What is the PTA?
Moortown Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is a registered charity whose aim is to advance the education of pupils in the school by engaging in activities or providing facilities or equipment which support the school. Read our 2023 update for parents and carers.
The PTA is run by a group of parents and staff who all give their time on a voluntary basis to organise and run fundraising (and hopefully fun!) activities for those in our school community. The PTA meet approximately every six weeks. We welcome all parents and carers at the school to join in!
The funds we raise provide ‘extras’ for the school. On an annual basis, we provide things such as stickers and medals for sports day, birthday gifts, and weekly certificates. In addition, the school gives us a ‘wish list’ of items they feel would be of benefit. For example, we recently purchased the display boards in the main playground, and funded a whole school visit to the theatre. Our current main focus is to raise funds to help develop our new outdoor space.
The Chair of the PTA is Richard Spencer. Richard can be contacted via the school office.
Read recent minutes of PTA meetings:
PTA Events
Our main fundraisers of the year are the Summer Fair and Christmas Fair, where we have stalls selling goods, refreshments, and games to play. These take place towards the end of the Summer and Autumn terms – see the school calendar for the planned dates. We hold events for the children throughout the year including Movie Nights and discos, and the ever-popular bun sales (which usually also provide an opportunity to look at an aspect of children’s work, such as homework). We also hold events for parents and the wider community such as quiz nights. If you have ideas for any other events, please speak to the PTA Chair, leave a message at the school office, or come along to our next meeting!
We are excited to announce that we have joined The Big PTA Raffle 2020.
For full details of how to participate, please visit our fundraising page at https://www.bigptaraffle.co.uk/support/moortown-cp-school-ls17
For every ticket you buy you will have 12 chances to win. At the same time, 50% from every ticket sold will support our PTA. We hope to raise funds that can support and enrich the education of our children – we aim to provide extra resources for the children, in particular developing the new land at the back of the school to provide outdoor learning and recreation space. In the current times, getting the additional outdoor space available to use and kitted out are critical for safety in the school and for the health and wellbeing of the children.
Your support is greatly appreciated and we wish you good luck!
Other ways to fund raise
Please spread the word among your family and friends about these ways to raise money for PTA, so we can benefit our school!
The PTA is a charity registered in England and Wales (registered charity number: 1161458).
We welcome donations of any amount to help achieve our aim of advancing the education of pupils at the school. One-off or regular donations can be made – thank you for your support.
easyfundraising
Do you shop online? Did you know that every time you shop you could be raising money for Moortown Primary PTA? Shop with any of over 3000 well-known retailers listed on easyfundraising.org.uk and a percentage of what you spend is passed to Moortown Primary PTA. Retailers include Amazon, M&S, Vodafone, eBay, Tesco, Boden, Waitrose, House of Fraser Viking and many more. It’s like nectar but instead of earning points, each purchase generates a donation. So, instead of going directly to a retailer’s website, go to easyfundraising first and choose the retailer you want to shop with – then everything you spend with that retailer earns a free donation for Moortown Primary PTA. It’s free to use and your shopping won’t cost you a penny more. On average, each retailer will donate 5% of the cost of your shopping – and those donations soon mount up. Please register to support us when you shop online!
Amazon Smile
Did you know that Moortown Primary School Parent Teacher Association (Moortown PTA) is set up as a charity on Amazon Smile? This means that for EVERY order made on Amazon, Amazon donates money to Moortown PTA (which will be used to benefit school).
All you need to do is use Amazon Smile (rather than usual Amazon site) by using smile.amazon.co.uk. Alternatively, you can set Moortown PTA as your selected charity in your Amazon App, which will use Amazon Smile in future.
The FIRST time you use it, you just need to search for “Moortown Primary School Parent Teacher Association” as your chosen charity and select us, and that’s it!
Ordering through this site can generate many donations – it would be a huge boost to raise money for school. Please help us by always using Amazon Smile, and set smile.amazon.co.uk as your Amazon bookmark, or add us in the Amazon app.
Supermarket vouchers
We always collect supermarket vouchers, such as those from Sainsbury’s Active Kids, Tesco Schools and Clubs and Morrisons Let’s Grow (and tokens like Nestle Box Tops for Books from cereal packets, too!). The school uses vouchers like these to buy new equipment for the playgrounds at lunchtime – a new parachute, some skipping ropes, equipment to help with our balancing and a giant crossword puzzle – and have purchased litter-picking equipment for the lunchtime Keep it Clean Club, too (used to help keep the local neighbourhood tidy).
Scooters for Schools
Are you planning on buying a scooter for your child? You could earn money or scooters for our school at the same time!
Shop at www.micro-scooters.co.uk and enter our school’s URN code (107916) so we can receive money or scooters.
Join in
If you’d like to find out more about what we do, or become involved in the PTA, either as a committee member, trustee, volunteer at events, or even as Chair, you’re welcome to come along to one of the PTA meetings (ask the school office staff when this is). You would be very welcome and it’s a great way to be part of school life!
