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 – 2017-2018

Thank you all for your attendance this afternoon. We meet again to celebrate the achievements of the year and to summarise the activity of the PTFA at Stow on the Wold Primary School. It is a time to thank all the members, volunteers and staff who support the on-going hard work.

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 have continued to work hard and unitedly make decisions to use some of the hard earned funds to benefit all sorts of activities and plans within the school.

We have had another successful year of fundraising with a total of £14,952.93 which is our largest amount yet and we have continued to put 5% of this amount into our playground fund. Our main activities this year have been the Christmas Fair, Bingo, Quiz Night and the Frog Race which raised the most amounts of money.

The Discos are always a firm favourite with the children.

In the past year we have continued to help pay towards school coaches, we bought a BBQ for summer events and have bought new books for the school.

Positions within the committee are up for renewal this afternoon 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 2019.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee members: Lucy, Rachel and Suzy 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 organise all the events. The PTFA would fail to exist if you did not help out.

Thank you for coming.

Clare Stubbs