Coxhoe Primary School
Friends of Coxhoe Primary School
Charity Number: 1120078
Chairperson: Joanne Walker
Secretary: Mhari Breen
Vice Secretary : Denise Caygill
Treasurer: Sophie Taylor
Vice Treasurer: Sam Lyons
Fund - Raisin
The children were given a box of raisins to take home and enjoy and asked to fill the box with cash and return to school. The classes who raised the most money were promised a fruit platter to enjoy as a class. As their was sunch an amazing response it was decided that a class from KS1 and KS2 would be winners. Congratulations Rosen and Morpurgo! As a school the total raised was £455.61.
We are fundraising to make a contrubution of £8000 towards a new MUGA (Multi Use Games Area) for the school. We are currently at 61% of our target having raised £4941.48 so far.
Upcoming Events
9th April - Easter Family Fun Event*
Miles for the MUGA Fundraiser
2nd May - Sweet Treat Friday - Year 3
23rd May - Sweet Treat Friday - Year 2
20th June - Sweet Treat Friday - Year 1
Summer Fair*
Please note that detials for all events will be communicated via School Comms nearer the time.
*If you could offer some time supporting with any of these events please get in touch by calling the school office, emailing coxhoe@durhamlearning.net or contacting us via the FOCPS Facebook page.
Pantomime Visit
On the 28th and 31st January our children enjoyed a visit to see Peter Pan at East Durham College. To see the joy on their faces and hear their laughter was magical. One child said "I laughed so much a tear dropped out of my eye." This was a free visit for every child in school and was only possible with the fundraising undertaken by us and the generosity of our parents and carers. So thank you to everone who came to our Christmas shopping night as the money raised paid the £2100 cost for the pantomime trip. We also would like to thank ASDA Spennymoor for donating 200 pieces of fruit and sweets and East Durham College for giving us a good price for the pantomime tickets.
Bag2School
As part of our goal to be kinder to the environment we organise bag2School collections where families and friends can recycle clothing, bedding, towels and other items. The bags are weighed and exchanged for payment that is added to our fundraising total.
Our last Bag2School collection in November 2024 raised £42!
Christmas Shopping Night - 27th November 2024
The Christmas shopping night was a fantastic event lovingly organised by Miss Dent and ran with help from FOCPS and school staff. There was a wide variety of stalls selling a wide variety of goods from crafts and baked sweet treats to dog treats and jewellery. There was nacho's, crepes and pizza served from the kitchen, and a hot drinks van outside offering refreshements. Mrs Summerill organised a fabulous brass band - GT Group Peterlee who performed some fabulous fesive tunes and the school choir sang beautifully! Santa Claus himself made himself comfortable in the Hub so some of the children could visit and let him know what they would like for Christmas.
Thank you to all of our parents, carers and the local community who helped us to raise in excess of £2000 - this will go towards a whole school visit to a pantomime in January 2025.
Recent Events 2024-2025
We organised a Halloween disco where children could have a dance and enjoy some treats. Prizes were given for the best dressed and the best dancer. The children had a fab-boo-lous time! FOCP raised £617.96.
Recent Events 2023-2024
Fund-Raisin
The FOCPS would like to thank every family who took part in our recent Fundraisin event. in spring term this year. We received a very generous amount of coins, notes and even a few dollars! We raised an amazing £278.45 and the winning class was Walliams, who enjoyed their fruit platter on Friday afternoon. Thank you for your continued support.
Bedtime Stories
Bedtime stories took place on Wednesday 6th March as part of this year's World Book Day. Children came into school in their pyjamas, dressing gowns, slippers and bring a cuddly toy to listen to bedtime stories read by their teachers. Children also enjoyed some cookies and a drink of milk. FOCPS invited parent/carers to come into the school hall for a cuppa and biscuit while children were listening to the stories.
Thank you for support at this event - we raised £14.40!
Events 2022-2023
King's Coronation Picnic
We celebrated the King's coronation in style with a picnic on our school yard and school field. We were joined by all of our Coxhoe families and the event was a great success. The sun even managed to shine for the afternoon as well.
Thank you so much to all who attended. This event raised £396.24.
Matilda Performance
Friends of Coxhoe Primary School are supporting the production of Matilda in March by funding the transport for the cast members to the venue (£500).
Please support our fundraising at both performances by buying raffle tickets and refreshments
UPDATE: A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Matilda performances. We are very grateful for the donations of raffle prizes. Thank you to our volunteers on the night and for everyone who bought raffle tickets and refreshments at the event. We raised £524 and have paid for the transport for our amazing cast members to the venue.
Healthy Tuck Shop
Our healthy tuck shop has been running for a couple of months now and we are pleased that the children are really enjoying it while helping us to raise funds.
Items available include things like popcorn, raising, fruit juices, cereal bars, snack-a-jacks and fruit winders.
Each fortnight children look forward to choosing some tasty snack time treats which are a healthier alternative to traditional tuck shop items.
Healthy Tuck Shop – Summer 1 - £236.33
It's Panto time!
In January this year, all of our children enjoyed our yearly visit to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, performed at the Lubetkin Theatre at East Durham College. This was funded entirely by the money raised by the FOCPS who donated £1790 to ensure the children had the perfect start to 2023.
Miles for Smiles 2022
After having to make quite a few tweaks to the date and format of this years Miles for Smiles we were beginning to wonder if we were actually going to pull it off.
But in true Coxhoe style our efforts paid off and we had another success! This is of course largely because our families and children are so brilliant and got involved.
We raised a total of £1158.50
The winning class was Rowling who raised an amazing £360.50
Rowling got to enjoy some extra time outdoors and a delicious fruit platter as a reward.
Bag 2 School
As part of our goal to be kinder to the environment we organise Bag2School collections where families and friends can recycle clothing, bedding, towels and other items. In return for helping to save this items from the landfill the FOCPS raise funds in return.
Our last collection raised £86.40
UPDATE: We would like to thank you for your continued support with our fundraising activities. The Bags2school collection in March raised £90, beating our last collection!
Fund-Raisin
This year we are continuing to do a little bit of “Fund-raisin”! On March 20th, we will be sending children home with a box of raisins and asking them to return the empty boxes filled with any spare cash that they can. We’ll collect the boxes up and count the coins; the class with the most money raised will win themselves a fruit platter like the one below.
UPDATE: We would like to thank you for your continued support with our fundraising activities. The cash in raisin boxes raised £385.46. Dahl are our winning class - well done!
Bedtime Stories
Bedtime stories took place on Wednesday 1st March as part of this year's World Book Day. Children came into school in their pyjamas, dressing gowns, slippers and bring a cuddly toy to listen to bedtime stories read by their teachers. Children also enjoyed some cookies and a drink of milk. FOCPS invited parent/carers to come into the school hall for a cuppa and biscuit while children were listening to the stories.
Thank you for support at this event - we raised £33.71!
Bake Sales
Our Bake Sales are back for 22/23 and we are happy to say we are back to our original format! Each class will get a turn to host their own bake sale to see who can raise the most money whist enjoying some tasty treats along the way.
Could there be a prize for the winners?
Follow along below for dates and to see which class is in the lead
Bakes Sales year to date - £439.62
Summer Fair 2022
It was amazing to, once again, be able to run our Summer Fair! The weather played its parting in helping to make it a wonderful afternoon with an amazing family atmosphere.
Lots of hard work went into organising the fair and we want to say a HUGE Thank You to everyone who helped out and worked their socks off.
It has been our most successful Summer Fair to date and we raised a whopping £2033.10
