Each ticket is £1.00 and there are fantastic prizes to be won from a variety of family-friendly attractions in town, along with a selection of vouchers from our own lovely small business neighbours along the main road in Fulford! 🍫 ☕️ 🫖 🍰 🥂 🥡 🥪 🍦 🏊‍♂️ 📚

Here are all the ways you can buy raffle tickets for the Summer Fair:
➡️ Raffle tickets available for purchase are being sent home with every child, follow the instructions provided in the envelope
➡️ Pop into the school office and buy additional raffle tickets from the ace team there
➡️ Join us at the fair and buy tickets from the Raffle Stall on the day

Prizes will be announced towards the end of the fair, and winners will be contacted directly if not in attendance.

Good luck to everyone! And a massive thank you to our brilliant local sponsors 🫶
Mirchiz, Two Hoots Ice Cream, Busk, Shishang, Jorvine, York’s Chocolate Story, York Sport, X Martial Arts Schools, York, Bettys, Cafe Next Door, Big Bite, Jorvine, The Middle Bar, Brewhemian Hopsidy, Kawa House, Broadway Cafe, M&K Butchers, Knoops Chocolate, Thomas the Baker, Waterstones, Browns of York, Flying Tiger, The Entertain, Aldi, Co-op, Tesco, Morrisons, CooplandsFriends of Fishergate

Quiz Night Tickets

At 6:00pm on Tuesday 21st April, be ready for tasty food and drinks and to put your knowledge to the test, it’s the Fishergate School Family Quiz! The speed quiz is sure to bring about lots of laughs and good family fun. Tickets can be purchased with cash from the school office – £3.50 for Fishergate pupils and £7.00 for everyone else. This covers your meal and quiz entry. Tickets are likely to sell out. Can’t make it to the office this week? Get in touch at friendsoffishergateschool@gmail.com to reserve your tickets and make alternate payment.

Spring Disco Review

What a night! Together we raised a fabulous £550.42. A huge thank you to all of the volunteers who made this event possible. And special shout-outs to DJ Alisun, for knocking out cool tunes all night long, to Maria, for her gorgeous face painting skills and to Anwen, a former Fishergate pupil, who did sterling work on the door!

We hope you all had a lovely time at the disco, we certainly loved seeing so many happy faces rocking those bunny ears and sunnies!

Next Term’s Bake Sale Dates

• Year 5/6 – Mon 27th April
• Year 3/4 – Mon 18th May
• Year 1/2 – Mon 15th June
• Early Years – Mon 29th June

We hope you all have a relaxing break and are excited for more fun next term!

Kind regards,Friends of Fishergate

Spring Disco

Get ready to dance the night away this Friday! Entry is £2.00 per child and we will have pocket-friendly snacks, face painting, fabulous bunny-themed glasses, ears and more for purchase.

• Early Years & KS1 Disco: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
• KS2 Disco: 7:15pm – 8:15pm

** We will be accepting card payments at the door and cash only at the stalls inside.

Announcing: Fishergate Family Quiz

Gather your team and save the date! We’re hosting a family-friendly quiz on Tuesday 21 April. Join in to test your knowledge and come hungry for the amazing pan-Asian buffet, cooked up by some of our talented parent home cooks at Fishergate Primary. All students are welcome to join in, tickets will be sold at £3.50 for Fishergate students and £7 for everyone else.

Bake sale review

Wow, what a fantastic event! The donated bakes were delicious and so many of our families visited the Early Years bake sale this week. A huge thank you to all who baked, volunteered and bought scrumptious treats from the sale!

Mother’s Day Stall review

A fantastic £130.95 was raised and we hope you enjoyed your daffodils and other gifts. The funds raised from this stall are all going towards our exciting goal of purchasing a Book Vending Machine, to inspire reading for pleasure among the children of FishergateFriends of Fishergate

Mother’s Day Stall

All children are invited to shop for mums, grandmas and other special people at our stall, which will be set up in the playground after school this Friday 13th March. We’ll have lovely daffodil pots available for £2.00 each, plus a variety of card-making kits and badges created by an artistic mother-daughter duo from our school.

Just a little more help…

Our list of wonderful helpers is steadily growing for the Spring Disco on Friday 20th March, and we just need a few more roles filled. It’s heartwarming to see a Year 7 student kindly offering to return and assist with a stall! Get in touch at friendsoffishergateschool@gmail.com to lend a helping hand. Many thanks! – EY & KS1 families: can you help selling snacks or bunny-themed accessories? – KS2 families: your help is needed to run the snack stall and to sell tickets at the front door.

Bake sale on Monday

Early Years families will be hosting that last bake sale for this term on Monday 16th March. Be sure to stop by and treat yourself to something sweet to start the week off right. Items will be sold at 50p each, we take cash and have a card reader available tooFriends of Fishergate

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We could not be more thrilled with our newest initiative to keep our school’s families up to date with all events and news from Friends of Fishergate – our very own notice display banner.

BannerBuzz is generously providing us with a high-quality banner where the families of Fishergate can find the latest and greatest initiatives, fun events info and other notices from our school’s very active and dedicated PTA. BannerBuzz provides a diverse range of promotional products and tools and we are so grateful that they will be delivering a quality banner to us, free of charge, as our group is a registered charity dedicated to supporting our wonderful school. Keep a look out at school for our new banner, which is coming soon!

Thanks, BannerBuzz!Friends of Fishergate

Mother’s Day Flower Stall

Children can share their love with mothers, grandmothers and others by visiting our stall after school on Friday 13th March. Daffodil pots will be sold at £2.00 each, plus we’ll have badges and card-making kits for sale too!

Book vending machine progress

Our fundraising is going strong! We’ve reached out to the local press to share our effort. Thanks to amazing donors, we’ve raised £740.00. Doubling this will help us to reach our goal by Easter. Keep an eye out for ways to help spread the word!

Bake sale

Thank you to all who came to support our bake sale earlier this week, and we couldn’t have done it without the Year 1/2’s brilliant bakes and our lovely parent helpers who ran the stall. The money raised will go towards various school projects, from which your child will benefit.Friends of FIshergate

Bake sale on Monday

It’s time for another bake sale! Do come see us in the lower hall on Monday at 3:15pm for delicious treats brought in by our Year 1/2 families. Items are sold at 50p each.

Spring Disco

Now that we have finally had a dose of sunshine this week, we’re sure you’re all ready for the big Spring Disco! Get ready to dance the night away on Friday 20th March. Below are timings and children are admitted at £2.00 each.

• 6:00pm – 7:00pm Early Years & Key Stage 1
• 7:15pm – 8:15pm Key Stage 2

Helpers needed for the disco

Can you help for 1 hour? We need two helpers per stall, so grab a friend and let us know if you would like to help at a stall with food and drinks, selling accessories or badge-making. Or perhaps you can set up for the event before 6pm or after 8:15pm to tidy up. Get in touch at friendsoffishergateschool@gmail.comFriends of Fishergate