PTFA - Parent, Teachers, Friends Association at Eldersfield Lawn C.E. Primary School

2024-2025

Summer Term 2025

KS1 Movie Night Wednesday 4th June 5.30pm-7.00pm

KS2 Movie Night Wednesday 11th June 5.30-7.00pm

Friday 9th May non-uniform day

Donations for the children's tombola for the summer fayre will be gratefully received.

Friday 13th June non-uniform day

Donations for the adult's tombola for the summer fayre will be gratefully received. 

The next PTFA meeting will be held at 6pm on Thursday 1st May at the Hunters Inn. All welcome!

Thursday 27th March 6.30pm at The Hunters Inn.

Thank you to all who attended. Please see the minutes below.

Spring Term 2025

Valentine's Disco Thursday 13th February 3.15-4.30pm for all year groups.

Autumn Term 2024

Christmas Fayre on Friday 29th November 5.00-7.00pm in the school hall. All welcome!

Thursday 23rd January 2025 6pm at The Hunters Inn.

Thank you to all who attended. Please see the minutes below.

Thursday 7th November at 6.30pm The Hunters Inn.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend.

Please see the minutes below. 

Thursday 17th October at 6.30pm in the school hall.

Thank you to all who attended. Please see the minutes below.

PTFA AGM Meeting

Thursday 3rd October at 6.30pm at The Hunter's Inn.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend. Please see the minutes below.

We are delighted to share that the PTFA roles have been filled from September 2024.

PTFA Chair is: Mr Liam Haydon

PTFA Treasurer is: Mrs Suzi Baimbridge

PTFA Secretary is: Mrs Vicki Wallace

All parents are always welcome to attend any of the PTFA meetings. We also include representation from school within this partnership group.

Updates and further information about PTFA events are included on our school newsletter.

Please see the letter below from the PTFA with information about the Chair and Secretary vacancies.

2023-2024

The most recent PTFA meeting was held in the school hall on Wednesday 17th April at 6.30pm. Please see the minutes below.

Future Dates for Fund Raising Events

Friday 3rd May - Crazy Hair Day for £1 donation

Friday 24th May - Non-Uniform Day for bottle donations towards the adult tombola for the summer fayre

Friday 7th June - Non-Uniform Day for toy donations towards the children's tombola for the summer fayre

Fridays 3.15pm 7th June onwards through June/July - Ice-Cream Fridays at home-time collection 

Friday 28th June 3.15-5.30pm - Summer Fayre -This was a huge success and raised over £2,000

Any other PTFA events will be confirmed nearer the time via the school's weekly newsletter. 

Previous School Library Area

Following our beautiful new Chancel Library, we have almost finished making all the changes and improved to the  previous library space. A new table and stools will be arriving shortly and the space has been re-painted with the addition of colourful displays being added for this daily working space. We will share a picture of the new furniture when it arrives via our weekly newsletter.

February 2024

Thank you to the parent volunteers who helped at the Valentine's Disco. Most of the school attended this event! The children enjoyed the DJ's music, games, hot dogs, drinks, sweets and glow sticks!

Uniform Grant

Thank you to Ellen for securing a £250 grant for waterproof clothing for children to be able to access in school.

January 2024

We were delighted to be able to provide all the children with an exciting 'STEAM Rocket Kids Day' at the end of January  which was kindly funded through donations from The Hunters Inn quiz night. The children designed, made and tested their rockets linked to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. Thanks to the parents who were able to join us at the end of the afternoon for the rocket launches too! 

December 2023

Thank you to everyone for their hard work, time and effort in making the Christmas Fair a wonderful event for our whole school community to enjoy!

A PTFA working party helped to tidy up our outdoor garden areas this month and what a difference this has made! Thank you to the adult and children volunteers who all provided their time on a Saturday morning to help. 

Everyone noticed the improvements and the children shared their views...

'The outdoor areas are much tidier now.'

'There is more space and room to walk around the paths and gardens now the bushes have been trimmed.' 

'The lavender has been cut back ready for new growth in the spring.'   

'The outside areas look lovely! There are lots of nice places to calm down and relax.'

October 2023

• The PTFA agreed to cover the costs of the new playground marking designs as our project for the first half of the autumn term 2023. Following the collection of pupils' views, we have chosen and confirmed this project work which we expect to be completed during the Easter holidays 2024.

• Financial support from the PTFA has been agreed to help us re-organise our previous school library space for our project during the second half of the autumn term 2023.

• Transport costs will be covered to enable all children to attend the Pantomime in Tewkesbury in December 2023.

Thank you for their fund raising efforts so far this academic year! 

Update 30.6.23

We now have two new ovens in school to help us support children with food technology. Thanks to the efforts from        Mrs L Winning and the kind donation from D.A.D in Gloucester for the removal, with the installation arranged from P.P. in Gloucester!

The classes are making good use of the 50 new dictionaries and thesauruses we purchased to help us upgrade our current classroom resources -thank you to the PTFA for these funds!

The PFTA will be selling Strawberries and Cream, along with Pimms and soft drinks at Sports Day next Wednesday, 5th July. Please note this will be on a CASH only basis. The refreshments will be available from 3.15-3.30pm before the races begin, the again at 4.30pm. 

Thank you to the PTFA who have arranged events and fund raising activities for the children and their families throughout the school year.

The King's Coronation event on 5th May 2023 was very well attended. It included a wide range of stalls, a children's activity area, raffle and Tombolas with local involvement from our church and community. Thank you for all the support we received and to those who helped us plan, prepare and run this successful event. A total of £1,634 was raised!

We will use these funds to arrange new playground markings.

Future projects will also be decided upon for the new school year along with the estimated amounts needed for achievement. We appreciate this partnership work which brings benefits to the children at Eldersfield Lawn C.E. Primary School. 

Our current focus is on upgrading the playground markings.

We will also be looking to revamp our school library area during the autumn term. 

Each Friday through June at home-time collection, ice-creams will be sold on the playground by the PTFA.

Thank you for all your support!

2022-23 

2021-2022