Registered charity number 1069704 Friends of Clavering is a very active organisation which enables parents to become involved in another aspect of school life.  Every parent is automatically a member of the Association.  The Friends of Clavering School, through its committee, organises many events such as Summer and Christmas fetes, dances and quiz nights and raises funds for a variety of projects for the school. 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Despite the restrictions due to COVID-19 the Friends of Clavering Committee has already been hard at work, although there have been a few changes over the summer.  We say a sad goodbye to our Chair for the last two years, Andrea Vaughan – thanks for all your hard work and dedication to the Committee.  Taking over the role as Co-Chairs are Tracy Pemberton and Anna Gawthorpe who are very pleased to be taking on the challenge of this year’s fundraising. Despite the short school year, we managed to raise over £11,000 last year, purchasing the last remining interactive classroom white boards, assisting with the costs of the Reception and Year 1 playground improvements, and providing forest school leadership training. Thank you so much for your contributions, as always it’s the parents that support our activities and we are very grateful. This year is going to be challenging with regards to fundraising activities, but the Committee have come up with some great ideas already and we are positive that we can hold some fun events for the children and raise money to support his years projects, which are to purchase iPads and laptops to support the schools IT program. Dates for your Diary Fun Run – the children will be running in classroom bubbles around the school playing field, between the 12-22 October – donations collected on line using the following link: www.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/ClaveringFunRun Bag2School – 20th October  – please bring your bags of clothes, bedding towels etc at school drop off and leave them on the grassed area opposite the school office. Pumpkin Carving Competition  – 20th October– carve your best pumpkin, take a photo and upload it to your team’s page – the teachers will award the best in each class. With our online donations working well on the Virgin Money Giving page, if you would like to donate in addition to our regular events or even set up a monthly donation this can now be completed using the following link: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/finalCharityHomepage.action?charityId=1010732 All donations will be added to the Friends of Clavering Fundraising efforts. If you would like to contact the committee, with any ideas, queries, or would like to help or join us, please don’t hesitate to contact Tracy and Anna using the FOC email address: As always, thanks so much for supporting the Friends of Clavering, and we hope you enjoy the first term back. Friends of Clavering Newsletter Oct 2020 Final (1)     Spring 2019 FRIENDS OF CLAVERING SPRING NEWS LETTER Dear All, Happy New Year & welcome back to the spring term! The Friends of Clavering fund-raising team had a busy winter term, with huge support from our parent community and from the children! We hope you all enjoyed your Christmas  gifts chosen by the children at their own shopping morning experience! The Christmas Fayre was well-attended & raised approximately £1000, which is fabulous! And we were able to invite Calamity Clown to host  our annual entertainment event for the children, whilst the staff enjoyed a well-earned Christmas lunch! **did you know? FOC has given over £75,000 to school projects in the last 7 years??!!** As you know, our aim this year is to raise enough money to fund 5 brand new interactive white boards for each classroom and with your support and donations, we have already been able to put in an order for 3!! So well done and thank you, your help is appreciated. Forthcoming dates for your diary: The ever-popular Band Night is  9th feb, doors open at 7.30pm, tickets only £10 (no sales on the door due to restrictions). Get your tickets from Rachel Betts, Charlie Balaam, Bev Bailey  or Andrea Vaughan, see you there! 💃 Valentines disco – 14th feb, ks1, 5-6pm, ks2 6-7pm, ticket form will be in book bags. QUIZ NIGHT- 2nd March. Pit your wits against the teachers! Get a table of 8 together for a fun night out – chilli supper & cheese board included. £12.50 pp EASTER CRAFT FAYRE – 3rd April; lots of lovely Easter crafts for the kids in the hall! Games, egg hunt and café too! Should you, or anyone you know, ever want to donate to our fund-raising campaign privately, we now have a Virgin Moneygiving page. This can be found on the website https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/giving/ and searching ‘friends of clavering school’ – quiz night tickets can also be bought on this site!! All donations go directly to school fund-raising. You may be aware that there have been changes to the committee as older members stand down & new members step up; your co-chairs are now Rachel Betts & Andrea Vaughan (see photo if you don’t know us!!) Rachel has run FOC for 5 years now, and is ready to hand over the reins to a new team, headed up by Andrea, from Sept 2019. We are always in need of new committee members, now more than ever, so if you would like to help raise funds for the school, join a fun team & get to know lots … Continue reading Friends of Clavering School