Wessex Primary SchoolPTA
Latest PTA News:
Cake Stall Challenge!
Year 1/2 on Friday 4 May at 3:20pm.
Please can children/parents/grandparents and carers donate cakes for the dates below relevant to your children(s) year groups.
All cakes dropped off to the Atrium in the morning please, where the PTA will collect ...and then do the selling after school at 3.20pm.
There is a prize for the year group(s) that makes the most money!
Reception and Nursery : Friday 16th June
May Fair
Saturday 12th May 2pm - 4:30pm
- Train Rides
- Bouncy Castle
- Maypole Dancing
- Glee Choir
- Childrens Performance
- Archery
- Ferret Racing
- Cream Teas
- Raffle
- 100 square
- Adult Tombola
- Kids Tombola
- Edible crafts
- Hair Braiding
- Face Painting
- Tattoos
- Grocery Stall
- Beat the goalie etc.
- Wine or whine
- Pocket Money Games
- Welly thowing
- Refreshments
COMPETITIONS:
- Virtual Pets
- Fancy Dress: Olympics theme
- Jubilee themed Art & Crafts
Bag2School collection
START COLLECTING NOW!
The next textile collection will be on Wednesday 9th May. A great opportunity to sort through your cupboards and wardrobes and donate unwanted textiles. If you don’t have room at home to store your donations, you can now bring them along to Andrea’s Cafe in Ockwells Park where Andrea will gladly store them for you. The cafe is open Tuesday – Sunday from 10am.
You can donate: Adults' and children's clothes, shoes (tied together please), hats, belts, bags, soft toys, curtains and bedding (not duvets or pillows).
We will receive £500 per tonne or £0.50/kg which will be a great boost for our fundraising. In addition it will also raise awareness amongst the children of the benefits of recycling and reuse.
Our last collection on Wednesday 30 November 2011 raised an amazing £ 624.50 towards the PTA funds! A total of 1249kg of material was donated. Thank you to all who brought in textiles and helped out on the day!
If you fill the donation bag and still have more then you can use any other bag to donate your items and don’t forget to ask grandparents, friends and neighbours to have a sort out as well!
For more details about Bag2School take a look at their website (opens new window).
Coming Soon
We have loads of activities coming up soon, you can see them listed in the section at the bottom of the page.
Facebook Group
You can keep in touch using the new Wessex Primary School PTA Facebook Group (opens new window).
Cake Stall Challenge
Both the Year 3/4 (on Friday 3rd Feb) and the Year 5/6 (on Friday 2nd March) Cake Stall Challenges were a great success.
The photo was taken at the Year 3/4 sale ...as you can see, a fabulous selection of delicious cakes were made for the sale.
Over £100 was made at each ...to help support your child's learning.
What great results!
We can't wait to see what Years 1/2 can do when its their turn on Friday 4 May ...can you beat this?!
Treasures and Treats Evening
From the school newsletter: "The Treasures and Treats evening last Friday was a huge success. Those who attended had a very relaxed evening during which they were thoroughly pampered and given the opportunity to unwind. The evening raised over £600 and will certainly be repeated again. Many thanks to the PTA Dream Team for another successful evening….roll on the school disco! The PTA’s facebook page (search for ‘Wessex PTA’) was awash with appreciative comments about the gifts received last Sunday." Thanks to all those who came along, and all those who helped out!
Mother's Day Presents
This year we held a "secret" sale where pupils could buy something special for Mum. It was a great success, raising some money and spreading the love at the same time! Here's just one of the comments we received:
Do you know this is one of the best ideas ever for my girls. I have not received a gift in the last 4 years because there was no one to take them shopping, but this year thanks to Wessex PTA they were able to be 'Little Miss Independents!!' THANK YOU it meant a lot to us all xxx
What is the PTA?
The Wessex Primary School PTA (Parent Teachers Association) exists to raise money for the school's "little extras". In the recent past PTA-raised money has funded:
- The Playground Fort
- Artist visits to school
- School trips
- PE equipment
- Football kit for school team
- Visualisers for use in classrooms (sophisticated overhead projectors)
- Garden improvements and play equipment in the nursery
- Part of the Playground Makeover project
- A fully equiped kitchen in Lower School
- Golden time games/activites for all year groups (Years 1-6)
- Year 6 Leavers Party & activities
Traversing wall and kitchen area, above.
Nursery play equipment and playground fort, below.
All purchased by the PTA.
Every parent/guardian of a pupil is automatically a member of the PTA. There is also a PTA Committee which organises and runs events. Any parent/guardian/teacher can join the committee.
The Wessex Primary School PTA is a registered charity - charity number 1041997.
PTA Events and Activities
We have been running a series of successful annual events over the past few years, these are:
- Fireworks in November
- Christmas Fun Afternoon in December
- Disco just before the Easter holidays
- Summer Fair in July
- Camping at Wessex
- A Dinner & Disco for adults
Click on each event to find out more.
Right: The performance area at the PTA Summer Fair 2009.
Other PTA activities include Pilates (for details contact parent Claire Mundy via the school office) and dancing at the May Fayre at the Cox Green Community Centre.
PTA Committee
The PTA Committee meets about 8 times per year, as necessary mainly when events are approaching. The Committee members work together to create events, organising everything required to make the events successful, fun, safe and profitable.
Events do not just happen by magic - they take time and effort to put together! So please consider joining in and helping. There is no "minimum commitment" - just do as much as you would like to. All efforts will be gratefully received. We keep in touch using an easy-to-use email group.
The current PTA Chair is Anne Briggs. A new Committee is chosen at an Annual General Meeting near the beginning of every school year.
The Committee also decide how the money raised will be spent.
The 2011/12 Committee members are as follows, along with the classes you are most likely to find them outside:
- Gill Alton (Yr2 Chestnut & Yr4 Larch)
- Kay Bailey (Yr4 Larch)
- Miriam Baker (Yr4 Lime)
- Paul Baker (Yr4 Lime)
- Anne Briggs - Chair (Yr2 Chestnut & Yr4 Lime)
- Andrea Butler (Yr1 Birch)
- Mandy Clarke (Yr3 Hazel & Yr6 Willow)
- Sophie Franks (Yr2 Cherry & Yr5 Poplar)
- Nik Haines (Yr5 Pine)
- Paul Harley (Yr3 Holly & Yr5 Poplar)
- Zena Harley (Yr3 Holly & Yr5 Poplar)
- Nicola Jones - Secretary (Yr3 Hazel)
- Wayne Jones (Yr3 Hazel)
- Michelle McIntyre - Vice Chair (Yr6 Yew)
- Claire Mundy - Treasurer (Yr4 Larch)
- Karine Saffioti (Yr1 Beech and Yr3 Holly)
Contact Us
If you would like more information about how the PTA Committee runs or want to get involved (even just on a trial basis!), just grab a Committee member in the playground one morning/afternoon. Or email us at . Or hand a note marked PTA in to the school office and it will be put in our tray.
PTA Events Coming Up
Here are the PTA events and meetings coming soon...
Date: Thursday 24 May 2012 - PTA Meeting
Date: Thursday 14 June 2012 - PTA Father's Day Secret Present Room
Date: Friday 15 June 2012 - Cake sale - reception and nursery 3.20pm Details:
PTA Cake Stall Challenge
Please can children/parents/grandparents and carers donate cakes. All cakes dropped off to the Atrium where the PTA will collect and then do the selling after school at 3.20pm.
There is a prize for the year group(s) that makes the most money.
Thank you for all your continued support.
Date: Saturday 14 July 2012 - Camping at Wessex - PTA Details:
Come along and camp on the school field. A return of last year's enjoyable event.
Further Reading
- View the Wessex Primary School PTA charity details on the Charity Commission website (opens new window).
