Coopers Lane PTA
Our annual quiz night returns on Friday 25 April !
Join us to raise much needed funds for our amazing school as we continue to fund the OPAL playground redevelopment.
Tickets are £7 in advance and £10 on the night.
We will be joined by the amazing Dough N Go who will be serving up their delicious pizza to help the night along !
There will also be a raffle and a bar too!
So grab your friends and family for a fabulous night – over 18’s only
Tickets can be purchased here:
This March, the PTA will be running its second Hoopa Bar fundraiser. This is a great way to help the school raise money for the OPAL playground scheme – and for children to win some special prizes. Also – did we mention chocolate?
The PTA will be selling special Hoopa chocolate bars for £2.50 each. A limited number of bars will contain, hidden under the wrapper, a golden ticket – any child who finds one can claim a special prize from the mysterious Hoopa Loompa: an invite to his Summer Spectacular Lunch.
Last year, we sold the bars at an after school sale – and the demand was, sadly, higher than we could meet. This year we are selling bars online and in advance, where they will be available to buy until the end of day on Sunday 16th March.
The bars will then be delivered to the children, via classrooms, on 31st March. Each bar should raise around £1 for the PTA, which this year is funding equipment for the OPAL playground project.
If you would like to purchase a bar, please visit:
https://shop.cooperslanepta.co.uk
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Sweet Treats & Hot Chocolate sale just before half term.
We sold out ! Special thanks to the school council who helped us out with the sale. It was great to have you with us!
We raised over £400 that will go towards the OPAL playground redevlopment.
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.
It’s been a busy half term for the PTA since we returned in September and its been great to see so many new faces get involved with our fundraising activities.
Over the past seven weeks, we have raised over £1300 through our preloved uniform shop, which has been run by the lovely Laura Oxley and her dedicated volunteers. Without Laura and her team, the committee would never have been able to open the shop as often as we have, so this has made a real difference to our fundraising this term.
The PTA has also helped out two other schools & PTAs in the local area by donating a large amount of preloved grey uniform as we have had so much donated, with not enough storage space. Both schools have been really appreciative of our donation and it’s great for us to build local links.
Alongside, our uniform sales, you helped us raise over £350 at our ‘We Scare Hunger’ costume and cake sale earlier this week. We had a great turnout, selling all our sweet treats and loads of costumes ! We can’t wait to see the kids in their recycled costumes when we go back to school on 4 November – don’t forget your food bank donations that school is collecting during the first week back.
We also hosted a very successful welcome meeting in October, have recruited a PTA Champion for nearly every year (still missing year 5 & 6), successfully distributed over 70 varsity jackets to year 6, welcomed lots of new parents to our volunteers group and have finally managed to get our amazing PTA banner hung up on the main school gates!
A huge thank you to the Committee, our volunteers and the school for your continued support. Without you, we cannot do our job!
Wishing you all a fabulous half term – we will be back in November with our charity Bingo Night, Christmas rainbow raffles and a Christmas jumpers & sweet treats sale!
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.
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.