Friends of Winslow C of E School

The following teachers make up the Friends Committee:

Mrs C Colmer (Headteacher)
Mrs Thomas (Assistant Headteacher)

All other staff are ‘Friends of the school’ and may attend on a rota system to ensure that we have valuable teacher / support staff input through the year.

The Friends of Winslow Church of England School (FOWS) is a group of parents, guardians and carers of pupils attending the school. It also includes both teaching and non-teaching staff at the school, and can also include anyone from the local community who is over the age of 18 who is willing to offer appropriate support or help to the school.

The aim of FOWS is to raise funds for the school to buy additional equipment to further enhance the facilities available to pupils within the school. We organise a variety of events throughout the year to fit around and compliment the busy life of the school and families alike.

During the last year we have run the following fundraisers:

Cinema afternoons
Cake sales
Crazy hair day
Discos
Christmas cards designed by the children
Summer fete
Christmas fayre

Your generous support at these events meant that we managed to raise just over £17,000 in 2018 for the school to spend on enhancing the facilities that all our children benefit from!

The fantastic support we receive from our parent community has allowed us to proudly fund the following projects at the school in recent years:

20+ laptops
We have worked hard and donated a lot of this year’s budget to the schools new SENSORY GARDEN!
Year 6 leavers’ hoodies
Maths resources
Pupils Christmas lunch
Accelerated reading
Junior Librarian
Laminators
Visualisers
Friendship benches
A musical woodland in the school grounds
Outside classroom facilities
Foundation stage playground equipment
Interactive whiteboards for classrooms
22 iPads to support curriculum based classroom activities
Wi-fi has been installed throughout the school
Supporting the library, to ensure it is up to date and has a supply of new books
Each class receives £100 to spend on extras to enhance and enrich the curriculum

How can you get involved?

Event volunteer

We are always looking for volunteers to help out at our events – many hands make light work!

Matched funding

Do you work for an organisation that offers matched funding to support charity work? We would love your pledge of support to help increase funds with the minimum of effort!

Great fund raising ideas

Maybe you have some great ideas on how we can raise funds for the school – we’d love to hear them!

Shop via www.easyfundraising.org.uk

When shopping online visit this website, click on your chosen retailer and a % of the total cost of any purchases you make will raise extra funds for the PTA – it really is that simple, why not save this site in your Favourites list right now!

Offer your skills

Do you have a skill or talent that you think we could utilise to raise funds? Maybe you are a photographer or printer or maybe a keen cake baker or crafter!

Getting in touch…

If you would like to get involved as a volunteer or committee member, offer your skills, or if you have a fundraising idea you’d like to share, kindly offer your matched funding, make a cash donation of any size (just £5 would buy a new book for the library!), or would simply like to find out more about FOWS and the work we do, we would love to hear from you!

You can email us at: fowswinslow@gmail.com

Click here to visit us at our Facebook page for news on all our forthcoming events