NEWSLETTER Summer 2012

Total raised

£12,529

Where your children come first

Thornhill Primary School

Up and coming events

Next PTA Meeting :

Wednesday 27th June 5:30pm—6:30pm School Staff Room

Since the last newsletter there has been two PTA meetings; 14th March and 25th April. There have also been two informal committee meeting. Copies of all minutes are available on our new website.

P TA M e e t i n g s

Pin me to your fridge! Pin me to your fridge! Pin me to your fridge! Pin me to your fridge! Pin me to your fridge! Pin me to your fridge!

Uniform Sale 20 June

Bags to School 20 –22 June

Summer BBQ 13th July

Staff Bake Sale 17th July

No Uniform Day 18th July

CALLING ALL PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF THORNHILL PRIMARY: WE NEED YOU ! : IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE PTA, HELP ORGANISE

EVENTS OR JUST VOLUNTEER A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME TO SUPPORT EVENTS: PLEASE E-MAIL: thornhillpta@hotmail.co.uk

B a ke S a l e s The last Bakesale of the school year will be on 17th July and will be a ’Teachers and Staff Bake Sale’. So

please bring on along your 50p on the day. The last two bake sales have been Reception and Nursery. Both did really well, Reception managed to raise the most money of any bake sale at a whopping £190 but hats off to the Nursery mums and dads for donating the most ‘home made’ cakes of any bake sale this year! Both sales had so many donations that we had to spread over two days to sell all the cakes!

And now for a low down of what the bake sale money has been spent on! Yr 1 - Maths and literature games Yr 2 - Maths and literature games Yr 3—Maths and literature games, puzzles and small equipment Yr 4 - Books for the classroom Yr 5 - Books for the classroom Yr 6 - Books , dictionaries and the-saurus’ Nursery-Games A big thanks to Beth Jones who sug-gested the bake sales and then took the lead in organising and volun-teering for the bake sales!

This meeting will be an EGM, for the purpose of adopting the PTA-UK Model Constitution to facilitate Char-ity Registration.

Summers here, apparently! We hope you all had a fun half term despite the awful weather. The PTA Summer newsletter is here to cheer you up! Included are updates on the events from the Spring Term, including the Spring Fayre, Easter Eggstravaganza, Nursery and Reception Bake sales, Mother’s Day Sale, St Patricks Disco and Ready Steady Read! Also, plans for the activities and events for the Summer Term: the Bags2School collection, the School Uniform Sale, the Teachers and Staff Bake Sale, the Summer BBQ and the Non Uniform day on the last day of school.

Money raised to date:

Cinema Evenings £700

Christmas Cards £540

Wales and West £300

Bags2School £420

Year 1 Bakesale £180

Xmas Shopping Night £380

Christmas Fayre £2150

Year 6 Bakesale £130

Christmas Disco £560

No Uniform Day £294

Year 2 Bakesale £110

Bags2School £395

Year 4 Bakesale £164

Curry and Quiz Night £220

Year 3 Bakesale £145

Year 5 Bakesale £150

Cinema Evenings £590

Reception Bakesale £191

Ready Steady Read £3228

St Patricks Day Disco £200

Easter Eggstravagansa £214

Nursery Bakesale £168

Spring Fayre £1100

School Uniform

From this year, school uniform is ordered and supplied by the PTA. This is done on a volunteer basis by the PTA Committee, mainly Mel! So thanks for all her efforts. Ordering the uniform for the new school

year in September is going to be a huge task for us and the new supplier, therefore, to make the process as smooth as possible we are asking for parents to submit their order by 29th June. This will enable us to do a bulk order with the supplier and allow sufficient time

for the uniform to be supplied, sorted, distributed and any issues resolved before the end of this school year. To place an order please complete the order form which is available on the PTA website or hardcopy from the school office. If you are unsure on sizes, samples of the uniform will be available at the Uniform Sale on June 20th after school in the main school hall. Please also note, that the old uniform can still be worn next school year and donated second hand school uniform will also be available at the uniform sale.

Bags2School

There will be a Bags to school collection on June 22nd. Bags were sent out before the half term, however if you have more, any bag can be used. Donations can be left in

the foyer of the school between the 20 and 22nd of

June. Please do not put old uniform in the Bags2School collection. Any donations of old school uniform will be available at the School Uniform sale on the 20th June and anything not sold will be donated to a charity in Kenya.

Summer BBQ Beach Party

This years summer BBQ will have a beach party theme and will be held on Friday 13th July from 5:30 to 8pm. The BBQ will be held in the playground, weather permit-ting, otherwise in the school hall—either

way the show will go on!

Tickets will be available to purchase on the door, if we have to stay indoors then numbers will be limited to the permitted capacity of the school hall, so entry will be on a first come—first served basis.

There will be a bar serving alcohol and soft drinks, BBQ food—hotdogs, bur-gers and bacon rolls, sweets, an ice cream bar, face painting, bouncy castle and surfing simulator, volleyball, limbo, sandcastle competitions, possibly live

music and not forgetting :

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This year, Thornhill’s Got Talent will be held in two stages. Heats will take place in the week before the BBQ and three acts per year group will be selected by their teachers to perform on the night of the BBQ.

We will again need help to organise, set-up, run stalls and help clear up after. If you can spare the time, please e-mail, leave a message on our website, come to the next PTA meeting (27th June) or talk to a PTA member.

Join in with the spirit of the BBQ and come dressed for the beach - Hawaiian shirts, shorts, sundresses - what-ever the weather!

THORNHILL’S GOT

T LENT

R e a d y, S t e a d y, Re a d a n d B o o k S a l e

Together with Usboure Books we held a ‘Ready Steady Read’ Initia-tive this year to help fill our new library with bright new books for all the children to enjoy. The

money raised by each child was split in half, the first half went to the school library fund and the second half was returned to the child

in the form of an Usbourne gift voucher. The school also received an additional donation to the value of 60% of the total amount raised by the children from Usbourne Books to add to their school library fund. In total we received £3228!!! worth of books for the school library. The new library will soon be ready and the children will be able to enjoy the new books!

S t Pa t r i c k s D i s co f e a t u r i n g S p a r k y M a r k y !

NEWSLETTER Summer 2012 cont...

There St Patricks Day Disco was a fun evening for the kids! Sparky Marky’s disco with laser beams was a great hit with the kids! It was a shame that we had to change the

format again, due to the limited interest from the Junior children. We are trying hard to find an event that will interest the junior children, so if you have any ideas or feedback that can help, please let us know!

On Good Friday, April 6th we held an Easter Eggstravaganza at Cefn Onn Park. The weather held so the event went ahead

as planned. Overall a good time was had by all the children taking part, however we were sabotaged by hungry squirrels and complete strangers who both helped themselves to the Easter treats before the hunt began. This was

all resolved thanks to the Easter bunny leaving spares!. The hunt ended in the field at the top of the park, with refreshments games and a traditional Easter bonnet / mask parade and competition. The winners were Lauren Brown (Yr1) for her mask and Seren Jones (Nursery) and Harvey Bedford (yr1) for their Bonnets. Thanks to Tony and Sian Sage for all their hard work in organising the hunt!

We ’re go i n g o n a n E g g H u n t !

On Friday 1st June, we celebrated the diamond jubilee with a special yard party for the children at lunch time and the nursery children during their morning / afternoon. Thank-fully the rain held off and we could go ahead with the party outdoors. The PTA provided a lunch, kindly prepared by the kitchen staff and the chil-dren made crowns and

hats and lots of bunting! The yard was decorated with flags, paper chains, bunting and even a few Welsh guards! There were even three Union Jacks formed from red, white and blue cup cakes. We received a phenomenal amount of support for this from parents, with offers of help with mak-

ing cakes and bunting, thank you to everyone for helping! Our thanks to the kitchen staff for preparing the lunch and to Hovis for donating the bread for the sandwiches. We also made the local press with photographs of the children enjoying their lunch in the South Wales Echo on the Friday and the following Saturday and Thursday. There was also an article on Wales online / your Cardiff! The party was enjoyed by all the children and the thank-you cards they made brought a tear to our eyes. All credit to Ellen for organising this unforgettable event! Each of the children also received a commemorative wrist band. If your child did not received one, more are available.

J u b i l e e Ya rd Pa r t y

Mother’s Day Sale

The Mother’s Day Sale was a new event this year and enjoyed by children and parents alike. There was a lovely atmosphere, with the children giggling and sneaking their gifts away, while Mums relaxed over a cup of coffee and tried not to get a sneak peek! There were a number of gift stalls but also a

child's craft area, where they sat and made their own personalised gift for Mum! Thanks to Lynne for suggesting and organising this event!

N o r t h C a rd i f f Fo o t b a l l To u r n a m e n t

Well done to the Thornhill boys who did so well at our first north Cardiff Football tournament on 27th April by being win-ners of their group; Ysgol y Wern won the overall tournament. A great day had by all - thanks to Cardiff City for putting on the event and thanks in particular to Jacqui Brown for presenting a

very special trophy in honour of her late father - the Cardiff City legend Brian Clark. Thanks to Lynne, Mel and Terrina for organising this day.

S p r i n g Fay re 1 9 t h M ay

The weather held out for us in the end and the Spring Fayre was a great success. Thanks to all the parents for your positive feed-back on the day and on our face-book page after, it is great to

know that the kids enjoyed themselves. There was plenty to keep the kids entertained with a bouncy slide and castle, lots of games, face painting, photo shoot, circus skills workshop and not forgetting Paddy the Clown who had

us all in stitches or for the few unlucky ones covered in foam!... There was a Pimms and pints bar, a BBQ, cafe corner with cakes galore and lots of stalls to peruse. Thank you to all our volunteers who helped out on the day – guides, parents, teachers, staff and pupils - without you we couldn’t put on such great events! And thanks for all the donated cakes!

AUGUST JULY BARBECUE RELAX BASEBALL

SANDALS BEACH SHORTS BIKING SOCCER

GOLF SUNBURN HATS SUNSCREEN HOLIDAY

SUNTAN HOT SWIMMING HUMID VACATION

S U M S A N D A L S J M H E R

S T A R U T S W H E N U I T S

T H E S G N U M M E M R L S O

H A T S U L B I K I N G S Y T

O I C E S A R U D O U O N D T

L H E T T W E N R R E L A X T

I Y S S W I M M I N G F S E C

D O B T N D O F E O J U N L E

A A A N R S D E F I I N I L S

Y H R E S O R W I T O H T A H

T H B E A C H E A A U T U B M

N E E Q S C U S I C N O X E N

E A C N R E T H N A T N U S E

T W U E N R T Y S V E C O A N

D S E O F S E P T E M B E B R

S u m m e r Wo rd s e a rc h

S p e n d S p e n d S e n d

Here is a brief summary of what PTA funds have been spent on this year. So far we have purchase / paid for :

School Minibus

Audio/ visual equipment

Coaches for trip to Pantomime

Fuel for minibus for Tabernacle trips

Road Tax for Minibus

Jubilee Yard Party: food, decorations and commemo-rative gift.

New tables for the school yard and field

Sand pits

Books for the new library

Games and books from Bake Sale proceeds.

C o n t a c t u s : t h o r n h i l l p t a @ h o t m a i l . c o . u k , w w w . t h o r n h i l l p r i m a r y s c h o o l p t a . b t c k . c o . u k , T H O R NH I L L P R I M A R Y P T A ( f a c e b o o k )