We now have our own email address.  Should you wish to contact us, please do so on - 

finchalepta@gmail.com

Date of next PTA meeting is

22nd April 2021 - 4pm Online.

Events for 2020-2021

Children's Christmas Designs - December 2020

Christmas Online Raffle - Drawn 7th to 18th December 2020

Visit from Santa - 16th December 2020

Valentine Trail - 10th to 14th February 2021

Easter Egg Hunt - 26th March 2021

Art Gallery - Summer Term (date TBA)

.....With more to come!

In the spirit of keeping PTA events going, and staying right within the current guidelines, we have organised our own Friends of Finchale Valentine's Trail!  It's really simple to take part. 

Between 10th and 14th February, across areas of Newton Hall, some of our fabulous friends will be displaying character "love" posters in their windows!  Each poster will have a picture of a well-known character..... maybe from a Disney film, from a book, or from a TV show.  All you have to do, is during your permitted daily exercise/walk (only within your own support bubble!), locate our characters and then match them with their Valentine. So, if you see a poster with Mickey Mouse, you would write down his Valentine Minnie Mouse.

Across Newton Hall there are 28 Valentines to be found, grouped into 6 different small locations. You could choose to go out and find them all in one walk, or spread it out over a few days - whichever suits you the best.

To receive your map, please just send a £2 donation on Parent Pay to the PTA Valentine's Trail and we'll email you your copy of the map. Once it's filled in with as many as you can find, simply take a photo / scan your sheet and email it back to us. There will be a prize chosen at random from those with the most correctly matched Valentines.

Enjoy, have a little fun, and most importantly stay safe and look after each other.

Visit from Santa

Even in these strange times, it was great that Santa could still make his yearly visit to Finchale. He sanitised his hands, and stayed social distanced from the children in his outdoor grotto. Thank you to the Kemp family for decorating his lovely grotto! As an extra bonus, every child in school received a little present.

Christmas Raffles

Thank you to those of you that have bought tickets for our online raffle this year, tickets are now all sold out.  The 12 draws will be made between 7th and 18 December. Fingers crossed for everyone in the draw to win £5,000.00!  You can also still make chocolate donations to school, for our children's sweet hamper raffle.

Halloween Costumes.

To try to do our bit to combat the growing problem with one-time use Halloween costumes, Friends of Finchale PTA and the Eco Council are teaming up to offer Finchale’s own Swap-Shop.

We may be a little late this year, but we hope this is a start and over the coming years, with your support, we go from strength to strength as this initiative builds…… maybe even to Christmas jumpers and other annual events.

So how can you help?

If you have any unwanted Halloween costumes please bring them in this week Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd October, and drop them off at the Main Office.

We will sort them into age order and display them in the Hall during this weeks’ Parents Appointments. Please feel free to view these donated costumes, and take one FOR FREE for your child this year.

Unfortunately we don’t have the space to store these long-term, so after the event anything left over will either be kept for school dress-up boxes/class assemblies or donated to charity.

Therefore each year we will be opening the Swap-Shop up as fresh - but a little earlier in the term!

Thank you to the Reception Parent for suggesting this to us - as always, any suggestions for the PTA are always welcomed.

If you have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to ask any member of the PTA team.

Thank You :) and Happy Halloween!

Valentine Disco 13/2/19

The disco raised £261.

A huge thank you to all who contributed and helped to make this such a great event!

Christmas Fair

Friday 30^th November 2018

Funds Raised £701

The Halloween Disco raised £382 - many thanks to all of the children who bought tickets. Huge thanks also to the parent, staff and former pupil helpers.   

Many thanks to all for your generosity, making cakes, donating baked goods and buying them.

We raised £400.58 for MacMillan Cancer Support.

Summer Fair 22 June 2018

We raised £881 from the fair and raffle.

Many thanks to you all for your generosity - this includes all of the volunteers giving their time to help, people donating items and of course the children, family and friends who came along to the fair. We hope you enjoyed this whole school community event.   

Summer Raffle - Prize Winners

Digital Radio - Florence, Reception

Digital Radio - Elisha, Reception 

Brancepeth Castle Golf for 2 - Jan Stothard

Whiskey - Finn M 

Cava - Jenna

Tia Maria - Ticket 281-285

Toiletries - Ruby Y2

Toiletries - Lucy H

Toiletries - Callum M

Cava - Ticket 71-75

Port - Max Mo

Wine - Leo M

Wine - Max Ma

Wine - Fraser S

ALL PRIZES WERE CLAIMED.

Easter 2018

Friends of Finchale once again gave us a day to remember on Thursday 29th March 2018 by providing the prizes for our Egg Decorating Competition and putting on an amazing Egg Hunt. Every child in school participated in the search for eggs and had huge fun! They all received a treat as an entrant or winner. Thank you to all of the parents who came along and ran the event.