Minutes of HSA meeting on Monday 23rd June 2008.
Present: Maria, Mandy, Sally W, Rachel C, Sara, Gayle, Esther, Hazel, Jo, Harriet, Cath D.
Apols: Alison, Sarah, Nicki
Sports day fiesta: We raised £1535 before expenses. Banked £800. This was felt to be a very successful first event and we have received lots of positive feedback. At the meeting it was raised that by having the fiesta after sports day, some parents and people in the community missed out on coming and that Monday might not have been the best day for it. However, the newsletter has gone out and so we will be able to comment further when children/parents have given feedback via the footballs in the newsletter.
Website: We agreed to continue with the HSA website, this costs about £30 a year.
Interim Treasurers Report:
Barclays current account: £1599.59 (incl. Unprocessed items)
Barclays savings account: £834.93
Lloyds current account: £1552.52
Total: £3987.04
Proceeds from Barclays account are to be paid directly into the savings account and an additional £500 transferred from the Lloyds account. Leaving just under £1000 in the current account.
Mr & Mrs Marsh have been asked to amend their standing order details to pay into the Lloyds account.
Thanks to Alison for her interim treasurers report. Provided in her absence.
Below is the calendar of events that we agreed:
September 08:
Book and toy sale. This takes place in the hall after school.
28th November 08:
Christmas Bazaare in the evening
January 09:
Quiz with quiz master. Bring own wine and order in fish and chips.
March 09:
Family games. Possible saturday event ? 2-4pm. Games to include rounders, waterslide, chess, water pistols.
May 09:
May day disco. Timing must not interfere with SATS. Disco for kids only.
July 09:
The last day of school in July 09. End of year circus with jugglers and entertainers. To be funded by mufti money and to include picnic. (Rachel Chartres to look into having more mufti days and a regular intervals, eg last day of term).
A Saturday event ?
We agreed to see how to Christmas Bazaare goes first, by way of volunteers. The problem with running events on Saturdays, that can often be a good few hours long, is getting the volunteers to set up, run stalls and pack away afterwards.
Other ideas:
The bring and share picnic should be at the end of term on a Friday.
Sports day would be better relocated to Thursday with Friday in reserve.
Possibility of changing cook for books back to during the school day. Only selling any leftovers or cakes brought in after school to be sold at 3.15pm.
Sponsored bike ride ? ride bike round school grounds with sweepstakes to see who does and how long it takes.
Harriet suggested that we do something for the teachers. Say the parents provide a meal or they have a trip to the Fishes. Harrriet agreed to take this forward.