The following reports are presented for our AGM on 21st November 2025:
Author: PTA
Categories
Notice of AGM
Our Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 21st November at 7.45, at school, during our Bingo Night fundraiser.
Any member is welcome to attend the AGM without participating in the bingo, and you can do so either online or in person. Please RSVP to pta@cooperslane.org for access details.
Categories
End of year – thank you!
As we come to the end of another school year, we want to say a huge thank you to our volunteers, the teaching staff, our corporate supporters and the whole Coopers Lane community, for your support and time this year.
It has been a fantastic year and together we have raised over £15,000 for our amazing school. This is incredible – thank you! Some of these funds have already gone back to school and we will be meeting with the senior leadership team to discuss their plans for next year and what support they will need in September. Remember that all the funds that we raise from our events and your generous support, go directly back to improving the education experience for our kids.
THIS YEAR
Our focus for the past year has been on supporting the school as it becomes an OPAL school, where play is as important as learning. We have funded a large storage shed in the KS2 playground as well as outdoor speakers, gymnastic rings, cameras and lots of other playground equipment that will allow the kids to use their imagination during playtime. Our support for OPAL will continue next year as the school further develops its play spaces.
We’ve also been running our pre-loved uniform shop, with regular sales that have been well supported by so many parents – thank you to everyone who bought uniform, donated some back to be used again, or both. And we have continued to supply and sell varsity jackets for year six and PE shirts for the whole school, along with – for the first time this year – the leaver hoodies. Thanks to all the parents who bought one.
We have also run some fantastic events this year, from a quiz to costume sales and cakes and coffee stalls – all of which were supported by our many volunteers from the school community. Whether you helped in the uniform shop, baked cakes for the sweet treats stall, sold raffle tickets at a Christmas performance or ran a stall at the summer fair, these events wouldn’t have been possible without your support – THANK YOU!
NEXT YEAR
The PTA will be taking a well deserved break over the summer holidays, but we have already started to plan our events for 2025/26.
There will also be a change in the committee next year as Claire, Tom, Jacks & Esther will be stepping down. The new committee will be looking for two or three new people to join them during the autumn term. This is an opportunity for you to make a real difference and work closely with the school to shape the events we run, influence how the money raised is spent for the maximum benefit of the kids, and to be part of a team of people that make a real difference to the school.
If you might be interested and would like to find out more or have a chat with the outgoing members, please drop us an email (info-pta@cooperslane.org). It would be amazing to have some new volunteers to support our events and the work that we do raising money for our fabulous school.
Thank you again for all your support this year, and wishing you a great summer.
The PTA Committee:
Claire, Tom, Jacks, Esther, Bawani, Sam, Nareen, Rachel & Farrah
Categories
Leaver Hoodies – Final Call
The order deadline for Year 6 Leaver Hoodies has now passed and we will be placing our order with the supplier next week.
If you want your child’s name on the back of the hoodies, please complete this form immediately. If the form is closed, you are too late. If it is open, your name can still be added.
If you want to buy a hoodie for your child, please click here. For details of sizing and colours you can check this page. Again, please order ASAP to avoid the chance of missing out.
Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM on 29th January 2025. You can read the Chair’s report here, and the Treasurer’s report here.
The members of the newly elected 2025 -26 Committee are:
Sam Holder
Jacks Lampon
Esther Alvarez
Nareen Thompson
Farrah Walton
Rachel West
And the officers:
Treasurer: Bawani Nadarajah
Secretary: Tom Royal
Chair: Claire Carter
All are now Trustees of the Charity.
The Committee have been made aware of at least two parents who received calls from a UK phone number purporting to be a parent calling about PTA business and meetings.
Please note that the PTA Committee will not ever phone you up, and will not ever invite you to a meeting or event individually – not via phone, not via WhatsApp, not via SMS or email.
All meetings are published on this website, and notices published via email and into our WhatsApp groups by the Committee.
The callers are attempting to steal account credentials by asking the other person to read back security codes under the pretext of “setting up a meeting”.
Please remember that you should never ever supply security codes sent via text message, for any service, to anyone else – the codes are for you to enter into a website only.
At the beginning of the 2023-24 school year, the Peace Garden located at the back of the school was in a sad state and had been closed off to students for safety reasons. An area of decking had become rotten and had to be removed, and the whole area was in desperate need of some renovation:
The PTA were asked to restore the garden in time for this summer. We organised a number of volunteer work sessions throughout the year, mostly on a number of rather wet weekends, where around a dozen parents helped us dig, level, paint and plant.
We were also assisted by a number of parents with particular expertise: Ben Hardy helped with groundwork, Sam Fathi with carpentry for the new planters, Will Porter helped us with re-roofing and Cristiano Brand with construction of a new access ramp:
New equipment installed in the garden included eight large wooden planters, four new benches, a water capture system, a tool shed and tools for children to use.
The storytelling chair placed in the garden in memory of Ms Gill Gallagher in 2016 was taken to the Ringway Centre woodworking shop, where Clare, Nicola and Julie worked to restore and refinish it.
Finally, PTA trustee Sam, who had spent months cultivating plants from seed at home, assisted the school’s own Green Team with planting the first new plants and flowers of the garden. As of June, the garden has been transformed and is ready for the children to enjoy again.
£1,000 of funding for the garden was provided by Tesco as part of its Stronger Starts grant programme. The remaining costs were fundraised by the PTA throughout the year.
This has been a huge project, but the results are fantastic and we’re so happy that the garden is once again open for the children to enjoy. A huge thank – you to everyone who has helped make it happen: we couldn’t have done it without you.
Categories
Summer Fair – We Need Your Help!
This year’s summer fair will be held on 22nd June. It’s the biggest event of the school year, with performances, arts and crafts, food stalls, drinks, inflatables – and of course loads of games for the kids.
It’s also really important for the school. Last year it raised over £5,000 – which then helped fund things like new laptops to be used in class, books, equipment for the forest school, and the renovation of the garden.
But we can’t do this without your help. If we can get 50 people each doing one shift – not the whole afternoon! – we can make everything run smoothly, ensure that the kids have a great time and raise loads of much needed money for the school. If fewer people sign up, we’ll have to scale everything back, which would be a real shame.
If you can help out, please sign up at the link below – thank you. Your phone number and email will be held by the PTA only for the purposes of organising this one event and not shared with anyone else.
Categories
Summer Fair – 22 June
Save the date! We will be running our popular Summer Fair on Saturday 22nd June 2024.
Thank you to everyone who bought our Hoopa Loompa bars yesterday. With your help we raised a fantastic £534 to support the school – thank you! And thanks also to our volunteers who designed, bought, re-wrapped, and sold them.
We want to offer our apologies to those who were unable to buy a Hoopa bar. The demand was far greater than at any previous after-school sale, and far exceeded our expectations and ability to supply this time around.
We also understand that holding sales after school only made it impossible for some kids to buy one – and we hope to be able to work around this by offering more ways to buy in advance, as well as more stock, in future. This will require us to acquire a specific lottery licence, which wasn’t possible at short notice this time.
But we will need your help. We are all volunteers, and to supply many hundreds of bars, to handle licensing, pre-ordering, wrapping and distribution will require more people to pitch in – so can you help us make our next sale even bigger and better? You can reach us via email, or join our WhatsApp volunteer group – all the details are here.