NCT Sheffield and Rotherham Branch Meeting held on 8th January 04 at= 9 Middle Lane, Grenoside, Sheffield at 8pm

Nether Green Infant School PTA meeting held = at Nether Green Infant School, Stumperlowe Road, Wednesday 14^th November , 7.45pm.<= /b>

Present:     &nbs= p;          Leila Prescott (Chair), Tori Gray, Amanda Forrester, = Kim Portlock, Di Cole, Sarah Furniss, Helen Griffiths, Claire Reynolds,        &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;    John Follin, Kate May, Miss Ball, Fiona Trevaskiss

Apologies:      = ;        None

Next Meetings:      &nb= sp; 30^th January , 15^th= April, 11^th June <= st1:time Hour=3D"19" Minute=3D"45" w:st=3D"on">7.45pm at = Nethergreen Infant School

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Future Events:

Co= ffee Morning 27/11= /07

Ch= ristmas Fair 1/12/07 11 – 2pm=

Ch= ristmas Disco 11/12/0= 7 5.30 – 7.00pm

Coffee mornings 23/01/08 and = 6/03/08

PTA meeting 30/01/08 R= 11; 7.45pm

Quiz night 29/02/08

PTA meeting 15/04/08 R= 11; 7.45pm

Sponsored Bounce 23/04/08=

PTA meeting 11/04/08 R= 11; 7.45pm

Summer barbecue 14/06/08=

Summer Fair 5/07/08

Summer disco 10/07/08=

Item No.

Discussion

Action

Date

1

Pamper Night

This was a very successful evenin= g. Thank you cards have been sent to all the therapists that worked on the night. £192.05 was raised and donated to Breast Cancer Research Uk. <= /span>

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A further £49.54 was raised from the collection boxes near reception.

Plan to organise similar event ne= xt year

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Oct 2008

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Christmas Fair

Raffle : Sarah, Di, Cinnamon and Leila have been very successful in getting raffle prizes from local businesses. = Top prize of £100 Meadowhall voucher donated by Sheffield Orthopaedics = Ltd. Raffle tickets to go in book bags week beginning 19^th November.

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Publicity: Posters advertising Christmas Fair to be produced by Fiona Trevaskiss. These will need to be distributed to local nurseries, shops etc.

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School Newsletter to include noti= ces reminding parents of Christmas fair/ call for used toys/books/ tombola pr= izes and cakes and mince pies.

It was decided not to contact Star/Telegraph to advertise fair as it is busy enough with school childre= n, siblings, parents and carers.

Programme: Leila shared a draft copy of the room layout. Potential activities and stalls were discussed as follows:-

Leila to distribute posters to PTA members to distribute to local nurseries/shops etc.

Leila to advise Miss Ball of deta= ils for newsletter

Leila and Helen to finalise room = layout to include in programme

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2.

Christmas fair cont.

Stalls

Confirmed and space allocated:

Fulwood Hardware

Phoenix cards (Tori)

Sarah Roper Jewellery(Tori to cov= er)

Jay Spruce (ASC)

Fiona Trevaskiss cards

Used toys and books

Calendars

Raffle

Cake Stall

Potential Stalls to confirm/space available

Squirts (Di to liaise)

Barefoot books (Kate to liaise)

Jo Magdalena jewellery and jewell= ed bra straps (kate to liaise)

Body Shop (Leila to liaise)

Other Stalls

Poinsetta plants – Cathy to= follow up with Heeley City Farm. It was suggested that these could be located on= a stall outside with an honesty box/sign asking people to give money to the person collecting money on the door

Organ not available unfortunately=

Fairtrade Stall –The idea that the PTA organise= a Fairtrade Christmas food style stall was discussed. Although members thou= ght this would be a good idea, it was decided that it would be too much to organise with the amount of time left before the fair. A good stall for summer fair or next year maybe.

Craft Activities

Gingerbread hearts

Planet Pot – Helen confirme= d they will be attending and bringing small Christmas themed items.

Reindeer Food – Kate report= ed that Barbara had volunteered to come and staff the reindeer food stall<= /p>

Kate/Di/Leila to contact stall ho= lders to invite to attend fair

Cathy to contact Heeley City Farm

Cathy to Purchase hearts from IKE= A

Buy red ribbon/icing and silver balls/decorations Who ?? Cathy?

Kate/Amanda to check enough glitt= er/ oats/ cards/ rhyme/ bags for the activity

Barbara to bring big mixing bowl/spoon to oats.

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Sideshows confirmed and space allocated

Splat the Rat

Bran Tub - Amanda to purchase small prizes= for bran tub

Tombola

Balloons – Amanda to purcha= se

Tattoos – Amanda to purchas= e

Hand Massages

Face Painting

Refreshments

Justine has agreed to organise the adults’ food – = hot roast pork sandwiches and vegetarian option

It was also decided to do children’s lunchboxes to include ham or cheese sandwich, juice box, packet of raisins and a piece of fruit. Claire = offered support to make sandwiches. Kate offered to source and order childrenR= 17;s cardboard lunchboxes. Miss Ball reported that the teachers/school staff w= ould staff the refreshments and popcorn stand.

Father Christmas

Father Christmas is booked and Justine’s husband has once again agreed to do the grotto - big than= ks to Justine’s husband from all present.

Items still to be organised ̵= 1; Ticket system /Photographs/ Colouring activities for queue/presents and wrapping of presents

Volunteers/Helpers

Cathy to organise asking junior s= chool for volunteer Y6 children

Board to be produced to put in sc= hool hall week before to ask for volunteers

Call for volunteers to help set u= p Friday 30^th and from 9a= m on Saturday morning.

Justine to organise hot roast pork sandwiches and veggie option.

Leila/ Claire/Amanda to organise = purchase food etc for children’s lunchboxes

Kate to purchase boxes

Kate to make 60 mincepies for refreshments.

Leila to liaise with Cathy re tic= ket system and photos.

Kate to source and provide colour= ing activity

Amanda to co-ordinate purchase and wrapping of gifts. All needed to help wrap presents

PRESENT WRAPPING EVENING AT TORI&= #8217;S HOUSE 29^TH NOVEMBER. 8PM

3.

Christmas Disco

To be held 5.30 – 7.00pm Tuesday 11^th Decemb= er.

To be advertised in school newsle= tter reminding parents of entrance by donation of a NEW toy.

Amanda co-ordinating organisation= of the event.

Volunteers needed to help staff t= he event

11/12/07

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Future events – Dates for events next year w= ere agreed (as highlighted above) so that they could be included in the school calendar

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Fundraising

The PTA funds are currently minim= al so this agenda item was deferred for discussion at the next meeting.

6.

PTA social – it was agreed = to defer the Christmas social to the new year. Di suggested Bondeli in Broomhill a= s a venue.

Di to liaise with Bondeli owner t= o book a table for Wednesday 9^th January 8pm. All invited please advise= Di if you want to attend.

9/01/08

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Any other business

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Report from Eco group – Their aims are to raise money for the school garden, insulation a= nd roofing and science equipment for the school. They have applied for fundi= ng. They have the option to buy 100 keyrings for £50 which they could s= ell to the children to fix on to their bookbags.

In February= they are hoping to plan a garden makeover event over one weekend.

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on the 3= 0^th January at 7.45pm Nether Green Infant Scho= ol