Recent FOBPS projects have funded a wide range of playground improvements and equipment, new school laptops, pantomime performances, Christmas parties, school trips and art projects; all of these would not have been able to happen without the FOBPS contribution for your children as school funding is so tight in this current climate.

To be able to do all this the Friends have a fun-packed calendar of school events which sadly have not been able to take place this year since the closure of schools in March; we have missed egg hunts at the Easter Fair, having numerous year group cake sales to battle it out for the cake stall cup, no New to You sales for second hand uniform, we've missed a boogie at The Big Gig, had no opportunity to cast off products of our lockdown clearouts to the Bags2School collection and not been able to strut our stuff at the second School Disco, amongst several new ideas we had hoped to introduce this year!
Our last big fundraiser of the year, usually raising around £2000 would have been this evening (26th June) in the form of the Summer Fair so this means no BBQ, Jolly jars, raffle or Down the Pan this year :(
Because of all this we are now seriously below our usual funds raised by this point in the year and are facing a 2020/21 school year of not being able to support those fun and exciting extra activities and projects that the Friends have been honoured to support in the past.
So... in lieu of the fair this weekend we are asking for you all, if you can, to please dig deep and donate something to the cause to help make up for lost events; perhaps see it as money you would have spent if we had all been out on the playground and school field tonight! Any amount big or small will make a huge difference to your children's school experience in what is sure to be another very different year!
As always we will keep you posted with how your money is spent, watch this space!! Thank you.