Spring Bonnet/Hat Competition
FRIENDS are excited to announce a Spring Bonnet/Hat Competition for all children to take part in!
As the days grow warmer and we enjoy the beauty of Spring, we invite children to create a bonnet or hat that shows the features of the season.
Competition Details:
• Theme: Spring (flowers, sunshine, rainbows, Easter, etc.)
• Materials: Your child can use any materials they like! Some ideas include: coloured paper, cardboard, fabric, ribbons, straw hats, flowers, feathers, or even recycled items.
There will be a small prize for every entry and prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in each year group.
Please ensure that your child’s entry is clearly labelled with their name and class. All entries should be handed in between MONDAY 24TH MARCH and the deadline WEDNESDAY 26TH MARCH.
Winners will be announced week beginning 31st March.
Thank you for your support, and we can’t wait to see all your creations!
Fun-d Raisin Competition Update
A massive thank you to everyone who took part in FRIENDS Fun-d raisin competition we raised over £600! A big well done to winners Green Class for raising the most money.
Funds raised have contributed towards author Fiona Scott’s special visit to our school including a signed book for each class!
We look forward to future events together. Thank you for your ongoing support
Friends Cake and Toy Sale
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the Cake and Toy Sale! We appreciate all the generous donations, as well as the hard work from all the volunteers who helped make the event a success. Your support means a lot, and we look forward to future events together!
Autumn Art Competition, Nov 2024
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Autumn art competition! It was fantastic to see all the wonderful entries, and it was a pleasure to experience such creativity and effort.
You all made this competition truly special, and we can’t wait to see what future competitions will bring!
FRIENDS Volunteer Morning, Oct 2024
Thank you to all the wonderful parents/carers who attended our recent Volunteer Morning. From organising books, making smileys, and gardening your support is greatly appreciated and helps contribute to creating a lovely environment for the children.
A massive thank you to our FRIENDS committee members for their support throughout. Have a look at some of the pictures below!
Welcome back! 
Welcome to a new school year and an extra special welcome if you are new to the school. Please scroll down to have a look at some of the wonderful events that FRIENDS have organised in the past.
FRIENDS of Cardinal Road
All parents are automatically members of the Friends Association, which organises and runs fund raising and social events for the benefit of the children and their families.
Everyone is welcome to attend meetings, and all offers of help are gratefully accepted. We are a diverse group of parents who enjoy working together to contribute to the well being and ethos of the school, so please come along and get involved! Recently money raised by FRIENDS has contributed to visiting theatre productions, school trips and class Christmas presents. We would also like to hear of any new ideas or suggestions for activities and events.
FRIENDS Committee
Here are the details of our Committee. Look out for their photos up on the boards outside each classroom. They will be keeping their classes up to date with the latest FRIENDS news and events.
Please see below some of the wonderful events that FRIENDS ran pre COVID.
SUMMER FETE SUCCESS 2019!
Our Summer Fete took place on a baking hot afternoon and was packed out with excited children, parents and carers sampling the many delicious treats, having a try at the various activities and buying lots of things they never even knew they needed!
Each class had worked really hard to contribute something for the occasion, making colourful bunting, preparing prizes and baking and decorating biscuits.
It was a great celebration of our whole school community and a fantastic experience for the children.
A massive thank you to our FRIENDS of Cardinal Road who made the whole day possible, in particular the Committee Members and of course Rachel our Learning Mentor. Your dedication is really appreciated and makes such a difference.
On a sweltering Thursday afternoon in June FRIENDS held their Summer Fete and raised the enormous amount of £ 1179.35
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Ice lollies were very much in demand and staff, children, parents and carers came together to meet the challenge of Penalty Shoot Out, Hook a Duck. Treasure Hunt and the Tombola to name but a few.
The cake stall was a great success, including flapjacks made by the Year 2 children and Gingerbread Men from The Speech and Language Workshop. Children from Year 1 classes made brightly coloured bunting to hang from the stalls and Reception children designed treasure maps and posters.
It was lovely to see the whole school community coming together and a big thank you must go to the FRIENDS committee, Rachel our Learning Mentor and the other parents who worked so hard to organise and prepare the stalls and events.
In September we will be asking for your support to continue to grow and develop our wonderful FRIENDS group further so watch this space!
EASTER COMPETITION.
FRIENDS are busy organising a creative competition to decorate an Easter Egg, which will be judged during the last week of school before the Easter break. Please see the poster for information.
Let your child's imagination run wild and see what wonderful creations they can come up with!
Each entry will receive a prize.
FRIENDS Santa's Grotto
Santa visited Cardinal Road during the last full week of school before Christmas. FRIENDS of Cardinal Road organised stalls to entertain the waiting children and members of staff joined in to make the visit one to remember!
A big thank you in particular to Rachel and the FRIENDS Committee for all their hard work collecting donations, making gifts to sell, decorating the Grotto and manning the stalls during the three different after school events.
This event linked to all three of our school drivers, with children experiencing the value of giving as well as receiving (Emotional Literacy), enjoying a visit to Father Christmas that they were still buzzing about the next day (Real Life Experiences) and the wonderful sense of community that was evident with families coming together to celebrate Christmas in the hall (Community).
During the week of December 11th FRIENDS organised a Santa's Grotto for each year group to visit. Donations of decorations were asked for and they worked really hard to transform Riverside Room into a Christmas wonderland! The event was very well attended and both children and parents enjoyed the opportunity to meet Santa at this special time of year.
FRIENDS of Cardinal Road Volunteer Morning.
We are really grateful to our wonderful volunteers who came into school. They all worked together to plant up many different containers with winter pansies, while another team took on the task of repainting the planting tyres.
The school environment now looks colourful and attractive and the pupils were really excited by the beautiful flowers that had "magically appeared" while they were busy learning that morning.
Thank you for supporting us and working so hard. We are really looking forward to seeing all of the plants grow through the next few months; many hands really do make light work!
THANK YOU
A very big thank you to the volunteers who recently came into school on a crisp November morning to help with painting, gardening and mending books in our school library. The school environment is now looking colourful and ready for the winter months ahead.
