PTA Update

PARENT FORUM AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

On Monday 17th November, we hosted this year’s PTA AGM and Parents’ Forum. Thank you so much to everyone who attended. The evening was a chance for parents to meet in an informal setting, enjoying a buffet (prepared by our school chef Tom, and set up by our incredible site team), followed by the AGM (a summary of the PTA work from the last year (2024/2025) and voting in the trustees for 2025/6), and finishing with a forum led by Laura Ellener and Karen Emmett.

We are delighted to announce that the total PTA funds raised in 2024/2025 was an incredible £141,000!! Thank you to everyone who played a part in reaching this remarkable sum, most especially the car boot team, and all the monthly volunteers.

Full minutes of the meeting are available via the PTA section of the school website.

NOVEMBER BIDS’ MEETING

Huge thanks to all the parents who attended this term’s Bids’ Meeting. Over £60,000 worth of bids were approved with some absolutely wonderful opportunities for the students across all years and departments. The full list of bids is below;

  • Humanutopia Programme – £5,760
  • Rising Futures Programme – £3,500
  • Hounslow Action Youth Enterprise Project – £5,000
  • Chromebooks (30 devices + trolley) – £6,847
  • Year 11 Tutoring Programme – £3,440
  • Sixth Form Tutoring Programme – £2,250
  • Bread-Making Workshop – £420
  • Food Tech Revision Materials – £145 (provisional)
  • Cyborgs Robotics Competition – £1,000
  • Year 9 Cologne Trip (MFL) – £4,000
  • Year 11 Berlin History Trip (History) – £2,740
  • Naples Geography Trip – £2,200
  • Sarajevo Music Trip – £2,000
  • Hamilton Theatre Visit – £892
  • An Inspector Calls Performance – £1,200
  • Year 7 Swimming Programme – £2,565
  • Rugby Coaching – £3,500
  • Cricket Programme (in collaboration with Chiswick Cricket Club) – £2,700
  • Boxing Coaching – £1,395
  • Skills Coaches (Multi-sport) – £4,650
  • Trampolining coaching – £720
  • Spare PE Kit – £500
  • Table Tennis Equipment - £275
  • Size 5 Footballs (LT) - £390
  • Movie, popcorn and rewards for Year 7 students - £475
  • West London Stem Challenge - £490
  • Loops ear defenders (SEND)- £300
  • Chiswick Character Mosaic (Art) - £468.18
  • Y12/13 German trip to BFI workshop - £38.50
  • History Essay Prize - £193.71
  • Afternoon Tea Party - £200
  • Food KS3 and KS4 - £500
  • Comic Workshop - £490

Full minutes will be ready to view here, and on the PTA section of the school website shortly.

EASYFUNDRAISING:

If you haven't already, please sign up to easyfundraising here. Just this quarter, £371.42 has been raised for Chiswick school at no cost to our supporters! There are just 314 active givers, with £7,483.44 raised in total since the initiative began. Please do download the app, or sign up, if you haven’t already - especially if you are shopping for the festive season ahead!

NOVEMBER CAR BOOT SALE

An ENORMOUS thanks to ALL the parents, carers, teachers and students who helped at the November car boot sale. It was a really tough sale, with huge sections of the playground and field unusable due to a combination of dire weather, water logging the ground, and building repairs! Despite the difficult conditions, our resilient volunteers worked their magic in the cold and wet, to raise invaluable funds for our students and the school. The sale raised a fantastic £6500!

Every single Car Boot Sale takes over 300 volunteer hours - from preparation of the school site, online advertising, replying to queries, numbering flyers, sorting the float, moving goals, putting up banners, to the on the day work: managing the queue, parking the cars, taking payment on the gate, managing the office and the finances, and then of course the clear up…

There are now over 175 current parents who regularly volunteer for the car boot sales and for events, in addition to alumni parents, which is outstanding.

To learn more about the car boot, especially as a seller or buyer, visit our website. Or follow us on instagram for up to date announcements and updates.

REFRESHMENT BARS: SIXTH FORM OPEN EVENING, JUNIOR RECITAL and SENIOR RECITAL

Thank you so much to the PTA volunteers who supported the refreshment bars for the two November music events and the sixth form open evening. This was the first time the PTA has been asked to support this event, answering questions and selling refreshments, and the feedback was hugely positive.

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