The Parent Council’s fundraising plans for this year will support several initiatives including funding buses for school trips, improving the outdoor areas with increased playground equipment and activities and sprucing up the front entrance with support from the gardening club. As you will appreciate, all of this needs a lot of time, effort and money. We have few fundraising ideas which we are working on at the moment and we’ll keep you posted. To begin, we’d like to send home Smarties tubes which, when the sweeties have been eaten, we would ask you to fill with loose change and send back in to the school. Every penny helps! We plan to send the tubes home with children in the lead up to the October break, so sometime next week. If you would prefer that your child didn’t receive a tube filled with sweeties then please can you let their class teacher know by putting a note in the homework diary? We appreciate that not all parents will want their children to have these sweeties but we are hopeful that as many families as possible will fill a tube to boost our funds. Teachers will be more than willing to support sending home empty tubes as they’re all partial to a wee sweetie or two! We hope you will be able to support us with this. Thanks in advance.
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BASE
BARSAIL AFTER SCHOOL EVENTS (BASE) started this week. What a fantastic range of clubs we have on offer. Participation is high with several clubs already fully subscribed. We do still have some spaces available in clubs such as yoga, basketball and parent and child fun fit! Gardening club is a community club with parents/family members/guardians and children working together to improve our school grounds.
David Bunting, Cutting Edge Landscape Gardeners, brought along a digger this week. Here is the link to a video advertising the positive changes that Garden Club has brought about:
Thank you to all of our parent volunteers and teachers who willingly give of their time to provide wonderful experiences for our pupils.
Primary 7
Primary 7 were gifted their Hoodies today from Mrs Mavers on behalf of the Parent Council.
Primary 7 would like to thank the Parent Council for these fabulous Hoodies! Primary 7 cannot wait to wear them to Loch Insh on Monday. 
Barsail Social Night
The Barsail Social Night was held last Friday and so far has raised over £1400 for the school. Thank you very much to everyone that attended! It was a fantastic night and everyone had a great time!
Thank you very much to our AMAZING Parent Council and supporters for organising this event.
The Social Night is Tonight
The Barsail Social Night will be TONIGHT, at 7:30pm at the the Bargarran Community Center.
So get your dancing shoes ready and be prepared to have fun! Don’t worry if you dont have your tickets yet as tickets are still available to buy at the door.
It will be fantastic! There is a bar with drinks available for £2.50 and there is also some amazing LIVE ENTERTAINMENT!
Come along and have a great night raising money to support the school.
Social Night
The Barsail Social Night will take place this Friday, 24th March, at 7:30pm at the the Bargarran Community Center.
The tickets are £5 and are available in school at 9am and 3pm or you are able to pay at the door on the night.
It will be fantastic, their is a bar with drinks available for £2.50 and there is LIVE ENTERTAINMENT!
Alternatively, if you are unable to make it, all pupils have been given an envelope with raffle tickets in it, simply keep half the tickets, write your name/ child’s class on the other set and return them in the envelope with £5. Many GREAT prices will be won!
Own clothes
Just a little reminder that tomorrow is an own clothes day throughout the school, there will be no charge for this but the Parent Council haves asked if:
p1-2 bring in home baking
p3-5 bring in chocolates
p6-7 bring a bottle
to prepare for our amazing Christmas Fayre tomorrow night!
Christmas Fayre
The Christmas Fayre is this Thursday! It is an own clothes day on Thursday and the children are asked to donate:
- p1-2 Baking
- p3-5 Chocolate for the chocolate tombola
- p6-7 Bottle e.g. wine, bubble bath, juice.
Donations can be brought in any time this week.
Fayre times:
- 6:30pm-8:30pm
- The raffle will be drawn at 7:45.
- The silent auction will close at 8pm.
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!
NYC Marathon Finish Line
Sadly the NYC Marathon is all over, I have definitely missed my P7 pupils and I’m looking forward to getting back to work, however the marathon was unbelievable. I loved every second of it. I’m very grateful that I have the opportunity to share this with you all.
It inspires me that I can defy my own assumptions and trying to effect positive change is something that’s very important to me. I hope that you might try something positive that might make a difference and challenge you! Today was definitely really important, as this was a dream I never thought I could achieve.
Overcoming challenges is never easy, but none the less extraordinary! I hope you enjoy the pictures.
Thanks for letting me share this adventure and for sponsoring our amazing school! Team Barsail!
NYC Marathon Morning
Good morning, it’s 5am in NYC and I’m just about to leave the hotel and head towards Grand Central Station, before getting the ferry to Staten Island to begin the run.
Yesterday I picked up my bib and visited the Apple Store to discover more amazing apps that are available for the iPads!
I have included some images from yesterday.
Today I will definitely be facing my fears and living one of my dreams. No matter how long it takes!
Mrs Napier’s Marathon Update
Mrs Napier is all set to head off to New York in the morning. We know that she will miss us all terribly!
This short video shows the course and gives some interesting facts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0z_-bY-jyM
It is possible to track Mrs Napier by her bib number: 38031
This website provides lots of information:
http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/race-day
http://running.competitor.com/2016/11/news/how-to-watch-the-2016-new-york-city-marathon_158108
Fundraising Update
Today the children ran a total of 529 miles!! Far exceeding our challenge of 314! The staff even gave it a go and completed a whopping 36 miles!
We raised a total of £250 cash today in school, and our Just Giving page has exceeded £900 with many donations still being made.
If you still wish donate please visit our JustGiving page at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/BarsailPC
Thank you for your continued support and generous donations.
Marathon fundraiser
Massive congratulations to Joanne for completing the Amsterdam marathon!!!! What an achievement!
The pupil ‘collective’ marathon is next week and then it is over to Mrs Napier for the New York marathon!
£600 raised so far for iPads!!! 
Easy Fundraising
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/
If you register with the website, selecting Barsail as the cause that you want to support, Barsail can then receive commission in respect of many online purchases. Many of the package holiday companies are on the website and as such, if even only 10 or 20 families used the site to book their holiday, we could prob raise something over £1k. (That’s another 2 iPads!) Booking.com, etc are also on it.
In fact, most companies are on there – please check before you buy anything!
Thanks for your continued support.
