Friends of Winnall Primary School | Winnall Primary School

Welcome to the FoWPS Section (formerly know as the PTA)

Who are the Friends and What do they do?

The Friends of Winnall Primary School (FoWPS) are a group of parents who organise all the fundraising events for the school. This includes the Christmas fayre, the Halloween disco, the Easter disco and the Summer fete.

This year the FoWPS have provided money towards one school trip per class. This has meant parents/carers have only had to contribute small amounts. Year R are visiting Longdown Activity Farm in July, year 1 and 2 are visiting Beaulieu at the beginning of July, year 3 and 4 went to The Sea City Museum in January and year 5 and 6 visited The Science Centre in February.

The FoWPS have this year bought every child in the school a book for World Book Day (March 2018), purchased a number of table tennis tables that have been well used in after school clubs (January 2018) and bought an Arbour Seat for the KS2 playground in the Spring.

We are always looking for new fundraising ideas
We will always welcome new Committee members - please contact the office if you are interested and your details can be passed on to our chairperson
We meet roughly once every half term to plan events and keep up to date
We also hold an AGM once a year to elect Committee members.
Most importantly, every single penny we raise through events is used for the benefit of the children.

Who's Who:

Jessica Pain - Chair
Brenda Headd - Vice Chair
Phil Dalziel - Vice Chairmen
Kirsty Atkins - Secretary
Diana Sillence - Committee Member
Claire Collins - Committee Member
Lorna Purse - Committee Member
Mine Meech - Committee Member

Our NEXT MEETING is: ???

Our NEXT EVENTS are: Easter Disco's - Thursday 28th March 2019

Our last meetings were:

Meeting about Christmas Bazaar on Fri 8th October
Meeting about Summer Fete on Friday 8th June.
Meeting about Summer Fete ideas on Friday 11th May.
Our AGM on Friday 20th April 2018 at 3.30pm.

Our latest events were

1) Christmas Bazaar - Friday 30th November - raised £1287!

2) Cake sale - 3.30pm - Thursday 18th October

3) Halloween/Firework themed school disco's - KS1 4.30pm-5.30pm & KS2 5.45pm-6.45pm.

4) Summer Fete - Friday 15th June where we raised over £1700!

Christmas Bazaar - Friday 30th November 2018

The Friends of Winnall Primary School raised £1287 from the Christmas Bazaar on Friday 30th November. Thank you to Jess and the Friends who worked hard to organise and run the bazaar. We would also like to thank the teachers who ran stalls, the very kind companies who donated some fantastic raffle prizes and of course, the people who came along an took part in the event. We hope you all had a great time.

We had fantastic raffle with lots of wonderful prizes including:

vouchers for indoor play like Marwell Adventure Barn & Kids 2Day
vouchers for Rock Up & Planet Ice
vouchers for days out to places like Butser Ancient Farm, Finkley Down Farm & Longdown Dairy Farm
a restaurant voucher for Brasserie Blanc
some craft beers from Overdraft Ale House
Beauty Vouchers from places like Hair ID & Essenziale Beauty
A voucher from Pink Petal Design for a personalised Christmas plate
4 Tickets for a Robin Hood & The Revolting Peasants at the Theatre Royal in 2019
Everyman Cinema voucher
£40 Tesco Voucher
2 x £30 shopping vouchers
AA Book Hamper
Christmas Eve Boxes
Various food, chocolate, sweet and alcohol hampers
A handmade rug
A handmade blanket

Huge THANKS to all the lovely companies and people who donated prizes

We had lots of fun stalls at the event including a Cake stall, a "Smelly" Tombola, Snowman Pom-Poms - made by year three, Pin the nose on Rudolf - made & run by year four, a Teddy Bear Tombola run by children from year six, a Chocolate & Bottle Tombola, Face painting, Glitter Tattoo's, Guess how many sweets in the jar, Christmas gifts, a Book Stall (we had some beautiful brand new books donated by the book store 'P&G Wells' in Winchester) and finally we had Guess the Weight of the Cake (see photo below of the amazing cake kindly donated by Dee's Cakes & Sugar Craft

Dee's Cakes & Sugar Craft

Summer Fete - 15th June 2018

A huge THANK YOU to the FoWPS for organising the summer fete on Friday 15th June. Also big thanks to all the Staff and Friends who ran stalls, everyone who donated prizes, sweets and cakes for the fete and everyone who helped clear up afterwards. We raised a massive £1,723.25. Also a big thank you to everyone who came along to support the event. We hope you had lots of fun.