FOSS is made up of staff, parents and carers of pupils at Saxton School. FOSS primarily raises money to be spent on equipment, resources and experiences in order to enhance our children’s education. It also supports closer links between home and school, by bringing staff, parents and friends together socially.
All parents automatically become members of FOSS when their children join the school. Parents, family and staff can get involved in any way they like – any contribution is very welcome be it becoming a member of the committee, manning a stall at a fayre, attending an event or bringing in goodies for raffles. FOSS are very grateful for all the help they receive, without which they couldn’t raise the funds they do.
The FOSS committee consist of a number of elected members, the current FOSS committee consists of:
Co-Chairs: Lucy Verlander & Danielle Drake
Secretary: Christine Bird
Treasurer: Laura Worsnop
FOSS meets approximately every 8 weeks in school usually at 7:30pm. Smaller sub committees are started in order to organise big events and these meet more regularly. You don’t have to be a committee member to attend the meetings, nor do you need to commit to attending regularly. FOSS love to hear new ideas and thoughts so please pop along to a meeting, give us a nudge in the playground, drop us an email friendsofsaxtonschool@gmail.com .
FOSS is a registered charity.
FOSS is also a member of PTA UK (www.pta.org.uk) which is a national charity whose main objective is to advance education by encouraging the fullest cooperation between home and school.
Examples of previous FOSS fundraising events include Christmas and Summer Fayres, a sponsored colour run, party and pamper nights, bun sales and barn dances. Not all of our events are fundraisers we also organise social, fun events for the children, parents and staff such as the leavers disco.
FOSS also runs a ‘100 Club’ in association with the PTA at Monk Fryston School which raises fund for our children. Numbers can be purchased through ParentPay and the rules can be found here.
The winning numbers in the latest 100 Club draw are –
52, 23 & 16
Decisions on how to spend funds raised are made at the FOSS meetings in conjunction with school. Recently funds have been spent on a new all weather sail cover for Willow class, Forest School (outdoor learning space), a new sound system and working towards obtaining the Artsmark award.
In 2023 – 24 the activities that we did raised £4,042 for our children, which is wonderful.
This enabled us to purchase:
| White Boards for willow | (£28.99) |
| Leavers Hoodies | (£288.01) |
| Giant Jenga | (£42.29) |
| Ocarinas | (£165.00) |
| Giant Dominos | (£9.95) |
| USB Microscopes | (£344.89) |
| Boom whackers | (£95.75) |
| School Bags | (£60.49) |
| Pantomime Coach | (£400.00) |
| Bouncy Castle | (£335.00) |
| Video & Drone footage to promote the school | (£750.00) |
Thank you for your support.
