PTA Minutes
Date: Friday 31st January
- : members of office
Chair – Chelsey King
Vice Chair – Karla Thomas
2nd Vice Chair – to be advised
Secretary – PTA members will take turns to write the minutes.
- ParentKind –School has membership. It is a PTA network with event suggestions.
- Summer Fair - Date is set for Saturday 12th July 12 - 3pm.
Need to discuss theme and ideas asap
- Raffle tickets - we always have a lot left over. Can we think of a better way that isn't time consuming and think about getting parents/ staff to take packs and sell away from school.
- Friendship Disco - Thursday 13th February 2025
Food issues from previous year mean we will need to have food prepared earlier.
◦ Food can be transported to the ks2 building or clear reception out to allow KS2 to access dining hall.
◦ Will south site split both Halls? Ks1 downstairs/Ks2 upstairs
◦ Confirm if there will be a Dress- Up theme
(Non - uniform) donation rather than a specified amount
Make sweet bags again for disco - remove any hard sweets (big seller from last time)
◦ Flyers need to go out for Friendship Disco
◦ What will the menu be?
◦ Add this on the newsletter including what’s for sale£5 ticket to cover entry, a drink and a snack.
South site split in 2 halls 3.15 - 5.15. Need volunteers to help set up.
North EYFS & KS1 in the dining hall. Can nursery be in the nursery? Ks2 in downstairs hall. 3.30 - 5.30pm.
- Christmas Fair - Feed back. It was a great event, with lots of positive feedback from parents. We raised £3,282.18. Money raised is going towards the playground refurbishment.
- Stay and Play
◦ PTA could run a stall on Fridays - stay and play where things could be sold
◦ Have as a regular offering for steady income.
◦ Need confirmation so they can start after half-term - please confirm
- Fundraising ideas My School Fund - sign up as school gets a percentage of money raised via spending
◦ Go Fund Me - get the QR Code as well as link to the weekly newsletter
◦ Laminated and placed across schools on both sites
◦ Pictures of playgrounds with emotive stories about the importance of playground for children
◦ Could we incentivise local businesses with MG Certificates as sponsors of School Playground
◦ Create a poster with QR code and info to push the GoFundMe Facilities Hire
◦ Promote School Hall Hire opportunities- push it more
◦ Currently on websites, but not obvious
◦ Creating Flyer for Hall Hire - could be a lucrative opportunity
◦ One price for MG parents (discounted) Book Swap
◦ Advertise that school wants to collect any books to trade
◦ World of Books (charity) takes away damaged books and pays for it.
◦ PTA willing to volunteer to sort through the books to help to run the Stall and Sell on school behalf
- Ideas for future events
- Quiz night, Bingo, Line dancing
Date for next meeting Tuesday 25th February 9am -South site