Band and Curry Night

We are pleased to announce our PTFA Band Night on the 14th November 2015 at Mereside Centre in Shibden Park. 

 

We are thrilled to have live music from the Psychoslinkys, a disco and supper. This evening promises to be popular event on our calendar.Tickets are £15 and can be ordered via +Pay or with the order form sent out via parentmail. Please return your form with a cheque to reception asap. 

 

We expect this event to be extremely popular and we have limited tickets so book quickly to secure your spot at this not to be missed event! Wrist bands for the event will be issued in the week prior to the event.

 

 

 

 

 

Bargain Shopping!

The PTFA are pleased to announce a special evening of Fashion on Friday 25th September 2015 at Northowram Community Centre. Tickets are just £5 and include entry into the event and a strip of raffle tickets, you might win a £50 voucher to spend with Shop2Drop and a bottle of champagne!

There will be a cash bar available on the night, so you can enjoy a drink or two whilst you watch the show. Shop2Drop (www.shop2drop.co.uk ) bring clothing from big names including Zara, Coast, New Look, Debenhams, M&S in sizes from 8 -20 at great low prices.

You can pay for your purchases by card or debit/credit card.

Make a night of it, invite your friends and pick up a bargain or two!

 

 

 

Summer Success

The Summer Fayre was a fantastic event. It was great to see our school bustling with children, families and friends. I was reminded again that the children of Northowram have lovely manners and are a joy to be around. Running one of the stalls this year allowed me to interact with a good number of visitors and it was nice to see smiling faces, even when people didn't win on the various games.

The event made around £1000 which is a massive contribution to PTFA funds and as always the monies raised go into making Northowram an even better place for all our children to learn.

Thank you to everyone who supported the event by attending and spending, donating items or time to make it such a success.

Thank you to the staff from Northowram who assisted at the event and around it to ensure things ran smoothly.

Finally thanks to Zoe and the other PTFA members who co-ordinated a great event and to everyone who volunteered!

Love Baking?

Are you the next Mary Berry? Do your buns put Paul Hollywood's to shame? Put your baking to the test at the Great Northowram Bake Off!

Present your delicious baked delights at our Summer Fayre and you could be named the winner of the Great Northowram Bake Off!

Not a baker but love a good cake? Fear not, the goodies will be sold on a Home Baked Goods stall so make sure you bring your spending money and enjoy a treat or two!

Bolton Brow Burner

A massive well done to everyone from our school who took part in the Bolton Brow Burner on Sunday 7th June! Thank you to all those who ran or walked, manned the stall, baked, bought raffle tickets, sponsored children, managed the school running club, assisted with registrations, recorded race timings, shopped for the stall and attending meetings! The help and effort is really appreciated. It's a great event to be part of.

Next year the run will be in Northowram and we hope to make the event a huge community event. We hope to get even more children, parents, friends and families involved so dig out your running shoes. We will be having running clubs to aid even beginners to run!

Stay tuned for more information on how much money was raised.

2015 Calendar Images

Did you miss out on one of our beautiful 2015 PTFA Calendars? Or just want a quality high resolution digital format copy of the picture of your child to use as you wish? Then why not buy a copy for the low fee of just £5.00?

The image will be yours to use how you please, why not order photo gifts for family or get the print framed for the wall at home?

You can view the images by accessing the links provided in the letter that went home this week, then simply complete the form and return it to the School Office with a cheque made payable to Northowram Primary School PTFA.

Bolton Brow Burner Running Club

Bolton Brow Burner Running Club

To help prepare for the Bolton Brow Burner we are pleased to inform you that Northowram have a running club on Wednesday evenings from Northowram Community Sports Club, Westercroft Lane.  The club meet at 6:30pm and invite all adult runners regardless of ability who would like to join a local group. This club is currently free to attend, but is adults only at this point.

 

Have a child who would like to join in with the Bolton Brow Burner but who could do with some practice prior to the event? The PTFA are planning an afterschool running club, which will run for 4 weeks starting on Friday 1^st May, 3:30-4:30.   The 4 week club will cost £10 per child and will include race entry for the Burner and a snack and drink while attending the club each week.  The club is open to all year groups and dependent on numbers may be run on several nights throughout the week.  Initially the first club will start on Friday 1^st May with 20 children.

Please return your slip and payment by cheque (payee: Northowram Primary School PTFA) in a named envelope addressed to Mrs Rushforth.



More Information about the Burner and how to register:

Sunday 7th June 2015:

• A 2.5k family fun run/walk/pram push 10am start £6 entry
• A 10k adult race 11am start £12 entry

Followed by Bolton Brows Summer Fayre, with games, inflatables and stalls.

 

Every entrant will receive a gift and refreshment on completion. There will also be a cash prize for the first man and woman across the finish line in the 10k.

You can enter online now at www.boltonbrowburner.co.uk

 

The Bolton Brow Burner raises funds for a range of schools and proved to be a good fundraiser for our PTFA last year. We hope that as many children and parents/friends etc will join in this fun event and help raise even more funds than last time.

Table Top and Car Boot Sale at the Scarecrow Festival

Northowram Scarecrow Festival - Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th May.

As part of our activites for this years Scarecrow Festival, on Saturday 2nd May 2015 we will be serving refreshments in school and running a "New to You" table top and car boot sale.

A car boot space will only cost £10 and a table top in the school hall is just £8. As we have space for limited numbers we will be opening the sale of these pitches on +Pay on Wednesday morning. If you are interested then please make sure that you sign up quickly, all spaces are to be sold on a "first come, first served" basis.

Take opportunity of this great chance for a clearout!

 

 

 

20th March Update

Well it looks like Spring is here and according to Robin Williams “let’s party!”, and what better way to do this than at the school disco tonight.

School Disco – Friday 20th March

Just a quick reminder of the timings below:

Nursery and Reception 14.15 – 15:25
Years 1 / 2 / 3 – 16:00 – 17:15
Years 4 / 5 / 6 – 17:30 – 18:45

Years 1 – 6 Disco £1 entry fee. There will be glow products, chips, drinks, sweets and a lucky dip for the children to buy.

For those of you who have opted for the ‘Disco Deal’, which includes their entry fee, your children will get their goodies when they arrive at the disco.

At the end of each disco the children will exit from the hall into the nursery playground. We are aware that in the past this has become quite difficult, so in order to improve this we will be letting the children go by their year group and class, with the youngest class first. To ensure this runs smoothly, please can you stand back until your child’s class is called.

We appreciate your co-operation with this.

Other dates for your diary are:

Scarecrow Festival- Saturday 2nd, Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th May.
On the Saturday we will be serving refreshments in school and will be running a “New to You” sale. This is an opportunity for parents to come and sell any unwanted toys, clothes etc. more information to follow.

Bolton Brow Burner – 7th June 2015

School Summer Fayre – 20th June 2015

Next PFTA Meeting @ Shoulder of Mutton Wednesday 15th April 2015, 7.30pm

Please visit our new Facebook Page ‘Northowram Primary School PTFA’ where you will find out more about what we do.

Have a great weekend!

Zoe
PTFA Chair

PTFA Disco 20th March 2015

The next school disco is on Friday 20th March, full information below:

Following our last discos we have taken feedback from parents about the disco for Years 1/2/3 and have introduced an optional pre pay ticket. Please follow the details sent out in the parentmail letter.

• Nursery and Reception disco: 2.15 pm and 3.25 pm
  • £3 – this will cover entry to the disco, crisps, biscuit, drink and a party gift to take home
• Years 1/2/3 disco: 4.00 pm – 5.15 pm
  • Option to pre pay £4 – this will cover entry to the disco, chips, drink, bag of sweets and a glow item
  • Entry on the door £1, there will be glow products, chips, drinks, sweets and a lucky dip available to purchase on the night
• Years 4/5/6 disco: 5.30 pm – 6.45 pm
  • Entry on the door £1, there will be glow products, chips, drinks, sweets and a lucky dip available to purchase on the night

The disco is a very popular event on the PTFA calendar the children always have a great time. Also, back by popular demand is our resident DJ Nathan Powell!

Mothers Day Shop 10th and 11th March 2015