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Community planetarium
‘We wanted to run an educational event for the benefi t of the children, so the PTA funded an infl atable planetarium for our students to promote the PTA and show what our money can do. We hired an infl atable planetarium from Space Odyssey for two days at acost of £600. The school used six of the ten sessions on offer, and we offered the remaining sessions to local nurseries, pre-schools, primary schools, childminders and home-educated students. We charged £60 per session to cover our costs. We also held a Festival of Light after school to give parents a chance to see inside the planetarium and show them what their children had experienced that day. We were able to fi t 60 people in at a time and in the end had to run two parent sessions! We accepted donations for this experience.’ Gill Haynes, PTA chair, South Molton United CofE Primary School, South Molton, Devon (170 pupils)
More than the money
PTAs share their accounts, via Facebook, of inspiring activities and schemes that weren’t just about making a profi t…
Thank the children
‘Our children have been so supportive of all our events during the years, so a little thank you was in order. Our parish was just starting a two-week mission where we explored God’s love, trusting in God and Jesus our friend. The children were asked to draw and colour in their interpretation of these themes. We had many entries and the teachers really got behind it with some whole classes taking part. There was no profi t made as it was free to enter. The prizes were two £15 book vouchers for an infant and junior winner and two £10 book
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vouchers for the infant and junior runners up. I will defi nitely run this event again as I think it’s important to thank the children for their support of the PTA events. The fi rst time we ran the event we had a local artist judge the entries and the second time we had our parish priest judge them. It took no planning at all except for advertising it and collecting the posters at the end of the week. This year we might introduce an eco theme.’ Kelley Phelan, PTA Chair, St Edmund Campion Catholic Primary School, Maidenhead, Berkshire (423 pupils)
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Moonlit hunt
‘Our moonlit hunt was an event that resulted in lots of fun and involved many members of the school community. We charged £2.50 per team, with a maximum of fi ve participants. The teams had to fi nd clues hidden around the school fi eld, solve riddles and crack anagrams to work out the codeword that would let them back into the school for a (free-of-charge) drink and biscuit! To boost profi ts we sold cake donations for 50p a slice, making £114 on the night. As a PTA, our primary role is raising money for the school, but our main aim for this event was to involve parents in school life.’ Sarah Dudley, PTA member, Bisley School, Woking, Surrey (263 pupils)
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