Birchwood Parents, Staff and Friends Association

Our aim is to bring together members of our school community who are keen to support with organised events, develop business links and raise money for the school.

Get Involved!

New faces are more than welcome at our meetings! Being involved with the PSFA is a great opportunity to get to know the school better and to meet and get to know other parents. If you would like to become involved, whether on a regular or ad hoc basis, or you are interested in keeping up to date with developments, please contact the Committee via e-mail at birchwoodpsfa@gmail.com

AGM – Thursday 23 March 2023, 7.00pm in the Sports Hall, A2 classroom.

AGM – Thursday 23 March 2023, 7.00pm in the Sports Hall, A2 classroom

Virtual Valentine’s Balloon Race – Sunday 12 February – Sunday 19 February

The Big Birchwood Quiz – Friday 10 March, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start, School Hall

The Birchwood Bonus Ball is a raffle-style club, with up to 5 numbers available to purchase per person, per subscription period. The subscription fee is £2 per month, payable in advance for the academic year. Subscriptions will remain open from the March draw onwards at a cost of £20 per number. 50% of subscriptions shall be allocated as prize money and 50% to PSFA funds. Prize money depends on the membership uptake and will be published as soon as possible following the subscription closing date. Draws shall be held on the last day of each month. If you would like to take part by purchasing one or more numbers, please email birchwoodpsfa@gmail.com confirming your name and contact telephone details. Full terms and conditions of the Birchwood Bonus Ball Club can be found on the PSFA page of the school’s website. Draws shall be held on the last day of each month. If you would like to take part by purchasing one or more numbers, please email birchwoodpsfa@gmail.com confirming your name and contact telephone details. Full terms and conditions are below.
Follow us on Twitter @BirchwoodPSFA or check the Bulletin Board below for information.
Download Bonus Ball Club Terms and Conditions.

If you are replacing items of school uniform and the old items are still in fairly good condition, please consider donating good condition items of preloved uniform to the PSFA. Please drop off clean items of uniform to our reception. If you would like to make a purchase of preloved uniform, please email psfapreloved@gmail.com. Please note this email address will be checked on a Wednesday, and uniform requests will be available for collection from reception on a Friday, upon receipt of payment.

Bulletin Board

Bishop’s Stortford Car Boot Sale

BOOT SALE IS POSTPONED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT

Sunday 17 July 2022
Birchwood High School CM23 5BD
(weather dependent)
Pearse House playing field
Sellers: arrive from Dunmow Road entrance 10.30am
Public: 11.30am – 2.30pm
Public parking is in the school car park and pedestrian entrance to the car boot sale is in Parsonage Lane opposite the school
Sellers: please note payment is by card: Cars £12/Small vans £14/Large vans £16
Entry for buyers: £1 per adult, children are free
Toilets and refreshments


PSFA Big Summer Raffle is here!

PTA Big Summer Raffle – Once again we will be taking part in the Big PTA Summer Raffle. Tickets go on sale on Monday 23 May from www.bigptaraffle.co.uk
All proceeds raised will go towards the purchase of new saucepans for the food tech rooms. Each £3 ticket will provide 12 chances to win up to £5000.


The Big Birchwood Quiz

Thank you to everyone who attended and supported the recent Quiz Night. 12 tables were sold and a massive £1084.00 was raised towards Birchwood’s Resilience Week. The winning team were the
Quizards of Oz. A big thank you to everyone who donated raffle prizes, to our sponsors
Reyland Johnson Estate Agents, and to our awesome Quizmasters Simon and Dave.