Have a wonderful Easter holiday

We can't believe we're almost in the Summer term - although the weather certainly seems to think so! A bit of a round up of this half term before we get into another busy one after Easter. A reminder that everything we do is for the benefit of our wonderful school and most importantly our amazing children so we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your incredible support, appreciation, kind words and involvement in everything we do. We are so lucky to have such a brilliant and supportive parent community.

Have a lovely holiday and see you next term!

A huge thank you to our wonderful gift shop team who put together a beautiful gift shop for Mother's Day

We'd like to start by thanking the gift shop team for everything they do - 3 times a year - to put on an amazing shopping experience for our children. There is so much effort and planning that goes into this event - sourcing and buying gifts, wrapping, organising volunteers and turning up to help the children on the day. It's an event all the children love and with a clear aim to provide a great experience for our school children, a chance for them to be independent and to treat their families. I'm sure all our families will join us in saying we appreciate your efforts so much... and can't wait to see what the shop looks like for Father's Day!

Claverdon School Disco returns!

As we announced yesterday, the Claverdon School Disco will return on Thursday 22nd May! Tickets information will follow shortly - for now pop the date in your diary and please sign up to help on the day if you can. We still need volunteers in various roles - in particularly for the KS2 session. Thank you!

V O L U N T E E R

New RE books to supplement current RE resources

As part of an ongoing project led by Mrs White to develop the RE resources in school, we were pleased to fund the purchase of a set of new RE books for the school. These books - all part of the 'Belonging and Believing' range - will predominantly be utilised by the Reception and Key Stage 1 classes but available to access by the whole school. Also funded are a set of supplementary introductory videos which will allow the school to fully utilise the resources and to bring the books to life in the classroom. These resources are recommended by SACRE (Standing Advisory Council on Religious Eduction) and often referenced in the scheme of work delivered in the classroom.

Bag2School and Easyfundraising raises almost £100 this half term

In the interest of full transparency with our parent community, a mix-up between 2 collections scheduled for the same day resulted in another charity collecting the items meant for Bag2School. After much communication the charity very kindly donated £70 to Friends of Claverdon for the mis-collected bags. This was likely over double what the school would have received and we have expressed our sincere gratitude to the charity for this kind gesture who stated that they have introduced additional checks for collection drivers to make sure this mistake doesn't happen again. The next Bag2School collection will be on Tuesday 17th June.

Thank you to everyone supporting our school on Easyfundraising - £22 was raised this month by those currently signed up. If you haven’t already, sign up today and start raising free donations whenever you shop online with over 8,000 retailers. The best part? It won’t cost you a penny extra! Make every purchase count – sign up now and support our school for free.

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Second hand uniform shop: receive notification when an item is back in stock

A reminder that the second hand uniform shop is now online - we hope it's been a useful resources for you. Thank you to everyone who has purchased items so far and to our the team for keeping the system working so well.

The website is now set up to enable you to receive an email when a wanted out of stock item comes back in stock. Simply enter your email address and you'll be the first to know when a donation has been received.

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Coming online soon : Impact projects collection

As part of our efforts to ensure transparency and accountability across all Friends of Claverdon activities, we will soon be publishing online a collection of projects supported by Friends of Claverdon. As you can imagine this is a huge effort so please bear with us, but we hope this will provide some clarity as to how the money raised by our parent community is being spent. If you have any questions about this process please get in touch.

Dates for your diary

We are pleased to announce the return of the following events - more information to follow soon but for now, pop the date in your diary and volunteer online now.

Summer Fayre

Friday 4th July

Community Quiz Night

TBC

Claverdon Fun Run 2025

Sunday 28th September

Please read: Ensuring Friends of Claverdon continues to support our scho0ol

As you may be aware, over the last year - with a view to maximising (mainly people) resources - we have changed the way Friends of Claverdon functions. While all parents, carers and staff are involved in the organising and runnning of specific events, there is a core steering group who are responsible for looking at the bigger picture and coordinating the various organisational groups, communications and budgets.

We now need to look at future proofing and ensuring Friends of Claverdon always has a team of volunteers who can ensure ongoing funding for our school. We would welcome anyone who would like to have a conversation about getting involved in any of these responsibilities. Everyone - no matter whether you have experience or specific 'skills' - is welcome. Please get in touch with us for more information.

Have a wonderful Easter holiday - here's what's been happening this half term