School Association

Welcome to our School Association

Spring & Summer Term 2019 Diary Dates

for activities being organised by our School Association

Date	Event
Tuesday 9th April 2019 (pm)	Easter Egg Hunt for Y3 & Y4
Friday 12th April 2019 (pm)	Easter Egg Hunt for YR, Y1 & Y2
Friday 10th May 2019	Deadline for Leavers Hoodie and Teddy order
Friday 24th May 2019	Sponsored Obstacle Course
Monday 10th June 2019	Bags4School collection
Friday 21st June 2019	Refreshments for Sports Day
Wednesday 3rd July 2019 1.45pm- 2.45pm	Summer Disco YR & Y1
Wednesday 3rd July 2019 3.30pm - 4.30pm	Summer Disco Y2, Y3 & Y4
Friday 12th July 2019 3.15pm - 5.15pm	Summer Fete *

Thursday 4th July Non School Uniform Day in exchange for Tombola items.

Cake on a plate and sweet cones to be handed into school

on the morning of Friday 12th July.

Look out for more details about the fete nearer the time.

* Please note requests for

Cake on a Plate and Raffle Tickets, will all be sent out prior to the Fete

and to be brought into school on Friday 12th July along with Sweet Cones .

Also help on the day is always gratefully received.

Thank you in advance for supporting us with all of the events.

Next School Association meeting:

TBC

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All parents are invited to come along and help our School.

Amazon Smile As a registered charity, Stoke Prior First School Association have recently signed up to this initative. For every eligible purchase you make through Amazon, they will donate 0.5% to the school association to benefit all of our children. Please click on the link to find out more.

Thank you to everyone

who has supported our events so far this year

Thanks to those who volunteered to organise and run stalls at previous

Christmas and Summer Fetes.

A massive thanks also to parents, friends, family and the children

for supporting these events.

Below are the events which were hugely successful

and we hope that we will have your contiued support

over the next Accademic School Year

Summer Fete 2019 £?

Lets see if we can beat last years total !

Summer 2019 Disco £?

Sports Day refreshments 2019 £153

Sponsored Obstacle Course 2019 raised over £951

Bags to school 2019 £86

Silver Smarties 2019 £461

Easter Treasure Hunt 2019 £253

The Christmas 2018 Fete £1195

Christmas Project 2018 £220

Winter Disco 2018 £341

Fun Day 2018 £438

( previously "Break The Rules Day")

Remember, all the funds raised, go back into our childrens' school

to help buy equipment, resources and fund special projects

to enrich the children's learning throughout the year!

What is the School Association?

The School Association (also referred to as the PTA) is a registered charity (Reg. 1110048) set up and run by parents of children who attend Stoke Prior First School. All work and events are conducted in their spare time on a voluntary basis.

The Association organise and run fundraising events throughout the school year. The sole aim is to support the school in improving the facilities and resources for the benefit of the school, with our children at the heart of it all. This is done with Mr.Satchwell and the teachers who lead as to where the extra funding would be of most benefit.

What is the money used for?

The PTA has given the school funds to help provide resources and equipment the school would otherwise have to finance from existing budgets, or do without.

Some of our recent contributions have been:

£4000 for the Wilderness area / Forest School Cabin.
£1500 to help improve the Class R outdoor area.
£550 for reading books.
£100 given to the School Council for an “improvement project” decided by the children.
£975 for new books for the school library.
£6000 towards IT investment including purchase of Ipads and other IT facilities.

How can you help?

There are many ways you can help us, from attending our meetings, helping us run stalls and events, to doing your online shopping!

Dates of our meetings are sent out through the schools text alert system and through the regular PTA newsletters

We are always keen to have other parents join us as we all want our children to have the best support through their school years with as many opportunities as possible.

If you can't spare the time to join us regularly, but want to volunteer some time please ask at reception and someone from the Association will contact you.

You can also support the school by doing your online shopping through the Easyfundraising website (see link below) or the App available in the Google Playstore and Apple AppStore.

Simply browse and shop on lots of retail sites including Amazon, Argos and many more. When you buy your items, the retailer contributes to our charity... It really is money nothing to provide our children with extra equipment and experiences!!