Fair | Making things happen for goldstone primary!

The Fair is a highlight of the school year, with a fantastic range of toys, activity & games stalls; prizes to win; festive food & drink and other surprises. It does need lots of help in the form of donations and time, but the more that goes in, the more the children get out of it!

Volunteers

First and foremost: in order to operate everything we’d like to offer, successfully and smoothly, we need as many people as possible to volunteer to help set up / take down and staff stalls and games.

We have a Volunteer Sheet, with all tasks broken down into (hopefully) manageable time slots. Please consider pitching in to help with the Fair – perhaps ‘tag teaming’ with another parent/carer of a child’s friend?

You can find the sign-up form here: Volunteer Sheet.

Calendar

13th November (week commencing):

Raffle tickets will be sent home in book bags. Please complete and return to the school office with payment by Tuesday 28th November.

Thursday 23rd November:

Non-Uniform Day, in exchange for chocolate donations (no nuts please).

There will be donation boxes outside the school office, Breakfast Club and all other entrances.

Monday 27th November:

Toy donations!

We need very good-condition, complete (no broken / missing parts) toys for the secondhand toy stall, as well as clean, good condition soft toys for the cuddly toy cave. Donations will be collected at the school office.

Tuesday 28th November:

Raffle tickets must be back at the school office with payment.

Wednesday 29th November:

Token Pre-Sale: Fair tokens will be available to purchase (card only) from Matt at the school office, between 8.30-9am and 3-3.30pm.

Thursday 30th November:

Non-Uniform Day, in exchange for bottle donations.

The bottles can be anything as long as it’s unopened and in date so bubble bath, olive oil or wine will all be welcomed. There will be donation boxes outside the school office, Breakfast Club and all other entrances. Please note, alcohol must be handed to an adult.

Friday 1st December:

Pre-Fair

On the morning of the Fair, we’d love any donations of the following:

Jolly Jars ~ decorated jars filled with sweets (see example photos)

Healthy Snacks ~ cheese, crackers, cucumber, carrot batons, etc (no nuts or raisins/sultanas)

Cake donations ~ no nuts. All home made cakes need an ingredients list for display please (due to allergies).

Please leave these donations outside the school office.

Friday 1st December:

Winter Fair

Starts at 3:15pm. Entry through reception gates for KS1 (the bottom gate as you come down Laburnum Avenue from Elm Drive) and through infants hall for KS2. £1 suggested donation per family.

Payment Options:

As with previous events, we will be operating a ‘token’ system, with tokens (denominations of 50p/£1) available to purchase on entry to the Fair, by cash or card. All stalls will also accept cash.

We also plan to offer a pre-sale of tokens this year, in an effort to speed up the entry process. Please look out for the Ping with timings on, which will also be updated here.

Christmas Jumper Swap Shop

There will be a stall where you can exchange Christmas jumpers that you or family have grown out of – and see if you can find a replacement from other donations. This will be a free stall, no donations needed (but always welcome!).

Live Music!

Our fantastic ukulele and guitar clubs, led by local music legend Sharon Lewis, will be performing live on the stage in the Junior (main) Hall:-

Ukelele – 3.45pm

Guitar – 4pm

Eco Shop

Please note that, among the Fair stalls, the Squeaky Clean Eco Shop will be in place. You may therefore like to bring your empty bottle(s) to stock up on washing up liquid, hand wash etc!

Any Questions?

This page contains all the relevant information for the upcoming Winter Fair; the page will be updated with any changes and/or further detail as we approach the 1st December. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact us or ask your WhatsApp Class Rep.

A lot of fun was had by all at the 2014 Christmas Fair on 5th December and we managed to raise over £3,000!

With help from teachers, parent volunteers, Tadpoles, ex-Goldstone students and others – our trickiest event (hundreds of children and their parents/carers at an indoor event) was great this year.

The whole fair was changed around this year to try and cut down on congestion in certain places, and the feedback on the changes was very positive, with people finding it much easier to navigate their way around!

The children had fun visiting Santa, mining for cuddly toys in the cuddly toy cave, getting glitter tattoos and facepaint, testing their football skills at the Speedy Shot Challenge provided by Hangleton Rangers, bouncing on the bouncy castle, making cards and baubles, playing on the games in the Infant Hall, buying gifts for their parents and siblings at the pocket money presents stall and more, while the grow ups enjoyed a mulled wine, made purchases at the stalls in the Junior Hall, were entertained by Christmas songs from Goldstone’s Junior Choir and tried their luck on the ever popular bottle tombola!

As ever there are far too many people who put in their time and effort or made donations to thank you all – but you all know what you did, and hopefully realise how much we appreciated it all! Everything that happens at these events relies on so many people – those of you who brought in chocolate and bottles for the tombolas, made or bought cakes for the cake stall, decorated the grotto, sat in the grotto for ages (Thanks Santa! :P), face painted, decorated tables, manned stalls, lugged tables and crates around the school, cooked hotdogs, made popcorn, the school staff who volunteered in various ways despite having been at school all day… the list really is endless!

Thanks for making Goldstone such a lovely place to be.

Sara