Summer fair
When: Friday 28 June 2024, from 3.15pm - 6pm
Where: Mayfield school grounds
Our biggest event of the year, we can't wait to welcome you to our Summer Fair!
All proceeds go to the PTA who are working through an exciting list of projects to enhance our children's school experience.
Buy tokens
Buy tokens in advance has now closed. We have a small number of tokens left for purchase at the Raffle / Silent Auction / Token stall on the day of the Fair.
Please collect your pre-paid tickets at the same stall
Buy raffle tickets
Return your sold tickets to the school office by Thursday 27 June.
Extra tickets are available from the office and we will sell them at the Fair too.
Win some art
Online bids have now closed, but don't worry! Come along to out Raffle / Silent Auction / Token stall at the Fair where you can view and bid on the prints.
See the prints in full and get more info on how to bid here.
What's on
We can't wait to see you at this year's summer fair. Below you can see our full range of awesome activities and stalls, plus what's on when.
We can't run all these activities without your help - please, please, please sign up to volunteer!
Activities
We're really looking forward to a fun range of activities at the Summer Fair. Join us for:
Bouncy Castle (with the help of Ben Thorpe from Playtime After-school Club - thank you Ben!)
Rocksteady - teaching us how to ROCK! (Thank you Georgia!)
A photobooth near the KS1 hut - get a snap with your besties
Archery with Andy from Decathlon (thank you Andy!)
Plus get your bike checked over and summer-ready with Decathlon too
Face painting
Henna tattoos for children and women (thank you Mrs Uddin and Mrs Khan!)
Make your own stickers with Inbal Leitner or Mayfield Art Club (thank you Inbal!)
Get Creative with Mrs Patterson (thank you Mrs Patterson!)
Fun Gardening Club activity with Agnes (thank you Agnes!) plus plant sale courtesy of a Reception family (thank you!)
Plus Free Art Station where you can make fortune tellers, bookmarks, contribute to a large Mayfield mural or make you own bunting flag
Stalls
Come and have a play at our fun stalls!
Year Group stalls - from a disco to Egyptian pong, 'Where's Tinkerbell?' to a space-themed coconut shy, the teachers and pupils have gone all-out this year to put on a really fun range of stalls!
Teddy Tombola - What will you win? Please donate any second hand soft toys to help fill the stall. Bring to the school office by Weds 26 June
Book Sale stall - please bring in any unwanted children's books to stock the stall (again by Weds 26 June please). Funds raised at the Book Sale stall will go to support our wonderful school library
Water or Wine - one for the grown-ups 🙂
Grand Raffle stall - come along and see the prizes and buy any last minute tickets
Silent Auction - bid to win one of 8 'A Cambridge Diary' prints (more info below)
Plus guest stalls Smartphone Free Childhood and Knits & Knots
Plenty of refreshments to keep the energy levels up
Lots of lovely food to look forward to:
We'll be hosting a BBQ selling delicious burgers courtesy of Art of Meat (thank you Art of Meat!)
Make your own plant-based pizza with Slingin' Dough Pizza Parties
Mrs Aggarwal will be selling not only her amazing samosas and bhajis to eat at the Fair but also her homemade curries for you to take home (thank you Mrs Aggarwal!)
We'll be selling Krispy Kreme donuts, plus watermelon slices and fruit winders
Our hot and soft drink stall will keep you refreshed (free refills on squash)
And we'll be running a bar selling grown up drinks (including alcohol free)
Get involved
Volunteer to help
We're all full up!
Thank you so much to all of you who have signed up, you're really making a difference to the running of the Fair plus you've made our PTA team so happy!
Donate
Books, teddies and prizes for your year group hamper needed
To get our Teddy Tombola and Book Sale stalls off the ground, we're looking for donations of quality pre-loved soft totys and books. Please bring along to the school office by Wednesday 26 June.
We will also be giving away year group hampers as part of our Grand Raffle - please donate something you would like to win and bring it along to your child's classroom by Wednesday 26 June.
Buy raffle tickets
Just £1 a ticket - loads of great prizes to be won!
Every child in the school has been sent home with an envelope containing two books of tickets.
Please try to sell these to friends and family to try to win one of our awesome prizes.
Buy tokens here
We are running Pay by Token across the summer fair again this year. This was really popular last year, giving children more independence on the day.
In fact, last year was so popular we had unexpected queues for the people wanting to buy tokens, so this year you can collect in advance too.
Simply buy through JustGiving and collect on Fridays in June - we'll be set up next to Frozen Fridays near the Y2 classrooms
You can also collect or buy tokens after school on Thursday 19 June (until the end of Kinnerz)
We'll also have a card reader with us on those collection days, so you can buy them then too.
We will still have a stall at the summer fair where you can buy tokens, but we're hoping making them easier to buy in advance will reduce your queueing time on the day.
Please note that buying tokens through Just Giving is not eligible for Gift Aid, please do not select Gift Aid when purchasing.
All stalls and activities will accept tokens, except the Knits & Knots, Mr Verrecchia's ice cream van and Slingin' Dough Pizza. Mrs Aggarwal would prefer cash, but will take tokens if you don't have cash with you.
Support the raffle
Your child has been sent home with two booklets of raffle tickets (10 tickets in total). Please sell tickets to your family and friends - each ticket costs just £1.
Need more? Extra booklets of tickets can be picked up from the school office.
Please return the ticket stubs and money to the school office by Wednesday 26 June.
We have been lucky enough to have received a fantastic range of prizes. We're so grateful to those local businesses who have supported the school by donating a prize - please take a moment to look through the list.
Own some art
We have been lucky enough to have been gifted eight original photography prints from A Cambridge Diary.
These prints will be auctioned off at the fair through a silent auction.
How to bid:
By email: send your bid and the number of the print you're bidding for to silentauction@fundmayfield.com. The deadline for email bids is 10pm on Thursday 27 June.
On the day: come along to the Raffle, Token & Silent Auction stall at the fair to see the prints in all their glory and to place your bid. Bidding ends at 5pm on Friday 28 June.
We will then review all the bids and the highest bidder for each print will win the auction and be able to take their print home (we will, of course, store it for you if you have already left).
All prints are sized approx 76cmx55cm and are unframed.
About A Cambridge Diary
Martin Bond is a professional photographer who has lived in Cambridge all his life. His A Cambridge Diary project saw him post a photograph from Cambridge online each day for over 11 years. He has recently published a book of some of his most iconic photographs and continues to capture unique glimpses of Cambridge life.