Hello everyone,
A very warm welcome back to all our Handsworth Primary families and a huge welcome to new parents and carers of our brand new Reception classes, Ms. Halsey and Ms. O'Connor.
We're a small band of people, a friendly bunch consisting of parents, carers and staff, all with busy lives but with one main aim and that's to raise money to enrich our children's time at school. This is how we do it
1.Talk to each other, sometimes meet face to face, socialise and keep in touch via our WhatsApp group.
2. Organise events. Pamper evenings, Children's discos, Scarecrow trails, Summer Fetes, Quiz nights, Comedy Nights, Christmas Fayres, Cake sales, Book events, to name but a few.
It sounds simple enough doesn't it and we have forged some amazing friendships at the same time as having loads of fun and the satisfaction of watching everyone enjoying themselves.
But the problem is there are only a few of us, we all work, we all have families and very little spare time. So it's not easy to get everything done, there's so much more we could do if our band of helpers was bigger.
This is where you come in and the good news is, you're already part of our school community so you're halfway there!
We desperately need...
a) New members with fresh ideas, willing to help organise our events
b) Volunteers at those events to help run stalls and games, set up and clear away
c) Connections! Do you know anyone in a business who might be able to support our events in some way? Donations, tickets, match funds?
d) Can you bake? Food always features in our events!
(All events at school have now been either cancelled or postpone).
You can get in touch to let us know if you can help in any way via our
Friends of Handsworth Facebook page, email the office or ask via your class whatsup group, there is a FOH representative on each class that feeds everyone else our fundrasing events details.
If you're not able to help with any of that, don't worry, the greatest way of supporting our fund raising is to attend our events, checking if your employer supports
MATCHING FUND SCHEMES, use
EASYFUNDRASING when shopping online or just donate via our events website at
www.pta-events/friendsofhandsworth/
Dates to remember:
AGM 2020 (9
th October 8pm – Zoom Call)
Christmas cards (End October or Beginning of November)
Hallowen Virtual Ballon race (Starts on 31
st October)
Virtual Christmas Raffle (27
th November)
Virtual Quiz Night (BIG PTA QUIZ 2020?? (27
th November 7:30pm)
Virtual Elf's visit (14
th December)
Krispy Kreme doughnuts sale (18
th December 2:30pm)
Calendar for 2020/21
Inflatables course + Krispy Kreme sale (31
st March 2:30pm)
Comedy Night (14
th May 7:30pm)
Scarecrow Trail (22
nd May)
International Day (TBC)
Summer Fete (26
th June 11am)
Inflatables course + Krispy Kreme sale (22
nd July 2:30pm)
AGM 2021 (8
th October 9:15am)
Quiz Night (15
th October 7:30pm)
Christmas Fayre (26
th November or 3
rd December)
We promise food, fun and friendship so you are all welcome!
We hope to see you soon
