Cold Ash St Mark's CE Primary School

“The work of the School Association is vital to the children and the school community. Not only does the fundraising help the school afford extra equipment and services to benefit our children, but the work is valuable in bringing together the school community at important times of the year”

Barry Anns - Chair of Governors January 2024

Every parent or guardian of a child or children attending the school is automatically a member of the School Association. Membership of the Association is also open to Governors and staff of the school as well as parents or guardians of ex-pupils of the school.

Over the past few academic years the School Association have funded or partly funded items such as:

1. Swimming Lessons / Coach Transport for Year 3 & 4 - this has helped make swimming lesson costs more manageable for all parents
2. Classroom Budgets – this covers new resources that each teacher uses throughout the year
3. Subsidised coach transport for school trips – this has helped make visit costs more manageable for all parents
4. Library Budget – providing a monthly budget to the school to buy new books for the library
5. Benches for Year 4,5 & 6 – to allow children to have somewhere to sit for lunch outside
6. Whiteboard Licenses - to enable the school to teach using the interactive whiteboards in each class
7. Mrs Cload's salary (crossing patrol) – to keep everyone safe at the start and end of the day
8. EYFS Refurb project – the SA have enabled this project to go ahead by funding £11k towards this
9. AV Equipment replacement in the hall so all children and staff have ongoing access to online resources in the hall.

I would like to officially thank all the members of the School Association for their support and hard work this year, as a (very) small team we have managed to raise £20,000 which is phenomenal.

Katie Cameron - Chair of School Association - July 2023

In addition to raising an amazing amount of money for our school, the School Association has:

• subsidised theatre company productions to the whole school
• held school discos
• organised a fun run
• organised working parties to tidy up the school grounds.

If you are interested in joining the School Association committee or in any of the roles on the committee, please contact Bee Richardson on:

rebeccar8291@googlemail.com

If you would like to make a one-off or monthly donation to the School Association, please see our bank details in the document below.