Kelly Smith, Chair of Southrop School PTA
Supporting your school
“ The PTA have always been an active and integral part of the school community, as well as village life”
Kelly Smith, Chair of Southrop School PTA
We’ re a rural village school with an average of 50 pupils, which is about 30 families with siblings. Because we have so few families in the school, sometimes we struggle with fundraising, but the positive side of that is the support we get. Parents chose our school because they wanted a small village school, and so many people say it ' s straight out of a little old book!
We ' ve got nine parent members on our PTA and one teacher representative. We have both mums and dads on the committee as well. Teachers are key to making sure that we are a success. In the last two years they’ ve wanted our PTA meetings to be held in the school so the children see us. We hadn ' t really thought about it before, but it’ s important the kids see mum or dad taking an interest in their school life – it makes such a difference.
The PTA was formed back in 1973
The first recorded funding was in the same year to take the children swimming on a weekly basis. From the minutes of the first ever meeting, it ' s funny how some things haven ' t
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