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Christmas, Fundraising, Parent Association

Christmas Raffle

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Hello Parents and Carers,

In the absence of our annual Christmas Fair, we are excited to launch our first online Christmas Raffle (Prize Competition)! The Merrylee Primary Parents’ Association Christmas Raffle serves to raise money to enhance the learning experience and environment for all pupils at Merrylee Primary School.

As we’ve had to pause many of our usual fundraisers, we hope to raise a record amount through this raffle! The Christmas Raffle operates entirely online, and the draw takes place on Wednesday 15th December at 12 noon.

Tickets are £1.00 and will be available to buy from the 1st of December. All winners will be notified by email, so keep an eye out! Prizes must be collected from the school office from 15th – 17th December 2.45 – 3.10pm or by arrangement with the PA by emailing merryleepa@hotmail.com

Buying tickets is easy, visit and follow this link Enter Raffle to Win Merrylee Christmas Raffle Hosted By Merrylee Primary School Parents Association (raffall.com) https://raffall.com/269618/enter-raffle-to-win-merrylee-christmas-raffle-hosted-by-merrylee-primary-school-parents-association Or join our Facebook Page here https://www.facebook.com/groups/237423799686385/?ref=share

We have been generously supported by the SEC who have donated tickets to the Aladdin Pantomime at the Armadillo! Also included this year – Kids Hamper from Morrison’s, Infinite Fitness Training sessions, Kidnetick Voucher, Halloumi Southside voucher, fabulous prizes from parents of the school and many more prizes from local businesses.

Thank you for your support and please share news of this raffle with your friends, neighbours, and family!

The PA.

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Fundraising, Online Book Fair, Parent Association

Online Book Fair

Our online book fair starts today, hurray!

It runs for one week, until midnight on Sunday 21st November.

To order –

  • Go to www.booksforbugs.co.uk
  • Click on ‘shop now’ or ‘search’, make your choices and add them to your basket
  • At the checkout, enter your own name and address under ‘Billing details’ but in the section headed ‘Deliver to a different address?’ enter your child’s class where prompted, and the school name and address for free delivery (Merrylee Primary, 50 Friarton Road, Glasgow, G43 2PR).

For every 5 books sold, the school gets to choose one to add to the stock of books in school which is constantly needing replenished.

Happy shopping, we hope you find some Christmas bargains, and thank you for supporting the school!

Best wishes, The PA

Halloween, Parent Association, Pupil information, Reduce Reuse Recycle

Halloween Information

Come and join the Halloween Family Fun!

Merrylee Monster Mash trail

Following the success of our Halloween trail last year, we are recreating the fun with The Merrylee Monster Mash running from Thursday 28th October to Sunday 31st. If you would like your home to feature on our map, please email the PA (merryleepa@hotmail.com) asap, including your name and address. Your home will appear as a pumpkin on the map. We can’t wait to see your decorated windows, balconies and/or gardens! Maps will be available from school, on Seesaw and Facebook from Weds 27th Oct.

School garden decorations

We will be decorating the school grounds with all sorts of ghoulish delights from this Saturday 23rd October. If you’d like to get involved please email us or message on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/237423799686385). There are ideas on the Facebook group of things you can easily make at home at little/no expense, and bring in to school e.g. milk bottle ghosts, sock spiders and egg carton bats. We welcome any of your creations or offers of help!

Costume Recycling

The recycling rail is up and ready outside the school office, awaiting donations of pre-loved, good condition Halloween and fancy-dress clothes and accessories. Please donate if you can, and pop along to see if there’s anything you could re-use this year. Another great way to help refuse, reduce, re-use and recycle.

Many thanks,

The PA

Eco Committee, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information, Recycling, Reduce Reuse Recycle

Outdoor Clothing Swap

MESSAGE FROM OUR PARENTS ASSOCIATION:

Hi everyone,

We have been bowled over by the huge amount of donations for our outdoor wear clothing swap! Thank you all so much.

We have arranged the clothes and footwear on a rail in the main foyer, outside the school office. This will be accessible from drop off to pick up, and at afterschool times all this week.

Please pop in and see if there’s anything you can re-home.

The donations box is also still there for any further clean, good condition items.

We are really excited to be supporting our Eco School to reduce, re-use and recycle ♻️.

Thanks, The PA

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Fundraising, Parent Information, Pupil information

Help our school get some new resources!

Merrylee Primary School Project Title – Children’s Play Resources

 

Mrs Allinson has been successful in her application for a grant to the Tesco Community Grants Scheme but we need your help to make this happen!

If you are shopping in store, please vote for our project. The project with the highest number of votes will be awarded the grant.

Please see details below. Thank you for your support.

Tesco In-Store Vote Update!

We delighted to let you know that your application to the Tesco Community Grants Scheme has been successful and your project will be put forward to a customer vote in Tesco stores.

Voting will commence in store from 1st October and continue to 31st December 2021.

The project with the highest number of votes across your region will receive £1,500 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), the second placed project £1,000 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), and the third placed project £500. To re-iterate, if you are first in the vote, you will receive the amount that you requested in your application (or the amount that was requested up to £1,500).

What happens next?

Stores which will vote on your project

Please see below a list of stores taking part in the voting on your project. Feel free to share this list of stores amongst your supporters and within your community.

4803 CROOKSTON ROAD EXP G53 7TZ  Express

5307 GLASGOW SILVERBRN EXT G53 6AG Extra

5367 KILMARNCK RD GLAS EXP G43 2XS Express

5579 CARDONALD EXPRESS G52 3QA Express

6064 GLASGOW VICTORIA EXP G42 8YU Express

6171 GLASGOW PAIS RD EXP G5 8RJ Express

6257 GLASGOW MLBRAE RD EXP G42 9UA Express

6491 GLASGOW CATHCA RD EXP G42 9EA Express

To check the location of any of the above stores, please go to the Tesco website here: http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk

To vote, you will need to make a purchase within store of any value. You will receive one token per transaction and it’s not necessary to purchase a carrier bag in order to receive a token.

In the highly unlikely event that voting is suspended in certain locations due to government guidelines, we will notify you and the following action will be taken. At the end voting period, if voting has taken place for at least four weeks, the votes will be counted and grants awarded as per the standings at that point. If voting has taken place for less than four weeks, we will award each of the groups in the vote £1,000 (or the amount that was requested up to this value).

Additional information Please note the below advice in terms of do’s and don’ts before and during the voting period:

Do:

  • – Cast your vote as soon as you receive your token for a project in the current voting round
  • – Only submit Community Grants tokens to cast your vote – Maximise promotion of your project during the voting period by making best use of press and social media guidance
  • Encourage the local community and your supporters to get involved with Community Grants voting

Don’t:

  • Tamper with the voting unit (otherwise your project may be void from the vote)
  • Influence customers casting their vote at the voting unit
  • Take more than one token from the self-serve checkouts
  • Encourage supporters to hoard then submit multiple tokens in the voting unit
  • Promote your project in store without permission from the Store Manager
  • Collect Community Grants tokens from stores that are not within your region to vote for your project

Please note, if you do not adhere to this guidance, this may affect your grant award. Another tip is to add the address mail@grantapplication.com to your email account to ensure that you receive future requests and information.

Communications Guidance and contact details

Please see below a link to communications guidance on how to promote your project during the voting period. Once the vote has taken place, you will be contacted by a local Enabler who will be on hand to provide you with support in delivering your project. https://tescocommunitygrants.org.uk/communications-guidance-21/

If you wish to discuss any aspect of this email please do get in touch with the Tesco Community Grants team at tescocommunitygrants@groundwork.org.uk

Kind regards and congratulations!

Good luck in the voting!

Tesco Community Grants team

Groundwork UK

End of Term, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information

Information for end of term

Final week arrangements

It is hard to believe that we are heading towards the summer holidays already!

The teachers will share your child’s final report with you on Seesaw today Monday 21st June. Your child is also bringing home their class photograph today organised and funded by the Parents’ Association. The tea towels should also be arriving this week and will be issued before we finish for the holidays.

On Wednesday the PA have arranged a little summer treat for all of our pupils. They have also arranged a special treat for P7 as we weren’t able to go ahead with the planned P7 party because of Covid restrictions. These treats are being funded from the Break the Rules fundraising day. Many thanks to the PA for organising this and to all of you for your contributions.

Please note that school closes at 1pm on Thursday. Because of our staggered lunch breaks we won’t be able to have a full lunch break but we have arranged two short breaks. There will be a mid-morning break as usual. There will also be another short break for children to have a packed lunch or a school lunch which they will eat in the classroom or outdoors. Choices for school lunch on Thursday are hot dogs or sandwiches.

At 1 o’clock we will ring the bell continuously to send off our P7 pupils who will have the chance to walk through the school to say goodbye before being dismissed to the back of the building as usual. All classes will be dismissed following usual procedures at 1pm. We would respectfully request that parents do not congregate on school grounds at the end of the day.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a safe and happy summer holiday. Thank you as always for your continued support, especially during this most challenging of years. We are all in a much better place than this time last year and can hopefully look forward to these positive changes continuing.

Kindest regards,
Colette Haddock and the Merrylee Staff Team

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