As I went through my emails on the train to London on Friday, one sent a wave of panic through me:
Cake Sale on Friday!
Evening All,
I hope that you have had a relaxing week away from school! Need to set the alarm for the morning – argh! Just to remind everyone that it is our cake sale on Friday, so any donations of your lovely home baking and any help for the frenzied sale would be fantastic!!!
Thanks
Mrs H
What fabulous timing. I had back-to-back meetings set for the day, with just enough time to arrive back at the school gate and pick up the girls. There was no way I could fit in baking a few cakes.
I'm so excited! One of my favourite novels, The Help, is coming out in film this autumn!
*squeal*
I wrote a while back about who should be cast in the film, and the preview looks like it won't disappoint.
If you haven't read it yet, Dreamworks have donated 5 copies of The Help to giveaway on my blog.
If you would like to be entered in the competition to win a copy — please leave a comment below before 30 June that contains the phrase "The Help".
Good luck!
*The Help will be released in the UK on 28 October 2011
THIS COMP IS NOW ENDED. Winners are: Heather, Lulabell, Karen86, northernmum, cheryl
We live in a popular town near Newbury. It's full of Edwardian houses and nice antique shops. Our local primary school consistently scores in the top five percent in the country. Each year it receives 5x as many applications than it can accept for its coveted spaces. Many young families abandon London each year and financially stretch themselves to buy in on the local property ladder. And when they aren't happy with the local school, they turn into frakenparents.
Our Year Sixes were invited to participate in a tennis round robin competition with a nearby public school. We don't have an official school tennis programme, so the teacher in charge (a keen one just out of training) thought the fairest way to pick the players would be to choose randomly — pull names out of the hat kind of thing. The public school of course has a full-on sports programme, with several coaches and facilities for a proper tea after the competition.
The fabulous Rosie Scribble has tagged me in the #passiton, Save the Children's vaccination campaign to highlight that eight million children die each year from preventable diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhea. They are sending three bloggers including Chris Mosler from Thinly Spread to Mozambique to follow the journey of a vaccine from the store in the city right down to a rural community. We can follow their journey via social media by using the hashtag #passiton.
How we can help
We can help support the trip by spreading word of the campaign and getting people to sign the petition to put pressure on the government leaders to meet the funding shortfall for vaccines at a conference in June.
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