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With all of the excitement of the return to school, we thought now might be a good opportunity to offer a little update on the CWSA. Find out what we have been up to, what to expect next and more on how you can continue to get involved in 2021 and beyond... |
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Fundraising So Far Despite a difficult 2020, which cut short a lot of our fundraising efforts, we have, so far, raised well over £8,000. Fundraising efforts have included events, merchandise, matched-funding and online shopping partnerships. We're looking forward to delivering so much more in 2021 and have some fantastic ideas and initiatives underway as we take advantage of the incredible facilities available to us at the new school. Find out more about how you can help with fundraising by clicking the button below. | | |
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Events Between our inception in December 2018 and COVID striking, we managed to squeeze in four face to face events and we're looking to run many more in the coming year. Click below to bookmark our Events page and find out more about future events. | | |
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Advancing Education Support Programme Fundamentally, it is the mission of the CWSA to advance the education of every child at the school, whether this is through financial support or more directly. To that end we have developed the following two programmes: 121 Reading Programme Lockdowns-permitting, CWSA members will attend the school to support individual children to meet or exceed their expected reading levels by offering 121 reading support, listening to the children read aloud. CWSA Creatives Club Again, as soon as is feasible, children will be able to take advantage of the CWSA Creatives Club, which is an after-school clubs programme that will offer opportunities that might not usually form part of the curriculum. We will be kicking off with 6-week clubs in both Songwriting/Rapwriting and Spoken Word/Poetry. If these pilots are successful we will look to add more clubs throughout the year. If you have a creative skill that you think might benefit this programme or you would like to help a child with their reading on a weekly basis, please email us. |
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Giving Back So Far We believe in raising funds to develop the 'whole child', and so, together with the CWS staff, we agreed that donations will be made to the school to cover these four areas: 1. Rewards & Incentives 2. HRF 3. Musical Productions 4. Outdoor Learning Masks Late last year we purchased a mask for every single child and teacher. Though we did encounter a little blip with the sizing, that has now been resolved. Should your child wish to have a bigger mask, please ask them to collect one from the office. If you'd like to purchase additional masks, you can do so here. Beekeeping Most recently we have donated just over £2500 to the school to further the school's outdoor learning objectives, by purchasing everything needed to set up, introduce and maintain Beehives. Launching late Spring/early Summer, the hives will enable students to get involved in maintaining the bee colonies and to make and market products such as CWS honey and beeswax products. |
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Pre-loved Uniform Programme Top of the list of priorities this Spring is to launch our Pre-loved Uniform Programme. We have recently collected all of the unclaimed lost property from the school, and we will be sending out requests very soon for any items that your child may have outgrown, so that we can add this to the stock that we will look to offer for sale in the Spring term. |
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Getting Involved We are always so happy to hear from parents that want to get involved at any level. Different types of involvement can include: - Signing up to our website here to receive more direct communications from us. - Signing up with with Amazon Smile, Easy Fundraising or The Giving Lottery here, - Volunteering at one of our virtual or face to face events. - Becoming an active member (which involves attending one or more monthly meetings and getting involved with the planning and delivery of initiatives). You can complete this online form if you'd like to become a member, it only takes two seconds. If you would have any questions, please do email us here, we'd love to hear from you! You can find out more about the current team by clicking the button below. | | |
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The CWSA AGM We very much hope to hold the AGM in June following relaxation of the lockdown rules at the school – we will notify all Members of the details when they are available. Only Members of the Association can join the AGM, but it only takes less than 1 minute to apply to become a Member, via our website here, we'd love to hear from you! Further details about Association Membership and the AGM process can be found by clicking the below button. | | |
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National Online Safety Workshop On behalf of Miss Lattimore, a little reminder that Coombe Wood School has has recently worked with National Online Safety to deliver an interactive online workshop that is available for all parents & carers who wish to learn more about protecting their child online. Click the button below to register your account. You will need to complete your details and select “I am a: Parent/Carer” from the dropdown. The course can be taken at your own convenience and covers information about online dangers and the newest platforms, and what online risks to look out for and how to protect your child | | |
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