It’s that time of year again! The PTA will be running the rainbow raffles at all eleven Christmas performances this December – this is always a really great way to raise funds for the school.
But we can only do this with your help! We need at least three volunteers per performance to sell tickets as parents & carers arrive – you’ll need to be available up to 30 mins before the performance starts.
Please note that you won’t be able to watch the performance or save any seats for family & friends unless you have a ticket for that performance, due to capacity issues.
If you’re attending a performance, and can help us out with the raffle beforehand, please click here to sign up.
Thank you once again for your support – we couldn’t do it without you!
Coopers Lane PTA will hold its last full meeting of the 2022-23 academic year on Thursday 13th July at 8.30pm. There will be three items on the agenda:
1) An update on our fundraising total for this year
2) To discuss some requests for funding received from the school this term, and
3) To thank everyone for all their efforts.
The meeting will be held online, and we will try to keep it all to less than one hour. Joining details will be added to this post, and shared with the PTA WhatsApp group and email, closer to the time.
The Coopers Lane Summer Fair is a highlight of every year, with students, friends and family getting together to have a great time while also raising thousands of pounds to support the school. This year it’ll be taking place on Saturday 24th June.
Organising the fair takes months – and we’re already well underway, with new food vendors, fun and games for the kids and local businesses booked to attend. But there’s one more thing we need: your help.
The fair lasts for four hours, and with over a dozen stalls we need plenty of adults to help keep everything up and running. If we can get a good number of people signed up then we can share the work out in one hour slots – giving everyone plenty of time to enjoy the event as well.
If you can volunteer – either for one hour during the fair, or before, or after – that would be a huge help. Please register using the form below, and we will be in touch nearer the time to confirm a slot. Thank you!
The Coopers Lane Summer Fair will return on Saturday 24th June. One of the ways we promote the fair, and raise funds for the school, is in partnership with Waymour and Parr estate agents, who post boards around the area. Each board promotes the fair, and we receive a donation in exchange for each one.
If you can host a board outside your house for a few weeks this Spring it’s one of the easiest ways to raise funds for the school.
The boards are put up and taken away by Waymour and Parr – all you have to do is have space for one. If you can help, please complete this form and we will do everything else – thank you!
We hope that you all had a lovely half term break and enjoyed some of the sunshine we had! We’ve been really busy over the half term break – more about that later!
AGM on Wednesday
This Wednesday, we are hosting our next meeting and it’s an important one – our AGM. This is where the Committee reports on what the charity has achieved this past year, then resigns – and we vote in a new committee to run the PTA until 2024.
We need at least 12 members present at this meeting to meet our legal requirements as a charity, so please, please do come along if you can – we promised to keep it as brief as possible! If you can’t make it in person, we will be providing a way to participate virtually – please register here for that.
If you’re interested in joining the committee and helping us organise fundraising for the school, this is a great opportunity. We are specifically looking for a Secretary and a Deputy Chair. Please do let us know if you are interested in either of these roles and if you’d like to chat about it beforehand, please do drop us a line, we’d be happy to talk.
We are delighted to be hosting our AGM at Il Porto, our new & local pizzeria run by a lovely Coopers Lane Family. Thank you to Baci for hosting us! So, please do come along and support the PTA as well as enjoy a glass of wine or soft drink and a slice of pizza!
Uniform Shop Revamped and Reopened
The PTA were busy over the half term break and, with some help from our lovely volunteers, we have given our preloved uniform shop a makeover! You can see the results below.
It is now so much easier to find what you are looking for and to sort out donations much more quickly. The makeover has also given us a chance to see exactly what stock we have and what we need. We really need purple cardigans in all sizes as well as PE t-shirts in all colours and Coopers Lane backpacks.
We DON’T need any more donations of grey items or white polo shirts for the moment as we have loads!
We have also sorted out all our lovely purple gingham dresses – so get your order in now for the summer term.
The shop will officially reopen on Weds 22 Feb @ 3pm and online orders are now also open.
Dates for your Diary
Quiz Night – 24th March
Our popular end of term annual quiz night for parents and staff will take place on Friday 24 March @ 7pm. Tickets are on sale from Monday 20th – so grab your friends & family, form a team of no more than 8 people and come along to one of our most popular fundraising events!
There will be pizza available to buy from Dough N Go (run by Reception parent Daniel), a limited bar and a raffle!!
All parents, carers & staff are hereby invited to attend Coopers Lane PTA’s Annual General Meeting:
Wednesday 22nd February 2023, 7.45pm at Il Porto – the new pizza restaurant opposite Grove Park Station*.
Online participation and voting will be available – please register here.
As per our constitution, we will be disbanding the current committee and re-electing all roles. The roles up for re-election are:
Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Co-Treasurer
2x Trustees
We are also hoping to appoint a new role of Deputy Chair, if possible.
If you are interested in potentially filling any of the above roles, and would like to discuss what’s involved, please drop the committee a line and we’ll be happy to chat: pta@cooperslane.org.
* Il Porto is run by a Coopers Lane family, and they are very kindly supporting us in hosting this meeting – please come along and check out their pizza!
As we finish up the Autumn term and leave school for a few weeks of well-deserved holidays, we wanted to post an update on our fundraising for the year so far.
In this first term of the year, you’ve helped us raise a massive £3,500 for the school. A large proportion of this – over £1,600 – came from the raffles at the school Christmas performances, so thanks to everyone who bought a ticket – and to all those who helped us to sell them at eleven shows across three weeks.
Our other events this term were:
Christmas Jumpers and Treats – over £300 raised
Pre-loved Uniform – over £370 raised
Coats and Costumes – over £250 raised
Bingo Bonanza evening – over £680 raised
Non-Uniform Day – over £230 raised
This is a fantastic start to the year, so thanks again for all your support. We will be in touch with details of our plans for the Spring term in January.
