Summer Fair

Summer Fair
Saturday 28th June 2025 12 – 4pm

Dear Parents/Carers,

Our fantastic Summer Fair is just under 2 weeks away! As ever the success of the fair is down to the support of you, our amazing parents. With school budgets increasingly challenging it’s more important than ever to raise funds to ensure we can continue to offer our extensive additional curriculum offer such as forest schools, cooking, wood working and alternative PE.

This year promises to be the biggest and best fair we have ever hosted. Our Prosecco and Beer bar (Brosnan’s bar!) will be up and running again, along with goat walking, Inflatables, slip and slide (bring a change of clothes!!) Independent sellers, Food stalls, face painting, Henna Tattoo’s, BBQ, raffles (we have some amazing prizes), bottle stalls and some amazing performances from our musical students! We will see the return of our brilliant students taking place in the poetry slam!

Please could we ask you to support school with donations and visiting the fair itself.

Week commencing Monday 16th June: Bottles, Jam Jars and Chocolate
• ‘Bring a Bottle’ – bottles in all shapes and sizes for the bottle tombola – alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, toiletries etc.
• ‘Jam jars’ – fill them with sweets or ‘goodies’ for the jar stall.
• ‘Chocolate/sweets’ – any chocolate/sweet items, bars, boxes, tubes.
• ‘Hampers’ – All foods must be non-perishable such as pasta, rice, jars, meal kits etc.

Week commencing 23rd June: Toys, Books and Entertainment
• ‘Toys’ – are there items that your children are getting too old for? Toys, games, puzzles.
• ‘Entertainment & Books’ – books and CD’s
• ‘Gifts’ – jewellery, gifts, toiletries.

Thursday and Friday 26th and 27th June Mop up week and Cake Day’s
• ‘Cake Day’ – cakes, buns and other home produce

Entry to the fair is £2.00 per adult. Payable at the gate as you enter.
The fair will be cash free as this makes the general running of each stall much smoother. School stalls will be operating using the token system which we used successfully for the last few years, or card payments. We will be selling the tokens on the school playground at the end of each day between 23rd to 27th June, we can accept both cash and card payments. Tokens will be available to buy also on the day.

On the day independent sellers will be taking cash and/or card payments. You will not be able to use school tokens.

The Poetry Slam will take place at 2 pm.

If you are able to help set up, run a stall or help close down at the end of the day please let the school office know. As we currently do not have a PTA school staff are organising and facilitating this event.

Please donate what you can, all contributions are appreciated and together make a really big difference. Thank you for helping to make our Summer Fair a success.

Cookridge Team.