We’re pleased to share with you that we’re hosting our Annual Christmas Fayre event on Friday 29 November, from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.

With preparations for the event in full swing, we would like to take the opportunity to formally invite you, your family and friends to this event to kick off the Christmas festivities. Like last year, proceeds from the event will be going to help the Hope Centre, a local charity that delivers vital services to support those experiencing problems of disadvantage and marginalisation, including hunger, homelessness, addiction and mental health.

The Fayre will be free to enter, and will include the following attractions:

– Christmas Market, with stalls run by our staff, students, parents and other external vendors
– Festive Refreshments
– Father Christmas in his Grotto
– Charity Silent Auction
– Christmas Carols and festive cheer
– Charity Raffle and Tombola
– Christmas-themed Junior School games and activities
– Visit from Santa’s reindeer

Further information will follow in the coming weeks, however we would like to ask for your support:

1. Our Market will comprise a wide variety of stalls including festive goods, bakes and much more. Limited stalls will be available for parents to host at a cost of £20 per stall, and we warmly invite you to contact j.nash@nhs.gdst.net if you are interested.
2. Our charity raffle promises to tempt with lots of wonderful prizes to be won and we would be most grateful for any raffle prizes you are able to donate.
3. We will be hosting a charity Bottle Tombola as part of this event, and to help us with this we are holding a Junior School mufti day on Friday 22 November, where we will kindly ask for tombola prizes instead of the usual mufti day donations. Bottles in all shapes, sizes and forms are appreciated – this could be a bottle of shampoo, a bottle of ketchup or even a ship in a bottle! Donations can be dropped off at either our Senior or Junior School receptions and we would like to thank you in advance for your generosity. We respectfully request that if a bottle donation contains alcohol, parents bring this into school (Senior or Junior School reception), on behalf of the student.
4. There are a number of different sponsorship packages for local businesses who may be interested in sponsoring a portion of the event. We have packages available to suit all budgets and if this is of interest to you, please do get in touch via j.nash@nhs.gdst.net.

We look forward to welcoming you to this community festive treat and thank you so much for your support. More details will follow but if you would like additional information, or wish to be involved, please feel free to get in touch.