Lovington School PTA
(Parent Teacher Association)
Registered Charity No 1035301
Lovington Church of England Primary School Lovington Castle Cary Somerset BA7 7PX
Tel: 01963 240305
E-Mail: pta@lovingtonschool.co.uk
MINUTES of Lovington Church of England School PTA AGM Meeting
Wednesday 10th September 2014
7.30pm in Class 2 at School
Present:
Sam Nash (Chair) (SN)
Alison Lawes (Secretary) (AL)
Sue Acott (Treasurer) (SA)
Sarah Pick (acting Vice-Chair) (SP)
Claire Marsland (Headteacher) (CM)
Sophia Lapham (SL)
1) Apologies
- Fiona Hughes (FH), Lorna Farmer (LF), Rachel Mackenzie (RM), Martina Darneley (MD),
Jo Tripp (JT).
2) Minutes of Last Meeting
- Minutes from AGM meeting dated Wednesday 9th October 2013 were read and signed as an
accurate record. .
3) Matters Arising from AGM in 2013
- There were no matters arising from the previous AGM.
constitution.
All those present agreed with the
4) Election of Officers
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Chair
Alison Lawes
Proposed by Claire Marsland
Seconded by Sue Acott
Proposed by Sam Nash
Seconded by Sue Acott
Proposed by Sam Nash
Seconded by Claire Marsland
Proposed by Claire Marsland
Seconded by Sam Nash
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Vice-Chair
Sarah Pick
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Treasurer
Sue Acott
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Secretary (acting) Alison Lawes
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Executive Committee:
Fiona Hughes, Lorna farmer, Sophia Lapham,
5) Treasurers Report 2013-14 (SA)
- See Document 1 attached.
SA
6) Chair’s Report 2013-14 (SN)
- See Document 2 attached.
SN
7) Head Teacher’s Report 2013-14 (CM)
- See Document 3 attached.
CM
8) Matters Arising
a) To tempt more people in to coming to meetings or offering their help, will have a PTA social coffee
morning on Tuesday 16th September 9am-10.30am.
- SP to buy pastries/croissants etc. and orange juice.
- AL to send out letter/leaflet.
- PMN – A few people turned up on the morning and hopefully enjoyed a drink/food and a chat. Have
had some offers of help for various things and ideas for forthcoming events.
b) Children’s Christmas Meal – SP has kindly offered to take over arranging this event for 2014.
c) SL has kindly offered to take on the job of phoning/writing to people for donations of raffle/auction
prizes.
SP
AL
SP
SL
9) Fundraising/Forthcoming Events:
a) Harvest Auction – Friday 3rd October
- Will do harvest Supper and family quiz and auction off some home grown/ homemade produce/fresh
flowers/homemade cakes at the end of the evening. Alongside the quiz will be a colouring competition
for the younger children.
- SN has offered to get the food we need for the night.
- SA has offered to get wine for the evening (5 red & 5 white). Donations bowl to be out for drinks on
the night.
- Have cans and some bottles of soft drinks left over from end of term BBQ, so will sell these on the
night.
- PMN – Ron Sinclair (RS) has offered to make the soup (2 types of vegetable soup).
- PMN – The food was good, everyone enjoyed themselves and we have had lots of positive comments.
b) Beetle Drive – Friday 14th November?
- Postponed until after Christmas as there is already quite a bit going on this term and it will be
a nice social event post-Christmas.
c) Bag2School - Tuesday 11th November – All booked and bags will be sent out to parents once they
have arrived at school.
d) Bag Packing – AL to write to Tesco (Shepton Mallet) and Sainsbury’s (Street) to see if we can do
arrange a session.
e) Castle Cary Coffee Morning – Saturday 29th November
- Will plan in depth at next meeting.
- AL to ask Jenny Simmonds if she is prepared to do the bacon butties as per usual. PMN –
Booked.
- AL to look in to the children designing Christmas cards to sell in school and at the Coffee
Morning.
SN
SA
RS
AL
AL
AL
AL
CM
10) Any Other Business
- CM is going to do an Anniversary school CD.
- To consider taking a group of children to do Carol singing at Street or other venue and have a
donation bucket for the school.
- CM to see if Lovington can take part in their Christmas Carol Service this year as part of our
Anniversary celebrations.
- PMN - Felting of storage sheds – SN had found felting 10m x 1m roll for £22.63 per roll to re-felt
Class 1 shed and both play houses. Would need approx. 5 rolls. We may have a found a source
for free felting (TBC).
- PMN – SA has offered to order the bean bags for the after school club. These have now arrived
and are very popular.
- To consider having a car boot sale at school sometime.
11) Date of Next Meeting To be confirmed. PMN – Wednesday 15th October, 7.30pm at The Cross Keys
Pub, East Lydford.
Meeting closed at 9.40pm
PMN – Post Minute Note
CM