Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Hamilton PSA Summer Ball which will be held at the Officers’ Club in Colchester on 2 June.
Tickets cost £40 each and include a three-course meal, a live band and an auction. Tables of 10 and 14 are available, or tickets can be sold on an individual basis.
If you are filling in the paper application form and paying by cash please hand it in to the school office as the PSA box outside the office is not secure.
Contact Adele Mercier on 01206 511288.
Community groups are being urged to come forward and take advantage of funding made available under the Landfill Communities Fund and distributed by Waste Recycling Environmental Ltd (WREN).
WREN was founded nearly ten years ago and has been responsible for distributing almost £100 million to 4,000 needy projects across the UK.
The landfill tax credits it distributes are provided by the landfill operator Waste Recycling Group Ltd (WRG) which works with several local authorities and manages 13 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste each year.
WREN is able to use a proportion of the landfill tax that WRG collects to fund projects that improve the environment within 10 miles of a landfill site.
Recipients of the organisation’s grants vary widely from small community groups looking to build a village hall, to larger organisations such as The Woodland Trust and the RSPB.
Peter Cox, Managing Director of WREN, said: “Whether you are hoping to build a new playground, restore a historic building, or plant more trees WREN could be a source of funding for your project.
“We distribute £15 million annually for the benefit of communities, and are urging people involved in community projects to come forward and apply for a grant.”
For further information on applying for funding from WREN call 01953 717165 or visit www.wren.org.uk.
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The next PSA Open Meeting will be held on Thursday 10 May at 7.30 pm at Hamilton school.
These meetings are a good way of meeting other Hamilton parents and finding out about future fundraising plans. The PSA welcomes new faces and new ideas for fundraising. (That’s how this website got started incidentally).
We are always looking out for willing volunteers to help out at our various events, and you can do as much or as little as you wish.
If you feel that Tesco deserves your custom, then don’t forget to collect their ‘Computers for Schools’ vouchers each time you shop. You can donate these to help benefit Hamilton. Last year the school collected 25,445 vouchers which were used to acquire scanners, robots and other items. The collecting box for these vouchers is in the entrance hall opposite the school office.
To boost the voucher total this year Hamilton is also collecting ink jet cartridges and mobile phones for recycling. A working mobile phone is worth 40 vouchers and a non-working phone 15 vouchers.
Vouchers, mobile phones and ink jet cartridges can be sent into school with your children or placed in the containers provided.
The last day that vouchers will be available in stores is 13 May, and all vouchers have to be banked by 28 September. Ordered items will be delivered to the school in the Autumn term.
This year’s Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Thursday 29 March straight after school in the Infant and Junior playgrounds. It is great fun watching the children hunt all round the playground for little silver and gold pebbles to exchange for small Easter eggs.
Tickets are 50p each and will be on sale on 26, 27 and 28 March in the Infant playground. Your children will need a ticket to be able to exchange the pebbles for an egg.
Last week parents should have received a Phoenix Cards catalogue advertising a variety of greeting cards and wrapping paper: 10% of the value of all orders is donated to the PSA.
Please ensure all orders are returned by 30 March.
The Hamilton & W&G Fashion Show on Thursday 22 March 7-8.30pm at Alderman Blaxill School is approaching fast. With choreographed moves by Capella School of Dance, funky music and the latest children’s fashions on display, this should be a fun-packed and exciting evening for both parents and children.
Clothes modelled by the 30 Hamilton children will vary in price and style and there will be an opportunity at the end of the show for parents to buy/order children’s clothes, all with a guaranteed 10% discount.
There will also be a licensed bar and a raffle with chances to win:
plus many more prizes.
There will also be a prize draw on the night witha chance to win £60 of W&G vouchers to spend in the Children’s department.
All money raised from ticket sales and the raffle will go straight to Hamilton PSA. Tickets are £3.50 for adults and £1.00 for children.
Tickets will be on sale every day after school from Monday 12 to Wednesday 21 March in the Infant Playground.
Publishers Scholastic are holding a book fair at Hamilton from 8-15 March. For every £1 spent by parents and children on the books available, Hamilton will receive up to 60p worth of free books for the library or classroom.
Hundreds of books are on display with prices from just £1.50. The fair takes place in the Lower Hall from 15.15 – 16.00.
If you can’t attend the book fair then you can still buy some of the books and benefit Hamilton by using the order form, a copy of which is on the back of the invitation brochure your child will have brought home recently.
For this year’s Red Nose Day the Headmaster has invited children to come to school dressed in red or wearing ‘outsized clothes’ with their red noses. They should also come with “the funniest joke they know”, which needs to be written on a piece of paper with their name and class.
A collection for donations to Comic Relief will be made at the gate on the day.
Supergrounds is a £6 million community investment programme funded by RBS Group and delivered through Learning through Landscape that helps primary schools improve their school grounds.
Over six years, 900 primary schools from around the UK will have the opportunity to transform their existing school grounds into attractive and stimulating places where children can learn and play in safety.
Schools can’t apply to receive a Supergrounds Award: they need to be nominated by an RBS Group employee who is “actively involved with your school as a PTA member, governor, volunteer or supporter”.
Are you an employee of The Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Ulster Bank or other RBS group company involved with your school? Do please consider nominating Hamilton before the end of March. If you fit the bill you can find out more on the RBS Group intranet.
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