LBSA Events and News

Amazing photos from our 2023 Fireworks Event taken by https://www.facebook.com/mikebeardphotography/ All rights reserved. 

Thank-you to all those who attended the Lady Bay School Fireworks Event in 2022 check out these gorgeous photos by Mike Beard Photography. 

All links to the following can be found at https://linktr.ee/ladybaysafari 

If you have any questions please email ladybaysafarisale@gmail.com

Lady Bay Winter Windows 2021

What is Lady Bay Winter Windows?

Lady Bay Winter Windows is a fun family-friendly event where we would like people to create illuminated displays in windows. You can use the street-facing windows of your home, business, school, nursery, car, shop, or even your door, or front garden. This will create a  temporary after-dark art trail and community event in Lady Bay. 

The ever-popular Lady Bay Safari Sale is back on the 13th of June 2021 from 11am til 4pm

Maps

Interactive online Google Map -  https://tinyurl.com/ladybaysafarimap

Printable -  Lady Bay Safari Sale 2021 Printable Map 

If you would like to donate to Lady Bay School Association who organisse the Safari Sale a link is available here https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=TL6GZ8W79WDJU

Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/ladybaysafari/  

After the Sale 

The Lady Bay School Association have arrange a second-hand clothing collection via following the event. Items can be dropped at 146 Julian Road at the end of the sale or on the Monday or Tuesday following the event. We will take  all clothes, shoes, bed linen and curtains. 

In addition, if anyone has any large nursery equipment ,pushchairs high chairs baths ,bouncy chairs ,moses baskets, cots left over these can also be dropped to this address following the sale  Monday or Tuesday and will be taken to Around Again Nottingham a service providing items to families in need. 

LBSA Update May 2021 

It’s been a really challenging year for Lady Bay School Association  (LBSA),  as like many community groups we had to cancel many of our Fundraising Activities. However, we are so grateful for continued support from the school and wider Lady Bay community

Since 2018, we have been a Cooperative Community Fund recipient https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/46281. By nominating Lady Bay School Association as their charity, Co-Op Card members raise funds for the school each time they shop. In 2020/21 Co-Op members raised £5,115.37 for the school, which has funded sets of class IPads. 

We are also grateful to the LBCA who donated £250 despite their cancelled Arts Trail. The school have asked that this go towards pupils participating in the Arts Mark programme a framework to embed creativity across the curriculum.

Between Lockdowns in 2020 we managed to squeeze in a delayed Safari Sale raising £600 (plus an additional £534 from clothing collections)  This year’s sale (and clothing collection) will be on the 13th of June 2021 from 11am til 4pm. 

We would also like to say a massive thank you to over 100 homes who participated in our socially distanced Winter Windows event in 2020. The event raised over £1,300 through online donations.  It was an amazing event you can relive the magic online at  https://tinyurl.com/lbwinterwindows2020 . The LBSA were also able to raise a further £600 through the sale of Christmas Trees and beautiful cards designed by Lady Bay Resident - Lee Williams.

This year,  we have been asked by the school to support them to creatively use the limited outside space on site.  The LBSA  have funded Outdoor storage and resources in the Foundation and Yr1 areas.  . We continue to fund learning resources including visits from a Reading Patron and books specifically designed for students with dyslexia , and familiar to all of us temporary homeschoolers Twinkl.

If anyone would like to get in contact with fundraising suggestions please contact us at ladybayschoolassoc@gmail.com

 

An amazing success more than 120 windows here is a small sample.  Fundraising will run throughout the advent period so this will also provide an opportunity for other supporters of the school , parents, grandparents and members of the local community to make donations if they wish.   Our Rocket Fund at https://www.rocketfund.org/fundraising-for-lady-bay-primary-school

Charity Bag Clothing Collection 

2020

We know Lady Bay loves to reuse and recycle.   In September 2020, the LBSA arranged a collection by Bags 2 School (https://bag2school.com/).

This UK Based community interest company will collect unwanted clothing and other items (detailed below) donating 30p per kilo to the school.    Thank you to everyone who dropped off items for the Bag2School collection.  This photo was taken at the halfway stage. We had so many items they had to come back again, as we filled the van!

A total of 1780kg was collected which means we raised a fantastic £534 for the school.

Thank you for all your support.

Lady Bay School Association (LBSA) Virtual Zoom AGM
Monday the 12th of October 2020 - 8pm-9pm

The role of the Lady Bay School Association (LBSA) is to raise money to help  the school provide materials, resources and facilities for the benefit of  everyone who uses the school.

Lady Bay Safari Sale (September 2020)

The LBSA hosted the belated Lady Bay Safari Sale on the 20th of September 2020 from 11-4pm.

With a reduced rate of £5 for stall registration due to the late notice of the sale more than 100 stalls  registered and maps were available to download or  via an interactive Google Map is available at  https://tinyurl.com/ladbaysafari2020map

Stall registration fees meant the LBSA raised a wonderful £590 for the school. 

Next year's event will be held on the 13th of June 2021. 

Goodbye to Year 6 Leavers 2019/20

It has been a particularly hard time for our Year 6 Leavers,  who were unable to have their traditional Leaver's Party. In this exceptional year, the LBSA were asked not only to part fund the Leavers Hoodies,  but to fund Year Books for each of the 60 Year 6 Leavers. 

The books were put together by Hannah Ashton, a previous LBSA Chair and very active member of the LBSA. Hannah and her daughter also hand delivered them before the children started their new Secondary Schools in September 2020. 

Cook Book (Summer 2020)

Hi there, the LBSA are starting the process of producing a cook book which they’re aiming to have ready and on sale before Christmas, the perfect Christmas gift!

The rough aim is to collate recipes from a combination of school children, local LadyBayers and if we can persuade the dinner ladies to share some of the kids favourite dinner time recipes we’ll include those too. At this stage we’re looking for a variety of recipes per year group.

We are looking for a combination of savoury/sweet and even drink recipes (smoothies/mock tails, mulled wine - anything goes!). The idea is that once recipes are selected for the book, we would ask the children to draw a picture to accompany it. We’ll have a think about how we can acknowledge all recipe submissions so that any not included in the book don’t feel despondent.

Therefore, we would love it if you could email recipes to: Ladybaycookbook@gmail.com. Think about any recipes that are a hit with family and friends or those quick tea time meals or anything really! I’ll send a couple of examples of the type of thing that another school did to give you an idea, but whatever you feel is perhaps your speciality or a family favourite or just something that others would enjoy! Thanks so much for your support. I

f you’re able to send them over the Summer so we’re in a position to review all recipes in September that would be much appreciated.

Please include your child’s name and  year group please.

Cooperative Community Fundraising 2019/20

We have just received £2,079.71 into the Lady Bay School Association Account as our half yearly payment from the Co-operative Community Fund 2019/20.

In addition from the contributions from the Cooperative Members a boost has come from Co-Op adding money from the sale of carrier bags. Thank you to all those who have nominated the LBSA as their cause . You can still do so for the remaining six months at https://www.coop.co.uk/membership

Last year this raised more than £6,000 for the school so definitely worth registering.

Sunflowers for Mother's Day (March 2020)

The LBSA usually hosts a Mother's Day Stall.

In 2020  year due to COVID19 we were unable to host. However two days before lockdown (as we had already purchase the seed/packets) seeds were distributed to all pupils and hand delivered to those already isolating.

A lovely surprise for Mums and a fun activity for kids. 

School Disco (March 2020)

In March 2020 we hosted two school discos for Infants and Juniors fun was had by all a tickets / drinks sales helped raise £930 for the school. 

As ever music, lights and atmosphere were provided by Free of Charge by the amazing Vinyl Revolution . Thank you to all our amazing volunteers.

Dyslexia Library Books (January 2020)

In January 2020 we received a lovely request from Yr6 School Librarians. They wanted  30 books per key stage suitable for those with Dyslexia at a cost of £300. Of course we said a big yes! 

Thank You Joanne McAree

Huge Thanks to Joanne McAree a parent at the school who held a stock clearance from her Lady Bay Studio - Yellow Fire Designs. Donations from those picking up one of her stunning designs raised £107.30. 

KS2 Christmas Sing A Long

Over in the Upper School, after a tricky start caused by a broken urn,  the LBSA raised £121 serving mulled wine and mince pies at the KS2 Christmas Sing-A-Long. The urn is back working after a replacement fuse and next year we will stock much more mulled wine.

In the Lower School Hall, Yr 6 Parents - Sarah K-F  did an amazing job treating the Yr6 pupils to Hot Chocolate and Cookies.

Christmas Fair 2019

The amazing Lady Bay School Christmas Fair has this year raised over £2,500 for the school. Thank you to all the volunteers (parents, teachers, Year 6 pupils and even some retuning Yr7 who couldn't stay away ) who made it happen.

We hope everyone enjoyed the games,  which seem to get better every year and the pocket money stall proved popular as ever. 

This year we had over 100 sweet cups and more than 200 teddies donated (those leftover have been donated to a Nottingham City teacher who is working to give every pupil in her school a teddy and book for Christmas). 

Thank you for all the brilliant raffle prizes for the hampers from parents and from local businesses including the Larwood and Voce , Lady Bay Chip Shop ,  Chocolate Utopia, The Good Weigh Voucher , Lazy Bay Brewery ,Rattle & Roll , Lady Bay Plumbing ,  Lady Bay Post Office,  Lady Bay Blooms , Nottingham Rugby ,  Nottingham Cricket ,  Backyard Electronixx , Mushy Pea Stall , Cheff , Bassingfield Woodyard  and Mike Beard Photography.  

Porco were on hand serving up delicious food supported by our own refreshment stall with mulled wine and mince pies proving popular. 

Thank you to Mr Border for his excellent job calling the raffle prizes and to everyone who came. Our next event will be a Kids School Disco in the Spring Term so get your dancing shoes ready.