Minutes 9th November 2009
Bollin PTA Meeting
Monday 9th November 2009, 19:30 – 21:00, At The Bollin School
Present
Marilyn Downs, Lynn Manifould, Adam Gifford, Vicky Potts, Dave Hevicon, Holly Clemment, Imelda Arthern, Francine Ryan, Iris Trender-Gerhard, Julie Saunders, Kwai Yu, Helen Callery
Apologies
Donna Tattersall
40th Anniversary Autumn Festival Thank You
Vicky expressed her thanks to everyone for helping with the events throughout the week.
Christmas Events
The Christmas disco will be held on 17th December. (Post-meeting note: now 10th December).
Santa’s Grotto will be incorporated with the disco.
A Swish Party will be held on Thursday 26th November at 8pm.
It is basically a quality clothes exchange party.
You will be given tokens/vouchers for items of clothes you bring.
The tokens will entitle you to ‘buy/exchange’ other clothing items
Individual stalls will take part to add an alternative attraction to the evening.
There will be a general admission price, to incorporate glass of mulled wine and mince pie on arrival.
BYOB.
Bollin Cookery Book
In order to generate recipes and interests, the children will be assigned a piece of homework entitled: Your family’s favourite recipe.
Further follow-up will continue through PTA communications and all parents are encouraged to submit recipes asap.
Treasurer’s Report
Car Boot Sale made a profit of £280.
End of term disco made £425
Autumn fair made £1,144
The marquee cost £2800
Promotional items (reuseable) cost £1146
Mugs costs £800
Catering costs £200
PTA will contribute £4,000 towards Autumn Festival school costs.
Communication and website
eNewsletter: the process for production and sending out is completed and these are now being distributed.
Further email addresses to be gathered via school communication and class Reps.
PTA website: the website is still under-deployed because the process for updating the content is time consuming and high maintenance. Alternative strategy being considered to provide a website that is cost and time effective to maintain, and which does not depend on one individual’s availability. Julie Saunders and Carole Bond to present final proposal at next PTA meeting where a decision will be made on the future of the PTA website.
AOB
Self Assessment for teachers: the school has made a request for the PTA to purchase Flip media cameras to be used in classrooms as a vital self assessment tool. The purchase will work to continually improve the quality of teaching at our school. It is also believed that the cameras can also be used for Year 6 media workshops later in the year, thereby reducing costs incurred for these. Mrs Downs will send out a note to all parents explaining the purpose of the cameras and how they will be used including the necessary safe-guarding procedures. The funding for this will be a one off cost of and is £671.92 and has been provisionally approved.
Date and time of next meeting
Next PTA meeting – Monday 7th December, 7:30pm at the school
