The Friends of Gowerton Primary Welcomes You!

All parents, carers, guardians, grandparents and staff are automatically members of the 'Friends of Gowerton Primary'and are welcome to attend meetings and get involved. 

If you have any contact or skills we could use then please let us know – everything is potentially valuable to us.

We meet regularly to discuss ways in which we can fundraise and help our wonderful school. Everyone is invited to follow us on our facebook page via the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/friendsofgowertonprimary

or contact us via e-mail at:

friendsofgowerton@gmail.com

If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions or want to get involved in anyway we would love to hear from you!

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We had an amazing time at the Easter Disco. DJ Dan was fantastic and all the children who attended had a fantastic time dancing and singing away!  Through ticket sales, the sale of sweets, crisps and hotdogs at the disco and also the money raised from the silent auction, we have raised enough money to support the school in two more projects happening during the summer term.

• The first of these projects is for Nina John, a fantastic local artist to come into school and create a mural, with the children, for the front of our school.
• The second project will be for the 'Welsh Whisperer' to inspre the children to create a unique new song for Gowerton Primary School.

Thank you so much for supporting us over the past few months, we are looking forward to hearing and seeing about the wonderful learning experiences the children are able to be involved in because of the money you helped raise!

MEETINGS

The next FoG meeting will be held in the school Community Room,

Wednesday 10th May at 2.15-3.15. 

Come along, have a cuppa and share your ideas, we would love to see you there.

FoG meeting notes 24/4/23

1. Preloved uniform shop
• The next event will run Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th May after school (FoG members required to look after the shop during this time)
• Mrs Smale is to be asked to advertise this on this week’s newsletter & via seesaw.
• Elizabeth to be asked to advertise via our Facebook page.

2. Joe’s Ice cream
• It was agreed to ask Joe’s for 2 freezers (Mrs Smale said this is what we had last time as one wasn’t enough) and order 4x12 each of strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, mint, salted caramel & bubblegum making 288 tubs in total. We would like to start this on Friday 5th May, so delivery needs to be before then.
• FoG members needed to sell ice-cream after school from 3pm to catch pm nursery.
• Mrs Smale to be asked to advertise on the newsletter.
• Elizabeth to be asked to advertise on our Facebook page.
• Kate to sort upfront payment for Joes – either by transfer or by leaving a cheque with Mrs Smale.
• Mrs Smale & school council will sell to am nursery at 11:30am to make sure they aren’t left out.

3. Half term trail
• Fiona will organise a trail for half term using Rachel’s idea of decorating a crown for a theme.
• This can be sold via school as previously.
• Addresses are needed for the trail in the area behind Tesco.

4. Sports Day (23rd June or 7th July)
• Rachel will ask for a voucher from Tesco & Fiona will ask Asda so we can purchase fruit for whichever date sports day goes ahead. If we ask for donations and it’s cancelled we’ll be stuck with the fruit!

• Elizabeth to ask the ice cream van to come again.
• Bethan to ask a catering van to sell teas, coffees, cold drinks & food.

5. Summer Disco
• Provisionally booked for Thursday 6th July – Mrs Quick will confirm with school, Elizabeth to ask DJ Dan again. Little ones straight after school until 4:30pm, older ones 4:45-5:45pm.
• If its nice weather, maybe these could be held in the yard so Dan can use his foam machine.
• FoG will sell crisps, sweets, chocolate & ice cream.

6. Yr 6 leavers gifts
• It was agreed to stick with geometry sets as our gift, as they get given sweets, memory books & other things from school.
• Kate to be asked to order these – 50 required.

7. We have reached our fundraising goal of approx. £850 to pay for a commissioning of a mural by Nina John, a local artist, who will create the picture with the children, and also for the ‘Welsh Whisperer’ to work within the school to create a new school song with the children.

Kate needs to discuss with Mrs Smale how to transfer the money.
Elizabeth can put on Facebook & Bethan on the website what our money is being used for.

8. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 10th May at 2:15pm to further plan the summer term events and discuss how nursery can be included in FoG activities.

A huge Thank you to everyone who supported us at the Christmas Fair. With your help we managed to raise over £1000! The money raised helped the school to buy PE equipment.