Present : A.Brown ; J.Cox ; R.Dalton ; R.Harding ; M.Long ; E.O’Donaghue ; A.Watts
Apologies : P.Brindle ; L.Brown ; L.Monk ; A.Wood
Christmas Fayre banner
A banner has been bought for £50 to advertise the Christmas fayre. This can be reused and will look effective on the railings. It is to be put up over the next week. Jules has also bought things for the pocket money stall and lucky dip. Anne and Emma are going to buy Santa stuff this week.
Fayre Posters
Anne is going to photocopy and distribute the posters, Ruth D is going to photocopy the newsletter, Ruth H is going to photocopy the brochure and Jules is going to photocopy and distribute the raffle letter.
Father Christmas’s Grotto
This will have a raffle ticket system this year. Jules, Annette, Emma and Anne are wrapping the presents for this and Maria and Ruth are wrapping the lucky dip. The grotto can be set up after 1pm. Jules is going to buy new decorations for the grotto and Emma and Anne are going to buy a box for these, so that they can be kept in the shed in the courtyard safely.
Santas Helpers
Ruth Dalton is going to contact the Year 6 teachers and ask for fairy or elf helpers. Ruth H is to buy the sweets for the sweet stall. We are all to collect screw top bottles for the lucky bottle stall.
School Choir
We discussed putting the staging up in the hall for the choir to stand on. This will be looked into.
Hot Food
The ‘Potato oven’ will be coming at 3.50pm and will go in the junior playground. It was decided that food could be eaten around the food activities area - ‘no food’ signs to be put up around the rest of the school to avoid food being trodden into the carpets. Ruth H to do the posters.
Friends Website
Ruth Dalton is going to arrange for the friends of school website address to be put onto the school newsletter and for a link to be made from the school website to the friends website.
Financial Update
It is thought that we have around £4000 in the bank at the moment. We made about £400 at the ladies evening. We need about £6000 for the new playground equipment and Ruth D has said that the school can pay for it and we can pay them back.
Chairperson
Ruth Dalton thanked Jules for taking on the job of chairperson again and for organising the ladies evening. Mandy Morris is also to be thanked for her work as chairperson and member of the committee.
Maria Long was elected as vice-chair. This was proposed by Ruth Harding and seconded by Anne Watts.
Design competition
Jules is going to buy some materials so that children can decorate a Christmas tree drawn on an A4 piece of paper. This will cost 20p to enter and will take place by the entrance to Santa’s grotto.
The next meeting will take place at 7pm on 17th January 2006.
