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Join us for a beetle drive

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Beetle drive
Photo: Ben Sutherland on Flickr.com

Our first fundraising event of the year is a Beetle Drive, which should help us on our way to purchase some sound and lighting equipment to enhance the children’s productions.

Beetle drives simply involve dice, pen and pencil. With a partner you compete against other pairs to draw a beetle from parts numbered to match the numbers on a dice. It is simple and can be enjoyed by all ages.

The event takes place on 2 February from 5.30 – 7.30 in the infant school hall.

Refreshments will be on sale, and there will be prizes!

Tickets cost £1.50 per child and £2.50 per adult. You should have received your booking form in last Friday’s newsletter.

Numbers are limited so tickets are being issued on a first come, first served basis.

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Fundraising from Amazon.co.uk

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

‘Tis the season to give, so why not make your giving go further this year?

If you are shopping for presents on Amazon.co.uk, please shop via the links to the site here on the Hamilton PSA site. At no extra cost to you we can receive between five and ten per cent of the value of all sales that we generate.

Think how much people spend at Christmas time. Wouldn’t it be nice if a small proportion of that was passed to Hamilton PSA?

Want to get started? Here are the latest deals, plus you can use the search box to find anything on Amazon.

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How can you help with the Summer Fair?

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Cakes on the cake stall (2007)

With the Summer Fair approaching on 11 July 2009, we are still looking for people to help us with the event. Can you help? Here are just some of the tasks we could do with some help on:

  • ideas for a raffle prize/sponsor
  • help running a stall
  • help in advance (shopping/fetching etc)
  • help with setting up/clearing away on the day

Do let us know if you could get involved in any of the above activities.

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T-shirt competition for Summer Fair 2009

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The PSA is running a t-shirt design competition in the run-up to the Summer Fair next month. Pupils are encouraged to design and make a t-shirt, wear it to the Summer Fair and enter the competition. There will be a first prize and a runner-up prize for the best Infant and Junior designs.

The theme for designs this year is “animals”.

The t-shirt making workshops are already fully booked. But your child can still enter the competition by developing their design through to final artwork at home, with some parental guidance.

Here is the presentation that pupils saw to get ideas about designing and making t-shirts:

Hamilton PSA T Shirt competition 2009

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Nominate your favourite local charity at Sainsbury’s

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

To mark Sainsbury’s 140th anniversary, the supermarket is inviting shoppers and staff in each branch to nominate a local charity to become that branch’s charity of the year.

Look out for the nomination forms in Sainsbury’s now, and post them in the store. Nominations are open between 6 and 26 May 2009. As you know, Hamilton PSA is a registered charity so why not nominate us? Hamilton Primary is of course the largest primary school in Colchester so our work does benefit a large number of primary children in Colchester.

Sainsbury's local charity of the year nomination card

The form simply asks for the charity’s name (“Hamilton PSA”), why you think it makes a difference to the lives of people in our local community (we’ll leave that up to you), and contact details – why not write in the web address (www.hamiltonprimary.org.uk)?

I’ve picked up a couple of spare nomination forms if anyone would like one. I’ll bring them with me on Monday morning to the infants’ playground.

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Next open meeting on 14 May

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

The next PSA Open Meeting takes place on Thursday evening from 7.30pm, to be held in the demountable classroom. Every parent of a child at Hamilton is welcome to attend.

Come along and find out more. You can get involved as much or as little as you have time for. Maybe you’ve got ideas, contacts or other ways of helping. We hope to see you there.

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Fill in a form, raise 37p for the PSA

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Here’s a quick and simple way for each of you to raise 37p for the PSA, and acquire 2 for 1 cinema tickets for yourself.

Just visit one the websites below, promoting Great Getaway Weekends from Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge.

Chrysler – Great Getaway Weekends
Jeep – Great Getaway Weekends
Dodge – Great Getaway Weekends

Enter your contact details and download one voucher to activate your donation.

This offer is limited to one donation from dowloading your first voucher from any one of these sites. Full details of the promotion is available on the Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge websites.

I’ve just done so and raised 37p for the PSA. Will you?

And if filling in a form is not for you, why not raise 5p just by visiting the LAN Airlines website?

If you are registered on easyfundraising.org.uk you can earn a maximum of 5p per day for visiting this site.

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Win a Nintendo Wii games console

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Easyfundraising has teamed up with online auction site eBay to give away a brand new Nintendo Wii and all you have to do to be in with a chance to win this great prize is support Hamilton PSA with easyfundraising.

  • Easyfundraising will give you one entry into the draw every time you make a purchase through the easyfundraising site until 28 February 2009. So, if you make 20 purchases from ANY of its 600+ well known retailers, you’ll get 20 entries into the draw! It’s as simple as that!
  • Plus, easyfundraising will give you TWO entries when you register and make your first bid with eBay or make a winning bid.
  • We’ll also give you an extra entry when you refer a friend to easyfundraising. You’ll get one extra entry for every friend you tell so click here to let your friends know about easyfundraising.
  • Even better, if you are new to eBay, when you register and make your first bid on the site, you’ll raise £4.00 for Hamilton PSA AND earn two chances to win this prize.

Can we make fundraising any easier?!

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Join us at the next PSA meeting on 3 February

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The next PSA open meeting will take place next week on Tuesday 3 February at 7.30pm.

‘Open’ means it is open to any parent of a child at Hamilton and any member of the school’s staff, so do join us to hear the latest news and discuss plans for future fundraising and events.

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Buy bargain books from School Link

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Please look through your new School Link catalogue, which was sent home last week, for some bargain books and earn the PSA over 10% commission on all orders. Also, you don’t pay any postage if you order via the school. Orders will be sent home with your child or you can collect the items yourself if you indicate this when you order.

Orders need to be in by Friday 30 January and should be left in one of the blue PSA boxes on the windowsill near the office. Please quote our school link number (0004112299) on your order form and make sure that you have filled in all the relevant boxes on the form – especially your child’s name and class – as it makes the orders much easier to process. Cheques should be made payable to the Book People Ltd or you can pay by credit card. Please do not enclose any cash with your order.

Don’t forget that the School Link website has a larger selection of books and Hamilton School will still get 10% commission on orders. You don’t, however, get the free postage if you order direct from the website unless your order is over £25. Set up an account on the website at www.schoollink.co.uk and donate your points to Hamilton (the School Link number is 0004112299).

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