The Friends of Scarcroft School

We are the parent/teachers association
The Friends of Scarcroft School (FOSS) are a group of parents who raise funds to support the school and enhance the learning experience of the children. In past years we have raised money through events and fundraising that have paid for school trips, first aid training, books, software and many other things.

42 GoodGymers have supported The Friends of Scarcroft School with 3 tasks.


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YorkCommunity mission
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Nicola GoverEd WoollardAidan KettleLeanne

Schools Fair in Lug and Haul

Friday 6th December 2019

Written by York runner

The Scarcroft Primary Christmas Fair is always a bit epic, and there's a LOT of stuff to move about to get it ready.

Luckily this year we didn't have to move all the PE kit, just a lot of tables and random items from different floors.

Shall I take you to the cellar? Teacher Sarah

We had to take lots of stuff out of the cellar and match it up with a list on the wall so we knew whether it needed to go to the upper or lower floor. Some of us picked the uneven steps for extra exercise whilst others enjoyed using the lift.

There were loads of folding tables to put out, following a specific table plan, boxes of books, boxes of wine, bags of books, bags of drinks, boxes of chocolate, bags of sweets and if you were lucky, bags of cuddly toys.

Sarah tried tempting us to move the grade II listed toilet but we decided it was too high risk so left that where it was.

The final task was to empty Sarah's car of more Fair-y stuff and to take the perfect school-esque group pic.

Job done.

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YorkGroup run
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Emma WilkommenLeanne
Lizzie Kershaw

Log-istically Challenging Task

Monday 15th July 2019

Written by York runner

GG Yorkies walked and ran not a very long way at all to do two extremely local tasks!

'Fresh' from running the Race to the Stones 100k at the weekend, Mitch, Leanne, Tristan and Becky all made it and showed us their bling, they also all very sensibly joined the walking crew.

We had two tasks tonight, one was over at The Nose which is a community garden based at St Clement's Church. Nick led his running crew all of about 850m with Ellie and Laura as joint walking leaders.

The task was to weed and edge the beds and borders, pick any fruit and veg and deadhead the roses. Freya and first-time runner Immy were busy digging up loads of potatoes from the raised bed. Amy was tasked with clearing the weeds surrounding the raised beds, but mostly was digging up hundreds and thousands of woodlouse! The team quickly cleared all the weeds and tidied the edges of the flowerbed, creating lovely straight lines as far as the eye could see. As with any task involving fruit picking, there was also a lot of fruit eating with raspberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants on offer, mostly sampled by Ellie and Becky.

The blackcurrants are smokey? Ed

After deciding the blackcurrants seemed to be gently infused with the aroma of diesel, the 'Nose Team' headed round the corner to Scarcroft Green, Freya and Immy swinging the massive bucket of potato loot between them (kudos to Immy for carrying a huge bucket of potatoes all the way back on her first ever group run!)

My team, with Leanne as the walk leader and Debs as back marker, almost missed the school completely with everyone very enthusiastically running onto Scarcroft Green. Our task owner was our very own Tom FitzP. Tom had originally told me there would be around 4 tonnes of soil to shift, then a few days ago it was 6 tonnes and moving some logs... today there were lots of logs to move and create a log seating area with and around 8 tonnes of soil to barrow across and fill three giant raised beds.

The massive sacks didn't worry anyone and everyone got stuck in shovelling soil into wheelbarrows. It took all of about ten minutes to move the logs into a very specific shape.

Not a log circle, more like a log ellipse - Tom

We filled the large raised beds with 5 minutes to spare and even had time for a quick bonus litter pick on Scarcroft Green before the other team joined us for fitness.

It's like Cones of Joy, but in teams and with optional running!

We need to come up with a better name for tonight's fitness game but basically teams of four tackled ten stations with a whole bunch of exercises to choose from, and in transition between each station you could choose to be a sleeping lion or to go for a sprint to an inanimate object on the Green.

Being a sleeping lion is a trick, getting up is so hard - Leanne

Pretty much everyone's favourite exercises was resistance running with bands, apart from probably Ed who was subjected to a serious band slap by Nick - so loud that everyone heard it above the music.

On our return, Huw surprised the 100km runners with an amazing commemorative cake with little stones on it and everything.

Next week Mitch is the boss, have fun!

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