Happy Tuesday

Room 9's beautiful sunflowers pictures are now on display in the Oak Leaf Cafe. Don't forget school finishes @ 2pm tomorrow for parent/teacher/child interviews.

Minutes of PTA meeting 20 June 2012

Minutes of a meeting of St Albans School PTA held on Wednesday June 20, 2012 Present: Tracey M; Jane C; Susie; Claire; Karen; Chris; Debbie; Nicky; Ginnie; Sarah J; Mandy; John, Jacqui, Tracey H. We welcomed new school parents Melissa and Albert to the meeting. 1. Apologies: Brendan, Angela C, Lisa, Liz, Sharon, Letitia, Kirsty, Kelly 2. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting: Sarah/Tracey 3. Matters arising from previous meeting: 3.1 Thank-yous. Thank you to everyone who has helped with the Oak Leaf Cafe, the recent sausage sizzle, 2nd- hand uniform sales, sushi, and the Quiz Night. 3.2 Quiz night. This was very successful once again. Final profits are not yet tallied but over well over $2,000. Tracey recommended we specify ‘no BYO’ on tickets for next time, as this contravened our liquor licence. 3.3 Entertainment Books. Jane reported we have sold 222, which is comparable to last year. We still have 10 more books to sell. 3.3 Café. The new counter layout is working well. Sharon and John are training up as baristas. At Matt’s request we now have a café suggestion box. Ginnie is getting lino laid in the behind-counter area over the holidays to protect the carpet. Café profits will pay for half of this. We are now displaying classroom art in the cafe. Ginnie is happy for us to offer to make children hot chocolates to be delivered at morning tea, if they are too late in ordering in the morning – but we don’t want this to become an “option” – just an emergency back-up measure. Sarah will get quotes for scanning school archives photos so we can look at using them in the café or elsewhere in the school. 3.4 Fair. We still need to finalise the Haunted House location as there are security concerns about using the Rm 22-28 block. Teachers have until the end of term to name their class activity. Quite a few have done so already. John and Jacqui will talk to TTRR whanau about whether they could do a hangi. They are also looking at organising punga sales and fry bread. 3.5 School caps. Mandy has sourced some options ranging from $6-$13. Will get samples. Ask in newsletter to see if we can find a Christchurch supplier. 3.6 Barbecue. Nick has fixed it. Thanks Nick! 4. General business: 4.1 Lunches: Next term - Sushi 27th Jul; Sausage 17th Aug; Sushi 31 Aug; Sausage 14th Sept; 28th Sept will be an international food day 4.2 Food for parent teacher interviews: Weds 27/Thurs 28 June Soup: Angela/Tracey M/Tracey H/Julie/Kirsty/Amanda/Melissa Bread: Chris/Missy/Karen/Liz/Jane Cake: Angela/Marisa/Liz/Melody/Phil/Missy/Kris/Letitia/Lauren Please deliver your goodies to the staff room before 3pm on Wednesday 27th. Please name any plates/slow cookers etc. 4.3 Rachel King's book: Rachel – a school parent and author, has offered to sell her latest book for 9-12 year olds “Red Rocks” at The Oak Leaf and will donate $5 from each sale to the PTA. 4.4 Variety letter from Liz. Forwarded to Ginnie. 4.5 Wish List: Junior class teachers have requested $200 for child-friendly tape holders and craft supplies; Glen and the School Council have asked if the PTA would fund new painted line markings (games/activities etc) on playground. They have a quote for $1967.65. We agreed to fund this out of Quiz Night profits. Motion: That we donate $2,300 to pay for painting the playground and Junior class craft supplies. Moved Jane/seconded Mandy. Passed unanimously. 4.6 Hall curtains. We will organise a working bee to take them down and clean them. Mandy is to look at getting temporary scaffolding to make this easier. 5. Reports 5.1 Principal’s Report. 5.2 Treasurer’s Report. Accepted. . .

Red Rocks book for sale in Oak Leaf

Happy Friday! Thanks to all our sushi helpers today and yesterday. Matt was away from the Oak Leaf today, but Sharon, John, Celia and I managed to cope without him. We also had Rachel King (you may have read a article about Rachel in the Press weekend 2 weeks ago) in the Oak leaf this morning. Rachel has written a book called Red Rocks for 9 to 12 year olds she is also a wonderful St Albans school mum. The Oak leaf is selling Rachel's book for $20.00 and Rachel is kindly donating $5.00 from each sale to the PTA. You may even be able to get a signed copy when Rachel is in for a coffee.

Art in the Oak Leaf

There are snowmen in the Oak leaf..................Every month we will be displaying class room art from different classrooms in the Oak leaf. This month we have wonderful snowmen from room 4 and room 9. Come in for a coffee or hot chocolate and view some fabulous art.

PTA meeting update

Thanks to everyone who came along to the PTA meeting tonight, it was great to have some brand new faces there. The PTA approved $1960.00 for new line markings on the asphalt, this money was raised from the Quiz night. We also approved $200.00 for supplies for discovery time for the junior school. Don't forget to have your sushi orders back to the drop outside the office tomorrow morning. Our next PTA meeting is on Wednesday the 18th of July @ 7pm in the staffroom.

Sushi this Friday

Hello everyone, hope your week is going well. Sushi order forms will be going home tomorrow and need to be put in the drop box outside the office on Thursday morning by 9am. We now have a suggestion box in the Oak leaf cafe, any suggestions for the PTA or Oak leaf cafe are most welcome. The suggestion box can be found on the shelves in the 2nd hand uniform area. PTA meeting in the staffroom tomorrow night (Wednesday) @ 7pm. See you there! PS: check out photo's of the quiz night on the PTA facebook page (link on blog)

Agenda for Wednesday nights meeting

School pool 1937

Check out the school pool in 1937! Our Monster Fair this year is for the refurbishment of the school pool area for when we have our school pool back. Thought you might like to see this blast from the past. I will be posting Quiz night photo's soon.

Big Day tomorrow............

1 sleep to quiz night! Hope you have got your costumes out for the best dressed team. Tomorrow is a busy day for the PTA. In the Oak leaf is a parent chat on children with special needs at 9.20am.

3 sleeps to Quiz night..

3 sleeps till Quiz night. The Oak leaf cafe will be open from 7pm on Friday night for coffee's. In between rounds of questions it will be closed as Matt will be busting out some tunes on guitar, never fear Karen will be on hand to take any coffee/hot chocolate orders in the hall.

Parent Chat 15 June - Child with special learning needs

Join us on Friday 15th June, in the Oak leaf café at 9.20am if you are a parent of a child with special learning needs. This will be an informal gathering to connect with other parents who might be dealing with issues similar to yourself.

Parent Chat Friday 29th June - Dyslexia

On Friday 29th June, our SENCO, Loriann Wakefield, will lead a session all about dyslexia. Please register for our upcoming parent café chats in the office or the café so we know who is attending and can plan accordingly. A minimum number is required for the chat to go ahead. If you have ideas of topics for future chats please email your ideas to claire.howison@stalbans.school.nz

Quiz night update

4 sleeps till Quiz night. The quiz night fairies are working hard to get everything organised and Michael Williams is rehearsing his one liners! It's a cash bar on Friday night so remember to bring cash and coins for the bourbon toss. Matt our multi talented barista will be serenading you on guitar on the night while making coffees (should be interesting to watch)! Hope you are all studying hard!