Pupils at Hartlebury CE Primary School are hoping “every little helps” in their bid to win first place in the Tesco Community Grant vote, which runs until the end of September.

With three worthy bids for customers to choose from, the school is set to bag at least £500 but hopes enough shoppers will choose their Early Years Outdoor Area project to win first place and £1,500.

Worn-out wooden climbing equipment had to be removed so funds are needed for modern alternatives to support the physical and social development of the Pre-School and Reception Class children.

Thank you to Annie in Reception Class, who sent us this lovely picture of her voting for our fabulous school. Every little helps!

We are supporting a little boy, called Oscar, who attends Pitmaston Primary School in Year 1. He is very poorly and requires a 2^nd stem cell transplant which his parents have to fund.

We invited all our children to come to school on Friday 11^th October 2019 dressed in their home clothes for a donation to his fund. We are very pleased to be able to donate £216.01 to Oscar’s fund.

Thank you to everyone who helped support this very worthy cause.

Year 4 organised a bring and buy Toy Sale on Tuesday 5th April 2022, to raise money for children currently impacted by the conflict in Ukraine.

Thanks to your generous donations, we were able to raise £360 for Save the Children.

Well done to Year 4 and thank you for all of your support!

12 Days for Christmas

Following the success of our Kidderminster Foodbank Advent Calendar donations each year, we held a reverse advent calendar event. The event took take place from December 1^st to 18^th (12 school days).

We published a list of 12 items from which families could choose to donate for our Christmas Foodbank box.

We received a wonderful and generous amount of donations which were taken to Kidderminster Foodbank for distribution to those in our community experiencing food poverty or insecurity over the Christmas period.

We were so grateful for all of your donations. We even featured in the Kidderminster Shuttle.

Every year we support Operation Christmas Child. The children create their own box or gather up some items for a collective box and spread some kindness across countries when maybe kindness is in short supply. We collected over 30 boxes around our cross in school this year.

Thank you as always for all the support we receive.

SANTA DASH SUCCESS

On Friday 15th December 2023, we took part in the Annual Hartlebury Primary School Santa Dash.

Children wore their Christmas jumpers, hats and tinsel and dashed around the playground for 15 minutes, trotting like reindeers, stomping like snowmen and skipping like elves.

Children even got to wave at our very special visitor… Father Christmas who gave all of the children a Christmas present from the PTA.

Thank you so much to everybody who donated.

This sponsorship, combined with the support for the PTA Christmas Movie Night and for your generous Nativity donations, have raised a grand total of…£1680! Wow! What an amazing total raised for our wonderful PTA.

Thank you once again. What a supportive school community we have!

All funds will be used by the PTA to provide enhancements for learning which will benefit all of our fantastic pupils.

Please have a read at this lovely letter received from Maggs Day Centre.

This is just a quick reminder that the Recycle to Read toy collection is finishing tomorrow (Friday 21st June).

This will be the last date we can accept donations so please bring these to the school office if you have anything.

This is great chance to declutter and the school will receive book vouchers in return.

Thank you to those families who have already donated, it is greatly appreciated

We donated £14.00 to KEMP Hospice through the sale of handmade Christmas decorations.

Thank you to all of those who were able to contribute towards this amount.

Well done to Mrs Branagh-Wall who walked the Cotswold Way on Saturday 25th June 2022, which was 100k (63 miles) in 27 hours, 15 mins and 16 seconds.

Mrs Branagh-Wall walked through the night so didn’t sleep!

So far approximately £800 has been raised for Children with Cancer UK which is an incredible amount.

Well done Mrs Branagh-Wall. We are all very proud of you!

Thank you for all of the donations given for Bag2School. These have been collected and weighed and we are very pleased to have received a cheque for £92.00.

If there are anymore bags you would like send in for Bag2School, we can arrange a collection date for these items. Please advise the school office if this is the case.

Thank you as always for your continued support.

Well Done to everyone who took part in Santa Dash on Friday 13th December 2024. 

You were fantastic and we are really proud of you all.

Thank you for all of the Sponsorship Money you have raised. 

We are very pleased to announce the total raised was £1487.33.

A special thank you to Mrs Moulder for organising this wonderful event.

On Friday 13^th March 2020, children were invited to come to school dressed as their sporting hero. In the afternoon, the whole school and parents took part in the sports relief mile around the field. The children were sent home with sponsorship forms and as a school we raised an incredible £648!

Thank you so much for all of your sponsorship money, we are so pleased to be able to support such a wonderful charity.

Please look out for more fabulous photos in our gallery!

We will be providing cakes for both adults and children this week for MacMillan.

We are very keen to support this extremely worthwhile charity again this year!

Adults – We hope that you will be able to join us in church for our Harvest Festival, coffee and cake on Thursday 29th September 2022 at 9.00am, to support our MacMillan Coffee Morning. Cakes will be donated by staff and coffee offered by our PTA.

Children – We will be providing bought, wrapped cakes for each child in school to enjoy at breaktime on Friday 30th September 2022.

Any donations you would like to make for both of these occasions would be gratefully received. Payment is to be made through your ParentPay account and has been set up as MacMillan Coffee Morning. You can make as many donations as you like, with the value ranging between £1.00 to £100.

Thank you as always for your continued support and generosity to this very worthwhile charity.

We look forward to seeing you at our Harvest Festival tomorrow.

We are supporting this national fund raising appeal again this year and invited everyone to come to school head to toe in RED! Or with a little bit of red! All we asked for was a donation towards this charity. Red Nose Day raised the amazing amount of £191.85.

Thank you as always for all of your fabulous support!!

Wow! What a fantastic day we have had taking part in the Santa Dash.

We are so proud of all of the children for their wonderful efforts skipping like an elf, trotting like a reindeer, floating like a snowflake, sidestepping like a star and waddling like a penguin. One child told me that they had completed 20 laps of the course – incredible!

We even had a very special visitor watching the children taking part who handed out presents to the children once they had completed the course. Thank you to the PTA for working in conjunction with the North Pole to make this happen!

Thank you for collecting sponsorship for the children taking part today. We have raised a whopping £1487.33 for Hartlebury Primary School PTA. We are so thankful and know that the PTA will spend the funds on making our school a better place for our children.      Caitlin Moulder

DNA Automotive Solutions in Worcester do a lot of work with the Worcestershire Homeless Appeal team keeping their vehicles on the road. They are in desperate need for men’s clothing, especially as we are approaching the colder seasons.

The owner of DNA Automotive Solutions is a parent of our school. As a family, they went out a couple of weekends ago and helped with the street kitchen, handing out clothes and bags. The High Sheriff of Worcestershire was present along with Team Homeless.

If anyone would like to donate any men’s clothing to this very worthwhile cause, please contact DNA Automotive Solutions on 01905 755088. Due to the current COVID-19 guidance within our school, we are unable to accept any donations into school. Please arrange for any donations to go directly to DNA Automotive Solutions.

“We feel it’s really important the kids learn how we all have the ability to make somebody else’s life better. Our children really made them smile which was so warming to see. I feel it was really important for both of the kids to really see first hand and understand that there are others nowhere near as fortunate as us and the difficulties that they face. Both kids took a lot from the evening.” David – owner of DNA Automotive Solutions

On Friday 9th December 2022, all of the children and staff at school took part in the annual Hartlebury Primary School Santa Dash.

The children had a fantastic time dashing, skipping, sprinting and waddling around our snowy, Santa dash course!

Thank to everybody who worked really hard to raise lots of money for our wonderful PTA.

What a great way to keep fit and support our brilliant school!

We can’t wait until next year!

Please look at some more of our fabulous photos in our Gallery.

Millie and Eadie came up with the idea that they wanted to collect money and items to make up individual bags to be handed out to people living on the streets in Worcestershire. They planned 4 Fab Fundraising Fridays and added in Comic Relief to make it FIVE! I want to THANK YOU ALL personally because they raised far more than they ever expected and none of this was possible without your help, generosity and support. They have been able to create 50 bags to be handed out and are making a donation of £116. The bags will be distributed by Maggs Day Centre in Worcester.

We are SO proud of every ones’ efforts.

Comic Relief raised £191.85

We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Dunelm Kidderminster for granting our Christmas Wish and giving our children the most amazing Christmas gift this year.

Debbie Phillips from Wilden All Saints Primary School, added tags on the Christmas Tree at Dunelm requesting gifts for our Wraparound Care.

Customers shopping in Dunelm Kidderminster picked tags from the Christmas Tree and attached them to the wonderful items they brought in store. These were then given to our school and are being enjoyed in our wraparound provision.

Thank you Debbie and Dunelm for this wonderful gift.

We are very grateful and having lots of fun with our new toys.

On Friday 13th November 2020, we all came to school dressed in spots for Children In Need. We joined in the virtual visit from Pudsey Bear which was presented by radio Hereford and Worcestershire.

In the afternoon, Year 4 had a go at drawing their very own Pudsey Bear. The children all put in a great deal of effort and we had some fantastic drawings!

Well done Year 4.

The total raised so far for Children In Need is £134.00.

Thank you to everyone who made this fantastic total possible. We are always very grateful for your support.

Please look at more of our fabulous photos in our Gallery.

Following our Acorns Children Hospice Assembly on Wednesday 24th May, we attach a sponsorship form (paper copies available from the office) for our first Hartlebury Primary Sports Skills Circuit!

This event will be taking place on Friday 16th June, around the school playground to raise money for this year’s chosen charity.

By taking part, we are hoping to raise as much money as we can for the children’s chosen charity and we will kindly be asking family and friends who are able to support us, for sponsorship of children who are taking part in this fundraising challenge. Any monies raised should be put in a sealed envelope with your child’s details and sponsorship form by Friday 14th July. Alternatively, donations can be made on the School’s JustGiving page found here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/hartleburyschool

The event is being organised by the School Council and the children will be challenged to complete a sports skill for 15 minutes around the playground. Children can skip, dribble a football, use a hockey stick and ball, bounce a basketball or balance a tennis ball on a racket, all whilst moving around a circuit. The challenge is to complete the course as many times as you can within the timeframe.

A big, big thank you in advance of this exciting event.

Alfie, Leah, Daniel and Spencer (plus Mums and Dads) all climbed Snowden during the Easter holidays, raising £645 for school in the process. They are intending to buy IT equipment with the proceeds.

Well done and thank you to them and thank you to everyone who supported them.

We have received a plea from the Big Local.

Big Local hold a food box packing night the last Wednesday of every month from 7.00pm. They are open to all and they are aiming to pack 125 boxes a month….Delivering hope one box at a time.

If you would like to donate, please contact Franche Community Church by calling 01562 68183 or email franchecommunitychurch@gmail.com

On behalf of the Big Local, thank you for your support.

Tesco Community Grant Reference Number: 106627

Organisation Name – Hartlebury CE Primary School:

Project Title – Early Years Outdoor Area – We will purchase equipment for our outdoor area to support the physical and social development of the children in Pre-School and Reception classes.

We are delighted to let you know that our application to the Tesco Community Grants Scheme is now LIVE until the end of September 2023.

The project with the highest number of votes across your region will receive up to £1,500, the second placed project up to £1,000 and the third placed project £500.

To check the location of stores taking part, please go to the Tesco website: http://www.tesco.com/store-locator/uk

To vote, you will need to make a purchase within store of any value. You will receive one token per transaction and it’s not necessary to purchase a carrier bag in order to receive a token.

Please share far and wide and vote for Hartlebury Church of England Primary School!

A few months ago, myself and Eadie decided we wanted to help the homeless. We came up with the idea to make some homeless help bags that would contain essential items that they may need sleeping rough. To enable us to achieve this, we did five fundraising Fridays at school.

On week one we did our ‘donation station’ and with all your donations we managed to make 24 bags with just that one fundraiser!

On week two the school was raising money for comic relief but they support the homeless anyway.

On week three we did our dress down day and everyone was very generous .

On week four, we did the raffle for Mother’s Day and the staff from school all made a donation towards the two hampers. Mrs Unitt’s daughter made a fabulous cake!

On our final week we did a cake sale and thank you to everyone that donated cake to us.

Thanks to everyone’s help we have managed to raise an incredible £347.00 which has given us enough money to make 50 bags and donate just over £100.00 to the charity.

We are going to MAGGS Day Centre , Worcester on the 3rd June to hand over the bags so that they can be distributed to the homeless. Free radio are covering our story and this will hopefully be aired over half term.

Thank you very much to all the staff, pupils and parents at Hartlebury primary that have supported and helped us make the homeless bags a reality. Please see more photos in our gallery.

Many Thanks

Millie and Eadie

Hartlebury Church of England Primary School took part in the live ‘GoNoodle’ Physical Activity session for Red Nose Day.

We all loved it and had so much fun!

Thank you to everyone who has supported this charity and made a donation.

We would like to say a HUGE well done to Team Jellybabes who completed the 5K Race for Life on Sunday 9th July 2023 at Worcester Racecourse.

Team Jellybabes would like to say a very big heartfelt THANK YOU for all of the support and donations made to this very worthwhile charity.

The total raised so far is £1305! This is an incredible amount and we know that there are still some more donations to be added.

If you would like to donate to Cancer Research, there is still time. Please click on the following link to add your donation!

Team Jellybabes Race for Life

Well done Team Jellybabes, we are all very proud of you!

Congratulations, Well Done and THANK YOU!!

Our Spring Fayre was held on Saturday 18th May 2019 and it was fantastic – even the weather! Great fun was had by everyone who was able to come. The PTA, with all of your help, raised over £800 towards school projects which is amazing! Here in school we are all massively grateful and thankful for the wonderful support we receive from the PTA and all our families.

Thank you again to all those who supported and helped with this annual community event.

Thank you for all of your fundraising efforts for the PTA through the Santa Dash. As a school we have raised £1100! This is a fantastic amount of money and very generous of all involved. The Santa Dash was a great success; the children love it and your support is very much appreciated.

The top fundraisers will receive their prize in this Thursday’s praise assembly:

EYFS – Zara and Hunter 

KS1 – Noah (Y2)

KS2 – Noah (Y4) and Hayden (Y6)

Well done all!

We would like to say a HUGE well done to Team Hartlebury who completed the 5K Pretty Muddy Race for Life on Saturday 8th July 2023 at Worcester Racecourse.

Team Hartlebury would like to say a very big heartfelt THANK YOU for all of the support and donations made to this very worthwhile charity.

The total raised so far is £500! This is an incredible amount and we know that there are still some more donations to be added.

If you would like to donate to Cancer Research, there is still time. Please click on the following link to add your donation!

Team Hartlebury Race for Life

Well done Team Hartlebury, we are all very proud of you!

For MacMillan this year, we hosted a tuck shop during morning break for the children and a Parents Tea and Cake Party in the afternoon of Friday 27th September 2019. Thank you to everyone who was able to contribute to the fundraising and to all the parents/carers who joined us for Tea and Cake.

We raised an amazing £268.60. All proceeds from the day will go to Macmillan in memory of one of our former parents, Jo Peters.