Hello,
We hope you all had a great half term! Well done to Reception & Nursery and Year 1 who respectively raised £184 and £207 with their cake sales just before the break, and a big thank you to all bakers, sellers and buyers.
Our next meeting will be this Friday 7 June at 9am at school. You will find the agenda here, please join us if you can. We are looking for committee members and volunteer organisers for next year’s events, so please come along if you have any questions or suggestions. Alternatively you can email frogs.grasmere@gmail.com with your queries and ideas.
We will be discussing the ideas for a new mural in the hall; the garden project; the purchase of basketball hoops and chess picnic tables for the playground. Many thanks to all the FROGS who have been working on these various projects!
LEAVING GIFTS & PARTY
Thank you to everyone who helped us give Patsy an amazing leaving gift of over £1,200. She says:
“Wow I am speechless! Thank so much I am overwhelmed with all that support. Please thank everyone for me.”
Sadly Grasmere’s caretaker Billy is also leaving us this year and he is hoping for a little party on Tuesday 2 July – and perhaps Patsy will be able to join too. Please get in touch if you can help organise something after school on 2 July.
Of course we’re also collecting for his leaving gift, you can donate here.
And we are also collecting for Neela’s leaving gift, you can donate here.
GRASMERE CHESS TOURNAMENT
We’re very lucky to count among our talented FROGS the International Chess Champion Ruth Sheldon, who was a World Girls’ Chess Champion and played for the England Women's Olympic Team. She says:
“I started playing chess at primary school and fell in love with the game. I soon started travelling to play children from all around the world, including in India, Brazil, and Poland. More recently, I taught chess in local primary schools and am very excited to be part of Grasmere's first ever tournament!”
You can still buy your tournament ticket here. This is a friendly competition and everyone is welcome to join, children, parents, friends and neighbours… You don’t need to be a champion, just to enjoy the game! Thank you to Chess In School who are providing some great prizes. Of course non-chess players are welcome too, and there will also be lots of free, fun activities for the kids.
As ever we are very grateful for any cake donations for this event, so if you can bake something for this Friday, please let us know!
ENTERPRISE FAIR
Also coming up very soon is our Enterprise Fair – we have a few stalls left, please book here. Your kids can raise money for themselves or their favourite charities. Please invite friends, neighbours and family to see what the budding entrepreneurs have come up with.
Please also save the date for our Summer fair on Saturday 13 July!
Thank you and take care,
FROGS