Christmas Fair 2023

Reviews

01 Mrs C Austin

Parkside Parent

Parkside is a very special school with a best in class leadership team, a creative and high energy teaching staff and a unique ethos that nurtures every child. As a family we enjoy a wonderful sense of community at the school and have made many life-long friends. Parkside School is distinctive in that every teacher knows every child's name and caters for their unique needs and personalities.

02 Mr & Mrs F

Parkside Parents

Parkside is a wonderful, forward thinking, family orientated and traditional prep school. Nurturing with a focus on excellence in education and sporting achievement, we couldn’t have selected a better school to fit our family values.

The passion and kindness of the teaching staff and leadership team shines through in every aspect of school life and can be seen daily through the warmth, enthusiasm and joy they bring to the boys. Being part of Parkside’s community, which is built on fellowship and camaraderie, has enabled our three boys to thrive in a secure environment that they love.

03 Mrs Dixon

Parkside Parent

We have recently moved to Parkside and have had nothing but a positive experience. The number one priority of the school is the boys and this is apparent in all areas, academic progress and development, sporting achievements and the boys’ happiness and wellbeing. We have watched our sons flourish in all aspects of school life at Parkside and that is credit to the fabulous teaching staff but also the overriding culture of the school.

04 Mr & Mrs G

Parkside Parents

We chose Parkside for our son because we felt the school truly cared for the boys. Our initial feelings couldn't have been more right, Parkside has proved to be the perfect choice for our son who has loved every minute of his time there and has made many lifelong friends.

05 Mr & Mrs C

Parkside Parents

Parkside has provided an amazing environment for our sons to learn, mature and enjoy school life. The care and commitment by the teachers have seen the boys develop and perform to their best. There is a lovely relaxed, friendly and inclusive atmosphere which has certainly brought the best out of our sons.

06 Dr JM Cox

Headmaster, Royal Grammar School, Guildford

I am always delighted to accept young men from Parkside as members of the RGS. I have been very impressed with the academic standards which are being achieved at the School but, more importantly, boys from Parkside are delightful additions to our community. They are invariably engaging, polite and academically curious, skills which have been established and nurtured at Parkside and which will hold them in very good stead for the future.

07 James Priory

Headmaster, Tonbridge School

We were delighted to be able to make three Unconditional Offers to Parkside boys this year. Like the prep school at Parkside, Tonbridge specialises in the education of boys. We are academically selective and Parkside boys are well prepared for the academic rigour here. Similarly, boys from Parkside easily transition to the depth and breadth of co-curricular pursuits at Tonbridge, including music, sport and the creative arts. The intellectual curiosity and enjoyment of these activities is nurtured at Parkside and flourishes at Tonbridge as the boys reach their teens. 35 miles along the M25, we are not that far away either! We very much look forward to developing our relationship with Parkside in the years to come.

08 Jay Piggot

Headmaster, Epsom College

Good schools are about the creation of community and the personal growth of all, both pupils and staff, who inhabit them. Over years 7 and 8 at Parkside, the boys are offered leadership opportunities and a nurturing environment for them to mature and development both in the classroom and across the rich co-curricular programme. This approach aligns seamlessly with an education at Epsom College, and we rejoice in the opportunity to welcome Parkside boys into our community in the future.

09 Rowena Cole

The Head, St John’s School Leatherhead

It is always a pleasure to meet boys from Parkside. We want the children who join St John’s to be excited about the journey ahead; we encourage our pupils to be academically aspirational, happy, confident young people who enjoy a rich array of activities, and who are kind, compassionate members of society. Every child brings their own personality and interests to our school - and we celebrate that individuality - but Parkside’s ethos of awakening curiosity, and helping pupils take responsibility for their learning, equips them well to embrace the wealth of opportunities in senior school life at St John’s.

10 Mr James Dahl

Master of Wellington College

Wellington College has been lucky to have had a steady stream of excellent Parkside boys join us over the recent years and we would be more than delighted to see many more! There is an a real passion for learning evident in the boys that we have met but this passion appears to extend beyond the classroom too and hence aligns very closely for what we look for in Wellingtonians. We also note tremendous values in the Parkside boys we have met and this explains the wonderful atmosphere evident in the school whenever we visit.

11 Mr James Davies

Headmaster, Halliford School

(Halliford and Parkside) schools share a set of core values that sees us completely committed to seeing each student as an individual and doing everything possible to enable them to flourish and make the most of the many opportunities we are able to offer them. The confidence and maturity they develop in Year 7 and 8 at Parkside greatly contributes to our warm-hearted community at Halliford. Parkside students thoroughly embrace our values of creativity, respect, warm-heartedness, resilience, intellectual curiosity and being exceptional team players. It is no wonder that a number of Parkside boys have been awarded scholarships to join Halliford School. They achieve tremendous academic success at both GCSE and A Level thanks to the tremendous academic grounding they receive at Parkside, and they always fully immerse themselves in our wide variety of co-curricular activities and trips. The boys transition extremely quickly into life at Halliford, and we believe they benefit from our comparable size and ethos. Parkside boys contribute enormously to our school community, and it is our pleasure to celebrate their successes as members of the Halliford family.

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Christmas Fair 2023

We are delighted to announce the return of the Christmas Fair on Saturday 18 November 2023, which promises to be a spectacular event.

The Manor will be decorated with its usual Christmas decorations, lights and warm ambience. There will be over 50 handpicked stalls selling unique gifts, festive food and drink, music, a ‘Kids’ Zone’ as well as the Parkside Café. New for this year will be workshops, including wreath making and table styling and a Santa’s Grotto held in a secret location. This year, we are bringing this fantastic event to you in partnership with our friends at The Surrey Circle, so bring your friends and family for plenty of wonderful Christmassy fun.

Book your Christmas Fair 2023 tickets here.

The grand raffle will continue to run from Fireworks Night (Friday 10 November) until The Christmas Fair (Saturday 18 November) with winners announced the following week.

We would like to thank our headline sponsors, Octagon

Headquartered on the River Thames just moments from Hampton Court Palace, Octagon has over 40 years’ experience in delivering the very best in luxury property. With an unmatched reputation for building homes of the highest quality, Octagon has built some of the most impressive properties throughout Surrey, London and Southern England, with in-house services ranging from Design & Build, Interior Design and Speculative builds.

The latest collection offers apartments and houses at Broadoaks Park in West Byfleet, with Guide Prices starting from £750,000. Additionally, Luna Place, a new development of 25 design-led apartments in Esher, is being delivered in 2024 under their upper mid-market brand Chancery Homes, with Guide Prices starting from £360,000.

We would like to thank Octagon for being our headline sponsors this year, and we look forward to working with them.

We would also like to thank our other sponsors for this year's event:

Meadows Ryan Solicitors are proudly sponsoring the 2023 Parkside School Christmas Fair. We have been serving the Community in Elmbridge since 1940 and the services offered from our office in Weybridge are now supplemented by our offices in Mayfair and Devon. The firm provides services to both private individuals and businesses covering a range of areas from conveyancing, corporate law, divorce and family law, wills, trusts and probate to employment law. Our friendly and professional team wish everyone at Parkside a fantastic day of festive cheer at the Fair.

Raffle:

We are looking forward to this year's raffle which is now open for tickets sales. We will be drawing the raffle winners during week commencing 20 November.

We would like to thank all of the Year Groups for organising and donating the contents of the fabulous themed hampers.

We would also like to thank all of the companies who have donated so generously with many different prizes:

	Baloolah Hair Station	2 x Cut & Blow Dry Vouchers
	Batts Hill Gin	Bottle of Gin
	Canakin	Box of Macarons
	The Cobham Bookshop	£50 Voucher
	Cook	Vouchers
	E&C Aesthetics	5 x Vouchers
	Fired Earth	£100 voucher for Fired Earth Paint
	Fox & Bloom	Licky Dip
	Good Fermentation	6 x Bottles of Kombucha
	Hapi Cafe
	Jeremy Hobbs	£25 Voucher
	Nutfield Dairy	Cheeseboard
	Parkside School	Football signed by Conor Gallagher
	Quattro Rish	£35 Voucher & Candle
	Rosemary & Ridgeway	£50 Candle Voucher
	Shetland Pony Club	Beginner Riding Session
	SHP Health	Vouchers
	Sounder Golf	£100 Voucher
	Specsavers in Sainsburys Cobham	Pair of Glasses (up to the value of £69
	The 225 Club	Personal Training Session