Hello to all Parents and Children!

Chair: TBC; Treasurer: Ali Irving; Secretary: Jenny Gretton/Jo Davies

A warm welcome to all of the new parents whose children have started this September, and welcome back to parents who were here last year. The Greenfield PTA is a group of parents with children in all school year groups who assist with organising fund-raising events and projects to raise money for the school to use when they want to provide extras or treats for the children.

Things we have funded recently include:

• Pantomime coaches for the Christmas panto at the Oldham Coliseum
• Books for the new school library and technical equipment
• Visits from external organisations to provide on-site fun events such as Maypole
  dancing and Circus Skill Training
• Trim Trail play equipment for the new school playground
  Fundraising events we have organised include:
• Activity stalls for children at the recent Brass Band Fair on Greenfield Park (this alone
  made over £950 and so a great start to the school year)
• Virtual Chocolate bingo night
• Christmas Cards created by the children
• Christmas and Easter hunts around the village to be done within the family
• Spooky themed day as it was not possible to host the ‘Spooky Disco’ last year
• Christmas Film and activity day
  
  In the past couple of years, we have raised well over £15,000 which is being used by the school for a trim trail to be installed in the playground. This should begin to be installed in the first few weeks of the Autumn term.
  
  We welcome everyone and all ideas for fundraising. You don’t have to commit to our monthly meetings, and any help is appreciated. For example, help on a stall, donate to a raffle, come along to our events with your families, all help, however small, is welcome and appreciated.
  
  If you want to be involved in any capacity, please get in touch to say hello (our email is pips4greenfield@gmail.com) or in person during drop-off or pick-up. The PTA is ever-changing as children leave and join the school, so we are always ready for new volunteers and new ideas.
  
  Next meeting: this will be our AGM which is a formal title for a normal meeting but a legal obligation because we are a registered charity. We will update our blog for details on how to join very shortly, all are welcome!
  
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As a quick follow on to the last update, the stalls which the PTA had at the Brass Band event at the Greenfield cricket club on Sunday, made an astonishing £950!! This is an amazing start to the school year fund-raising efforts and so thank you very much for your support.

With the news which was sent out by Mr. Wood this week about the delivery of the Trim Trail equipment on 15th September, this is the very real evidence of your contributions to the fund-raising and what a difference this can make. We hope we can continue to support the school with more special treats for the children or perhaps even further playground equipment later in the year if we are able to continue to raise the kind of funds we have been doing in the last few years.

The first PTA meeting of the year will take place on Monday 4th October and it will be held at the King William pub in Greenfield. The exact time will be sent nearer the time. Please feel free to come along or if you would like to get in touch beforehand and not sure who we are, you can ask one of the teachers (or another parent) to point you in the direction of James Smith, Ali Irving, Jenny Gretton or Liz Mooney.
Thanks!

A big thank you to everyone who came to the PTA stalls at the festival, and also a big thank you to those involved in the organisation and planning of the stalls for the PTA!

We can now also announce the winners of the raffle!

Bottle of wine from The Old Cobblers – Angie Stewart
Bottle of gin – Isabella
King Bill Voucher – Stewart
Tesco Voucher – Diane Livesey
Clarence Voucher – Sue Greenhalgh

Many thanks, the PTA 🙂

Hello all and welcome back!

A very big warm hello too, to all the new starters – we hope you all enjoy your first day at Greenfield Primary :).

Just a reminder…the PTA are welcome to all, and we would love to hear from all new parents, and you are more than welcome to come and join us to plan fun events to raise lots of funds to make Greenfield school an amazing place! Hope to see you all soon.

Hello all!

Just a reminder, the Autumn Leaves Brass Band event at Greenfield Park and cricket club is going to be like Whit Friday and on the same scale. Food court , bbq, bar, big stage etc.

You can pay on the gate for £5 and they take cards. Please come and support our children’s activity stalls funds to Greenfield Primary.  The roads in area are shut off, but there is parking at Scott’s Mill. Thank you, see you all there!

Greenfield Primary PTA have arranged a Bag2School collection to raise funds for the children at school. This time the collection has been expanded to include good quality household bedding, curtains and soft toys as well as clothing.

Donations can be dropped off at school in bags from Monday 5th July 2021 to Thursday 8th July 2021. Alex the school site manager will be on site at drop off and pick up times to receive donations.

Bag2School accept the following good quality items for RE-USE :

• Men’s, Ladies’ and Children’s clothing
• Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
• Handbags
• Hats
• Bags
• Scarves and ties
• Jewellery Lingerie
• Socks
• Belts
• Soft toys
• Household linen
• Household curtains
• Household towels
• Household bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers)*
  
  Bag2School reserve the right to refuse any unsuitable items, Bag2School DO NOT ACCEPT:
  

• Duvets and blankets
• Pillows and cushions
• Carpets, rugs and mats (including bath, shower and toilet mats)
• Soiled, painted, ripped or wet clothing
• School uniforms with and without logo
• Corporate clothing and workwear
• Textile off cuts, yarns or threaded material

Here is the details of our upcoming ice cream & lolly sale, as seen on the previous post; Tesco Greenfield kindly donated £50 towards it!

A big thank you goes out to Tesco Greenfield, for donating £50 to our ice cream & lolly sale on 9th July. Here is Liz with store manager Tom Shafi.

The money was kindly arranged by community champion Greg Barratt.

During the last month, Jane Stark has stepped down from her role as the Greenfield Primary PTA Chairperson.

Jane has served in this role for almost three years and has contributed a huge amount of time to the PTA, but due to a new business venture, she no longer has the time available to continue in this role. On behalf of the school population, the PTA would like to thank Jane for all of the time and effort she has put into the PTA and wishes success to her new company.

In the absence of any nominations for a new Chairperson from inside or outside of the PTA, the PTA will continue to operate with the existing five Trustees sharing the workload between them. This is in line with both the Charity Commission guidance and also the PTA constitution, and so it remains above board. It is hoped that in the new school year, there will be some new candidates who can put forward some of their time into the running and organising of the PTA.

There seems to be hopeful news on the Trim Trail; Mr Wood approached the PTA only this week to double check the funds promised for school (in the region of £15,000) were still available – which of course they are! The school has now passed some process obligations for seeking comparative quotes, and will be placing an order for the Trim Trail shortly. At present, the PTA are not sure of the time scales for the implementation of this, but it is showing signs of progress.

Thanks to everyone for your donations for the recent clothes recycling scheme, we raised £87.15. Future collections have been provisionally arranged for 17th–19th May and 28th–30th June.

***Hi all, apologies for the inconvenience but unfortunately the clothes collection planned for this week was cancelled at short notice by our usual provider. We are in the process of agreeing a new collection date with school and will update on here when we know more***