Samia, Caroline, Kate and Rob (+ Arthur) arrived at the school playground to take directions from the head of the PFA to get things in place for the big event! The school's big fundraising party - The Summer Fête needed some extra hands so Goodgym ran to the school to help with the set up. The first item on the list was benches which needed to be carried from the school hall and out to the playground to mark the stage for the skipping team's show. Once that top priority job was done we were ready to move onto tables. Out came the tables for the previously owned toys, the teddy tombola and bottles tombola stalls. Next we needed to carry the toys and teddies over to their tables to take their place. There were some discussions had on recalling the names of characters at the teddy stall and excitement over the educational toys that had been donated! Then we moved onto books and bottles to be carried from the PFA shed and out to the bar stall. When we'd finished carrying all the bottles over to the bar a familiar rectangular bag caught our eye and we had to ask, "Is that a gazebo that needs assembling?" And to our delight, it was! Well spotted! The gazebo experts snapped into action and each took a corner to raise a leg and poke in pins until it was up and ready to be put in place. Another table was moved from the children's bar to be used for a table football area ( also known as foosball to some people!) only to be moved back and replaced by lower and larger classroom tables that were safer and less likely to cause an accident! At the end of our school day we had learned a lot about the number of teddies that could fit on one table, the best way to quickly move many bottles (barrow some wheels!) and how to safely set up the table football! Bench you didn't think we could get so much done in just over an hour! It was a great work out for us too! We got our weight training in too with all the lifting and moving of items in the set up!

The school were very grateful for all our help with the set up because our extra hands made lighter and faster work for everyone on such a hot summer's day!