fundraising – Page 5 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Well Done Everyone!

Kacey’s family has been looking at some of our photos and commented on how she enjoyed our recent Family Learning activity:

“Kacey enjoyed making her Christmas decorations ( so did I) we had a great time , sadly our rain deer nose didn’t last very long so we made him a non edible one!”

Kacey’s Mum also wanted to congratulate everyone on the fundraising efforts for the Carlisle flood victims and for the performance at Annan Day Care Centre.

“Well done guys! It’s so nice to hear there’s so many kind and thoughtful people around….x”

“A www so cute! Well done everyone…..Merry Christmas…x”

The children have certainly made us so proud in lots of ways over the last week or two so a huge ‘well done’ to all of you.

Carlisle Flood Donations – thank you!!!!

Here is a post from Mrs. Alexander to thank everyone who has kindly donated to our contributions to the victims of the Carlisle floods. It was lovely to see so many of the Nursery children and their families participating. Christmas Jumper Day photos will be posted here in the next few days.

The school communities of Hecklegirth and Eastriggs have generously donated over 200 Christmas gifts to Norman Street School in Carlisle. Hecklegirth also raised £237 from a Xmas jumper day today which was also donated.

Mrs Alexander and Miss Aitken travelled to Carlisle with our van man, John Gray, of DB Schneker who kindly donated a van. They saw first-hand the devastation the floods had caused. They were warmly received by the staff and children of Norman Street School and the headteacher explained that they were surprised by our visit as they thought people had forgotten about them now that the rain had stopped. Several staff were in tears, moved by your generosity, as bag after bag of gifts was pulled from John’s van!

Thank you so much to the school communities of Eastriggs and Hecklegirth – plus a kindly last-day donation from neighbouring Cummertrees – for helping make Christmas happen for the people of Carlisle. You truly have made a difference.

The rain has come and it has tried to do its worse. But without the rain there would be no rainbow.

Be proud, folks.

Christmas Fayre A Huge Hit

Thank you to all who painted, crafted, sold, volunteered, donated, bought, sang, counted, visited, served, set up and tidied away. Together we have raised a whopping £1134 for school funds!!!!!!! You are all amazing!

We hope Santa got back safely to Lapland- thank you for flying down to see us all!

Christmas Jumper or Non-Uniform Day

Please bring a £1 donation per family to take part in our non-uniform/Xmas jumper day on Monday 14th at school and Nursery. Funds raised will go towards the Carlisle flood charity. Don’t panic if you don’t have a Xmas jumper- wear tinsel or just sing a carol!

Any last minutes presents or donations can be handed in to the office by Monday morning as Eastriggs and Hecklegirth Primary staff will be taking the huge pile to Carlisle in the afternoon- Norman Street School are delighted to have us help. If you have a present for a child, add the suitable age on the label to help them sort them out.

Many thanks for your generosity. We are proud that our community is so keen to help others in need.

Christmas Sales Team

Our chocolate Christmas shapes seemed very popular at the Christmas Fayre today and were sold in no time. Well done to our great sales team who you can see here and to all those children who helped to make the chocolate.
It was great to see lots of Nursery children and their families visiting the Fayre too. We hope that you all enjoyed yourselves.

Christmas Fayre

With the school Christmas Fayre tomorrow (Thursday), we have been making chocolate Christmas shapes to sell on our stall. Discussions about what would happen when we put chocolate in the microwave then the fridge developed the children’s learning about sciences. We also used numeracy skills to count the squares of chocolate as well as reading the dial to set the microwave so there was lots of learning going on as we prepared our chocolate shapes.

We hope that lots of Nursery children and their families will be able to come to the Christmas Fayre tomorrow between 2.00 and 4.00 in school. We can certainly recommend the chocolate shapes to anyone who has a little money to spend.

Children In Need Photos

Kacey’s Mum liked our photos from the Children in Need non-uniform day:

“Wow everyone looks great. Lovely picture girls!”

It was lovely to see the children in all their different outfits and great to be able to make a contribution to a good cause.

Children In Need Thanks

Thank you to all those who contributed to our Children in Need non-uniform day on Friday. It was great to see such a variety of outfits and the children seemed excited to be dressed differently. We are delighted to say that Nursery raised £45 as part of a grand total of £251 raised by Hecklegirth School so thank you very much to everyone who contributed.
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Children in Need

Tomorrow (Friday) is Children in Need day and Hecklegirth is raising funds by having a non-uniform day. If you would like to take part, a donation of £1 would be gratefully received. Thank you.

Super Girl Kacey

Kacey’s Mum’s been looking at the photos from Superhero Day last week:

“What a great picture!! Kacey wanted to wear a pink costume so we made her SUPER GIRL!!!”

She certainly looked super! We loved you dressed as Super Girl, Kacey.