THE Treloar’s Parents’ Association summer fete raised over £900 on a hot summer afternoon towards the cost of student parties during the cooler climes of Christmas.

The fete attracted scores of visitors to browse the 24 stalls, half of them student enterprises selling a wide range of quirky items including bookmarks, knitted toys, felt brooches, sweets, mugs and handmade soap.

Local crafts entrepreneurs, including Bali Rose, Texcellent Limited, Plum Button Designs, Paper for Lunch and Sachiko Mason, were also present.

Alongside the trading stalls there were raffles, a pop-up tea room, horticultural stall and traditional fete games; school residential house, Gloucester House, ran a bottle Tombola which proved especially popular with staff while students flocked to KS3S’s ‘stocks and sponges’ game on the piazza.

A Treloar spokesperson commented: “Ordinarily staff have to be cajoled into the stocks, but given the sweltering heat there was no shortage of people willing to have cold wet sponges thrown at them this year!”