AGM
Firstly, Thank you to everyone who contributed all through the year, especially Paulina who will be sorely missed. I’m sorry to see you go but thanks for all your help up to now. 

We are going to go through a brief review of 2016/2017. 

We finished last year on a strong note with the Family Fun Day. Donal was the event planner and it ran like clockwork. It was a good fundraiser and popular with everyone. Many parents contributed and there was a strong attendence.  

The school yard was painted by Dell, which was marvelous. They mentioned they are interested in helping out again which is great for the school.  

It was the first year with the monthly Coffee morning, which is an opportunity for the parents to get to know one another. If you would like to help out this year, please get in touch. 
We also had a poster created for Coffee Mornings in aid of the building fund. This can be reused by the PTA. If you are unfamiliar with the format of a Coffee Morning, we can talk you through it.  

The International Food fair which ran last December, organised by Angie Smalis, was very positively received. It allows all the families in the school to share their cultural dishes and culture with the rest of the school. A lot of parents were involved and poured their hearts into their cultural dishes. It also raised a good amount for the school building fund. 

The class tea towels and class photographs were an excellent fundraiser. Thanks in particular to Ciara Fleming helped with taking class photographs last year. 

Jo Conlon led the clothes collection last year. Parents could bring in outgrown clothes for collection and the school receives the money.  The PTA intend to repeat the clothes collection biyearly as it’s useful to the parents, and good money for the school. We have some ideas how to make it easier for the next time. 

Maureen Purcell took the lead in submitting the school to the Tesco Community Collection. We may need to keep applying, but the process is started. The Christmas Caroling Milk Market ran  again with a lot of help from the teachers in the school.  Time and location was very successful, so we will try to keep to the same timing this year. 

Donal kindly manned the stall at Villiers Christmas fair which was our first fundraiser of the last school year. Parents contributed baking and other items for the stall. 

While we did a good job to running the regular events and adding some new events, we have a opportunity to do even better this year. 

Planned Activities for 2017/2018

We are setting up a Sponsored walk for parents and children, we need to give 6 weeks notice for the Gardai for running this. This should be fun for the families and also raise funds for the building fund. 

We want to run the summer clothes collection now that summer is coming to an end, clothes will be brought to the school and the school gets some money for it. It is loosely planned for October. 

In November we plan for our History talk, speaker Jerome Aan de Weil. Topic is a history of Ireland’s engagement international aid efforts.

At the end of November or the beginning of December will be the International food fair, to keep to the same timing as last year. 

Part of our aim for this year is to complete the school website and have the online donations set up so ex-pupils can donated to the school. If anyone has any experience in fundraising donations from Companies, we would also like to speak to you.