PTA - Ashwell Primary School

A BUSY YEAR SO FAR
The PTA has had a busy year so far. It started with the Concert at Townsend House. It was a
lovely evening of music and great food. Thank you to Tina Angel for organising the food and a
team of helpers in the kitchen.
October saw the school turn back time to the 80’s, an era when music was great and the fashion
was even greater!? Our new resident DJ in town, Simon McCutcheon, kept the music going while
those attending rekindled their youth by dressing up and dancing the night away remembering the
good old (or not so old) days.
Firework night was a worry as it was held on a Sunday, and yes attendance was low compared to
previous years, but still a great night of spectacular fireworks, scrummy Crumps hotdogs and
delicious mulled wine.
The Turkey Dinner was a great night. A lovely Christmas dinner was prepared and cooked by a
team of cooks headed and organised by Claire Moynihan. Once again the room was transformed
from a school dining room.
There was our very successful Burns Supper in January. Thank you to Tricia Pritchard, Mandy
Ferguson and Lindsey Foulkes who organised a great night this year. The meal and speeches
went down a treat and then we had a good laugh trying the Scottish dancing to a live band this
year, flown in from Scotland.
The New Year brought yet more events, with a great kids disco held in February. We had a new
DJ, Simon McCutcheon, on board who played music and held dance competitions. The PTA
would like to thank Wendy Hepburn for all her hard work in organising the discos: the children
have such a great time. The next disco is planned for July.
The Quiz Night was held in March for a change this year. Attendance at the Quiz Night was
fantastic and it was great to see so many people from the village attending. The questions were
challenging, but we had a winner, after having a lovely ploughman’s supper to fuel the brains of
everyone. Congratulations to the winners and also a huge thank you to Nicole Rubio for organising
the event.
In between all the above events, other fundraising has been going on with Let Them Eat Cake
organised by the Class Reps for each year group. A big thank you to you for providing delicious
cakes to buy - we certainly have great bakers among the parents.
Northwick Wrapping Paper is ordered for parents every Christmas. A big thank you to Sam List
who has dealt with this every year.
We had a change from Tea Towels this year with a School Calendar produced instead, using the
children’s own artwork. The children had a great fun drawing themselves and the staff got in the
act too with some excellent drawings. Thank you to everyone who purchased one or two or
three……..
We had our Easter Egg Competition, which again produced some fantastic artwork and it was
immediately apparent that the children had spent a lot of time and effort on their designs. Judging
was extremely difficult and well done to everyone.
Diary Dates
Here are some forthcoming events. Please put them in your diaries and attend if you can! We
always need people to help with running events, so if you feel that you have time or talent to
share, please let us know.