😍

10/07/2025

Class of 2025 Leavers
Last Saturday evening our amazing y6 class had their prom at Barton Village Hall – it was an amazing night, celebrating how much they have grown over the years and the future they hold in their hands.
CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2025 – Keep being awesome!

08/07/2025

SPORTS DAY REFRESHMENTS 🥐☕🍪🧃

The weather is looking to be kind to us once again this year. 🌞
We will be selling refreshments in the morning (in the hall) whilst the children are getting ready:
Teas, coffees, a wide selection of soft drinks, water, pastries and biscuits/cookies.

***CASH ONLY – please bring change if possible*** 💰🪙

During the event, refreshments (except hot drinks) will be available on the field and there will be an honesty box to leave payment. We would just like to remind everyone that all money raised goes to school. 😁

Have a great morning. 👋

20/06/2025

We're on countdown to our summer fair.

Now is the time to have a clear out of any good-quality items you no longer need or any unused items - Anything that someone else can love - We’d love to find it a new home and any items can be dropped at reception.
• unwanted gifts
• preloved toys, games and books
• toiletries