In addition to previously mentioned arrangements, parents and teachers meet in many ways, such as our Summer Fayre, school productions and meetings on the teaching of particular subjects. An informal Parents Association is actively involved in regular meetings to organise termly social evenings such as Beetles Drives, Pie and Pea Suppers and Quiz Nights. Parents also help us accompanying children on visits, in our extra curricular work and in fund raising.

We encourage parents to be actively involved in their children’s education and in the life of the school. The Parents’ Association provides opportunities for parents, children and teachers to meet informally and cement relationships; this may simply mean being able to put names to faces. The Parents’ Association is a very informal organisation that meets on a regular basis to organise a wide variety of social and fund raising activities. Usually every term there is a planning meeting when interested parents and teachers meet in the staff room to plan or organise that term’s activities. Children are always welcome at the various events. The association is always on the look-out for new ideas.

The Parents’ Association organises an annual Summer Fayre in June which is normally an extremely enjoyable day that raises in the region of £1,000 for school funds. This money is used to subsidise some of the many activities that go on in school such as educational visits and games teams’ travelling expenses, which can be considerable. In the past we have also used funds raised by the parents to purchase computer equipment and peripherals, library books, PE crash mats, disco gear, stereo equipment, demountable staging system, PA system and consumables used in practical lessons.

This additional income for the school helps to enhance the learning experiences of the children and partially compensates for the reduction in funds made available by recent financial restraints.