How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

The main way that the Parent Forum supports Dunbar PS is by parents and grandparents helping in the school so

that pupils can get to do lots of activities, that without these extra adults, simply couldn’t happen.

One of the important ways that the Parent Council helps the school is by fundraising and donating funds to the school to buy equipment that otherwise could not be

purchased.

In the last school year (2012-2013), the Parent Council raised over £9,600 for our school & £8,260 in 2011-2012.

Dunbar Primary School is one of the largest primary schools in the UK, with over 1,025 pupils and 50 volunteer parents acting as Class Representatives for the 38 classes on the Parent Council. We aim to have 2 Reps for every class so with 76 Rep places, we’re proud to have achieved 66% uptake.  The Co-Chairs coordinate the varied activities of nine Parent Council Sub-Groups.1. Fundraising & Social Events Group2. School Grounds3. Healthy Living:4. Keeping Parents Informed5. Delivering the Curriculum6. Literacy7. Science, Maths, Technology & ICT8. Visual & Performing Arts9. Nursery

Sub Group 1: Fundraising & EventsFundraising Events

This Year2012-13

Last Year2011-12

Funds raisedto date£9,602.29

Allocation of funds raised Funds raised£8,259

Allocation of funds raised

2013 School Calendar (750 copies)

£1,725.96 To be spent on a Trim Trail (outdoor playground equipment) for John Muir Campus

£1,839 £60 allocated per Class & Teacher to buy resources after the new campus opened, totalling £1,642.50

Ceilidh n/a n/a £45 Contributed to the Jubilee ice creams for every pupil.

Christmas Cards

£1,183.38 To be spent on an Artist in Residence (AIR) with all P3 Pupils in May 2013

£1,501 Covered costs of art supplies for 'Little People” whole school Art Project'. Remainder to be used for future AIRs

Ladies Night (29 November 2012)

£2,687.82 To be spent on a Trim Trail (outdoor playground equipment) for John Muir Campus

£2,996 2 x Visualisers £361.222 x Activate system £818Fluorescent jackets£161.99 833 Jubilee ice creams £639.74

Toy Sale(7 December 2012)

£290.60 Spent on new outdoor playground equipment for Harbour & Seashore Nursery Rooms

£435 Nursery equipment £435

School Fair(25 May 2013)

£3,630.53 To be confirmed £1,443 Allocated to Trim Trail (outdoor playground equipment) for John Muir Campus

School Lottery £84

To subsidise travel expenses, initially Christmas events

n/a n/a

School Calendar 2012-13 raised £1,726 going towards costs of replacement Trim Trail, John Muir Campus

Ceilidh: social gathering, not for fund raising. Did not take place this school year but will be organised for next session.

Christmas Cards 2012 raised £1,183. Covered cost of the P3 Artist in Residence, Ross Combe, with remainder (plus £510 left over from previous year’s card sales) will to go towards 2 Artists in Residence in the next session

Ladies Night 2012 raised £2,688 going towards costs of replacement Trim Trail, John Muir Campus

Toy Sale 2012 raised £291 and has been spent on new outdoor play equipment for Harbour and Seashore Nursery Rooms: a caterpillar and pirate ship (which was faulty & will be replaced)

School Fair 2013 raised £3,631: Pupil’s stalls profits generated £85 per year group for pupils and teachers to spend on items they agree they need. Remainder to cover costs of P1 Book Bags, P7 class photo memento T-shirts, stilts and space hoppers for John Muir Campus and if possible brass instruments (school will pay 50%).

School Lottery 2012-13 had a poor initial uptake but by June had raised £84. It will be relaunched 2013-2014. The objective is to get the majority of parent to join for just £12 a year and so raise sufficient funds to subsidise school trip transport costs, initially Christmas events.

2011-12 £60 ALLOCATION PER CLASS – LIST OF ITEMS PURCHASED

Harbour/Seashore Orchard toys, monster bingo, doodlebugs, creepy castle

Woodlands Amazon jigsaws

Lighthouse Amazon 2 chicco bullet balance bikes

Haven Asco fingers and toes, party number puzzle, sorting houses

P1A P1 classes grouped together

P1B Amazon bananograms, jcb multiconstruction, Melissa and doug castle wooden figures, farm family set, aquatic nature tube

P1C Water fun set pretend and play airport set

P1D Fuzzy felt sets parachutes jumbo tweezers

P1E Insects convection poly bag

P1F Workbench all Amazon website

P2A Amazon, slug in jug, yo ho ho, tummy ache, fruit frenzy, super marble run, giant snakes and ladders, hairy mclary story collection

P2/3 Amazon construction boxes and tool box

P2C YPO lego brick set, octoplay, dominoes, peg boards & pegs

P2D Amazon games and puppets

P2E Junior Monopoly, Beads from Amazon

P3A Multilink cubes P3a and b clubbed together

P3B Multilink panorama scene

P3C

CP UNIT Yellow Room – YPO Easigrip Tweezers, Talk Tinie Cards, Big Point

P4A Football Table Top Game, Pig goes pop

P4B Monopoly Puppets lego

P4C Lego, Football Table, Kerplunk

P4D Lego pavilion Pop up relay set

P5A Deluxe Mini Desk top table, Kids Compendium Velcro Darts Wii Dance Game, Giant 4 in a row

P5/6 Berol Pens

P5C Connect 4, Guess who, Pictureka, Frustration, Twister

P5D Hama Beads Football Table

P6B Sports Table, & Sea Monkey, Football

P6C Lava Lamps

P6D Beanbags

P7A Football Table, Electronic Dictionaries, Twister, Spiral Art, Spir-Animal

P7B Snooker Table

P7C Berol Pens

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Major items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012 2 x Visualisers @ £180.61 = £361.22

Major items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012

2 x Activote @ £409 = £818

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012833 Ice Creams for Jubilee picnic, June

2012

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012September 2012: Playground equipment £200

Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012National Trust School Membership £80

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012June 2012: Contributions towards gifts for retiring

Teachers

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012June 2012: Contribution to Group Call costs £500

How does the Parent Council support Dunbar PS?

Water bottles for all P1s: £140

Sub Group 2: School Grounds

• “Stop, Drop & Hop” campaign• Furniture & equipment e.g. new Trim Trail for

the John Muir Campus• Lunchtime Gardening Club• Access issues

STOP

HOP

DROP

at the school gate

off bike, scooter or ripstik

them neatly at the stands

Sub Group 3: Healthy Living

• Walking, scootering & cycling to school• Bikeability• Traffic safety on school routes: “Twenty’s

Plenty”• Healthy Snack Trolley• Bug Busting weekends (no more nits!)• 2012-13: DPS branded sports kit

Show your support – join the event “Dunbar’s Bug Busting

Weekend” on Facebook and spread the word!

Sub Group 4: Keeping Parents Informed (Communications)

• PC Communication Questionnaire• Pupil post, email, Group Call text messages,

posters• Coffee mornings• Parent to Parent Guides x 10 versions: 2 year

olds via Health Visitors, 2x Nursery & P1-7

Sub Group 5: Delivering the Curriculum

An exciting new Numeracy Initiative is being developed –“Together we count”

with the other Dunbar Cluster PSs

Sub Group 6: Literacy(Reading & Writing)

• Readathon• Library Volunteers• Birthday books• 2012-13: New initiative “Dunbar

Reads Together”

Sub Group 7: Science, Maths, Technology & ICT

Sub Group 8: Visual & Performing Arts

• ‘Little People of the World’ Olympic Arts Project

Artist in Residence: Ross Combe with P3, May & June 2013

Every P3 pupil made:

• Insect Hotel• Mapped Dunbar• Felt Clouds• Pocket Globe

Sub Group 9: Nursery