Holmewood House School Information Chairman's Welcome - Autumn 2013 A very warm welcome to all parents – new and existing – to the start of the academic year 2013/2014. My name is Gill Rees-Young and I am very proud to be part of a wonderful group of parents and staff who collectively form the Friends of Holmewood. Our aim is to organise fun, social events for the whole school community, in an effort to raise money for the school and for local and national children’s charities. All our events take a huge amount of planning and organisation and the members willingly give of their free time to make these events successful. In the last 10 years we have raised over £300,000 that has enabled us to help fund both small and large school projects. Most recently we funded the climbing wall and the refurbishment of The Orangery. We are enormously grateful to all of you for your continued support. Over the last 12 months we have had some spectacular events starting with our Fireworks night supported by over 850 members of our school community, the festive and prestigious Christmas Fair and the ever popular and hugely oversubscribed Quiz Night featuring Mr Gripper, our wonderful Quizmaster. We ended the academic year with the ‘Party on the Lawn’ featuring The Greatest Take That Tribute Band which was a knockout success (not dampened by the drizzle!) and attended by just under 900 parents, children, staff and friends. We have had record turnouts for our fixtures and we thank you so much for making them memorable occasions. Our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING takes place on Wednesday 16th October at 8pm in The Orangery and we would like to extend a warm invitation to you to come along and hear all about the successful events we have run over the past year. Join us for a glass of wine and let us know what you think. We are always open to new ideas. Maybe we can tempt you into helping out at one of our events or perhaps joining the committee. We are very grateful to all our volunteers and it is a great way to meet new people, make friends, have an awful lot of fun and importantly raise money in the process! Please contact our Committee Secretary, Sarah Merriman by email: sarah.merriman@btinternet.com or by telephone on 07711 286776 if you would like to come along to the AGM of if you would like to help at any of our events. AGM details are available to view or download here. Our first event this year is our FIREWORKS NIGHT which take place on Friday 8th November. Gates open at 6pm with Fireworks hitting the sky at 7pm. An application form is attached together with our promotional flyer. This event is hugely popular and we would urge you to get your application forms into school before half-term. Tickets will not be available to purchase on the night and entry is strictly by ticket only. Our CHRISTMAS FAIR takes place on Saturday 16th November from 10.30am to 3.00pm. This is a wonderful day, filled with fun and festive cheer. More information on this, and how you can help out, will be sent to you towards the end of this week. We did not wish to bombard you with too much information all at once. So as you can see we have a busy few months ahead of us and we do hope very much that you will come along and support us whilst having fun in the process and that you might consider helping out at one of our events. Looking forward to seeing you and a very BIG THANK YOU. Gill Rees-Young Chairman of the Friends of Holmewood Other pages in Friends of Holmewood: About the Friends | Chairman's Welcome | Committee | Future Events | Past Events | "Pupils have a strong sense of security and well-being." ISI Inspection report 2011 © Holmewood House School 2015 Holmewood House School, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3 0EB Tel: +44 (0)1892 860000 Sitemap Cookies Website Terms Website Last Updated 5th January 2015 a larrytech / everist web design Home Overview Curriculum Information Contact Quicklinks Portal