Super Soaker

At Ashfield Juniors’ Summer Fair we – Autumn, Carina and Yasmin – were in charge of the Super Soaker stall. The purpose of the stall was to raise money in a fun and crazy sort of way. After paying 50p (for 3 goes) or £1 (for 7 goes) you got to throw a drenched sponge at one of the following people:

• Autumn
• Carina
• Yasmin
• Miss Bryant
• Mr Ditchburn
• Mrs Tooley
• Miss Gardt (our special guest)

We organized all the teachers above to visit our stall for 15 minutes and get soaked.

We think our biggest money making visitor was Mr Ditchburn, some people were even waiting before he’d even got to us! Also, by the look on the teachers’ faces, and ours when we looked back at the pictures, everyone had a lot of fun.

Everyone who had a go at throwing a sponge had a great laugh too, sometimes even hitting them right in the face!

At first, we believed that we wouldn’t get as many customers as other stalls, considering we were in the mall, and no one could walk around the outside of the school – because it was raining(!) – and they had to walk through a class room, and the hall! We were disappointed at this point. But after walking around the school and telling people to visit our stall, we had at least one customer every minute. Wahoo! 

We’d like to thank everyone who helped out, including the teachers, Yasmin, and even each other. As well, we’d like to thank everyone who visited our stall and helping us raise an amount of money we are proud of. J

By Carina and Autumn

(Since writing this article the girls have learnt that their stall raised the most money.  Well done, girls.)

Our Summer Fair

On Saturday 16^th June Ashfield Junior School hosted a summer fair, which was in fact a modern success with raising money. Also, our stalls raised quite a good amount of money. There were stalls for candyfloss, the gladiator, hotdogs, and that was only The Friends of Ashfield’s stalls.

“The summer fair was great fun!” said Olivia - one of the pupils in Year Six.

The summer fair only lasted for 2 hours, but still was good fun. Last year the previous Year Sixes raised just over 400 pounds, hopefully this year we will have raised more than that.

“There were roughly 25 people that came to our stall, the Guess Whose Shoe stall!”  said Rebecca.

When the fair was over all of the Year Six pupils, including me, had to clean up our stalls (which wasn’t really hard when some of us only had a poster, a sheet of paper, and a jar of sweets).

The summer fair was great but what would have made it better would have been if we were outside instead of in. We were inside because of the pouring rain. This meant we had to squeeze everything in, especially the bouncy castle and gladiator. But on the whole it fitted perfectly inside the hall.  In the mall there was ‘Hook a Duck’ and ‘Super Soaker’. In the Year 3 and 4 cloakroom there was a mini train. When the summer fair ended we all wished that it could have lasted just a little longer!


By Macy

Mia and Courtney hitching a lift

Bethany hairdressing

Joshua and Jack seeking the treasure.  

Gladiators ready!

Miss Bryant. (She liked it really.)

The sponging of Autumn.

Mrs Tooley. (Just after she'd swallowed the sponge!)

The Summer Fair!

For the past few days Year 6 pupils have been working on stalls for the Ashfield Summer Fair. We have been working on posters and signs for our stalls and have been getting all the equipment ready for them. We have stalls for: hair and beauty, sweets in a bowl, the jam jar game, name the teddy, and many more. Our classes have been learning about team-work and making a profit.

Also we are having a Junior Apprentice, which is based on the summer fair and the stalls we are doing. All of us are hoping to raise as much money as we can for our school, even though we will soon be leaving. Our target is £12 per child so if there were 4 of us on the stall the target would be: £48 in total.  

The Years 6’s, including us, have made exotic posters, plans, and hopefully it will all carry on being perfect tomorrow at our Summer Fair. If it’s going to be raining then we have to do it indoors, but hopefully it won’t rain and will be sunny instead. And now we all wonder who is going to be the Junior Apprentice!

By Macy and Hannah