Treat yourself (and maybe the kids) to some sweet Christmas treats, a hot chocolate and pick up a preloved Christmas jumper. Inside the green gates from 3pm. Cash or card accepted.
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Our popular rainbow raffles are back ! We will be at every Christmas performance selling raffle tickets for a chance to win an amazing hamper. Tickets – £1 a strip. Cash or card accepted.
Wear your own clothes to school in exchange for a donation of a rainbow coloured food or household item that will be added to our hampers for the December Christmas shows.
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Autumn half term round up
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!
Back by popular demand, we will be hosting a charity Bingo Night with lots of fun games and silly bingo calling in the KS2 hall from 6.45pm on Fri 15 Nov.
Tickets can be purchased for £7 in advance by clicking here or they can be bought on the door for £10. Prizes for single and double lines as well as a raffle.
There will be a bar selling alcoholic and soft drinks as well as some tasty snacks. Invite your friends and family to this fun night out and raise some cash at the same time. Please note that this is an adult only event.
Just in time for Halloween !
Our annual reuse and recycle costumes sale is back, along with some spooky treats for everyone. Pick up a preloved costume and help raise much needed funds for the school.
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Coats and Costumes – £247 Raised!
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Coats and Costumes sale on 20th October.
We were overwhelmed by the number of donated items, and also by the turnout on the day – thanks to everyone who showed up despite the less-than-ideal weather.
We raised a grant total of just under £250 for the school.
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End of Year Update
£12,000 raised thanks to your support!
We have successfully completed our first full year since the pandemic, back in person – and it feels amazing! It has been brilliant to see you all at our events, supporting the PTA and our amazing school. We are incredibly grateful for your support.
This year we held several pre-loved uniform sales, Christmas raffles, a hilarious Bingo Night with award winning comedian/cabaret artist ‘Aidan Sandler’, a fab Quiz Night where the winners were decided by just two points and a fantastic Summer Fair – you can see more photos here – that saw the biggest turnout ever for a PTA event and raised over £7,000.
The fundraising target set for us by the School this year was to raise £20,000 for the new library – an incredibly ambitious goal, and more than twice what we’ve been asked for in previous years. We didn’t quite get there, but we did raise an amazing £12,000 with your help.
The school managed to borrow some funds to complete the library on time – it’s pictured below – and we’ve given £12,000 to the school this week to pay off more than half of that cost.
So thank you for supporting our events this year, and for all your donations – and a special thanks to those who also volunteered their time to help at our events. The PTA Committee is a small team of only seven parents and we simply can’t run all our events without your help – the more volunteers we have, the more we can do, and the more we can raise for the school.
We are already planning our events for Autumn, and if you can spare even half an hour to help us at one that would be greatly appreciated – the dates are all below, please do get in touch!
Dates for your Diary
We have an exciting schedule of events happening next year, so make sure you add these dates to your diary!
Welcome back PTA meeting – Thurs 29 Sept @ 7.30pm
Bingo Madness – Fri 18 Nov @ 7.30pm
Can you Ceilidh? – Fri 3 Feb @ 7.30pm
Annual Coopers Quiz Night – Fri 24 Mar @ 7.30pm
A Night at the Movies with a twist! – Fri 19 May @ 7.30pm
Summer Fair – Sat 24 June @ 12noon – 4pm
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Summer Fair 2022
Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our Summer Fair this year. We’re thrilled to say that it was our biggest and most successful fundraising event to date. At the end of a very busy day we had raised a total of £7133 for the school – a huge step towards our target for the year of £20,000.
Special thanks to all the volunteers who helped us prepare for, set up and run the fair on the day – whether it was making posters, fixing bikes, sending emails or running a stall for hours on a hot and busy Saturday. Your support is what makes this kind of event possible.
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Save the Date: Summer Fair
We are so excited that our biggest fundraising event of the year is back on Saturday 25 June from 12noon – 4pm. The Fair is a really important fundraising event for the school and after a hiatus of two years, we are really hopeful that all the parents, kids & staff will support the Fair this year, and raise loads of money for the new library!
This year our theme is the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, so expect to see lots of bunting, balloons and cake! Some of the stalls at this year’s event include:
- Bouncy castle
- Penalty Shoot Out
- A bar with Prosecco, beers and more (over 18s, obviously)
- Dough n Go Pizza
- The Greek Way meze
- Ice cream
- Cake & Sweet Treat stalls
- Face painters
- Family fair games
- Arts & crafts activity stalls
- A photo booth with a 40s/50s theme
- SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE FROM DJ MOLEY MOLE!
We will be also be running our ever so popular cake competition, which is open to all ages, a Royal portrait competition that all the kids can get involved in and a raffle with some amazing prizes.
Want to get involved? There are so many ways you can help:
- Could you run an activity or games stall, or volunteer to help on the day?
- Could your employer donate a raffle prize?
- Are you a local business who could run a stall in our ‘Creative Coopers Marketplace’ – a pitch costs £25 for the day?
- Do you run a food business? Would you like to sell at the Fair?
- Are you part of a community group that could run a fun activity or perform on our stage?
- Are you an experienced Face Painter or know someone who is? We need more people to support our most popular stall!
- Could we put an advertising board outside your home? It costs you nothing but the school gets a donation for each (click here!)
Please contact us for details on any of the above.
And of course please do come along and enjoy yourself on the day!