PTA

Latest PTA News

Coming soon

We have loads of activities coming up soon, you can see them listed in the section at the bottom of the page.

Cake Stall Challenge

The Year 3/4 Cake Stall Challenge was a great success.....as you can see in our photo, a fabulous selection of delicious cakes were made for the sale on Friday 3 February.

We can't wait to see what Years 5/6 (Friday 2 March) and Years 1/2 (Friday 4 May) can do.....can you beat this?!

Treasures and Treats Ladies Evening

Do you run your own business or know someone who does?

As a parent at Wessex we are offering you first chance to book a stall at the Treasures and Treats Ladies Evening
at Wessex School on Friday 16 March 2012.

We have arranged for someone to come along and buy old/unwanted gold. There will be wine, nibbles, soft drinks, a raffle and fun!

Space costs just £15 per stall and can booked by emailing Anne Briggs on email@wessexpta.org.uk.

We will try to limit stalls to one of each kind, eg jewellery, cakes, etc where possible so it will be first come first served (on receipt of booking cheque).

Bag2School collection

Bag2School logo 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).

Christmas Fun Afternoon

This year the Christmas Fun Afternoon was on Wednesday 14 December 2011, right after school in the Upper School Hall. It was very well attended. We all enjoyed craft activities, pocket money games, Secret Present Room (no grown-ups allowed!), refreshments, cake stall and even the chance to meet Father Christmas! And not forgetting the tombola and raffle. More details on the Christmas Fun Afternoon page. Thank you for your support - we raised an amazing £ 1400!

Facebook Group

You can keep in touch using the new Wessex Primary School PTA Facebook Group (opens new window).

Fireworks

This year we held our fireworks display down the road to Cox Green School to take advantage of their bigger site. It was a great success, see right and the fireworks page for details and more photos.

In to the new year - AGM

We had our AGM in September and the new committee is shown below. We're looking forward to working hard for the school during the 2011/2012 year...we're always happy to have extra helpers though! Do come along to any of our meetings. Thank you to those who expressed an interest in our Comedy Night, but please note this has now been postponed until next year.

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 Kitchen area

Traversing wall and kitchen area, above.
Nursery play equipment and playground fort, below.
All purchased by the PTA.

Nursery play equipment Playground Fort

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.

You can also get in touch using the Wessex Primary School PTA Facebook Group (opens new window).

If you run a small business, e.g. book, jewellery or greetings card sales, another way to get involved is buying a pitch at one of our popular events; again just contact us to find out more.

PTA Events Coming Up

Here are the PTA events and meetings coming soon...

Date: Friday 2 March 2012 - Cake Sale Years 5 & 6 - 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: Thursday 8 March 2012 - PTA Meeting

Date: Wednesday 14 March 2012 - PTA - Mother’s Day Secret Present Room

Date: Friday 16 March 2012 - PTA Treasures and Treats - Ladies Evening

Date: Thursday 29 March 2012 - PTA Discos

Date: Friday 4 May 2012 - Cake Sale Years 1 & 2 - 3.20pm Details: