Christmas party - a week to go!

Our Christmas pizza party is just a week away - last orders SUNDAY 6th

Who spotted a festive dinosaur or panda this week?

Apart from bringing a smile to your face, they were there to tell you to log into Parent Pay and buy your Rudolph pizza kits (from £9.50), cookie packs (from £5), and raffle tickets (£5) by SUNDAY 6th. If you don't have a Parent Pay account, contact the office asap to get one set up. There is a huge amount of admin that has to happen next week so if your order isn't in by Sunday there won't be anything we can do.

Children will come home with packs on Friday 11th - bring a large bag to pick up. This is also Christmas jumper day so the children can come to school in Christmas party dress. We'll also be surprising them with prizes!

**NURSERY: nursery children who don't attend on a Friday and don't have a sibling to take home an order can collect from the nursery door at pick up on Friday.

What next? Zoom...

Please co-ordinate between your class parents and carers a Zoom meeting with a waiting room (so you know who is joining) so the children can share their pizza / cookie making and eat them together on evening of 11th. YES it will be BONKERS, YES you might need EAR PLUGS and a STRONG brew, but the kids will LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!

Here's how you make the pizzas

Thanks to our dinosaur volunteers! Amazing fun to watch.

Next week we'll reveal our grand total!

Enter Mr Knowles’ keepie up challenge by MONDAY 10AM!

My goodness there's been some complicated maths at breakfast over this one! Can you guess correctly how many keepie ups Mr Knowles can do in a minute? Get it right and you can win one of six official Man U Christmas jumpers. Watch the video to work our your guess.

Take £1 in a sealed envelope to the office with your name, class, the jumper size you'd like to win and your guess written on it. You can have as many guesses as you like but it's £1 per guess. If there's a tie for your prefered size jumper we will pull the winner from a hat, and if no one is spot on we'll take the nearest guess.

Sizes: Age 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 and 12-13.

*Thanks* to parent Becca Wakelam for donating the prizes.

RAFFLE draw is next week! WIN an Xbox Series S or Echo Dot!

The raffle draw is on 9th December so our next newsletter will announce all the winners, including those of the Xbox Series S and Echo Dot donated by Philip James Kennedy. Here's a full list of all the other prizes donated by generous local businesses, many of whom have children at the school. PLEASE shop local and support them this Christmas as the new tier 3 regs really jeopardises the Christmas and new year trading plans they had.

*Thanks* to Natalie Strange and Tony Meredith who are managing the raffle for us and securing matched funding from Barclays.

A meal or takeaway for two from Pasha, doing home delivery now - just call 0161 445 1196 and they avoid the Deliveroo fees.

A box of 10 macarons from Bisous Bisous, now taking orders for limited edition Christmas hampers!

An easel and acrylic art set from Ken Bromley Art Supplies - check out its kids' art supplies and 'start out in art' guide, which proved very popular in lockdown

Goodies worth over £30 from parent Lindsey Shaffi at Tropic Skincare, now taking orders for Christmas

Two £25 vouchers from independent book shop Telling Tales

£15 to spend at Twizabelle's Treasures from Claire Salter. Claire will also donate 15% of sales using code BRPS15 to the PTA

Body Shop hamper from Becky Louise

Tropic goodie bag worth over £30 from Chiara Framassi

2 x 30 minute instrument or singing lessons with professional musician Lisa Tulk - Lisa can help your family learn the harmony to a Christmas song so you can surprise friends and family with a special message this year. Give her a buzz.

A family portrait session worth £120 with photographer Neil Barrett

Five amazing treatments from Evie's Retreat including Footlogix gel pedicure / Aroma Blend Signature back massage / Deep cleansing revitalising facial/ Indian head massage / Eye trio - lash tint, brow tint and shape. Taking bookings now and can organise gift vouchers too.

A one month family pass to Nuffield Health

Vouchers from local shops and independents:

Bud Garden Nursery £20 selling amazing Christmas trees now, Healthy Spirit £20, £15 Axons, £15 Giddy Goats with click and collect and delivery, £10 Cheese Hamlet, Stamptastic £30, £20 Reserve Wines, and vouchers for free sets of Stikins name labels.

Plus Burton Road IPA, an official Mancheser United Christmas jumper (adult size), boxes of wine from Majestic, Prosecco, books by local author Caroline England, a copy of Good House Keeping's Ultimate Recipe Collection, Liberty beach bags, and a Christmas duvet set!

Mari and Luka go for 17km ride!

FUN RUNNERS RAISE £4,843 and counting!

The BIG news this week is that thanks to our fun runners the foodbanks will receive a WHOPPING £2,421.50! This is half of the money they had raised when we added thiings up on Wednesday. The other half will come to the PTA along with any money raised from now on. We had hoped to raise £500 when we had this idea. To have raised ten times this is just AWESOME. We are so proud of everyone who took part, and still plans to, and grateful to all who sponsored their friends. What a great community to be a part of!

We've included some snaps we've received. Thanks for sharing them! There's still time to take part, in fact Mrs Byrne is planning her fun run now. Just go to Justgiving.com and select Beaver Road PTA as your cause.

Show us your muscles! The Lomas family go for gold, raising £277!

Malek, 3M and Khadeja, 5R getting ready for their 5KM!

Theo, Jacob and Lauren relieved to have finished! They were also top fundraisers with a total of £515!!

The Johnsons and puppy Humphrey in the festive groove... and smashing £340!

Ronnie, Free Runner, celebrating his success, raising £200!

Benjamin, 2J, smashed his bike target and did 12KM!

Michaela loved her challenge so much she now bikes to school!

Thomas and Nicholas ready to set off!

The Stanley Jones family rocking the Santa hats!

SECOND HAND UNIFORM - available on PTA Social Already have an account? Go to the sale!

or set up an account

Please also use code M206SX when you buy name stamps at Stamptastic or code 1542 when you buy labels at Stikins as we get a % of your spend.

Keep in touch: Beaver Road Primary School PTA on Facebook *** @BeaverRoad_PTA on Twitter *** beaverrdfundraisers@outlook.com

PTA committee: Kate Peacock Co-Chair - Sam Crowe co-chair, communications manager & parent - Lauren Fulton, Treasurer and parent - Tina Jackson teacher and parent partnership champion - Gemma Martin, volunteer committee member and parent