FAIRLIGHT PTA NEWS AND UPDATES, JUNE 2025

WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS TERM?

 

DONUT DAY – 6 JUNE

Friday 6th June is National Donut Day! We will celebrate with a donut sale in the playground after school. Donuts will be £1 and cash and card payments will be available. 

 

UNIFORM SALE – 6 JUNE

We will also have a uniform sale on Friday 6th June. This will include colourful PE t-shirts for £3 – if your child would like one of these for sports day, please check what house they are in (ask them what colour tokens they collect!) Pre-loved items will also be available for 50p/£1.

 

BAG2SCHOOL COLLECTION – 18 JUNE

Bags will come home soon which can be filled with unwanted clothes, shoes, bags, hats, jewellery and belts. Please bring these to school at morning drop-off on Wednesday 18th June. As usual, we will be paid per kilo, so the more the better – there is no upper limit!

 

NEW STARTERS – 4 JULY

We will be welcoming next year’s new starters to Fairlight on Friday 4th July. For the second year running, we are able to provide a welcome pack, including Numicon sets which have been purchased with a very generous donation from Plus Accounting (www.plusaccounting.co.uk).

 

NON-UNIFORM DAY – 18 JULY

To celebrate the last day of the summer term, children will be able to come to school in their own clothes. You will have the option to give a voluntary £1 donation in cash or on Parent Pay.

 

KS2 TUCK SHOP – THURSDAYS

Tuck shop runs every Thursday at morning break time for Years 3-6. Snacks are 20p each and all proceeds go towards play equipment. 

Do you have any contacts who could help tuck shop continue by donating healthy, nut-free produce (e.g. fresh or dried fruit, crackers, popcorn or cheese)? Please let us know if so.

 

SUMMER READING CHALLENGE – 5 BOOKS FOR £5

In July, we are going to challenge the children to pick any 5 books they want and ask family and friends to sponsor them £5 to read these over the summer holidays. We will share more information soon, but please remember that in the meantime the book hut in the playground can be used to share books for free.

 

ONGOING WAYS TO SUPPORT THE PTA

 

EASYFUNDRAISING

Easyfundraising offers a great opportunity to raise significant amounts of money that can be spent on educational supplies, play equipment and/or enriching experiences for our children. We currently have 108 supporters signed up (which is AMAZING!) but more than half of these supporters have never used the system. If we could get everyone routinely using Easyfundraising whenever they shop online, we could raise £1000s more without any additional cost to you!

Please consider signing up if you haven’t already, or learning how to use the website or app if you have registered but not yet got the hang of it. It really is super simple (and quick and free)… 

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/support-a-good-cause/step-1/?char=296716&invite=1aqyho&referral-campaign=c2s&utm_campaign=web-referral

 

OTHER SHOPPING/DONATION LINKS

  • Earn books for school by shopping at www.shop.scholastic.co.uk
  • Earn commission for the PTA when buying name labels for your child’s uniform at www.stikins.co.uk (use code 7062)

 

VOLUNTEER

Fairlight PTA relies on volunteers but we know people are busy, so we try to have a big WhatsApp group we can approach for help, allowing people to dip in and out when they can. If you would be happy to be added to this group, please email us (address below). 

If you aren’t able to volunteer time but have ideas about events or fundraising then we would love to hear them! We are always trying to find ways to raise funds without asking for money from school families – if you have links with a business that might be interested in supporting us, or know of any schemes or grants we could access, please let us know!

 

CONTACT

Any questions, suggestions, feedback, offers of help…

Email: pta@fairlight.brighton-hove.sch.uk 

Instagram: @fairlight_pta 

And we have a new website! https://fairlightpta.charityhive.co.uk 

This is the one place from now on where you should be able to find all things PTA-related, including newsletters, events, raffles and sponsorship pages.