AGENDA


Stay safe


These tips, endorsed by Get Safe Online (getsafeonline.org), the UK’s leading source of easy-to-understand information on online safety, will help protect the PTA and its supporters.


What to do if your Facebook page or group


has been targeted ● Delete posts as soon as you see them and block


the scammers. ● Report them and watch


out for any further posts. ● Put up a post letting everybody know that you have been targeted by


suspected scammers. ● Tell everyone not to reply to posts from people they can’t confi rm are school parents, and to only pay the school or PTA for tickets.


Set your page up to avoid


the scammers ● Set up banned words and phrases such as ‘PM me’, ‘for sale’, ‘4x tickets’ and ‘transfer’. This way the comments remain hidden


until approved by an admin. ● Set any posts about tickets to require approval


for comments. ● Make your Facebook group private and have a rule that only parents of current students can be


part of it. ● Change the settings so only those who have ‘liked’ your page for more than 24 hours can comment.


If you’ve lost money… ● Report it to your bank


immediately. ● Report it to Action Fraud,


the UK’s national fraud reporting centre, by visiting actionfraud.police.uk or calling 0300 123 20 40.


WISE WORDS ‘An hour of planning can save


you ten hours of doing.’ Dale Carnegie,


writer of the 1936 book How to Win Friends and Infl uence People, which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide.


Easy event planning


Organising your next big event, but not sure where to start? Our popular


step-by-step event guides – compiled using our knowledge alongside the experience and advice of PTAs – help walk you through every step of the planning process. Whether you’re saying goodbye to school leavers with a disco, fundraising with a family quiz or bringing the community together with a colour run, we have more than 30 detailed event guides to choose from. Discover the full range at pta.co.uk/events/step-by-step


Brighten up children’s lives


Not all kids are lucky enough to have a pencil case stuffed with multi-coloured pens and pencils – children living in economic hardship often lack even basic creative tools to help facilitate everyday play and self-expression. Community initiative Heart Felt Tips wants to change that. By collecting donations of unwanted stationery and art supplies, it arranges for children to receive pencil cases full of crayons, pens, felt-tips, pencils and other art supplies. Heart Felt Tips supplies your PTA or school with pencil cases, and children are encouraged to fi ll them with surplus, good-quality stationery. The PTA will then be put in touch with a local charity for distribution or may choose one itself. As well as teaching the importance of


recycling and donating, working with Heart Felt Tips encourages empathy, enabling participating pupils to


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understand that people in their local community may need extra support. Companies and individuals can also


get involved. Heart Felt Tips is looking for help providing more pencil cases, stationery and activity books. Find out more at heartfelttips.co.uk/ get-involved/schools


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