Welcome to Stow-on-the-Wold PTFA

Welcome to the PTFA webpage, keep an eye on this page for forthcoming events and ways that you can help your child and the school.

What is the PTFA?
We are a group of parents, relatives, grandparents and friends of the school who share the same aim of doing the very best we can to expand our children's education. We do this through providing support for trips, additional activities and equipment. We are very proud with the amounts of money we have raised in recent years whilst having fun and making friends. Please read the Chairs report below for more details 

What happens to the money?
Some examples of things we have helped the school with include:

• The adventure playground 
• Books for the school library and class libraries 
• Transport for fun and educational visits 
• Play equipment and toys 

And the list goes on…

How can I help?
Some of the ways you  can help are:

• Volunteer to help organise one of our fundraising events or promote it 
• Come into school and help out during the day, such as reading with the children 
• Help decide how to support the school 
• Donate items when we request them such as cakes, jumble, tombola 

Next event:
Our next meeting and forthcoming events can be found on the school calendar and on the latest school newsletters 

Contact details

STOW ON THE WOLD PTFA - AGM – 2019-2020

Thank you all for your attendance this morning. We meet again for the PTFA – AGM which is very different from previous years due to the outbreak of COVID – 19 this has been a very different school year and despite not being able to raise money since the 20th March 2020, we have done extremely well and have raised £6,725

The objectives of the PTFA are to advance the education of the pupils by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities for education at the school, to foster more extended relationships between the parents, pupils and others associated with the school: and engage in activities which support the school and advance the education of the pupils attending it.

The PTFA team spend many hours of their time planning and preparing for events that run throughout the year. This year we continued to work hard until March 2020 when we had to stop events due to COVID-19, We managed a few events during the year such as the Christmas Fair, Autumn Disco, The Nativity Perormances, Firework Night and Quiz Night which was a fantastic turn out. We can continue with the school lottery which has raised a large amount of money. We had to postpone the adult bingo and all events after that due to COVID-19. The alcohol donated for the adult bingo will be use for other events.

At the beginning of the year we continued to pay for school coaches and some gorgeous books for the school.

Positions within the committee are up for renewal this morning and I would encourage any of you to volunteer for these if you are interested. This can also be sharing a role with a committee member which we find works well and lightens the load. If being on the committee is not what you are looking for we would still welcome your help and ideas for developing and moving forward into 2020-21.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee members: Lucy, Rachel, Hannah and Caroline and Mrs Scutt and staff for their continued support to me, as Chair over the year. Also to thank every single extended member of the PTFA for their time and effort they have put in to help orgainse all the events. The PTFA would fail to exist if you did not help out. This is going to be a difficult year for fundraising, but we have a few ideas that we can do,

Thank you for coming.

Clare Stubbs