st david's college parent teacher association

Wine Tasting Evening

twl — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:55:53 +0000

Don’t forget to book your place at the Wine Tasting Evening – just £10 a ticket. Tables will be for 6-8 people so get a table together (invite friends and family) or ask to join others in your Year Group. Wines for tasting, glasses, spittoons (!), cheese and biscuits will be provided but you may want to bring along some extra drinks and snacks to see you through. There will also be an auction of fantastic prizes. If you cannot locate the flier for this event, it is accessible, as always, through the school website.

PTA Swimming Gala

twl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:46:40 +0000

By now you should have received your application forms in the school bags for the Inter-House Swimming gala. This is a fun event which swimmers of all abilities can enter. Apart from the usual ribbons and cups for individual swimmers and the winning House, there is also an award for the House with the most entries into the gala. Please fill in your forms and return with the £3 entry fee to the school office by Friday this week (as the organisers need time to schedule all the different events and produce the programme of races). As usual there will be refreshments on sale at the gala and we will be holding a raffle – please bring any unwanted Christmas gifts on the day of the gala which can be put into the raffle.

Pampered Chef Evening

twl — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:31:04 +0000

Just under a week to go until our Pampered Chef ‘Ready Steady Cook’ event. There will be a demonstration of Pampered Chef products, a Ready Steady Cook style battle between two St David’s teams of parents and staff (vote for the team that you think produces the best culinary masterpiece following the given recipe and using as many Pampered Chef products as possible), a chance to sample the food produced by the teams and order from the Pampered Chef range. Up to 15% of all orders will go to the PTA.

Tickets are £5 per person to include a glass of wine and nibbles. The order form is available on the school website under Resources for Current Parents.

Fireworks at St David’s College

twl — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:13:11 +0000

Don’t forget to order your tickets for the St David’s Fireworks Display. Tickets can be ordered from the school office (£5 per person or £22 for a family ticket admitting 2 adults and up to 4 children) or bought on the gate on the night (£5 per child and £7 per adult). Please note that due to licensing laws, numbers are limited. Owing to Beckenham Festival timings, the programme of events has been revised by 15 minutes although the gates will still open at the advertised time (details available from the school office).

A Gentle Reminder!!!

twl — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:50:28 +0000

Don’t forget that we have our first two Drop Days for the Christmas Fair on Thursday and Friday (3rd and 4th Nov).

We also need your recipes, your Christmas card orders and your children’s designs for the Christmas card, Recipe Book cover Competition entries and children’s recipe book drawings and anecdotes by this Friday.

Details of all of the above are in the PTA Letters and Documents section on the school website.

Fireworks Night ……..and lots of other PTA “stuff”!

twl — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:29:23 +0000

Please check the school bags, as there are quite a few PTA letters coming home for the Half Term holidays:

Fireworks – as you know, the St David’s College Fireworks Night is on Saturday 12 November and ticket application forms have already been sent home. There will be a letter in the school bags asking for helpers for this event. Please have a look to see if you can help in any way as this event is one of the most spectacular in the PTA calendar but does depend for its success on the hard work of the wonderful St David’s parents, friends and staff.
Christmas may seem a long way off, but it’s time to get your children designing their very own Christmas cards. A letter about this will be coming home this Friday, and designs need to be back by Tuesday 1st November.
We have two exciting new PTA initiatives this year – a St David’s College Recipe Book and a St David’s College Calendar. For the recipe book we are looking for some fabulous recipes, some drawings and food anecdotes and some front cover designs. Letters about these are in the school bags and once again we need all contributions back by 1st November (or 2nd November for the Recipe Book Cover competition).

Have a great Half Term break!

AGM and Quiz Night – Saturday 1 October 7.45p.m.

twl — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:24:30 +0000

As in previous years, the short (but important) AGM will be followed by a Quiz Evening which this year is brought to us by a new Quiz Team made up of Bill Malyszko, Pete Wilson and Huw Davies (Year 4). The ticket price of £10 covers a fish and chip supper (or vegetarian alternative) and a donation to the Oast House Trust charity.

Get a team together or join other parents from your year group (maximum of 10 to a team) or just put your name down and we’ll arrange a table for you – it’s a great way to get to know other parents in the school. Bring some nibbles and your own drinks and come and enjoy the first big social event of the PTA calendar 2011/2012.

Fliers about the Quiz are coming home in the bags today (Wednesday 21 September).

Autumn Term 2011 – Welcome Back!

twl — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:48:00 +0000

The beginning of another school year and for the PTA it’s the beginning of our busiest term. New Parents’ Evening, AGM and Quiz Night, Fireworks Night and Christmas Fayre are just some of the PTA highlights of this term.

The existing PTA Committee will be holding its last Committee meeting on Monday 12 September and then on Saturday 1 October the Committee members for 2011/2012 will be voted in at the AGM. The Notice of the AGM (which was posted on the school website over the weekend) and details of this term’s events will be coming out in the school bags this week, so look out for them and keep an eye on this website for more information.

Councillor Bennett opens “The Cabin”

twl — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:22:55 +0000

It is almost two years since the idea of the PTA funding a “Big Project” was first mooted by a small group of mums over a coffee. The journey from that point to last Friday’s opening ceremony has been an eventful (and, at times, painful) one. Along the way, we have learned many things about planning law, trees, painting, insulation and how much can be achieved when a dedicated group of parents put their mind to it.

The culmination of all this hard work was the ceremony on Friday 17 June attended by all the children and staff of St David’s College, some of the parents and Councillor Bennett. The Councillor offered to help us after our first planning application went before Committee and was rejected on grounds that our proposed development would result in a significant loss of trees (10 self seeded saplings) and an overdevelopment of the school site! His advice and assistance enabled us to succeed at the second attempt where we secured a unanimous vote of approval.

Councillor Bennett spoke to the pupils about the classroom and local government and then, surrounded by some very excited children, he cut the ribbon (all the House colours and the school yellow) and pronounced the classroom, now named “The Cabin”, officially open. This was followed by cup cakes for all the children, and for the grown ups a rather spectacular chocolate cake and tea and coffee in the new classroom.

Torrential shower does not dampen spirits at St David’s Summer Fair!

twl — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:56:33 +0000

After many years of fine weather for our annual Summer fair, it was bound to happen. The weather forecasts warned of thundery showers with gusting winds between 1pm and 4pm and, for once, they were spot on. Luckily, the showers only lasted about 15 minutes and not long after, the sun was out again drying us all out.

Thanks to the hard work and generosity of so many St David’s College parents, grandparents, children and staff, this was another fabulous event and many stalls were mobbed throughout the afternoon and sold out well before close of play. The Tug of War was a real success (Nick’s commentary rivalled that of Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall – for those who remember “Its a Knockout” in its heyday). The ponies were busy all afternoon. The Raffle and the Silent Auction alone look to have raised (with the £ for £ matching) around £3,000!

But what made the afternoon so special was the commitment of the St Davids families and Old Davidians who, despite the miserable weather, came along to the Fair and stuck it out despite the downpour (and the flying gazebo!). Thank you.

A special thanks to the members of the Summer Fair Committee, Amy, Bev, Helen, Jaime, Karen, Linda and Mary who pulled the whole thing together and to the fantastic team of parents who were out from early Saturday morning, worked throughout the day and who helped clear up well into the early evening.

A list of Raffle and Silent Auction winners will be on display in the school and on the password protected section of the school website. Details of the Fair’s profits will be posted on this website some time this week.