Wimbledon Park Primary School

Minutes – PTFA meeting, Friday, January 22nd 2010

Attendance: Apologies:
Mr Bradley Maureen Michaud Melanie Warboys Caroline
Ali Palmer Paola Cray C Williams Muldoon
Joanna Newton Clare Scrimgeour Zoe Richings Annika Flasck
Matt Stupples Louise Simpson Gaynor Yeomans Emma Stocker
Esther Lacey Julia Yates Ken Richman Deb Yiaousoumi
Nicola Fitzgerald Vicky Andrews Jane Sidaway Alison Lambert
Jenny Berthold Emma Catling Helen Clark-Bell Fiona Downes
Isabelle Duncan Balmain Lisa Sturley
Couchman Kylie Balmain
Anne Davies Farrukh Ahmed
Karen James Jake Vaughan
Clare Nash Caroline
Cindi Crawford- Buchanan
Brunt
Agenda Item: Points Discussed: Action to be taken: Responsibility:

XMAS FAIR Raised £3,500 give or take £100. Breakdown to follow Isabelle

WPPS BLOG/ Blog – should it be closed? Not used as much as Viability Meeting to be held Ali Palmer/Ken
WEBSITE liked. Could we start a group on facebook/twitter to with school/ptfa/governors. Richman
act as a forum instead? Pont being that people are Anyone interested in getting
on facebook/twitter already? involved please email Jo
OR Newton or Ali palmer.
Add a PTFA page to the school website
WEBSITE – Ken has been working on a
redesign/update on the school website after
discussions with Ms Russell. General consensus is
the website is dated and difficult to update and it
 would be great to get it more user friendly with
more recent photographs to represent the school
as it is today.
Discussion centred on why make changes when
we will have a new head within 6 months who may
want to change it? Time/resources and money
required are not easily available. It is also a
decision on a business level as would impact the
look of prospectus etc. Argument for in that Ken
already done 90% of work required and the fact
that if the head wants to change it will be easier as
in a more user friendly format
VALENTINE DISCO Thursday 11th February 2010 Anyone can help with:
Great event raises money for school and kids love • Setting up
it! • Decorating Hall – (let
We have all the decorations – Esther able to Esther know)
decorate on Wednesday 10th February. • Manning Tuck shop
Tuck Shop – selling sweets/drinks & Glow Sticks • Taking
tickets/Manning door
Please contact Ali Palmer
or Jo Newton Ali/Jo
Posters & Tickets to be
produced
Sweetie run ??????
HAITI APPEAL Teachers are organising a sponsored spell for all Check when with Mr Ali/Jo
years Bradley & set a date
PTFA to organise a coffee morning to coincide Check with Mr Bradley he
Kids can wear a “Hat for Haiti” for a 50p donation? all ok with this?
Have a tuck shop at end of school day?
LEG IT Great event raises £3-4,000. 50% goes to school
50% to charity.
Definitely doing it for 2010
Need to agree on charity – Haiti? Any other Send suggestions All
suggestions please contact Jo/Ali
Need to set date – suggestions were last Sunday in Contact Richmond Nicola Fitzgerald
March before Easter hols. Park/Speak to school

Committee to be set up- Nicola Fitzgerald/Cindi Set a 1st meeting date Nicola Fitzgerald
Crawford-Brunt/Paola Cray Maureen Michaud,
Jenny Berthold & Gaynor Yeomans happy to
organise

VACANCIES Jo & Ali are standing down as joint chair! If anyone interested taking All
over as joint chair or chair
with a vice chair please
contact Jo & Ali
Isabelle happy to continue as treasurer but not on Isabelle to meet and Isabelle
her own would like to share the role - Zoe discuss roles
Richings/Paola Cray & Jenny Berthold all happy to
help
PARENTS SOCIAL To be held after ½ term. Need to set date
EVENT Isabelle happy to organise a comedy night with Other suggestions? All
Sarah Thackley + 2/3 professionals?
Have a bar Volunteers need. Contact All
Any food? Ali/Jo
Need help setting up and manning the bar
CAKE SALES Great way of raising money which goes to that Need to re issue Ali/Jo/Nic
school year. dates/years
TEACHING Mr Bradley – thanked PTFA for work they do really Is Home Contact going to Mr Bradley
RESOURCES 2010 proud to be at the school and great to have such an be used to alert parents to
involved parent community. Commented that the cover staff?
school is facing an interesting time in light of the
vacancy for a head and the ongoing educational
work being done based on the Ofsted report.
The resources discussion came about with year
1&2 as a result of teacher non contact time and a
number of different covers.
What the school tries very hard to do is have
consistency with supply teachers so that the
children get to know that teacher and the teacher
gets to know the children and the functioning of the
school, rather than having a variety of covers and
therefore new faces for the children.
Various meeting attendees commented on the
need to communicate to the parents that this goes
on and to let them know who will be looking after
their children on that day so that the children can
be pre warned and parents know who it is looking
after their children. This can be dome very easily
through Home Contact and can be class specific.
Mr Bradley didn’t want to “over communicate” but
agrees that this would be a good idea. Also
emphasised the need for children to learn to be
able to deal with change.

Parental Consultation – will be extended this year

to run later to give the teachers a break in the
middle to refresh and allow parents who work a
better chance of getting there. There will also be an
extra day.

January Newsletter to cover

this
NEXT PTFA MEETING – Friday 26th February 9am in the Common Room