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Welcome to St. Dunstan’s end of term edition of the PTA Newsletter

This PTA Newsletter is to say a ‘huge thank you’ to all of you who have kindly given your time, expertise and enthusiasm for the PTA this year.

We have been overwhelmed by the amount of help and encouragement from our parents and teachers and would like to take this opportunity to let you know how grateful we are. Special thanks to Mrs. Birch, School office, event leaders, Class representatives and all parents and teachers for your support with our fundraising events.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the PTA, please post them on to our PTA website - http://stdunstanspta.btck.co.uk/ oralternatively write to us on [email protected].

Many thanks for your continued support!

Your PTA Committee Merlin, Veera, Yvonne & Anja

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2012 Summer Fair Drawing Competition (PTA Summer Fair Team)

Congratulations to the 2012 Summer Fair Drawing Competition Winners!

We are more than pleased with the passion and interest shown by our young and talented artists. It sure made the making of the decision a difficult one. After much consideration, we have made our choice and are pleased to announce the following winners:

Gabriella Barragato and Isabelle Marten (KS2)

The 2012 Summer Fair Drawing contest received 300 plus entries focusing on the theme “Sports 2012”. This was truly a collective effort and we would like to thank all our young participants for making this competition a great success.

Artist - Gabriella Barragato (KS2) Artist- Isabelle Marten (KS2)

SCHOOL JACKPOTYOU HAVE TO BE IN

IT, TO WIN IT!(Mike Chenery)

Congratulations to the following lucky winners of

the school Jackpot

AprilMr & Mrs Hutchins (£15)

Tim Coffey (£15)

MayNiall Dore (£15)

Sharon Luckey (£15)

JuneMr & Mrs Dewavrin (£100)

Mr & Mrs Joseph (£50)

If you are not already a member of the Jackpot but would like to be, or would like more numbers or know someone that would then please e-mail [email protected] who can e-mail you an application.

Membership only costs £1 a month for each number, however, you can have as many numbers as you like at £1 each.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the school summer fair.

We are very grateful to all our parents and teachers for your help in setting-up, tidying, manning the stalls, donations/prizes etc.

There were plenty of things to do, obstacle course, fire engine, bouncy castle, BBQ, face painting and plenty of other stalls too.

Without doubt we all had a lot of fun, even the rain could not dampen our spirits!

A massive ‘thank you’ from the PTA Summer Fair team

helpful and quick. The cost to the PTA decreases with the number of tea towels ordered but this only applied per design (a disadvantage of a larger number of designs). However, since we have ordered over 500 tea towels in total, Class Fundraising agreed to give us the price for an order of 400+ per design, thereby increasing our profit considerably.

We have already raised almost £800!

KS1 – Tea Towel

KS2 – Tea Towel

U P D A T E STea Towel Fathers Day Fundraiser (Claire and James Dane)

Following the last two success-ful Christmas cards fundrais-ers we have had a number of requests to do tea towels and we decided that this would be a good present for Father’s Day!

All the children drew beauti-ful self-portraits and we also managed to get some of the children to draw their teach-ers, including Mrs Birch! Due to the number of children, we were obliged to design two tea towels (one for each key stage) and each has a special border to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The design will also feature the school logo and be in the school colour (maroon). After a slow start, orders poured in and we were delight-ed to order almost 250 of each design. We used Class Fundrais-ing, who have been so great for our Christmas Card project, and they have been incredibly

‘Phil’ the Bag(Mick Derrick)

St Dunstan’s PTA are always look-ing for new ways/opportunities to raise important funds for the school. We have signed up to an innovative fundraising programme called ‘Phil’ the Bag’, which recycles your old and unwanted clothing and turns it into cash for the school.

‘Phil’ the Bag’ not only develops the children’s sense of enterprise but also teaches them about the importance of recycling and how we can protect the environment.This fundraising initiative also allows us to raise funds – the more clothing we collect – adult and children’s clothing, shoes, hand-bags, belts, hats, curtains, towels and bedding - the more money we will receive in exchange for these products.

The funds we raise can be used for vital resources and equipment within the school.

A large number of bags were col-lected and taken to be recycled on Monday 16th July - thank you for

all your support with this.

‘Phil’ the Bag will be running again in the autumn.

Tuck Table(Susan Taylor/Kerry Duffy)

Thank you to all the parents who supplied, set up and sold tuck.

Congratulations to: Year 1 who raised £185.72 Year 3 who raised £166.10 Year 6 who raised £110.75 Year 2 who raised £161.55Year 5 who raised £105.02

PTA Spring Ball (Cecilia Townley and Patricia Reddy)

This year’s PTA Spring Ball was a truly memorable evening.

Gangsters and Flappers dressed in their roaring 20s best and were transported back to the days of the Speakeasy, The Great Gatsby and Jive Jumping Jazz.

After cocktails, Broads and Bruisers settled back to enjoy a

Murder Mystery performance of ‘Cut’, a specially commissioned drama, written by and starring our very own Martin Gardner and the players of Hugh Dunnit Productions.

A delicious dinner was served between acts. The murderer was revealed over coffee, with prizes for the correctly named suspect and motive, and for the most ludicrous answer.

After the raffle prizes had been drawn, the Molls and Mobsters

hit the dance floor with music from DJ Matt Dale.

Thank you to everyone who helped transform the school hall into a Jiving Juice Joint, and transformed it back again in time for Monday morning assembly.

Thank you everyone who helped on the night and thank you everyone who bought tick-ets for the Ball, embraced the theme and supported us to raise over £3,211.16 for the PTA.

FUNDRAISING UPDATE(Yvonne Dore)

Discounted Theatre Tickets(Corinne Doherty)

This year’s Panto is Dick Whit-tington. Those that requested tickets can collect from Corinne in the playground or from the school office. They will need to be signed for on collection. If parents are interested in group

discounts for other performanc-es, please contact me via e-mail [email protected].

If you are able to get a group of 10+, group discounts can be arranged through the PTA.

Spring Ball

129 tickets were sold at £25 each, (less a part refund given) raised £3,210. Raffle and bar raised £1,943.95, silent auction raised £373.53 and £186.34 was received in dona-tions from Pampered Chef and Skipton.

Once costs have been taken off for items such as wine, caterers, equipment hire, decorations etc there is a huge profit of £3,211.16 up over £1,000 on last year!

Tea towel fundraiser

Fantastic sales of £1,647 with costs of £834.96 giving a profit of £812.04.

However there will be further profit generated by the sales of the additional tea towels ordered to sell at the fair, the costs of which are included in the above figures.

Tuck tables

There have been 2 tuck tables since the last meeting. Year 2 raised £161.55 and Year 5 raised £105.02, bringing the total raised to £1,709.57 with 2 sales left to go.

Summer fair

We have received the cheque from Seymours for their dona-tion to cover the printing costs of the programme of £250, plus 6 external stall holders fees at £25 each - £150.

Additional costs since the last meeting on top of the bar licence and BBQ and bouncy castle deposits, have been the purchase of the raffle tickets of £113.75.

Swimming contributions

Reminder went out which generated another £30 in receipts.

Results so far

Out of this years’ surplus we have so far agreed to pay the school the above mentioned amount of £12,424.33. This comprises £6,500 worth of mini notebooks, £3,406.48 towards swimming lessons, £1,424.85 to provide each class with a digital camera and £1,093 to cover the costs of the library software, living eggs and ParentMail licence.

Calling PTA volunteers!

Online Shopping via SchoolDeals and school gains

Please do think to use www.schooldeals.net to access your favourite online retailers.

Every time you make a web purchase through one of SchoolDeals’ partners you’ll be earning commission for St Dunstan’s. Whenever you make a purchase you will know the minimum amount the school will receive. Here are some examples of the commission St Dunstan’s will receive at no cost to you, the shopper

Marks and Spencer = 2.5%

Boden = 3%, Mini Boden = 2.5%

Disneyland Paris = 1.75%

Early Learning Centre = 4%

Many brands are continuing to offer some great discounts online – take a look.

AP In response to request from parents, we will be having a regular

For Sale board in the PTA newsletter and on our webpage, for the sale of quality items.

The advert will be free, but we ask that sellers donate 10% of the sold price to the PTA – a bit like ebay.

See the PTA noticeboards in the playground for the list of items for sale.

If you have an item for sale please e-mail: [email protected] with the details.

DBay... For Sale Board

The PTA would benefit from having more active parents, playing a role in the fundraising activities of the school community. The school is facing budget cuts in the coming years and that fundraising by the PTA really is going to make a significant difference to the resources available to our children.

We would like all parents to offer their help – just an hour a term can make such a difference, there is so much to do. Please come forward with your skills and time available – it could be an hour to shop for one of the events, 30 minutes running a stall, a few calls from home to local businesses to gain raffle prizes.

See contact details below.

If you would like to advertise here contact: [email protected] you to the newsletter designer: Sharon Luckey

Coffee Morning(Ciara Sloane)

Now the children are dropped off at school... fancy a well deserved coffee?

St. Dunstan’s parents are invited to coffee just across the road in the church hall. From after drop off until 10am.

Dates for diary 2012:

• Tuesday 17th July

Younger children are welcome but please bring a toy for them. A donation is appreciated to cover costs. Any money remaining after expenses will be donated to the St. Dunstan’s PTA.

For more information, please contact Ciara Sloane (Peter’s Mummy in St Bernadette’s Class).