Longnor CE School is lucky to have a busy, active School Circle. Our School Circle holds four main aims:
- To regularly bring together the wider family of the school – children, parents, carers, teachers, grandparents and local community – in order to connect, socialise and support each other.
- To create memories for our children outside the classroom. The giggles from the Duck Race and the thrills from the Halloween Disco will echo down the years.
- To raise funds for those ‘extras’, that can’t be met by the annual budget.
- To help our teachers to provide the richest curricular and extracurricular activities, making school a pleasure and giving our children the best start in life.
Events
School Circle provides the drinks and nibbles after the Harvest Festival, Carol Service, Easter Service and Leavers Service – a lovely opportunity to catch a few moments with other families before heading home. It also caters for and hosts the children’s Christmas party.
Further events and fundraising typically include:
- Halloween Disco
- Duck Race
- Recycling second hand clothes
- Selling Christmas cards the children have made
- Frost Fayre
- Easter Egg Hunt
- Easter Disco
- Summer Show
- Bags for School
- 100 Club
Where does the money go?
School circle fundraising, pupil and family events have enabled the following this year:
£3,200 of termly donations – which contribute towards subsidising the school trips, £500 school swimming donation as well as extra donations towards Christmas parties etc. We have also given an extra donation of £2,200 which went towards phonically decodeable books, the new defibrillator and the new agility trail equipment as well as other acitivites.
How can I help?
Every family automatically becomes a member of the School Circle when a child joins Longnor CE School, becoming as active as they wish in helping to organise events and fundraising activities.
All are welcome at the monthly meetings, which are light-hearted and fairly informal, but even if you can’t attend there are still many ways you can get involved at whatever level suits your circumstances and skillset.
We do have a Chairperson and Treasurer, but like the knights of old, every parent or carer has an equal place in the circle. The more voices heard, and the more hands helping, the better.