a￿1￿$ Report 2018
It gives me great pleaswe to present ry fiTr]i a￿1￿$ Reportl
At the AGM last September we welcomd three new members onto Committee. I th(Y& them,
alry with Our existiry membtrs for oll their Iwd work or9misiry evrnts.
As uswjl. our first contribution was at the ¢YwJl Service in October w¢ served tea,
coffee. seones. teo It)aves. Shortbread ￿￿1 f knpjdcksl This ¥Ms well received by oll who attendedl
In November. Claire and l attended the PTA conferen￿ in the fitanic Centre in Belfastr. Thi$ a
very informative duy. It wos good to hew other vfAs work •]nd we enjoyed talkq ￿ a wide r¢wJe
of topiu.
We were thrilled when one of our parents. Jill Morton. from Tiifs Cakes Nf agreed to do a cake
demonstration and workshop eveniry in December. We had a gmt evtniry of and who ltrwi that
some of our parents were s• creative. We hod some great raffle prtzes doTr]ted by k)cal buSbnts￿.
As Us￿1 we served teA. coffee and biscuits on a busy Open Night the tea. coffee. scones.
shortbreod and rnince pies were well received by the Senior Gitizem at the thristnw performtmces.
We were delighted by the respo￿ to pq) up shop 'Elfridge¥ whith opened its doors for two doys
only. in December. We thank our parents for their generous dorbJtions of gifts and the
pupils Just l¢)ved $hq)p1￿ for beautiful 9ifts for their Vents.
The f inal event of the OutUn￿ tern (and the highlight for the p(Fils) the thristft￿ party ni9ht.
The pupils had a great night of and ￿. hotdogs ¢md b￿)$ ￿ we were deli9hted that as Santa
was ￿able to attend that eveniThJ. he sent alry two of his best ¢wrentices. We thank them for their
willirvjness to help outl
Early 2018 we were 9Mted thority stslus ty HAIRC which me(ms we are now able to Collect gift aid t)n
our donations.
In Alarth. the PTA r<n th¢ annffjl Book Fair ffld once tyjin. we se4yed nwrniNJ ￿ffee at th¢ Sprirg
c¢￿cert before Easter.
Our mttin fvndraiser last yeAr was ¢xr SP￿￿ored Walk whith took at th¢ end of ￿. This wos
very generously supported WKI we raised an an¥JziTrJ £3627.
In 5￿e we provided tea/coffee & bi$UJlts at a very sw Spart¥ tsay ¢md teolcoffee OKI trayE*Jke
were served at the Pl wentg infonnation eveniThJ.
And our fir•)l event of the year and probably the hi9hlight was Nightl We us￿l1Y sP￿d th¢ week
before f(m night lookiThJ at ew weather app wishiThJ the rain away- this ye¢r we wer¢ checkiThJ just
h¢)w hot it goilyj to bd It a f(rrtastic ¢v¢niThJ. very w¢ll supported by •)ur par¢nts, new parents,
pasl pupils & friends.
Finally. a few thonk yous.-
To the slaft (teathers a classroom assistants) who falthfully attend ¢md support every went, thank
you. Without them we wouldn't be able to some of aur events.
Thank you to the parents of moneym￿ PS - ￿ rnernbe￿. to those ¥Aw helped in dwirg the
post year (md supported ow evejrts.
Once again 201712018 was a very successful ye¢ir MKI I hope 201812019 will be just as successful. if
not more $0. I would like to take this oPport￿lty to thank everyone (on and off committee) who has
supported me in my role as cknir.
Elaine Cam¢ron
Chairpers¢