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Friends of the District
Our Annual General Meeting this year is Friday 28 April 2017 at 3.30 followed by our general Friends Meeting. Please take the time to come along to see the work of Friends and lend a hand. The meetings are very informal, come along to the Bookworms’ Library. Our current membership is as follows: Chair – Claire Ledson, Secretary – Lisa Isherwood, Treasurer – Karen Cliffe, Trustees – Gill Tickle, Diane Bate, Mandy Platt, Julie Clewes
Current News
Friends are currently raising funds to develop a sensory/spiritual garden. Our meetings are held every half term on a Friday from 3.30 and last approximately 1 hour. A creche is usually available. Everyone is welcome. If you cannot commit to join us for the meeting, please give us your support by helping out at the many events we are planning this year, or by coming along to the events. Please contact one of the committee members for more details or speak to the school office. Fundraising this year has so far including designing Christmas Cards to sell to families and friends and a Christmas Fair, which was a huge success. Breakfast with Santa was held for the first time this year which proved very popular with the children. Friends put in two bids for funding towards a sensory/spiritual garden. Unfortunately they were not successful and we are currently fundraising to raise money to support the school in this project. Friends supported staff at the school during the Race for Life Event and also the Queens Birthday Celebrations Garden Party. Since the last AGM in April 2016, Friends have given the following donations:- £50 to Just Giving Cancer Research for School Race for Life Event in July 2016. This proved to be a success raising nearly £3,000. Friends also provided all participants with a bottle of water during the event. £500 to District Events to purchase prizes during the year £400 to fund a Christmas gift for every child in the school Picture St Johns Church Crow Ln E, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside WA12 Our Friends of District raise funds to help enrich the school curriculum. All parents/carers are invited to attend meetings and are warmly invited to lend a hand where possible.
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Latest News
Take a look at our latest news posts below
Y2B and The Great Fire of London
The children in Y2B have had an interesting time learning about Samuel Pepys and The Great Fire of London. We traveled back in time and listened to how the events unfolded way back in 1666 in a question and answer session with Samuel Pepys AKA Mrs...
Little Stars
The children settled well into Little Stars life and lots of wonderful friendships were made right from the start. Our Autumn term has been packed with fun filled activities which the children have thoroughly enjoyed. Exciting stories, colour and shape...
Autumn Reception
Our new Reception class settled very quickly into our daily routine. The children were very excited to explore our setting. We enjoyed exploring the story of the Gingerbread Man, we decided to make some of our own. We used a recipe book to find out which...
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