Week commencing Monday 3 May

The Race Against the World results are in and they are incredible - medals all round and a huge amount of money raised.

PTA Meeting - this Tuesday 4 May from 7.30-8.30pm on Zoom.  We would love to see you.

Join Zoom Meeting

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The countdown is on to the Summer Fete!  We are off to the beach and we are SO excited!

 We hope you enjoy the film being shared on class what's app groups this evening.  We're aware that so many new families have joined our school since June 2019 who may not know quite what a special community event our summer fete is.  We hope this whets your appetite - we are SO excited to see all those smiling faces again IN PERSON! this year - what a celebration and coming together it will be, after so much time apart.

A link to the film is here

Two fete reminders this week

• D & G advertising boards - if you didn't have one at Christmas but are happy to or you can't host one this time or you've moved but are happy to advertise our fete in your new front yard - please email Sarah and provide the relevant details - sarahward2804@yahoo.co.uk 

• Brochure Advertising - we are drawing up lists and getting read to source advertisers for our fete brochure and general fete sponsorship.  If you own a business and would like to be part of our amazing brochure and fete or work for someone who would, then please email Emilie ptasponsorship@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk 

And keep checking the Summer Fete page on this website for more updates.

Week commencing Monday 14 December

Last week of term before Christmas! 

Christmas Fair

Huge thanks from us all to Cora, Priya, Elaine, Charlotte & Rachel for a truly magical Christmas fair on Friday.  The children LOVED it.  A whole day of fun including snow ball fights, Santa dash, disco trampolines, class room games and 45 mins in the hall with crafts, games and treats.  Thank you for your vision and incredibly hard work to plan, lead and implement this wonderful event. 

These events are always a team event, so big thanks also to all the volunteers on the day, the classes prepping, baking and making, year 1, the video teams, those sending in books & toys, the staff, Rach - our very own Queen of Christmas and everyone who contributed in every way.  It was a wonderful Christmas moment for the children - thank you all.

You can see some photos of the day on our dedicated Instagram account.  

This week

• Cookbooks - coming home on Monday!

• Class Parties - on Tuesday

• Friday - end of term Google Meets for parents (see your Parentmail), and the day the day will finish with carol singing in the playground before staggered collections (earlier than usual, see below)

Easy Fundraising

Watch our 3 minute tutorial here 

1.  Sign up to Easy Fundraising and choose to support St. Michael's CE Primary School PTA - Southfields

2. Add notifications to your chrome browser

3. Start shopping and watch out for the pop-ups asking if you want to donate

And that's it!!!! 

Website links

• The WWU is here: 

• Your class pages are here

With our thanks and appreciation to everyone this term for all the ways in which everyone has contributed to the PTA and our school community spirit in a challenging term.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas.

the PTA Committee x

Week commencing Monday 7 December

Christmas Fair - this Friday 11 December

Donations for the fair will be collected at drop off and pick up Monday and Tuesday only.  No soft toys, and primary aged toys/books only please.

Drop off any craft or biscuits you have kindly made as per your rep's instructions

Thanks so much to those who have already volunteered to help at the fair. We are in the process of checking numbers and will revert Mon with an update. If you would like to volunteer, please email pta@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk 

If you haven't paid for the Christmas fair and are able to do so, please do so here.  Also if you would usually have bought some raffle tickets, please consider making a "pay it forwards" donation.  All children will be going to the fair and no one is checking tickets - but we know we have an amazingly generous parent community.

Things to remember for Friday!

• Packed lunches (ALL pupils) - no nuts please

• A pair of gloves (for the snowball fight)

• A bag (for the goodies in the hall)

• A festive jumper to be worn over school uniform (it's Save The Children's National Christmas Jumper Day) 

• A Santa hat to participate in Mr Fink's obstacle course/the National School Games Santa Dash 

Christmas Trees

Thanks to everyone who bought trees and for collecting them as arranged yesterday. We sold a record breaking 181 which was brilliant and had a blast seeing them off to their Christmas homes. Thanks to Alex and Cyn Lee Pan and their team of helpers for running such a smooth collection process.  All the photos from the day can be seen here.

Cauliflower Cards

...are coming home on Tuesday

easyfundraising

Watch our 3 min tutorial here; https://bit.ly/33rlBcb

In short..

1.  Sign up to Easy Fundraising at www.easyfundraising.org.uk and choose to support St. Michael's CE Primary School PTA - Southfields

2. Add notifications to your chrome browser

3. Start shopping and watch out for the pop-ups asking if you want to donate

And that's it!!!!  Any questions please do email the PTA at pta@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk

Website links

• The WWU is here: https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/st-michaels-ce-school/wk-13-autumn-term-2020

• Your class pages are here https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/stmichaelsceschoolwebsitepages/home

 the PTA Committee x

Christmas Fair

Mufti day this Friday.  Cost £3 for all mufti days.  Please pay here (or contact your class reps if you'd rather pay cash).

Please buy your child's ticket for the Christmas fair if you can.  These are £5 but the children will have double the amount of time in the school hall this year (in their bubbles) and a whole day of activities.  We are not checking who has bought tickets and no child will be excluded.  However, we know that we have an incredibly generous parent community who want to contribute.  You will also have realised we're not selling raffle tickets this year - so if you are able or are a family who would usually have bought a book or two of raffle tickets - please would you consider making a "pay it forwards" donation to cover the ticket of someone who can't buy it this year.   You can pay for your child's Christmas Fair ticket here

10 second film for the Christmas fair As we can’t be a part of the Christmas fair in person we are hoping to get our families involved virtually. We are putting together a short showreel with a film for each ‘bubble’ that will be screened at the fair. And so we ask you to send in a very short video for each of your children:

Film rules:

• Videos shouldbe child specific – no cross video bubbling  per child!

• It should feature someone in the family e.g. parent grandparent, cousin, great uncle max…

• 10 seconds max per child

• Film it on any device

• Film in landscape mode

• No music

• Make it fun

• Seasons greeting or Christmas greeting to the child 

• Absolute deadline is 4th December

When your film is ready please send it to: Rebecca_wm@icloud.com and in your email please state the class of your child/children

More details on the Christmas Fair

Please see further down this page for the message sent out on Friday (it's the first item under the black 'Archived Updates' line)

Christmas Trees

Collection on Saturday morning.  Watch your email for notification confirming time when they have arrived.

As this is the time when everyone will be online spending their pennies for Christmas we wanted to let you know that, if you sign up to Easy Fundraising you will be raising money for the school by simply shopping!

It really is completely effortless once you have signed up.  Watch our 3 min tutorial above.

Join over 1.8 million people raising free donations at over 4,000 shops and sites every day the easyfundraising way! Over £30 million has already been raised for good causes.

In short;

1.  Sign up to Easy Fundraising at www.easyfundraising.org.uk and choose to support St. Michael's CE Primary School PTA - Southfields

2. Add notifications to your chrome browser

3. Start shopping and watch out for the pop-ups asking if you want to donate

Website Links

• The WWU is here: https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/st-michaels-ce-school/wk-12-autumn-term-2020

• Your class pages are here https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/stmichaelsceschoolwebsitepages/home

One sleep to advent calendar opening!

The PTA Committee x

Christmas Fair Update (Friday 27 November)

With the closure of school this week and so much happening on the home front, we decided against sending further information out about the fair.  We thought everyone has enough to deal with and to manage!  We also wanted to see how the lockdown period has gone and what the likely restrictions will be like post Dec 2.

However with the week now becoming a memory and the news that, for most of us, school is reopening on Monday, we wanted to provide an update of plans and where we are.

This morning, we have sent a detailed plan to the school outlining how we will run the actual day with regard to covid protections and safety.  We will share this with you early next week once the SLT have all had the chance to review it.  This outlines both how we will be maintaining cleaning standards during the day, keeping interaction to a minimum and how we will be protecting those who are happy to volunteer.  The initial feedback has been very positive and both the school and PTA committee / year one reps remain committed to giving a wonderful day of fun on the 11th.

As per the previous Parentmail sent, the fair will offer children three areas of entertainment.  The hall will be set up mostly as per previous years with lots of craft activities and games to play plus the secondhand toys and book stalls.  Outside there will be four areas - the snowball fight is back and we have purchase a second snow machine and lots of snow foam for all classes to enjoy, the front playground will be an obstacle course for all to enjoy and the Muga will be a Christmas disco area with trampettes, lots of cheer and dancing.  We will also have the grotto open for the younger years for story telling and photos.

Santa will visit each class with a present for every child.  The classes will also be given activity packs and a video to watch / story to tell about Christmas around the world.  

The fair will open at 9:30am and close at 2:45pm so all children will enjoy a longer day of fun this year with double the time in the hall compared to previous years.  

So we hope this provides a good idea of what will be happening on the day and an outline of the fun our children will experience.

We are looking for parental help both before and during the fair and thank those that have already volunteered.  One idea we have is to play messages from both home and abroad in the hall, wishing the children a happy Christmas.  If the public can't come to them in person, we'd love to have some festive cheer on the big screen. So if you are able to, please send in a video from yourselves or family and friends as per below.

Many thanks

Year 1 Reps and PTA Committee

Family Videos

As we can’t be a part of the Christmas fair in person we are hoping to get our families involved virtually. We are putting together a short showreel with a film for each ‘bubble’ that will be screened at the fair. And so we ask you to send in a very short video for each of your children:

Film rules:

•  Videos should be child specific – no cross video bubbling  per child!

•  It should feature someone in the family e.g. parent, grandparent, cousin, great uncle max…

•  10 seconds max per child

•  Film it on any device

•  Film in landscape mode

•  No music

•  Make it fun

•  Seasons greeting or Christmas greeting to the child 

Absolute deadline is Friday 4th December

When your film is ready please send it to: Rebecca_wm@icloud.com and in your email please state the class of your child/children

Week commencing Monday 23 November

We are all so sad that the school is physically closed this week.  This is not the news that any of us wanted to hear nor that the SLT and staff wanted to give.  We appreciate just how challenging home-schooling is for us all.  We remain the PTA, especially in these sad circumstances, working together for the good of our children.  The SLT and staff have been working incredibly hard over the weekend to put together learning for all the children on Monday.  The parent prayer group are very much in action praying for health for children and teachers and for us all as we face this challenging week.  We will all be doing the best we can this week, whatever that may look like, and we know that we are all rooting for each-other and that as classes we'll be helping each other out with tech and resources questions where-ever we can.  Just 2 reminders today:

Cookbook

There are 24 hours left to submit recipes.  Deadline is 5pm Monday 23rd Nov.  Year 2 are printing the correct number of books so please place your orders below - deadline is this Friday 27th November.  Click HERE for all the information you need.

Christmas Trees

The cut-off for ordering Christmas trees is noon on Friday 27th November.  Link to order and all info is HERE.

Website links

• The WWU is here: https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/st-michaels-ce-school/wk-11-autumn-term-2020

• Your class pages are here https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/stmichaelsceschoolwebsitepages/home

With love and solidarity to you all,

 the PTA Committee x

Week commencing Monday 16 November

Cookbook

The final deadline for submitting recipes is Mon 23rd November.  Please do join in and be part of this one-off St. Mike's Cookbook.  Thanks so much to year 2 reps and team for cutting right back on their editing time.  We want to have the books in good time for Christmas gifts (which we will) so this is the final deadline.  All the details HERE.

Christmas Trees

These are selling brilliantly.  Please order and spread the word HERE.

Christmas Fair

Mufti Days - Friday 20 November, Friday 27 November, Friday 4 December.

We are continuing the tradition of three Mufti Days on the three Fridays ahead of the Christmas  fair. 

We ask for a £3 contribution to be made via Ticket Tailor:  The £5 for "Fair Entry" is also being taken here. If anyone is unable to pay via Ticket Tailor please submit the money in an envelope (we have some if needed)

Christmas Fair - Friday 11 December (also Christmas Jumper Day!)

Y1 reps, as well as PTA chairs, have been busy planning the Christmas Fair and a parent mail will be sent out shortly with all the details - it will be different to other years with it not being opened up and children staying in their bubbles. We really are planning a great day filled with fun and joy for the children but we will need some help, well a lot of help actually .....

Requests for help to all classes:

Special Volunteer: We are looking for someone who may know a thing or two about collating videos to help us create a video surprise for each year.  If you are able to help please get in touch coraoreilly@gmail.com 

Toys/Books and Toilet Roll Inserts!! :As always we will take donations of any toys or books for our pre-loved stall.  We will also need toilet roll inserts to help us deliver the crafts so store them up! Both these can be dropped at tree collecting Sat 5 Dec or at the school on Mon/Tues 7/8 Dec on the week of the fair. A good chance for a clear out before Christmas!

Christmas Decorations: The school are looking to decorate the entire school this year and would love to receive lots of donations of Christmas lights/decorations to help fill the school with cheer. Larger items would be welcomingly received too! A donation box will go out by each gate week commencing 16th November

We hope to have a baked goods stand so hopefully inspired by the cookbook you will be able to drop off some delicious goodies for the children to enjoy on the day of the fair.

Nursery Books

If you have finished with any of these books and have them in good condition to pass on to our mini-St-Mikes nursery - please put your name against the books you can donate.  We are specifically looking for these books rather than general donations and details on the WWU for toys to donate. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uXlkyPhmO6B47y40ZJtPkV4ASWUNzchP1qVXzaZ0aQQ/edit?usp=sharing

Readathon Sponsorship

If you have any outstanding sponsorship from the readathon, please pay it directly into the PTA bank account clearly marked "Readathon".  Golden Rule - if you pay anything into the PTA bank account - please always mark it with the name of the event it is linked to and make our treasurer a happy lady.  PTA bank details are available from any of the PTA cttee: pta@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk, treasurer@stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk, alexandracullis@hotmail.com, rosiehyde@hotmail.com

Website links

• The WWU is here: https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/st-michaels-ce-school/wk-10-autumn-term-2020

• Your class pages are here https://sites.google.com/stmichaels.wandsworth.sch.uk/stmichaelsceschoolwebsitepages/home

Thanks for all your ethusiasm and support

the PTA Committee x