Friends of Larkrise

Library Open After School
2022-05-17 15:15 - 16:30, 2022-06-14 15:15 - 16:30, 2022-06-21 15:15 - 16:30, 2022-07-05 15:15 - 16:30, 2022-07-19 15:15 - 16:30 UTC

Larkfest Planning Meeting #4
2022-05-19 19:30 - 20:30

Larkfest Planning Meeting #5
2022-06-08 19:30 - 20:30

CANCELLED: Volunteer Day
2022-06-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom

Larkfest (Summer Fair)
2022-06-24 15:30 - 18:30

FoL AGM
2022-07-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom

School Picnic
2022-09-06 00:00 - 23:59
New starters picnic on the school grounds. Times and more information about the event to be advised sooner to the date.

Larkrise Cafe
2022-10-14 15:15 - 15:45
We invite year 6 families to bring sweet or savoury and edible goodies (without nuts and including the list of ingredients) to sell at the cafe/.

All year groups and families are welcome to the Larkrise cafe.

Halloween Disco
2022-11-03 16:15 - 19:00 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom
Early Years & Year 2 4:15-5:15

Years 3-6 5:30-7pm

Save the date for this spooktacular school disco in the school hall.

We don’t want any child to miss out on having fun at the disco so tickets will be on sold on a Pay What You Can basis via Parentmail. The suggested donation is £2.50/ticket (see below for instructions).

Please note children must be accompanied by an adult who will also need a ticket

To run this event we will need lots of volunteers. If helpful you could share a shift with another carer. If you are able, please sign up to help at this link: https://signup.com/go/PSNaFHL.

We would be grateful for any donations of baked good to sell at the disco. Please drop off on the day of the disco if you are able with some information on ingredients.

We hope to have some hot dogs/pizza on sale at the discos along with some bags of vegetarian sweets.

How to buy tickets via Parentmail

To find the ticket sales sign into your Parentmail account and go to “Payments“.You can then scroll to the bottom of the page to find a link to “Shop“.The disco tickets should be listed under Events for each child.Click on the link and you will see an option to buy tickets for the discos.We have set the default cost of the tickets as free so, if you click complete at this stage you receive an email confirmation the tickets have been bought.If you are able to, there is an option to add a donation with the tickets before you click complete. The suggested amount is £2.50 per ticket.

Suggested donation £2.50

Larkrise Cafe
2022-11-25 15:15 - 15:45
We invite year 5 families to bring sweet or savoury edible goodies (without nuts and including the list of ingredients) to sell atthe cafe/ bake sale. We also need some helpers to assist at the sale.

All year groups and families are welcome to the Larkrise cafe.

Larkmas 2022
2022-12-16 15:30 - 18:00
We need your help to get ready for our Larkmas winter fair event, which will be from 3.30 – 6pm on 16th Dec. Please sign up to help at this link: https://signup.com/go/NWhXvNG.

The stalls will be taking 50p tokens which you can buy on the day with cash or a card (minimum card payment £1) from the Friends of Larkrise welcome stall. You can also buy these tokens online via our shop and collect ahead from the school office to avoid the queues. We will email you once the tokens are ready for you to collect from the office. We’re also hoping to be able to sell tickets by the school gates in the week running up to Larkmas, so keep an eye out for us there.

We would love for everyone in our wider school community to get involved. Here’s how:

Ahead of the event, you can donate:

2nd hand children’s books in good condition for the 2nd hand books sale

Jam jars filled with treasure from the bottom of the toy box e.g. spares left over from party bags, few bits of lego, kinder egg loot, a few stickers etc. These will be used in a lucky dip. We have used these in our previous events and they have been very popular..

Please take any of these items to the school office from 1st December onwards.

On the day itself, donations of cakes or baked goods, sweet or savoury, shop bought or homemade. No nuts please. Please provide a list of ingredients for homemade bakes.

3. Volunteer a little time on the day itself – Please sign up to help at this link: https://signup.com/go/NWhXvNG.

Please email chairfol@larkriseprimary.org to find out more or to let us know that you are interested.

What to expect at Larkmas

All the activities will take place in the outdoor classroom on the main playground, the adventure room and the area outside year 4,5 and 6 classrooms.

We are delighted that the beautiful lanterns created by year 3 and year 5 for the Light Festival are now back at Larkrise and these will be on display at Larkmas lighting up the event.

What do I need to bring?

Please bring a cup with you for hot drinks.

The event takes place outside so please wrap up warmly. We will review if rain is forecast but are keeping our fingers crossed for dry weather!

School Streets will be operational at school pick up time as usual so please walk, scoot or cycle to the event. If you do need to drive please park considerately away from Boundary Brook Road.

We really hope that everyone will enjoy the event. If you have any questions please email chairfol@larkriseprimary.org.

Music

3.45 Larkrise School choir

4.30 Headingtones Choir: this is a local choir who will be singing some traditional carols and would welcome any enthusiastic singers to join in with them on the day!

5.15 Horns of Plenty are a street band formed in 2007 for the Cowley Road Carnival.

Activities

Each year group will be running a fun activity for everyone to enjoy

Spat the Festive Rat

Mr Spinny Wheel

Treasure jars lucky dip

2nd hand children’s book sale

Beautiful handmade hats/ gloves and other knitwear for sale which has been kindly donated to FOL

Santa: will be wandering around the event and is happy to answer questions from children/ have his photo taken!

Fire pit and stick bread

Boundary Brook Nature Reserve are kindly running a stall involving painting birds

Simple crafts to make in the adventure room

Energy bills support stall

Food and drink stalls

Hot dogs and burgers, vegetarian and meat available.

Fruit and popcorn

Mince pies/ cakes and other baked goods

Teas/ coffees and hot chocolate

Mulled apple juice (non alcoholic) and fruit juice

Mulled wine and other alcoholic beverages

Larkrise Quiz & Curry Night
2023-02-23 19:30 - 22:30
The parent/carer/staff quiz and curry evening is a fun event which we have not held since pre covid and we are all very much looking forward to it!

Doors will open at 7.30 and curry and wine/beer/soft drinks will be available to purchase.

We are incredibly grateful to Pippa Hanwee for generously preparing the delicious curry for the event.

The quiz will start at 8.15 with our fabulous quiz master AKA Mr Gray!

We will be in teams of 6 – 8. You can arrange your team in advance if you wish, however there is no need to do this as we will also be making teams up on the night, a great way to meet new people in our school community.

Please note this event is for adults to attend. Tickets are available to purchase in advance via the website.

Larkfest Summer Fayre
2023-07-14 15:15 - 18:00
Friday 14th July from 3.15 – 6

We are looking forward to a fun event and will share more details with you very soon. There will be lots of fun activities, hot food, frozen treats and cakes available as well as a bar for refreshments.

In order to make payments at events more hygienic and streamlined, stalls and activities will be accepting pre-paid 50p vouchers. Each voucher has the value of 50p.

Vouchers can can be purchased online and picked up from the school office in the week leading up to the event, or at the Friends of Larkrise stall on the day.

Provisional timetable:

3:30 Choir (Near the outdoor hall)

4:15 Larkrise Samba Band (Near the outdoor hall)

5:00 Horns of Plenty (Playground)

Volunteering at the event: thank you to the many of you who have signed up to help. If you have not yet signed up to help and would like to do so here is the link.

Donations prior to the event. We welcome donations of:

2nd hand children’s books, childrens clothes and small toys (no bigger than a shoe box) in good condition.

Jam jars filled with treasure from the bottom of the toy box e.g. spares left over from party bags, few bits of lego, kinder egg loot, a few stickers etc. These will be used in a lucky dip. We have used these in our previous events and they have been very popular..

Cakes or baked goods, sweet or savoury, shop bought or homemade. No nuts please. Please provide a list of ingredients for homemade bakes.

Please take your donations to the office.

Friends of Larkrise Annual General Meeting
2023-11-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Larkrise School Hall
In the School Hall or online via GoogleMeet

Hear about what was achieved in the past year and help make plans for the future.

Meet the current committee and vote on the new one.

Ask any questions and find out how you can help in any way, big or small.

As parent volunteers who juggle work and families, we understand all about TIME PRESSURES! You contribute only the time you are able to! All roles are welcome to a job-share which we highly recommend! No experience necessary except for being ready to learn, to meet the challenge and inspiring through creativity.

Year 6 Bake Sale
2023-12-01 15:15
Year 6 parents and carers are encouraged to donate baked goods for all to buy after school from the outdoor hall.

Larkmas Winter Fair 2023
2023-12-15 15:15 - 17:30
Celebrate Larkrise’s 50th birthday party at our Winter Fair.

Music, Food, Stalls, Carousel & More. Find out more here.

All Welcome

FoL Quiz & Curry Night
2024-02-21 19:30 - 22:00
Join us for a relaxed and fun Quiz & Curry night for the Larkrise parent, carer and staff community (adults only). This is a fundraising event for Friends of Larkrise (FoL), and quiz questions will be written by Year 6 pupils!

Larkfest (Larkrise Summer Fair) 2024
2024-06-28 15:15 - 18:00
Friday 28 June, 3:15-6pm

We are looking forward to a fun event and will share more details with you very soon. There will be lots of fun activities including bouncy castle, hot food, frozen treats and cakes available as well as a bar for refreshments.

50p tokens

In order to make payments at events more hygienic and streamlined, stalls and activities will be accepting pre-paid 50p vouchers. Each voucher has the value of 50p.

Vouchers can can be purchased online and picked up from the school office in the week leading up to the event, at the gate in the week of the fair, or at the Friends of Larkrise stall on the day.

Buy Raffle Tickets

We are very grateful to the many Larkrise supporters who have donated some amazing prizes for the Larkfest Raffle. Tickets are £1 each and available to buy online here.

RAFFLE

Volunteering at the event:

Thank you to the many of you who have signed up to help. If you have not yet signed up to help and would like to do so here is the link

Donations for the event.

We welcome donations of:

Nearly New Clothes in good condition.

Treasure Jars – Jam jars filled with treasure from the bottom of the toy box e.g. spares left over from party bags, few bits of lego, kinder egg loot, a few stickers etc. These will be used in a lucky dip. We have used these in our previous events and they have been very popular.

Cakes or baked goods, sweet or savoury, shop bought or homemade. No nuts please. Please provide a list of ingredients for homemade bakes.

Please take your donations to the office on the day of the event.

Book a slot with Dr Bike

Cyclox will be at Larkfest offering Dr bike sessions for Free bike maintenance slots

Book an appointment here

Provisional timetable:

3:20 School Choir (Near the outdoor hall)

3:40 Larkrise Samba Band (Near the outdoor hall)

4:00 Sweet Zombie Horse

4:30 Strawberry Fayre Majorettes

5:00 Messy Jam Dance School

Spooky Disco
2024-10-24 16:15 - 19:00
We will be hosting two Spooktastic Halloween Discos on Thursday 24th October 2024.

Tickets come with a suggested donation of £2.50 each (or more if you’re able) and can be bought via the links below. All children and adults attending should buy a ticket in advance as the discos are likely to sell out and we will need to keep within the hall capacity.

There will be a disco with music in the main hall, and we will run a quiet craft zone in the Library for those who prefer a more chilled out vibe.

All money raised will go to Friends of Larkrise, and there will be hot food available to buy.

Can you help?

If you are able to help out with set-up, during a disco or with clear up please sign up to volunteer here: https://signup.com/mobileweb/2.0/vspot.html?activitykey=57330376029#choose_jobs_page (you could team up with another family to share a shift/childcare)

Cake donations to sell at the disco would be greatly appreciated. Please bring them to the School Office on Thursday 24th October.

The Lower School Disco will happen between 4:15 pm and 5:15 pm

This disco will be for children in the Nursery up to and including Year 2. Children must be accompanied by an adult, and adults and children must buy a ticket in advance. This is to ensure that numbers do not go over the capacity of the school hall.

There are 200 tickets available, and they are limited to 2 per family (you may be able to swap with other families if you have multiple children in different years).

Book your tickets here.

The Upper School Disco will happen between 5:30 pm and 7:00 pm

This disco will be for children in Year 3 and above. Children in Years 3 and 4 must be accompanied by an adult, and adults and children must buy a ticket in advance. This is to ensure that numbers do not go over the capacity of the school hall.

There are 200 tickets available, and they are limited to 2 per family (you may be able to swap with other families if you have multiple children in different years).

Book your tickets here.

Larkmas 2024 Winter Fair
2024-12-13 15:30
Come along to this year’s Larkmas Winter Fair!

Family, friends and members of the wider community are all welcome to join us on Friday 13th December from 3.30pm until 5.30pm.

We have lots of exciting activities planned including:• A carousel• Musical performances and carols• Raffle• Games and activities• Class stalls• Hot and cold food and drinks, including mulled juice and wine (bring your own cup)

If you’re planning to join us, please wrap up warm and bring a torch!

Payment Tokens

Larkmas entry is free, and as in previous years payment for stalls and activities will be via 50p tokens, which can be purchased in advance via our website or in person from the school office in the week leading up to the event (more details to follow). Payment tokens will also be available to purchase on the day, although we recommend advance purchase to avoid queues.

If you have tokens left over from Larkfest, these are also valid so do bring them along.

All funds raised will go to Friends of Larkrise to support the school and its pupils.

You can help on the day by signing up to volunteer.

You can donate jars filled with unwanted small party bag toys, lego bits, stickers, etc to for treasure jars

We also welcome donations of baked goods on the day

POSTPONED Larkrise Quiz & Curry Night
2025-04-24 19:30 - 22:30
DATE TBC

The parent/carer/staff quiz and curry evening is a fun event featuring questions from the amazing Larkrise children and we are all very much looking forward to it!

This event is for adults only.

Doors will open at 7.30 and wine/beer/soft drinks will be available to purchase.

We are incredibly grateful to Pippa Hamwee for generously preparing the delicious curry for the event.

Prices

Quiz only – £3 per personQuiz and veggie curry – £10 per person

Menu

Poppadoms with 2x homemade chutneys

Spiced roast butternut and chickpea curry

Toasted garlic dhal, Carrot and cucumber salad, Onion bhajis, Pilau rice

Chilli and cardamom brownies (extra charge)

Book Your Ticket

To secure a place, we recommend booking in advance (and all food must be booked in advance). There may be quiz tickets available on the door on the night. Buy Tickets here.

Larkrise Camp Out 2025
2025-06-06 18:00 - 2025-06-07 09:30 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom
We are very excited about our Larkrise Camp Out on Friday the 6th June. We have decided to ask for a suggested donation of up to £25 to pitch a tent. You can book a place online and vary the amount you donate. Tents can be pitched from 6pm on Friday 6th June.

We ask that you bring food from home to eat in the evening or arrange for a takeaway evening meal. We kindly request no BBQs. We will light the Larkrise Camp Fire at 7pm and we will provide hot chocolate for the children before bed. All children need to be accompanied by their parents/carers to this event and we ask that children only share tents with their family members.

We will use the adventure room toilets and there will be drinking water available. It might also be a good idea to bring some snacks for the morning.

Larkfest 2025
2025-07-04 15:15 - 18:00
Join us at the Larkrise Primary School Summer Fair

We are looking forward to a fun event, the bouncy castle and BBQ is booked, stalls are being prepped, and the amazing line up of music and dance is at the bottom of this page. There will be lots of fun activities, hot food, frozen treats and cakes available as well as a bar for refreshments.

Volunteering at the event: please consider helping out during the event for an hour if you can. Without enough volunteers we will have to greatly scale back our plans.

If you are able to please use this link to sign up to help

Enter the Raffle

Buy tickets online for a chance to win fabulous prizes in the Larkfest raffle (drawn at 6pm on July 4).

Buy Raffle Tickets Online

Donations for the event:

We’ll be running a nearly new kids clothes sale and will need donations from the school community. Please bring your donations to the school on the day of Larkfest (4th July).

Jam jars filled with “treasure” from the bottom of the toy box e.g. spares left over from party bags, few bits of lego, kinder egg loot, a few stickers etc. These will be used in a lucky dip. We have used these in our previous events and they have been very popular.

Cakes or baked goods, sweet or savoury, shop bought or homemade. No nuts please. Please provide a list of ingredients for homemade bakes.

Do you have a cool box we could borrow for the afternoon? Please email chairfol@larkriseprimary.org if you do.

Please take your donations to the office on the day of the event

Using 50p tokens at the event.

In order to make payments at events more hygienic and streamlined, stalls and activities will be accepting pre-paid 50p vouchers. Each voucher has the value of 50p.

Vouchers can can be purchased online and picked up from the school office in the week leading up to the event, bought at the school gate in the week of the fair or at the Friends of Larkrise stall on the day.

Music & Dance: (Provisional Timings)

1530 School Choir

1545 The Fantastic as yet untitled Larkrise Year 6 band

1600 Strawberry Fayre Majorettes

1615 and 1645 Body Politic Dance Workshop

1700 Family Ceilidh with the Starlings

1730 Sol Samba Band

Larkrise Camp Out 12 June 2026
2026-06-12 17:00 - 2026-06-13 09:30 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom
Join us for a night’s camping on the school field

We are very excited about our Larkrise Camp Out on Friday the 12th June. We have decided to ask for a suggested donation of up to £25 to pitch a tent or bring a camper van. You can book a place online and vary the amount you donate. We’ll open the gates from 5pm and tents can be pitched from 5:30pm.

Families who wish to join us for the evening only, may attend. We ask for a £5 donation to do this. We kindly ask that these families leave the site no later than 9:30pm to ensure we can make the site as secure as possible for the children.

We ask that you bring food from home to eat in the evening or arrange for a takeaway evening meal. We kindly request no BBQs. We will light the Larkrise Camp Fire at 7pm and we will provide hot chocolate for the children before bed. All children need to be accompanied by their parents/carers to this event and we ask that children only share tents with their family members.

We will use the adventure room toilets and there will be drinking water available. It might also be a good idea to bring some snacks for the morning.

Larkfest 2026
2026-07-10 15:30 - 18:00 | Larkrise Primary School, Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4 4AN, United Kingdom
Join us at the Larkrise Primary School Summer Fair

We are looking forward to a lovely fun event, stalls are being prepped, an amazing line up of music and dance is on the way. There will be lots of fun activities, hot food, frozen treats and cakes available as well as a bar for refreshments.

Volunteering at the event: please consider helping out during the event for an hour if you can. Without enough volunteers we will have to greatly scale back our plans.

Link coming soon

Enter the Raffle

Please contact Mel on treasurerFOL@larkriseprimary.org if you would like to donate a prize

Link to buy tickets coming soon

Donations for the event:

We’ll be running a nearly new kids clothes, toys and plant sale and will need donations from the school community. Please bring your donations to the school on the day of Larkfest (10th July).

Jam jars filled with “treasure” from the bottom of the toy box e.g. spares left over from party bags, few bits of lego, kinder egg loot, a few stickers etc. These will be used in a lucky dip. We have used these in our previous events and they have been very popular.

Cakes or baked goods, sweet or savoury, shop bought or homemade. No nuts please. Please provide a list of ingredients for homemade bakes.

Do you have a cool box we could borrow for the afternoon? Please email chairfol@larkriseprimary.org if you do.

Please take your donations to the office on the day of the event

Using 50p tokens at the event.

In order to make payments at events more hygienic and streamlined, stalls and activities will be accepting pre-paid 50p vouchers. Each voucher has the value of 50p.

Vouchers can can be purchased online and picked up from the school office in the week leading up to the event, bought at the school gate in the week of the fair or at the Friends of Larkrise stall on the day.

Music & Dance: (Info to come)
