This week marks the end of the school year and the end of our second year running the PTA. Woo hoo!
It’s been a pleasure to arrange the fun activities and events for everyone. We hope you’ve all enjoyed them. Thank you for all your support again this year.
We’re very happy to say together this year we’ve raised £3,484.04 for school. Thank you so much for helping to make this happen.
Our aim is to raise money to fund resources and experiences that enrich the children’s education and we work closely with school to make sure we raise money for items required by school and specifically asked for by the children.
Our biggest achievement this year is the launch of St James’ Woods, our very own Forest School on school grounds. From speaking to parents and staff, we know how much the children are enjoying it and we’re delighted to be able to tell you we’ve raised enough money this year to support school to be able to run Forest School sessions all year round. So your child can expect to do a six-week block of 90-minute sessions each term. Altogether, that’s 27 hours of Forest School during one academic year. We’re so happy and proud that we can help to provide this invaluable way of learning to all at St James’.
We’ll move into next year with some new fundraising priorities – watch this space!
You can read our full annual report on the PTA page of the school website – this has recently been updated.
As always, we welcome any feedback, ideas or suggestions from you. We’ll be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) in September, when we’ll discuss the year ahead and welcome any new members and volunteers. Everybody is welcome to attend, so even if you just fancy having a nosey to see what we’re all about, please come along. The more the merrier. More information to follow.
Finally, we hope you have a wonderful summer. And best of luck to all the Leavers – we hope high school is everything you want it to be.
We’ll see most of you again for more fun in September.
Many thanks