What’s On

• • PTA Annual General Meeting and Meet the Head Monday 20th January at 7:30pm.
  • Wine Tasting Friday 7th March 2025

PTA AGM

We would like to invite you to attend the Annual General Meeting of the SCPS Parent Teacher Association (PTA) on Monday 20th January 2025 at 7.30pm in the School Hall.

All parents are automatically members of the PTA. The AGM is the opportunity for your Committee to summarise activity over the past year and to outline plans for the future. We are always looking for support from members for the events we run during the year, but there is no obligation – we would welcome your attendance at the meeting, and your views are important to us, and to the school.

We have asked Mrs Salmons, her leadership team and some of the school governors to join the meeting.

Given the change of headteacher in September 2024, we all feel it is important that parents have a chance to hear Rachel’s vision for the school, and her ideas for taking it forward into this new era.

After the formal business of the AGM, we will ask Rachel to spend a few minutes outlining her plans, after which there will be a chance for us to ask questions and make suggestions. Communication between parents and the school always has room for improvement and we hope you will appreciate this as an important forum for that.

Sonning Common has always prided itself on being a partnership between staff, parents, governors and children. We hope that this event will enhance and deepen that partnership.

Second Hand Uniform Shop

Our PTA run a Second Hand Uniform Shop,  open every Friday at school pick up time. Donations of unwanted uniform can be left in the yellow wheelie bin behind the shop. All items for sale are 50p and all the money goes back to support your school.

SCPS PTA Just Giving Page

If you would like to find out more about the PTA, our fundraising goals and how we support our school, you are invited to drop in on our informal 30 minutes Zoom meetings.  Please contact the PTA to find out more by emailing pta@sonning-common.oxon.sch.uk

Lottery

Sonning Common Primary School PTA have a lottery, tickets cost just £1 each, for each weekly draw; 40% of ticket sales are donated to our school. Since we started it nearly 2 years ago, it has raised over £3900 for our school. You can buy as many tickets as you wish (and choose your lucky numbers) and it’s all paid online via a direct debit. The school is aiming to raise £1,000 in the first year in order to buy classroom equipment for all of your children to benefit from.
There is a GUARANTEED cash prize to someone from our school supporter list every week, and a further chance of winning £25,000 in a separate nationwide draw every week! We have had lots of winners so far!
To start supporting, please visit Lottery and search for Sonning Common Primary School. Tell your friends and family to join in too.

Money from old clothes
We collect your unwanted clothing at your convenience. Just drop your bagged old clothes or shoes into our green collection bin situated in the Sonning Common Library carpark. SCPS receive 40p per kilo from the materials collected. They take clothes, shoes, accessories, bed linen and soft toys (but not duvets or cushions or curtains).

How to contact us

If you’d like to get involved with the PTA, or have some good ideas for fundraising, please email pta@sonning-common.oxon.sch.uk or speak to any of the committee members.

All parents/carers of children at SCPS are members of the SCPS PTA and we exist to not only to fundraise for the school but to create a social opportunity for parents, staff and pupils to get together. Your PTA makes sure all the money raised is spent as effectively as possible across the whole school.

We have been very busy this year with many events including the colour run, 10k race, Christmas Fair, discos, quizzes and On Your Bike. W e have used PTA funds to buy many things for the school including a Chinese workshop, cooking ingredients for year groups and Forest Camp and equipment used at break times on the playgrounds. The major expense this year has been the traversing wall n the KS2 playground.

Last academic year (2023-24) the PTA funded

• £200 for each teacher to spend on their class
• various workshops for the children
• Software subscription for extra curricula activities (for teachers)

Previously your PTA funded

• • • interactive flat panels for a KS1 and a KS2 classroom
    • New bird hide
    • New interactive flat panels for classrooms
    • Picnic tables, table tennis tables and Kites playground resurfacing
    • Workshops for the children including Lego master builders, Chinese New Year, Shakespeare, skipping and many more
    • Bee-Bots for KS1
    • Espresso subscription for the whole school
    • support for our funded schoolgirl in Africa