Water Leys
Primary School
Fundraising
2023-2024 Fundraising
Would you like to join the Fundraising Team?
We are looking for volunteer parents and carers to join us to help organise fun events for your children which can also generate much needed school funds to rejuvenate our school library.
Do you have fundraising ideas? Time to support at events? Organisation skills? etc.
If so, and you would like to support our fundraising efforts, please either speak to the office staff or Mrs Goodwin.
Easter Fundraising
Easter Bunny Treasure Map
Buy a square for 50p and if you find the square that the Easter Bunny is hiding on the Treasure Map, you'll win the Easter Bunny. The last chance to buy a square will be on Thursday 21st March and the winner will be announced on Friday 22nd March.
Easter Colouring Competition
To take part in the colouring competition, colour or decorate the picture and return it to your class teacher together with 50p no later than Wednesday 20th March. There will be a prize for the best entry per class (as judged by the School Council).
Easter Bonnet Parade
To take part in the Easter Bonnet parade, create an Easter bonnet and bring it to school on Friday 22nd March. The School Council will judge the entries and announce the winner from each class. There is no charge to enter the Easter Bonnet competition.
Supporting the Community
Goldhill Adventure Playground, a community resource which provides after school support, clubs during the school holidays, food banks and alternative provision for school pupils was a recent victim of an arson attack. Our School Council, decided that we needed to support Gold Hill's Fund Raising efforts and organised a non-school uniform day. Together we raised £407.06
Thank you all for your support.
Christmas Fundraising
Thank you all for supporting our Christmas Fundraising activities. There was so much going on including: the sale of Christmas items designed by the pupils, a Christmas colouring competition, a Christmas baubles competition, name the elf, a teddy treasure hunt and stalls in the hall.
Together we raised £1293.63
The School Council are busy organising fun events for Christmas. Please read our newsletter to see what we have planned.
Children In Need
The School Council organised a number of activities to raise money for Children in Need.
Together we raised £561.56
Thank you for supporting the Poppy Appeal. Together we raised £325.51 for the charity.
My School Fund
Join the My School Fund initiative to help boost our budget
Water Leys is part of the My School Fund initiative. This innovative scheme allows us to be able to boost our school’s budget with your help.
How does it work?
Parents, guardians and carers can sign up to the scheme free and start earning cashback on the things they buy in participating retail stores, including Sainsbury’s and Argos. As you spend, you will receive 2% cashback in the form of eGift vouchers that can be redeemed in participating stores. By linking your spend to our school on the My School Fund website we’ll also earn 1% cashback on your spend. Add that all up across our school’s network of families and together we can all make a big difference!
How to get involved
Visit myschoolfund.org to register free and link to Water Leys. From there, everything you spend in participating stores will go towards helping boost our budget, plus your own! Sign up today at myschoolfund.org
Easy Fundraising
If you are shopping online for anything at all, please remember to go via Easyfundraising to raise free donations for the school.
How does it work?
Easyfundraising has over 4,000 shops and sites which will donate to the school at no extra cost to yourself, including lots of big name retailers like John Lewis, Argos, Uswitch, eBay, M&S, Just Eat, Now TV, Domino's Pizza and Audible. All you have to do is go through the Easyfundraising website or App whenever you shop online and we’ll receive a percentage of your spend as a free donation, at no cost to you or us. Any funds we raise will make a big difference to the school. Please remember to use Easyfundraising and if you haven’t signed up yet, you can find our Easyfundraising page: