The Friends of Marlfields runs mainly as a fund-raising organisation and supports the school by raising money in a number of practical ways to improve the facilities for the children. We invite all parents, relatives and friends of families to be members and to join in with our planning and hosting of events during the year.
Please keep your eye on the weekly newsletters which give dates of our next meeting to which we hope you will attend.
Please contact the FOM Chair – Mrs Horton for more information. Details are available from the school office on 01260 633120.
We will be raising money this year to support all classes bus costs for trips thus making it cheaper for families when we send for contributions. This has been the choice of the children themselves as the fund raising scheme.
Summer Fair
Wow what a day! Sun, sand, fun and laughter was the order of the day and following a great event £822 was raised from the day. Thank you to all the members of the FOM for organising a great event – we cannot wait till next year’s fair.
The Friends of Marlfields held regular film nights. Our new committee tried out serving up chips which were really popular.
What a brilliant time we all had this year at events, money was raised and the FOM would like to say a huge ‘THANK YOU’ to everyone who came and all the adults who helped during the year.
We also held an Easter bingo – always a popular event and lots on non-uniform days to collect things for our events and money to boost the bank account throughout the year.
Money raised this year has gone to support Years 6,5,4,3 and 2 with laptops in classrooms for enhancing the curriculum in every lesson.
Well, what can we say about the whole Paddington Experience?
Off we set, Years 1 – 6, early last Thursday morning with great excitement on each of the four coaches, eager to get to Didsbury in the rush hour traffic – we didn’t want to miss a second of what promised to be a great film. We needn’t have worried; we arrived in plenty of time to have a snack, a drink and a toilet visit before we went in.
Never before have so many children sat so quietly in a cinema. From the moment the film started to the very end everyone sat totally transfixed by the story of Paddington, his family in Peru and his adopted family in England. We won’t tell you anymore of the story in case you want to go to see it for yourselves.
When we came out of the cinema everyone, staff and children alike were buzzing with excitement at what they had just watched and also because we were going to have a McDonalds for lunch. Have you any idea how many big boxes there are to carry 200 Happy Meals? Suffice to say, the vehicle that they were transported in smells of McDonalds still!! Everyone tucked in with great gusto, little did they know that the treats didn’t end there. Mrs Camp and Mrs Yoxall decorated a cupcake for each child with a Paddington picture on it.
As if that wasn’t enough the children also got to have a slice of an absolutely stunning Paddington cake which was very kindly made for us by Boyan and Elitsa’s mummy Mrs Trandeva-Georgieva. Just have a look at this photograph:
You can take our word for it; the cake tasted every bit as good as it looked!
We are sure that you would like to join with us to take this opportunity to thank Venda for taking the time to produce this lovely cake for us.
We must also give a huge thank you to the Friends of Marlfields for contributing £1000 towards the cost of this visit
In September we always hold a Coffee Morning as part of the Macmillan Cancer Charity World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in The Studio.
You may not be aware, but Marlfields uses easyfundraising to help raise money for the school via various online sites, such as John Lewis, eBay, ASOS, Booking.com, M&S etc. If you wish, please sign up. The donations are sometimes small but they do add up!
Please register using this unique link – just click sign up –
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/marlfieldsprimary/?invite=3RENIB&referral-campaign=s2s&utm_source=refsharebox
Plus, once you’ve signed up and raised £5 in donations, easyfundraising will give us an extra £5 donation. There’s no catch or hidden charges and Marlfields Primary Academy will be really grateful for your donations.
Thank you for your support
