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Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information

Break the Rules day

Merrylee pupils are invited to take part in ‘Break the Rules day’ on Friday 9th February.

For a small donation of £1, you can have fun breaking a few rules. (See the poster for ideas)

The money raised will go towards a fun event in the summer term. Donations can be made via Parentpay.

Merrylee PA

Fundraising, Online Book Fair, Parent Association

Virtual Book Fair

It’s Bargain Book Fair time again next week!

23rd – 29th May

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Why not grab yourself some summer holiday entertainment for the children? Lots of popular titles all at £2.50 plus lots of craft and activity sets also at bargain prices.

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Check out the range in advance here – www.booksforbugs.co.uk

Ordering details will follow and the online fair will run from Monday 23rd until Sunday 29th May.

Best wishes, The PA

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

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

Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information

Class Tea Towels

Merrylee Tea Towel orders are now open!

 

(Example of tea towel)

Available to buy on ParentPay for £3.50 only until Friday 11th June 12 noon.

There is one design per year group. Each year group design (P1 – P7) has the children’s self-portraits and their drawings of their class teacher.

A fun (and useful!) way to capture the year before the end of the term!

We hope you love seeing your children’s and their friend’s artwork.

Thanks, from the PA.

Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information, Pupil information

Break the Rules Day!

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Break the Rules Day – Friday 7th May

Merrylee Parents’ Association are fundraising to provide some end-of-term treats for pupils.

We encourage pupils to break some rules this Friday, and contribute towards some summer fun this term.

This event will be available on Parentpay.

Parents’ Association

Fundraising, Parent Association, Parent Information

Marvellous Merrylee Monster March

Make your window or garden part of our Halloween trail!
The Parents Association would like to invite you all to take part our Halloween Trail. A worldwide pandemic doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some of the fun Merrylee Primary school is known for.

We propose that over the next few weeks you came come up with a display for your garden that will be included within this monstrous trail. This could be a spooky window display, a scary scarecrow or a petrifying pumpkin.

If you are happy for it to be included, contact us with your address and we will add it to our map. This map will be available to download from the week of the 26th of October when hopefully all the displays will be ready. Hopefully it will include houses throughout the Merrylee catchment area and perhaps slightly beyond.

You can find the houses around you or perhaps even try and see
them all! We propose the trail stays up for the rest of the week before Halloween.

We would love to feature your displays on our facebook page on the lead up to the trail going live. Send us your photos and perhaps you can inspire others with your marvellous montages. If you haven’t joined our facebook page, this would be an ideal time to do so –
it’s the Merrylee Parents Association, see the link below.

We’d like to build on all the lovely things Merrylee are already doing for the children and given them something else to be part of and enjoy this Halloween.

If you would like to, it would be nice to add a fundraising element to this trail and perhaps make a small donation for the map which would go to the Merrylee Parents Association.

If you didn’t know already, Merrylee PA will usually organise events throughout the year to raise funds which go towards resources within the school. Many of these events will not be happening this year. It would be nice to use this event to contribute towards funds.

If anyone is keen to join, we would always welcome new members, not just to join the committee but also perhaps to help out with events like this or even share your creative ideas of how else we can organise fun but CoVID safe events for the children this year.

You can contact us on merryleepa@hotmail.com
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/237423799686385/?ref=share