Alexandra PSA 2018

Welcome to the Alexandra PSA!

Reminder of what the PSA does

Objective: to support the school by enhancing the school community for parents, carers and children and raising funds to support the school’s activities

Everyone with a child at Alexandra School is automatically a member of Alexandra PSA

The money raised by the PSA means that the school can offer our children a broader range of experiences, learning, opportunities and fun than the school would otherwise be able to fund

All of this is only made possible by the generosity and support of parents, carers, staff, wider friends and family, and of course, the children themselves!

We rely entirely on staff, parents and carers volunteering their time, skills, resources (anything you can add) to make it happen, plus everyone to come along to as many events as possible

Last year we raised £16k and spent it on lots of different things:

This year we plan to have lots of similar fun events and fund forest school, sketch better, teddy tennis and playground improvements amongst other things, plus whatever class teachers want to buy with cake sale proceeds. We work with Mrs Carr to make sure we’re spending it in the most positive way for the kids and school

Updates and info is posted onto the school Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/alexandraschool/

Who is who on the PSA

Chair: Lucy Pallett 

Co-Chair: Ana Fabrega 

Treasurer: Juliet Rayner 

Secretary: Jennifer Braithwaite 

School Partner: Mrs Higgins 

We also have a general email: alexpsa@hotmail.co.uk

Other key roles

• Social media: Cherry Forrest
• Cake sale coordinator: Esther Mallol
• Sponsorship: Belinda Riley
• Posters & Graphics: Rianda Sweeny and Niamh McMahon
• Book Fair: Niamh McMahon
• Cards/Calendar/teatowels: Ana Fabregas
• Local businesses list: Maria Sprostranova
• Uniform sales: Ana Fabrega
• Year 2 end of year book and disco: TBD
• Prizes/food donations for events: TBD
• Mufti days: TBD
• Other ad-hoc helpers are always appreciated

Class Reps

Class reps play a key role as a link between parents, teachers and the PSA.

 

Events 

We’ve got some great events lined up for this year, but they can only happen if people help organise them. Thanks so much to those of you already getting involved, but if you can spare some time or skills to help then we would love to hear from you – contact any of the core PSA or your class rep. We’ve got lots of info and people to help with specific parts of all of the events, so you won’t be alone!

Alexandra Parent & Staff Association

Dear Parents, Staff & Carers,

Welcome to the new school year, our first with a Year 3 & 4 in the school. We hope you all had a lovely summer and your children are enjoying their new classes. Many of you will know, that if you have a child in Alexandra School you are automatically a member of the Alexandra PSA and you are welcome to come along to any of our meetings, which take place in the school staffroom, hall or a local venue. Meeting dates will be publicised through class reps, ALEX Newsletter and Facebook (Alexandra Infants School PSA).

The PSA Objective is to support the school by enhancing the school community for parents, carers and children and raising funds to support the school’s activities.

In 2016 we raised £14,600, including a massive £3,500 at the fantastic Summer Fair. The money raised goes towards funding activities and materials to complement what the school offers. It meant that last year our children were able to have fantastic opportunities in forest school and Artis, a performing arts programme. Each year a proportion also goes towards classroom resources and books, including all money raised from cake sales which goes directly to the class running the sale.

It’s not all about the money, it’s also about having fun and creating a sense of school community, so most of our activities are planned with this in mind. Last year the children have loved doing their sponsored bounce, movie nights and disco, whilst the parents and teachers had fun competing at our annual quiz night.

We’d like to say a massive thanks to Emma, Eileen, Juliet, Hema and Mrs Higgins and the rest of the PSA, many of whom will remain involved this year. It was a fantastic year!

The success of our PSA is dependent on parents, carers and staff getting involved, and we’re fortunate to have a great set of parents and staff. It’s a great way to be part of the school and meet other people and we would love as many people as possible to get involved. There are lots of different ways you can get involved and you can offer as much or as little time as you have, for example for planning or running events, helping drum up support or sponsorship and also as a PSA class representative for your child’s class. Most of it can be via email, so you don’t need to be there at drop off/pick up every day.

We’re putting together a list of all of the events for this year and key things we need people to help with, so watch out for that via your class reps and ALEX Newsletter. In the meantime, please email us if you’d like to get involved, or have suggestions for events or fundraising.

We look forward to seeing you at events in the near future.

Lucy Pallett

PSA 

alexpsa@hotmail.co.uk