ROBIN HOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL PTA
Newsletter July 2015
Here we are at the end of
another fabulous year at Robin Hood Primary – don’t know about you, but it only seems two minutes ago to me that we were starting
the academic year in September.
The Festival of Learning
Day was a truly special day for Robin Hood – it was great to see so many parents
there looking round the fabulous new building.
Personal thanks to everyone who helped the PTA part of the day – RHRA
(Robin Hood Residents Association) - for
serving in the Cafe, Deana Surtees and Lisa Rickers who had challenges to
overcome in getting the popcorn & candy floss machines working, Yasmin for
wonderful face painting, Rebecca for expertly running the Crazy Sand!! And of
course, the committee for the hours of work “behind the scenes creating things
that aren’t actively seen, but couldn’t be done without them!!
Now that we have our
wonderful new classrooms and roof play deck (which the PTA have provided £2,000
towards the equipment/games). We are also
hoping to provide funds to help revamp the playground. This will cost in excess
of £40,000!! Rob Jones, our Treasurer,
is applying for grants, but as we are also planning on making changes to the
school field and creating a wildlife garden from the scrubland to the back of
the field – we can’t rest on our laurels!
If anyone knows of grants/funding sources to help
facilitate this – please get in touch (ways to contact below)
We have been rather frugal
with our spending this year, knowing that the playground revamp was needed, but
we have still provided Santa and Selection Boxes, Easter eggs, new starters
book bags and contribution for the Year 6 leavers prom along with a substantial
donation towards “decking” out the play deck!
We always need additional
support and have had to curtail some of the activities that we’d have liked to have
staged due to a lack of help. If you are
willing to help at events, please let us know so that we have a list of people
to call on. We appreciate that not everyone can – or wants to – be part of the
committee, but if we know you’re happy to help out, that will enable us to plan
events for the future. As Louis is
starting Year 6 in September, I’ll only be Chair another year and would like to
make sure there is a strong, robust and well supported PTA in place by then.
If anyone has any
fundraising suggestions, ideas how to improve parent
participation/communication or any other comments regarding the PTA – please
get in touch! It is YOUR PTA, your views
are important on how we raise funds to how they are spent!
Contact us:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/robinhoodpta
Twitter: @robinhoodpta
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