Friends of Payhembury School

At the FOPS AGM held recently, we officially announced the total figure that was raised over the course of the last academic year to be a whopping £7,536, which equates to £75 per child! As we always say – this is only possible due to a huge commitment and effort from parents & the wider community. Special thanks, of course must once again go to Payhembury Provisions, who generously donated £2,300 towards our grand laptop appeal. AGM news: George Searle stood down as co-chair of FOPS at the meeting. George’s pragmatic & focused approach played a huge part in our enormously successful […]

 Everyone who came along to the school disco last week seemed to have a brilliant time – some great dancing, fun & games (and that was just from the teachers!). Thank you to Rob Elsom for his brilliant DJ-ing, and to all the children for keeping the dancing going. We must have beaten a world record for the biggest (and longest!) game of musical statues. An amazing total of £323 was raised on the evening – what a great way to kick start our Grand Appeal for new laptops. Thank you all for your support

Don’t miss out on these fun events: Thursday 28th February FOPS School Disco Saturday 30th March FOPS School Bingo

The end of year disco is rapidly approaching – please see below for details. This is our last event of the year (we aren’t organising a Kidz Café) and have tried to keep costs down to enable as many children as possible to come. The DJ for the evening is Rob Elson – Sam’s dad! He demo-ed for us at the Easter Bingo and we thought he was good enough to invite back! We would like to decorate the hall – if you have any disco lights or similar we could borrow we would be really grateful. As with all […]

What a fantastic day we had for our annual May Day Fair. The children, the weather and even the dogs were brilliant. We are so lucky to have such community support for our school events and we are sure all those that came had a great time. We are immensely proud to announce that we raised well over £1,000 profit, the most we have ever raised at our May Day Fair. We are still finalising figures, so will report the exact amount in a future newsletter. A huge well done and thank you to all who came, to all the […]

Firstly a date for the diary:                                       Ground Force Day It’s our first ground force day tomorrow, starting at 2pm. We’ll be concentrating on clearing the wild area in preparation for the children being able to use it later this year. Please do come along, armed with your toughest garden equipment if you can!     New Art Equipment We’re delighted to announce the school has just taken delivery of £700 worth of art equipment! Each classroom now has its own age-specific […]

Bingo A date for the diary – our next fundraiser is a family bingo on Saturday 10th March. This is the first bingo FOPS has organised in a while and we hope it will be a fun family and village event, whilst at the same time raising money for school. There will be a mufti day next Friday (2nd March) and we would be grateful if you could donate food or drink for prizes at the bingo. Look out for the leaflet which will be sent home in book bags shortly for full details.   Ground force Day Our next […]

Kids Cafe Kids Cafe will be held on Wednesday 20th December (and not the last day of term), and is the turn of Beech Class. Offerings for the cafe table from Beech Class parents gratefully received. Please leave in Reception on Wednesday morning, or bring along to the Cafe from 3.15pm, where you can enjoy a quiet cup of tea or coffee (and a moment to breath) before the festive mayhem begins! Offers of help to set up & clear down also welcomed!

We have been busy getting everything ready for Saturday’s Christmas Fair – and hope that you are able to come along & enjoy all that we have planned. The fair starts at 4pm, with the children singing at 5pm, in the school playground – dress for warmth & Christmas cheer! There will be plenty of stalls for all the family in the hall, Ash class and in the Willow shelter – so be sure to visit them all. Delicious refreshments to feed the family will be available in the Parish hall. As well as the generous donations received for the […]

Firstly a big thank you to everyone who come along to the Kids Cafe on the last day before half term. Oak class parents provided a lovely range of cakes which sold brilliantly. The game created by Alice and Gemma Millett seemed to go down well and William Brainch was the lucky winner of a jar of Smarties. Well done William and thank you to the Millets for creating the game. FOPS have a meeting on: Monday 6th November 3.30pm in the Village Hall to plan for the rest of this term. Please come along, children welcome.