On Monday, the children had a visit from Heidi Gomes who is a volunteer School Ambassador with The Lunchbowl Network.

The Lunchbowl Network was set up fifteen years ago to help orphaned and vulnerable children living in Kiberia, which is a very poor district of Nairobi in Kenya. Initially, the charity offered 450 children a good lunch on a Saturday; now they provide the children with access to education and route out of poverty through their two nurseries and primary school. During Monday’s assembly, the children learnt about the work Lunchbowl do with The Brothers Trust, another local charity foundation run by the actor Tom Holland’s family. Together they fund two coaches to take the children to and from the schools and run a rugby club and lunch programme on Sundays too.

In July 2018, on the last day of term, Fern Hill children donated their school shoes to the children Lunchbowl support and it was lovely to hear how excited they were to receive and wear them! Next week we will be fundraising for Lunchbowl children again by selling pocket money gifts made by their families. These beautiful, hand-made items will be on sale every day after school, outside school reception, and include soapstone hearts, hippos and dishes, bracelets and beaded and wooden keyrings. Prices range from £1 - £4 for these perfect stocking fillers! Just £1 will feed three children with Lunchbowl, so please do come along and have a look.  

You can find out more about the work of The Lunchbowl Network here. 

PSA News and Events

Thank you for your festive donations!

A big thank you to everyone who has so generously donated to our Family Present Stall. We’ve received a wonderful selection of gifts for the KS1 children to choose from at the event on Friday 13^th December. If you still have items that you’d like to donate, please bring them in to school reception next week up until Wednesday 11^th. Thank you as well to all those parents and children who donated either money or gifts on the gates this morning in aid of the PSA’s Christmas fundraising. We really appreciate your support.

KS2 Festive Disco – Friday 13^th December – tickets have now sold out!

We’re delighted that the disco tickets have sold so well and we’re sure this brand-new event will be a fabulous festive celebration for the older children. Please remember that there are two separate discos during the evening of Friday 13^th December: one for Years 3 and 4 from 4.15 to 5.15pm and one for Years 5 and 6 from 6.00pm to 7.00pm. For both discos, doors will open 15 minutes before the disco starts to allow children to be signed in. We’d also ask that children are collected promptly at the end of each disco please.

Please note that all children must be signed in on arrival, and signed out when they are collected, by an appropriate adult aged over 16. Tree Tops staff will not be able to accompany children and sign them in or out. No mobile phones are allowed at this event – any phones found will be taken for safekeeping by staff. There is no need for children to bring cash but they should bring water bottles with them.

KS1 Present Stall for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 – Friday 13^th December

We’re looking forward to our very first Family Present Stall for KS1 next week. As this is a school fundraising event, we’re asking for a donation of £2 per child and of course you’re very welcome to give more if you wish. Children should hand their money in an envelope to their class teacher during next week. We’re sure the younger children are looking forward to this special event!

Thank you to all our lovely volunteers!

The PSA would like to say a massive thank you to all those parents who have so kindly volunteered to help at all our festive events next week. Without your support, these events couldn’t happen so we really do appreciate your commitment.

Christmas tree sales continue this weekend

Don’t forget that the Christmas tree sales outside school continue this weekend from 9.00am to 3.00pm on Sat and Sun. 50% of all the money raised from the tree sales will go directly to Fern Hill, so please do get your tree from them and support out school! Last year, these tree sales raised a fantastic £630. The trees will also be on sale for one more weekend on Sat 14^th and Sun 15^th December.

Easy Fundraising

Thank you to all those parents who have signed up to support Fern Hill PSA via easyfundraising. It’s a very simple and free way to raise extra money for our school while doing your online shopping. If you haven’t yet signed up, please register at the following link: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/fernhillpsa

You can also download the handy easyfundraising app to remind you when shopping online.

Thank you for your support

Fern Hill PSA