Tesco Uniform Service …..you can now order

Welcome to you all and to our second newsletter ; one we hope will offer you
lots of updates about our school and what the PTA have been up to.
There certainly has been plenty going on at the school this year and everyone
has been extremely busy. We started with the Santes Dwynwen Disco,
St David Day celebrations, Easter events, a balloon race, Summer Fayre and
much more. All of which were generously supported by parents and thoroughly
enjoyed by the children.
We hope to bring you new and interesting articles and updates within the newsletter so any feedback/suggestions you may have would be gratefully
appreciated. We hope to bring you updates/information from other areas of
the school such as Aunti Helens, Clwb Llawen ...we may even get the teachers to
Inside this issue
write a bit about themselves.
Welcome .............................. 1
As well as helping raise much needed funds for the school the PTA want to help
What have we bought/gallery 2
bring more information to Parents and keep you up to date. We are very much
New Parents/Fair/Sports day . 3
in need of volunteers and would love to hear from anyone who would be able to
Finances ............................... 4
Social Media ………………………5
Thank you ………………………….6
Important Dates
29/09
Next PTA Meeting
Tesco Uniform Service …..you can now order embroidered
October
uniform items and have them delivered free to your home.
December Christmas Fayre
Tesco are offering a 5% cash back to the school so as well
as you getting your uniform you are also helping the school.
School Disco
November Hall of Stalls
Events of the year
so far and money
raised
iPads….we have been able to help buy new I Pads for the school
Santes Dwynwen Disco
- £178
12 new cameras for all units
Easter Events raised
just over £350 . We
combined an Easter disco with an Easter bonnet
completion an a colouring competition. Our
bonnets made the local
paper and all the children did a fantastic job.
We need to say a big
thank you to
Mr Eldon Jones, (School
Governor ) for helping us
judge the colouring
competition. Prizes
were donated by the
PTA for all units which
were handed out during
the schools weekly service.
Our Photo Gallery …..
Balloon Race—this was
a well received event by
the children and one
that was great fun. This
event wasn't as much
abut raising money but
more of a fun experience
to coincide with St David's Day celebrations .
A balloon was found and
a card returned to school
from Preston. The PTA
sent a gift card to the
balloon finder and a
prize was given to the
balloon sponsor . The
Dance leggings - we recently bought new dance leggings for the Urdd Competitions
New books and wooden toys for the Under 5 unit & Under 9 Unit
PA system with iPod dock and microphone
On July 1st the PTA took part in the New Parents Evening for
Parents with children joining the school in September. This
year we are expecting 60 !! Along with Aunti Helens staff,
Under 5 Unit staff , school nurse and family link representative
we gave a presentation on what the PTA is all about for our
school, what our aims are, breakdown of monies raised. We
showed photos of our events and explained what changes we
had put in place over the past 12 months.
At the end of the evening as the parents were handed their
school packs we handed out our very first PTA Goody bags !
Each bag had a hand glued on the front and a number.
A winning number received a prize. In the bags were details
of the next PTA meeting, PTA Questionnaire, Tesco uniform
leaflet, Sponsor form from a parent doing the Crumball Rally
(Mr Mark Brownhill) , diary dates 2014/2015 of our events and
meetings and a welcome gift of wrapped gingerbread men
with a Croeso/Welcome label. As this was the first time we
had done this we would love to hear how this was received ?
Please let us know if this is something you would like ?
Thank you to Sian Canty, Lisa Brownhill and Amy Williams for
helping out
We may not want to be thinking of it yet but already we are registered
for this years Christmas project. The Christmas cards and mugs were a
huge hit last year that we have been able to get registered early
enough and plan ahead for this years cards and much more. Keep an
eye on details coming home to you in September.
It was our beach themed summer fair on Friday 6th June.
We supported the event on both days by
providing a refreshment stall. Did you
come and see us ? What did you think ?
How can we improve it ? Over the two
days we raised with your help £153—
There were stalls, bouncy castle, BBQ, fun and games, entertainment, face painting,
pony rides, popcorn, puppet show and much more……It was a great night and was
diolch yn fawr !
very well supported and attended. We are continuously looking to improve our events
so would love to hear what you would like to see for next year ? We thought some live
music would lovely ? Also did you try our veggie burgers this year ?
We raised just over £800 at the event , which is fantastic !!!! Thank you
What have we donated to the school 2013/2014 ??
We started last year with ………..£3394
During 2013/2014 we raised ….£3872.23
£4315.38
Mrs Jo Cottier manages our money and does a
great job in keeping us in check. She makes sure
she has receipts and logs for all outgoing and ingoing monies , manages our floats for events and
works with the bank to ensure we are up to date
with the latest technologies .
What
the PTA
do better
contact
and
“To
catchcould
the reader's
attention,
place an?.......please
interesting sentence
or quoteus
from
the
story
here.”
share
your ideas and help us beat our 2013/2014 totals !!
Our PTA polo shirts !!
We decided this year that having
PTA specific polo shirts would be a
good idea and help parents
identify us at events and shows
etc. These have all been
personally funded and not come
out of PTA money raised.
Here is a photo of us wearing
them at the sports day
Left to right….Sian Canty, Jo Cottier, Nikki Barlow
Social
Media
After our New
Parents
presentation
we went from
112 likes to
123 !!!
Amazing and
thank you !
Don’t forget our email address if you need to contact
us [email protected]
What's next …..
Summer holidays and then it’s back to it in
September with our meeting on 29th September
5.30pm at the school. Hoping it will be in the new
extension meeting room so come along and join
us :-) We have an agenda full of fun activities and
ideas for parents and children for 2014/2015. If you
can’t make the meetings but want to stay in touch
with what we are doing then just drop us an email
and we can add you to our mailing list.
Mrs Sian Canty does a great job of keeping all our
communication in check !!
We are going from
strength to
strength and our
‘likes are growing’
Facebook has
become a great
way to communicate our events/
news from the
PTA and we would
like to encourage
all parents to ‘like’
our page. It’s also
a way of
contacting us as
well as our email
address.
Search for PTA
Ysgol Y Llys and
you will find us .
Do you use
Twitter ?? Would
you like to see us
on there ?
ptsysgolyllys
@gmail.com
Facebook—
PTA Ysgol Y
Llys
A big thank you goes out to all the many
volunteers and PTA members for a
fantastic 12 months . These events and
fundraising ideas don't run themselves and
a lot of hard work goes into them. Also a
big thank you to school staff and Clwb
Llawen for allowing us to use their
facilities.
Enjoy your summer holidays and we shall
see you in September for lots more fun
fundraising !!!!!
From all Ysgol Y Llys PTA