Friends of West Blatchington
Friends of West Blatchington is a group of parents and two staff representatives who work together to raise funds for ‘extras’ for all the children at West Blatchington Primary School. For a few years now we have been funding extra PE lessons and support for KS1 and KS2 pupils, Swimming Lessons for Year 4 at Hangleton Pool as well as the annual visit from Father Christmas at the Winter Gathering. We have also provided support for school trips and outings and other special events.
We need lots of committee members who will work alongside and play a vital role in the organisation of events and fundraising activities. We understand people have lots of commitments, whatever individuals can offer will be gratefully received.
Friends of West Blatchington meet approximately twice per half-term to organise a variety of fun, fund raising activities which most of our families attend or support such as the Winter Gathering, Summer Festival, Quiz Nights, Table Top Sales and Discos.
Co-Chairs – Marie Collins & Lisa Chatterjee
Co-Secretaries – Jodi Moman
Treasurer – Mahima Malik
Staff Representative –
Teacher Representative – Susanna Barnard
For further information on the constitution of Friends of West Blatchington as a Home School Association, please click on: FOWB Constitution
To contact Friends of West Blatchington please email: fowb@wblatch.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Welcome to FOWB
For those of you who don’t know, Friends of West Blatchington or FoWB are the PTA for our school. Our aim is to run events throughout the year that are not only fun for our children and their families but also raise much needed funds to help enrich the children’s lives.
COVID has definitely brought its challenges to our fundraising attempts over the past year but we still managed to raise just under £2,000. None of that however would have been possible without the help of our parents and carers who donated prizes for our raffle, wrapped hampers, bought tickets or took part in the Easter egg hunt. Thank you all.
Some of this money has already been put to good use. We had a total revamp to our nature garden, which was undertaken by a huge group of people who gave up their own time and completed the works for free. We thought it was only right to buy them all pizza for lunch as a thank you. Bulbs have been purchased and the children will have the opportunity to get involved in school time and at gardening club.
The funds have also enabled the school to purchase extra books to support their outdoor learning and craft materials/break time activities were also supplied.
We’re hopeful that things may be easier from here on and we will be able to host more events over the next year. As always though, these events rely on help from our school community so we would love to see some new faces at our meetings who would be keen to get involved.
Please join our Facebook page (Friends of West Blatchington) where you will find up to date information about when/where our meetings are and what events will be happening. See you there.
How to Get Involved
If you would like to get involved with FOWB, whether that’s attending meetings, helping at events or contributing to ideas, please email: fowb@wblatch.brighton-hove.sch.uk
