Whitchurch Schools PTA Newsletter April 2014 Whitchurch Schools PTA is the charity for your child's school. All teachers and parents are automatically members and we are delighted with the continuous support we get from all of you! Every donation you make at a PTA mufti-‐day or cake you buy or bag of clothes you recycle allows us to make a large donation to each school at the beginning of each year. Your support directly improves the learning environment for all of our children and we, the PTA organising committee is very proud to volunteer time to this most valuable cause. It's great to work with such good friends and below you will read more about what all of us have achieved! By the way, you can also see this and past copies of the PTA Newsletters in full colour on the schools' websites here: WFS: http://www.whitchurchfirstschool.co.uk/whitchurchpta.html WJS: http://www.whitchurchjunior.harrow.sch.uk/parents-‐area/parent-‐teacher-‐association Bake-‐a-‐Heart Cake Sale – a record total raised! We had an amazing cake sale on Wednesday 12 February 2014! During those hectic 40 minutes we raised an amazing £597.14! Thanks to all the children, parents and staff who made and donated cakes and the volunteers who helped out on the day. In addition to all the individual donations made, the PTA organising committee approached specific individuals and companies who all made large contributions. We would like to acknowledge the following: Bhina Tikam, Sagira Jetha, Tesco Express (various stores), Asda (Colindale), Morrisons (Harrow), Wenzels (Streatfield Rd), Happy Shopper (Kenton Lane) and Starbucks (Station Road). Whitchurch First School Wemborough Road Stanmore HA7 2EQ Tel: 020 8905 6999 Whitchurch Junior School Wemborough Road Stanmore HA7 2EQ Tel: 020 8951 5380 Email: [email protected] Registered Charity No: 1047710 Whitchurch Schools PTA Summer Fair -‐ Saturday 21 June 2014: 12pm to 3:30pm The date has been set so keep your diaries free! It will be a fun-‐filled day for all the family and don’t forget to bring your friends and neighbours. There’ll be stalls, games, prizes, arts & crafts and lots of food and refreshments to keep you going! We need volunteers for the day so PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get in touch with us via email ([email protected]) or grab one of us when you see us. If you can spare a few hours, this would be greatly appreciated! If you have some ideas or want to promote your business with your own stall we would love to hear from you. There is limited space for the number of private stalls that we can host, so please contact us as soon as possible. Just email [email protected] 1 Whitchurch Schools PTA Newsletter April 2014 Mufti Days – Friday 6 June 2014 and Friday 20 June 2014 In preparation for the Summer Fair we are planning two Mufti Days for the First School/Nursery and Junior School, where the children can come to school in non-‐uniform. Children wishing to participate in the first Mufti Day (6 June) should donate £1 or toys/games. On the second Mufti Day (20 June), the children should donate £1 or non-‐alcoholic drinks. All proceeds and donations will contribute towards an amazing Summer Fair! Easter Egg Raffle Winners! A big thank you to everyone who brought raffle tickets for the Easter Egg Raffle and congratulations to the winners. The total amount raised was an astonishing £600.12! We would also like to thank our sponsors who contributed towards the raffle prizes: KBMD Limited Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors and Pilli Pilli Indian Vegetarian Takeaway and Caterers. Their support ensured the raffle was a huge success and there was enough chocolate for all the children! A special mention must also go to our Easter Bunny, Dani Iqbal, who handed out the prizes to the winners. The First School winners were: Umar (AM Nursery), Ayoub (PM Nursery), Sur (RTW), Ryan (RKL), Derek (RPM), Aditya (1RA), Ediwana (1NV), Mohammad (1IS), Somiga (2KC), Ana-‐Maria (2NW), Khian (2RW) and Mrs Boyadjian and Mrs Dhrona (Staff). The Junior School winners were: Amara (3AK), Farhad (3CB), Radu (3KC), Martin (4AL), Kizzy (4FK), Marwa (4GM), Ria (5HL), Kareena (5KP), Yathusia (5EM), Tamera (6CT), Shivani (6PK) and Adam (6LM). Second Bag2School Collection – A Huge Thank You! The second collection of this academic year on 26 February 2014 was a great success – 880 kg of donated clothes, soft toys, shoes and other textiles helped to raise £440! We’ll organise another collection after the summer half-‐term break on Thursday 5 June, so hold on to those unwanted clothes, paired shoes, belts, handbags, ties, hats, jewellery and soft toys! Donate directly to the Whitchurch Schools PTA charity using MyDonate! MyDonate is one of the only fundraising services that doesn’t charge. In other words, all the money goes to charity! This is a strictly not-‐for-‐profit service and 100% of the donation goes to charity. So if you’re feeling generous, please visit: https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/whitchurchschoolspta to help us raise more money for this fantastic cause! Every little helps. 2 Whitchurch Schools PTA Newsletter April 2014 Easyfundraising.org.uk -‐ Money for Nothing! Please sign up! 25 people have and we’ve already raised over £400! It’s very easy – just shop online and raise money for free! Now imagine if 100s of us signed up and raised £1000s! Here's what you need to do: 1. Find 2 minutes to register at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/whitchurchpta then 2. If you have a PC or laptop, install Find and Remind, sit back and shop! 3. If you have an iPad or other tablet computer, log in at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/whitchurchpta first, search for your shop, sit back and shop! You can hide your details after you've registered and become anonymous if you want, that's fine. If you have any questions, just ask us at [email protected] Promote your business If you work in or own a local business and would like to support the PTA, please email [email protected] and one of our committee members will be in touch. The PTA reaches out to hundreds of local families through newsletters and events. The PTA is grateful to all the local businesses that have sponsored and supported us, especially our main sponsor – Oyster Properties. Meet Your PTA Committee Members Dean Norton (Chair) Sonia Dhrona Prashant Sanghani (Vice-‐Chair) Nihal Shah (Treasurer) Sarah-‐Jane Donovan Gaurang Purohit Bhavesh Patel Param Thayaparan Ashvin Prema Fricky Giado Thilini Norton (Secretary) Hema Karsan (First School Representative) Shafana Muraj 3