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.

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.

This is the occasion on which we get to vote on spending the current funds, so come along to make your vote count.

We shall all be electing a new Chairperson and a new Treasurer. If you’d like to find out more about these positions or to offer yourself as a candidate, do come along. Don’t worry – the PSA needs all kinds of people to get involved, doing as much or as little as their time allows.

The AGM gets underway at 7.30pm in the lower school hall.

If you can’t make it on the night but would still like to be involved somehow, or have ideas and suggestions, please contact Diana on 01206 765790.

You can find out more about the charity at

www.littlehavens.org.uk

Their next fundraising event takes place on 24 October, a Moonlight Fright Night sponsored walk.

We’re particularly looking for soft toys, games, DVDs, puzzles, bric-a-brac, toys, and new or nearly new items for the tombola. Thank you.

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.

If you would like to find out more about the position or apply for it, please contact the Chair or Secretary of the PSA via this site or via the blue PSA boxes outside the school office.

Sign promoting 2009 Summer Fair

The Summer Fair is the biggest fundraising event of the year for the PSA, and we want this year’s to be the most successful ever.

To achieve this though we’re going to need some help. So we’re looking for volunteers to staff the stalls; sort out old toys, books, DVDs and tombola prizes; pot up plants; grow extra produce; and make jam and other goodies ready for donation next month.

If you can help please fill in the tear-off slip on the PSA Newsletters that we have been sending home for the past few weeks. Or contact us via this website.

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: