FOWSA
Friends Of Woodlands School Association - FOWSA
The objectives of FOWSA are to engage in activities or provide facilities or equipment which support and advance the education of our pupils and to develop effective relationships between staff, parents and others associated with the school.
FOWSA regularly organise social activities including children's discos, an annual summer fair, Christmas fair, Secret Santa, family nights and more!
Thank you to everyone for your support!
FOWSA News
Upcoming Dates for your Diary
FOWSA's Christmas Raffle 13th December 2024
Dear Parents and carers
Each child should now have brought home a book of raffle tickets. Each ticket is £1 or the whole book for £5.
The top 3 prizes are : 1. Curtis Jones signed LFC shirt 2. Amazon Fire kids tablet 3. China Butterfly voucher.
There are also some other fantastic prizes such as:
2 x Chocolate Hampers
2 x Festive Hampers
2 x Kid's Hampers
2 x Night In Hampers
2 x Pamper Hampers
Alcohol Hamper
Plus many smaller prizes.
Please try to sell them to friends, family, neighbours, coaches, etc. and don’t forget to return the money and ticket stubs back to school by the 13th December at the latest– any unsold tickets should also be returned so that we can see them on. If you can return them sooner that would be amazing.
Very Important: If you could please make sure to put an adults name on the ticket, as we legally can not sell raffle tickets to anyone under the age of 16.
The draw for the raffle will be at the Star of the Week assembly on Friday, 13th December.
As always we rely on the lovely support from our parents and carers.
Thank you,
FOWSA
General FOWSA Meeting
We will hold a general FOWSA meeting on the 1st Wednesday of each month term time.
The next meeting is scheduled for:
Wednesday 8th January
We would love to see you there.
Previous Events
Silent Disco
We held our very first silent disco!
This was a fun event and was anything but silent with the children all singing along to their headphone! Everyone had fun and we hope to hold another one soon.
Thank you to everyone that came to the disco and also to the wonderful helpers for making it possible.
FOWSA
FOWSA's 'Woody Bar' Sale!
Our Woody Bar sale was a huge success.
Hidden in 12 of the wrappers were shiny, golden tickets that could be exchanged for top prizes such as:
*Chocolate hamper* *theatre tickets* *Bubbles world of Play tickets* *Easter Egg hamper* *Limited edition Taylor Swift Popcorn bucket & cinema ticket* *Family Swimming pass* *Family bowling ticket* *Kids entertainment hamper* *Giant plush bunny*
Some of the lovely hampers which were won with a golden ticket:
Hello 2024 Disco
A huge thank you to everyone who attended our most recent disco and to all of our volunteers for helping organise the event.
DJ Alex, as always, held a fantastic disco and got everyione involved. The children all had a fantastic time.
We look forward to our next one!
Festive Friday
Our Festive Friday was a huge success! Thank you to all that took part.
We had lots of exciting games for the children to play when they visited the Festive room for example:
Complete the Song,
Teddy Raffle,
Sprout Tombola,
Poke a Tree,
Antler Game,
Roll a Coin,
Pick a Present,
Chocolate / Sweet Tombola,
Spin the Wheel and
Candy Cane Game.
Over half of these were guaranteed a win and the children had lots of fun filling their festive goodie bags with prizes.
Thank you all so much for your support, it is much appreciated.
Monster Mash Disco
A huge thank you to everyone that came to our Monster Mash Disco! DJ Alex put on a great show and got everyone involved. The children all had an amazing time. We hope to see you at the next one!
Summer Fair
FOWSA's Anfield Abseil
A huge well done to our 19 daredevils for completing the Anfield Abseil, raising money for Woodlands Primary School. They all did so well!
Special shout out to Claire, Melissa, Jamie and Suz, members of our FOWSA team, for organising the event and being crazy enough to take part in it as well!
So far we have raised an incredible £1024!! Thank you so much everyone, we are so grateful to each and every one of you!
There's still time to sponsor our team for their bravery if you would like to, we really appreciate every penny received!
www.pta-events.co.uk/fowsaformby
Thank you all so much for your support!
FOWSA
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Here are some messages from our sponsors:
Coin Challenge
Thank you so much for contributing to our coin challenge!
The two winning classes (one from nursery / infants and one from juniors) have been informed and they are deciding how to spent their winnings!
Best of British Bingo
A huge thank you to everyone that made our Best of British bingo event a success!
It was a fun filled evening with lots of lovely prizes up for grabs. We had 5 rounds of bingo, Irish bingo, a raffle, tattoos, name the teddy and a tuck shop all run by our fantastic volunteers.
Thank you to everyone who attended the event, the organisers, the volunteers that helped out and also thank you to everyone that donated items at our recent non-uniform day, these went to making our event extra special.
Here are a few pictures from the evening.
Festive Friday 9th December 2022
Our Festive Friday was a huge success! Thank you to everyone that took part in the event, the children absolutely loved it. A really big thank you to everyone involved in making Festive Friday happen, for making donations of items to use on our stalls and for buying goodie bags. Thanks especially to our volunteers for giving up so many hours of their own time to set up the event, run stalls on the day, shop for gifts, wrap gifts, label tombolas, make up hampers, make reindeer food, hand draw and label the goodie bags and even look after our giant elf until we adopted him off at the fair! Thank you all!
Each child taking part received a personalised goodie bag to fill with treats and their winnings from the fair. We had lots of fair games for the children to play while they were in our festive room, each child got the chance to:
Choose some sweets from our sweet stall,
Adopt a teddy,
Guess the elf's birthday to win the giant elf,
Pick up a bag of reindeer food,
Have two goes on our bottle tombola,
Spin the Wheel to choose a prize,
Have two goes on our random tombola,
Pick up a cracker,
Have two goes on our chocolate tombola,
Choose a gift from our lucky dip,
Pick up a candy cane, and
Enter into our raffle to win one of our many hampers, one of 6 tubs of chocolates, one of 2 giant teddies or a family pass to Martin Mere!
Here are a few pictures from our festive room:
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Once again, thank you for all your support, it is much appreciated.
FOWSA
School Trip to See Aladdin at the Atkinson
This year we were able to organise a trip to the pantomime to see Aladdin at the Atkinson with all of the children from Woodlands. This trip had been delayed for a few years thanks to covid but it was well worth the wait!
Thank you to everyone who bought tickets to see the pantomime and special thanks to those who also donated towards tickets for other children. You donated an amazing £2744.22 towards the cost of the pantomime and FOWSA contributed the rest of the money towards tickets and coaches (£1759.95).
It was a fantastic end to the term and all of the children had an amazing time at the pantomine.
Thank you to everyone for contributing and making this trip possible.
Useful Links
EasyFundraising
Sign up to EasyFundraising and FOWSA receive donations each time you shop.
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/fowsaformby/
Online Payments
Pay for FOWSA events online at:
www.pta-events.co.uk/fowsaformby
*The convenience of paying online does come at a cost to FOWSA, any contribution to the fees would therefore be much appreciated.
Thank you for supporting FOWSA.
Scan this QR code to visit our events site:
Donate to FOWSA
If you would like to donate directly to FOWSA, please follow the link below:
We really appreciate all donations received.
Thank you for your support!
FOWSA
Co-op Local Community Fund
A massive thank you to Co-op's Local Community Fund and everyone that shopped at Co-op and supported our project.
We have received a total of £4,543.66 which is absolutely incredible!
https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/49992
Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!
FOWSA
Meeting Minutes
Please follow the link below to access the minutes from our meetings:
Contact Us
If you would like to contact someone from FOWSA please either
Email us at [email protected]
or leave us a message at the school office.
Thank you.