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 SubGroups.
1. Fundraising & Social Events Group
2. School Grounds
3. Healthy Living:
4. Keeping Parents Informed
5. Delivering the Curriculum
6. Literacy
7. Science, Maths, Technology & ICT
8. Visual & Performing Arts
9. Nursery
Sub Group 1: Fundraising & Events
Fundraising
Events
This Year
2012-13
Funds raised
to date
£9,602.29
Allocation of funds raised
Last Year
2011-12
Funds
raised
£8,259
Allocation of funds raised
2013
School £1,725.96
Calendar (750
copies)
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
Ladies
Night
(29 November
2012)
£2,687.82
To be spent on a Trim Trail
(outdoor playground equipment)
for John Muir Campus
£2,996
Covered costs of art supplies for
'Little People” whole school Art
Project'. Remainder to be used for
future AIRs
2 x Visualisers £361.22
2 x Activate system £818
Fluorescent 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
School Fair
(25 May 2013)
£3,630.53
To be confirmed
£1,443
School Lottery
£84
To subsidise travel expenses,
initially Christmas events
n/a
Allocated to Trim Trail (outdoor
playground equipment) for John Muir
Campus
n/a
equipment
£435
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 2011-2012
833 Ice Creams for Jubilee picnic, June
2012
How does the Parent Council support
Dunbar PS?
Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012
September 2012: Playground equipment £200
Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012
National Trust School Membership £80
How does the Parent Council support
Dunbar PS?
Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012
June 2012: Contributions towards gifts for retiring
Teachers
How does the Parent Council support
Dunbar PS?
Items purchased with PC funds 2011-2012
June 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
at the school gate
HOP
DROP
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)
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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
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Every P3 pupil
made:
Insect Hotel
Mapped Dunbar
Felt Clouds
Pocket Globe
Sub Group 9: Nursery