We are always looking for Parents, Grandparents and Friends to come and support us with our events and join our very active support team.

If you are a parent, carer, grandparent or part of the Pennington community and would like to help the school then please let the school office know.

We always welcome support, from helping with a cake sale, disco or school trip, to reading with the children or helping with the garden area. Please get in touch via the School office.

We warmly invite all parents, grandparents and members of the community
to our next coffee morning on Monday 4th July at 9am at the school.

A full Friends of PJS meeting will also be on Monday 4th July, 5.30pm,
in the Community Hub, to agree the Committee members and discuss the upcoming events.

Sensory Garden

The PTA are currently raising funds for a sensory garden and we would love you to be involved - if you can help with fundrasing ideas, community grants or have gardening and landscaping skills we would love to hear from you.

Fundraising Success and ongoing...

NEW BOOKS

We would really like to be able to offer the children a wider range of books, tailored to their interests and written by some brilliant authors.  The selection that we currently have in school is not as wide as we would like it to be and we would like to able to offer the children a much more varied and modern range to choose from.

With this in mind, we have set up an Amazon Wish List and would like to ask parents, families and the wider community if they would purchase a book from the list, which would then be sent to school for our school library.

The link to the book list is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/WW5FD90LNZI5?ref_=wl_share

Please spread the word and share the wish list so that we can offer our children a library full of books that will inspire them and spark their imaginations.

A huge thank you again to all of you, your family and friends, who kindly bought books for the school library so far!

Cake Sales:

Diary Dates for cakes sales are as follows - please support your child's class by donating cake when it is your classes turn - please remember we are a nut free school and bring it into school on the Friday morning.

All pupils and families can bring money into school on the dates below to purchase cakes and help raise funds for school.

• Friday 6th May – Buzzards & Red Kites Cake Sale

• Friday 10th June – Harriers & Falcons Cake Sale

• Thursday 30th June – Kestrels & Owls Cake Sale

Parents, grandparents are welcome to volunteer to help on the day, as we need you to ensure the smooth running of these events - if you can help please let the school office know.

The next school disco date will be confirmed soon!

Disco:

• Date : No dates confirmed
• Lower School 5-6pm
• Upper school 6:15-7:15pm

We are delighted to have parents help with ticket sales, manning our snack bar, supervising the children and grooving on the dance floor - if you would like to be involved come and talk to us!

As a school community we like to organise our own school fair and get involved in local community events.

Easter Fair:  date to be confirmed.
Easter Eggs, Chocolates and Biscuit donations gratefully received via the school office. Volunteers welcome

Lymington Carnival: Date and plans to be confirmed.

Pennington Christmas Fair: date to be confirmed

A huge thank you to everyone who helped with he school's appeal for Ukraine - this is just some of what we collected outside the school office, to support the global community.

Over the last few years, the Friends of PJS have been raising money to purchase equipment for the school, and to benefit the children.

We would like to share with you the items that we have been able to purchase with the money raised from the events we have held.

• Charlotte Russell, one of our members of staff has started a Just Giving Page to  raise funds for a set of laptops/tablets in order for children have one each during ICT sessions during the Covid pandemic.

  Wave 105 cash for kids- Sports equipment

• Lymington and Pennington Big Pot grant- between the 2 schools 30K Path joining the two sites. Road markings and safety.

• Modeshift Stars- 10K Outside exercise equipment and scooter pods, working on safer routes to school.

• Roatary club- Money for IT

• Musical Instruments - £1000 donation from Lymington & Pennington Town Council enabled us to purchase Key Stage 2 Musical Instruments
• PE & Playtime Equipment – £800 purchased Volleyballs, Skipping Ropes, Interlocking Scooters, Frisbee Target, Frisbees, Limbo Set, Balance Boards, Tag Rugby Belts, Oars for Scooters, Stand for Scooters, Multi Purpose Cones
• Outdoor Storage Unit - £200 –  unit will be placed outside to store our new Playtime equipment
• Indoor Board Games & Equipment - £200 purchased various board games, chess sets,
• Storage units provided for the children to store their belongings safe and tidy

One way to start is donate each time you shop!

• Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising free donations for Pennington Junior School with easyfundraising?
• There are over 4,000 shops and sites on board ready to make a donation – including eBay, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, and M&S and more. – and it won’t cost you a penny extra to help us raise funds.
• All you need to do is:
  • Go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/penningtonjrsch and join for free.
  • Every time you shop online, go to easyfundraising first to find the site you want and start shopping.
  • After you’ve checked out, the retailer will make a donation to PJS at no extra cost to you whatsoever!
• There are no catches or hidden charges and we will be really grateful for your donations.

We have been working with Lymington Based Photographer Helen Renouf - Renouf Design - who has been and will continue to take photographs of the children at school and in various learning enviroments. These photos may be used on our web site and in our publications if you have given permission to do so.

The most recent albums from the photoshoots are available on her web site. They are securely passworded until the school office has had time to view the images and make sure that all children whose faces are shown have permission to be there. If there is any photo you wish removed please contact Helen or the school office directly (with the album & photo details)

All images are available to purchase as digital downloads, direct through the web site galleries. Visit: www.renoufdesign.co.uk

Thank you for your support.

We collected working computers, ipads and tablets here at school for the children to extend their IT experiences, during the Covid pandemic - we were aware that not every family in our school community have access to these at home, and we are aimied to build a bank of resources through fundraising and donations to enable all children to have access where they are struggling.

Matt and Ellie from Lymington Computer Repairs,  kindly offered to help get any donated computers up and working for the children to use, within the first week of our appeal they were able to repurpose 24 laptops for us to utilise for families in need.

Matt can be contacted directly via Lymington Computer Repairs or his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LymingtonComputerRepairs
 

We have helped out families within our school community and are continuing to do so.



If you attend a different local school - we are now signposting schools and families to the Lymington Community Centre whom with support of Lymington Rotary are assisting lots of families in need in the local area.