Christmas Fayre

The Christmas Fayre was a huge success. £2800 was raised for school funds. Thank you to all of you that supported the event.

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What the money is being spent on

£5000 to help develop the school pond
£7000 to upgrade the teaching laptops
£2433 on a 'writing hut'
£2000 to cover the costs of musicians and artists coming to work with the children

Jump and Bounce

jumpandbounce.co.uk has bouncy castles and inflatable slides for children and adults. Please quote 'The Downley School' when booking as the school receives £5 per booking.

Fones4Schools

Please donate your unwanted mobile phones. Fones4Schools donates £300 to the school for every 200 phones that we recycle.

Clothing and Sticky Name Labels

Labels that either stitch or iron on or sticky labels for items such as lunchboxes, bookbags or shoes can be obtained from Helen on 07793858642 or logging on to www.easy2name.com. The school receives 20% of the value on all orders. Remember to quote "The Downley School HP13"

Computer Club

If you would like to join the Computer Club it costs £1 per number per month. Call Helen on 07793858642.

schoolfunds.co.uk

We have registered with schoolfunds.co.uk, an Internet site that has direct links with all the major online companies. Whenever you shop online at any of 350 Companies ranging from Tesco, Boots, Marks and Spencer, Boden, ELC, John Lewis, various insurers etc, the school benefits if you visit schoolfunds.co.uk first. We are asking that you first visit schoolfunds.co.uk first and select your retailer from this site. It costs you nothing, you order directly via the shops' own site and there are no membership ties or passwords to remember.

Yellow Moon

Yellow Moon supply arts, craft and educational products for all ages. Log on to www.yellowmoon.org.uk remembering to quote our school code STH1938. The school receives up to 25% of the value on all orders.

School Link Club

The brochures have proved to be a huge success with lots of parents and children ordering books. Not only are they excellent value but the school library is benefiting. The brochure comes out five times a year. Please do not feel obliged to order. If you do order remember to quote our school number code 5234506.

How to contact the committee

If you would like to contact the PA please:

• Speak to one of the committee members
• Write a note addressed to the Parents Association and hand into school

Chair - Helen Howitt

Secretary - Burnett Piare

Treasurer - Priti Agrey

Would you like to help?

Every time you come to an event, buy raffle tickets or sponsor your children you are helping the Parents Association help the children in the school. Without your support at these events we would not be able to continue. If you would like to help even more, the Association always needs:
TIME - for example to bring elderly people to the Harvest Festival, to count the number of bounces at the sponsored bounce, to serve mulled wine at the Carol Concert, or to run a stall at the Christmas or Summer Fairs. If you are able to give a couple of hours once or twice a year please contact the committee.
IDEAS - if you have a suggestion for a new event, or a way of improving an existing one, let the committee know.
MONEY - if you would like to make an additional or regular monthly donation, the Association is now registered for Giftaid. The Association is able to claim an additional 28% from the Inland Revenue. Provided you are a taxpayer, this means that if you give £10, it is worth £12.80 to the Association. In addition, higher rate taxpayers are able to claim tax relief for themselves at 18% of the gross donation by including the details in their annual tax return.
NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS - the committee is usually elected annually in September just after the start of the new school year, but new committee members are welcome at any time during the year.

About The Downley School Parents Association

The Downley School Parents Association is a charity that was created when The Heights and Downley Middle School were combined in September 1999.
Its mission is to advance the education of the pupils in the school.
All parents and guardians of the children attending the school are automatically members, so its your association.
The Parents Association raises funds by running events through the year such as:
The Sponsored Bounce
The Christmas Fair
The Summer Fair