All parents/carers are invited to attend our St Martin's School Fundraising Team meetings, offering you an opportunity to meet with other members to discuss fundraising for the coming year.  Information on upcoming Meetings will be sent out via our SchoolPing messaging system.  

If you are interested in helping the Fundraising Team in any capacity for our future events, or for any general enquiries, please email us at >>  fundraisingteam@stmartinsschool.org.uk 

Monies received through St Martin's fundraising and commissionable events enables the school to enhance your child's education.  We are currently fundraising towards our
playground improvement project.

Virtual Duck Race 16th - 23rd May 2025

We’re excited to announce our Virtual Duck Race – a fun and unique fundraising event for all our classes!

Each class will be allocated a virtual duck to take part in a week-long online race, beginning on Friday 16th May. The ducks will “swim” throughout the week and can be tracked online. Then, on Friday 23rd May, we’ll gather as a school to cheer our ducks across the finish line!

Each class is encouraged to raise sponsorship for their duck. The class that raises the most sponsorship money will enjoy a special treat on Friday afternoon. In addition, the class whose duck wins the race will also receive a treat!

Please submit all sponsorship money in a named envelope by 21st May to give us time to count everything and celebrate the winners.

Finale Day – Dress Up for Your Duck!
On 23rd May, children are invited to come in dressed in homage to their class
duck – for example, as an army duck, a pink duck, a disco duck… whatever your
class theme may be! A homemade hat, t-shirt, face paint, or even a small flag is more than enough to join in the fun.
We can’t wait to see which duck makes a splash and which class raises the most!

Thank you in advance for making this a fantastic event for the children -

every donation brings us closer to making our OPAL playtimes event more fun and exciting.  Let's waddle our to way to success together!

Easter Celebrations: The Easter Bunny visited St Martin’s again this year. This was an exciting end of term event organised by the Fundraising Team for all the children. 

Thanks to a fantastic donation from the St Martin’s Fundraising team, and all your generous donations over the last few years, we have been able to improve the play and outdoor learning for all the children. We have introduced:
➢ Playground marking for imaginative play
➢ Basketball courts and posts
➢ Daily mile track
➢ Football goals and markings
➢ Sails for shade
➢ Seating for outdoor learning
➢ New equipment including space hoppers

All this provision supports the children’s 5 ways to wellbeing which we encourage through play.

• Connect with others
• Keep active
• Be creative
• Keep learning
• Take notice and give

Thank you all and look forward to many future events that are being planned.

Yvonne Barnes     (Newsletter: September 2022)

CAROLS ON THE PLAYGROUND:  A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our ‘Carols on the Playground’ event on 10th December. It was a wonderful time for families to enjoy songs and readings by the children, outdoor festive stalls, games and refreshments. We would also like to thank local businesses for their generous Prize Draw donations.

Some of our children in Reception, Key Stage 1 and Year 3 visited Santa in his Grotto on Monday. Santa then visited the classrooms to say hello and left the children a little treat.

Thank you everyone for entering our Christmas competitions. We had some amazing Bauble entries. Prizes were given to the selected winning entries.

HOT CHOCOLATE FRIDAYS:
Here are some of our Key Stage 1 children enjoying their yummy hot chocolates during Term 1 - served up and organised by the St Martin's Fundraising Team for the whole school to take part in. 

2020 / 2021 Events

Fundraising Easter Competitions:  

We had so many amazing and beautiful creations entered into our Easter Competitions again this year. All the children should be so proud of themselves. Well done and thank you all for taking part.

Congratulations to Kyla overall winner of our fundraiser Easter Competition organised by St Martin's Fundraising Team. A huge thank you to The Lions Club Weston-super-Mare who kindly donated this amazing Easter egg for our competition top prize.

(A few of the fantastic entries for our Fundraising Easter Competitions)

Christmas Fundraising Events:  It has been a very busy time for The Fundraising Team during the Autumn Term and as always we would like to thank you for your continued support. There were lots of exciting competitions for children to take part in again this term including our ‘Decorate a Bauble’ competition.  Recordings of our competition winner announcements can be viewed on our new ‘St Martin’s Fundraising Facebook page’.

Below are some of the other amazing entries we had for the Christmas Bauble Competition. Well done to everyone who took part!

A huge thank you again to all of the local businesses who very generously donated to our School Raffle.