Ashington CE Primary School

 

MESSAGE FROM FACES

 

Update Message from FACES

Dear Parents and Carers,

Following on from our fireworks event on Friday 10th November FACES would like to thank everyone who came along and supported the event and all those who worked hard to make the evening a success.

We are delighted to announce that we raised over £7000 during the evening which is an incredible amount for the school and the most we have ever raised at a single event.

Special thanks to all those who were able to help on a stall, especially the school children and ex-students who gave up their time, as it simply wouldn’t be possible without you.

A huge thank you to our main sponsors:

Charles Muddle Ltd Scrap Merchants and Cubitt & West Estate Agents for their ongoing support and generosity.

We are fortunate that we have many generous local businesses who are happy to sponsor our events, and we ask that you support them when possible. Over the next few weeks each of our sponsors will be given one advertising post on our FACES Facebook page.

*Bell Leisure Swimming Pools.

*RDA Pest Control and Garden Services.

*RH20 Fitness gym, classes and personal training.

*Taps and Toilets plumbing.

As always, we really appreciate your feedback. Please get in touch and let us know how we can improve the event for next year.

 Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/faces.ashington or join our FACES WhatsApp group (ask your class rep if you would like to be added)

Below is a list of all the extremely kind businesses that donated prizes to our raffle. Congratulations to everyone that won a prize!

FACES are not currently planning a fundraising event for the spring term but if anyone would like to suggest / organise anything then please just get in touch.

Kind regards

Shelley Toovey

On behalf of FACES – Fundraisers of Ashington CE School

 

Raffle prizes were kindly donated by:

*Cubitt & West, *Kinsbrook Wine Estate, *The Red Lion, *The Bridge Gym, *Matthews Tennis Coaching, *Sharky’s Soft Play, *Golden Plaice, *Horsham Golf Club, *Tates at Home, *Blakes Barbers, *Flip Out Trampoline Park, *The Old Barn Garden Centre, *Amberley Working Museum, *Brighton Palace Pier, *West Sussex Golf Club, *Brighton Zip Wire Experience, *Brinsbury College, *Flying Fortress

End of Year up Date from FACES

Dear Parents and Carers,

As the end of term is quickly approaching we wanted to email and thank you all for supporting our FACES events through the last school year.

These include our annual Fireworks Extravaganza and Our Farm Walk & Family Festival, plus cakes at sports day, a school disco and numerous second-hand uniform sales.

This school year (Sept 2023-July 2024) FACES has paid for, among other things:

Transport costs for Key Stage Two - Voice in a Million Trip

Author/Illustrator visit

Writing program

Resources for the nurture room

Crackers, crafts and presents at Christmas

Musical instruments

Classroom furniture including storage trays, portable whiteboard, computer mice and a classroom whiteboard step

Essential Stationery supplies (pencils, glue sticks etc)

Ice-creams for Year six leavers

As always we would appreciate it if you are able to join the FACES Facebook group and if you are keen to get involved we also have a WhatsApp group for volunteers. Please email the school office or speak to your class rep if you would like more details. 

Have a great summer everyone. 

Fundraisers of Ashington CE School 

Dear Parents and Carers,

As the end of term is quickly approaching we wanted to email and thank you all for supporting our FACES event on Friday 28th June. We hope that those of you that were able to come had a fun evening and any feedback or suggestions you have for next year's event (or for our upcoming Fireworks event) will be hugely appreciated. 

A massive thank you to the fantastic band, The Other's Brothers who very generously donated their time and talent to us for free. They really were awesome and made the evening extra special. 

Thank you also to the local business who sponsored our stalls including Cubitt & West, Bell Leisure, Investor Build Ltd, RH20 Fitness, Toovey’s Auctioneers, Swains Farm Shop and Four Seasons Fuel.

Thank you to Helen from Ashington Youth Club, Holly from Chanctonbury Churches and Matt from Bluebell Bushcraft for bringing some fun games and activities for the children.

And thank you to all the teachers, school staff and parents that helped on the evening and with the organising. We couldn't do it without you. 

We are delighted to let you know that we raised nearly £2500 at the event for our school.

 We would also like to thank all the local businesses who donated prizes for our raffle, which by itself made nearly £800. The list of companies who donated can be found below.

Best wishes

Fundraisers of Ashington CE School 

Raffle prize donors:

Cubitt and West, The Beauty Attic, The Big Plant Nursery, Village Flair, The Bicycle Exchange

Clip & Climb Broadbridge Heath, Bluebell Bushcraft, The Village Larder, Hats Healing Hands

Clip & Climb Crawley, Fishers Farm, Drusillas Zoo, Flip Out, Bockets Farm, Golden Plaice

The Red Lion,Matthews Tennis, Vanilla Pod, Blakes Grooming, Wiston Vineyard

Beauty by Ellie, Paradise Park, Leonardslee Gardens, Findon Manor Hotel

The Old Barn Garden Centre, Football 4 Kids, Squires Garden Centre, Ashington Autos

CR Therapies yoga and massage, Monza Sport

 

A group of parents joined together to create a carnival float for this years Ashington Festival.

The theme 100 years of Disney was chosen with the “Up” house and balloons being the float centrepiece.

Ashington pupils were delighted to be awarded first prize and came away with two trophies, a rosette and £100 to be donated to FACES.

If any families would like to be involved in next years procession please get in touch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Detrey-Loader and the children would like to say:

Thank you!

A very big thank you to the fabulous volunteers who run FACES who fundraised and supported our music curriculum by purchasing 15 new glockenspiels and a class set of colourful boomwhackers.  Across the school this half term, children have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with, playing and composing using these wonderful resources.

If you would like to keep up to date with FACES information please consider joining our Facebook group “FACES (Fundraisers of Ashington CE School)”.

We also have a WhatsApp group for parents who are interested in helping to organise or volunteer at school events. If you would like to be added to that please let your Class Rep know.

For more information please contact Shelley Toovey via the school office or your class rep.

Current class reps are:

Reception Class – TBC

Year One – Katie Marsh, Rosalind Pollard

Year Two  – Kathryn Stewart-Vernon
Year Three – Eleanor McMichael
Year Four – Heidi Wilson and Claire Sandhu

Year Five – Jane Smith and Marie Teasdale
Year Six - Ann Walker, Lyndsey Daniel and Jo O’Reilly

If any other Year One, Two or Reception Class parents would be interested in becoming Class Reps please contact me via the school office or our Facebook group as it is always nice to have two (or three) for each class.

Many thanks

Shelley Toovey

Friends of Ashington CE School (FACES) are delighted to have been chosen this year as one of the Co-op’s Local Causes.
If you are already a Co-op member you probably will have received an email asking you to choose your cause for this year.
If you nominate a cause, every time you buy Co-op branded goods over the next year they will donate 1% of what you spend to your community. We would be very grateful if you would consider choosing FACES as your local cause for the upcoming year. https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes

FACES offers opportunities through fundraising, to guide pupils through their first stage of life with the aim of setting them off on the right path. Our fundraising is essential to the school budget, enabling pupils to enjoy treats as well as contributing towards basic and much-needed essentials.

If you are not a Co-op member please consider following this link https://www.coop.co.uk/membership to sign up. 1% may not sound like a huge amount but believe us, this can add to hundreds (even thousands) of pounds. It only takes a few minutes to complete the form and seconds to swipe your membership card when you shop. As well as donating money to your local cause you will also receive 5% of what you spend put back into your own Co-op account. You’ll be surprised how quickly it can add up.

Thank you in advance for your support
FACES

PS – Please find us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/563334177177605/

 

“Our Facebook page is a great way of finding out what events are coming up and how you can help, please click on this link. Also we’d love your feedback and suggestions for any future fundraising events.”