Congratulations and thank you to all parents, staff and pupils who helped raise £2,794.41 for Little Haven’s Children’s Hospice, the school’s chosen charity for the year.
You can find out more about the charity at
Their next fundraising event takes place on 24 October, a Moonlight Fright Night sponsored walk.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s Summer Fair a success. The good weather returned just in time and lots of stalls reported a very busy time. We’ll let you know the total raised as soon as we know it.
The Children’s disco was very popular last Friday, with Hamilton pupils receiving some red carpet treatment on their way into school. Passing the white stretch limo, they all headed into the infant hall, dressed as their favourite movie characters.
There were dance prizes and a raffle, and infants and juniors seemed to have a good time. Thank you to all those who helped at the event and in organising it.
Hamilton School PSA has been awarded £10,000 of National Lottery funding. Together with the £10,000 we have raised ourselves, this means that we can now start to upgrade the facilities in the junior playground.
The plans we submitted include a wooden stage for impromptu performances, a wildlife garden, benches, a pergola and an all-weather artificial grass surface to replace the muddy patch of earth near the railings.
PSA chair Kim Lane said: “We can’t wait to get started, so watch that space!”
The Summer Fair on Saturday 12 July has raised £5,100 in profit, “the best ever result” according to Mr Reynolds. This money will go towards improving the Junior playground area for the children.
Thank you to everyone involved in preparing the event, to all those who ran stalls, and to everyone who came along and supported the event.
Incidentally, Mr Reynolds reports that the police officers who attended the fair in their car on the junior playground commented on how the school “had a lovely atmosphere, on the sensible children and on the pleasant parents”. They thanked the PSA for inviting them.
Thank you for everyone’s support for the Book Club held at school over the past year. As a result, the school has received £162 to spend on books for the school library. There are plans to hold future Book Clubs once a term.
The PSA has received its first commission payment from Amazon.co.uk for sales generated via the Hamilton PSA website. From the site’s launch until the end of November, your purchases have generated £85.91.
Not a bad start since all it involved was remembering to shop at Amazon via the PSA’s dedicated shop or link.
However, we think we can do a lot better. Hamilton parents, staff, friends and anyone else you’ve told about this site, bought 120 books, CDs, videos etc via Amazon during those six months, spending £1,446.19.
Imagine how much the PSA would earn if we boosted that to 1000 items. It’s far from impossible: think how many books, CDs, toys, DVDs, electrical appliances that Hamilton parents and their contacts buy each year for their children, themselves and others. Of course not everyone will use Amazon or even shop online, but a good proportion of us probably do and might be open to using Amazon if the purchase made money for the PSA.
So, bookmark the Hamilton PSA shop and let other’s know about it.
Jeans for Genes Day, when Hamilton pupils and staff came to school in denim in return for making a donation, raised £370.61. The money will be used to help children with genetic disorders.
As well as the fundraising, pupils learned how getting ‘denimised’ would help other boys and girls. Mrs Anderson gave a Powerpoint presentation to Key Stage 2 children explaining how they money would be used, to the accompaniment of jeans-related music, and Miss Wilding told the Key Stage 1 children how wearing their jeans would help.
Photo – two girls in jeans (not Hamilton pupils). Copyright 2007 Jeans for Genes Campaign
PSA Treasurer Becky King has reported the latest income figures for events and activities in 2007. It has been a very successful year so far, with the Summer Ball performing particularly well. And there is still the Summer Fair to go.
Activities and their results for 2007 are:
Quiz Night £614
Bulb Sales £152
Fashion Show £453
Easter Egg £80
Disco £337
Summer Ball £3,776
Total £5,412
Thank you to everyone involved and to all those who supported these activities.
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