PTA

PTA NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2025

A big welcome to all parents, step-parents, grandparents and carers,  

Oystermouth School PTA raises funds to support all our children’s learning experiences with a range of events over the school year and we are hugely grateful to everyone for their support. 

The focus of the 2025/26 year is for a new facility – a breakout or sensory room. Our school needs more space to enable any child needing extra support, whether that is in their literacy or numeracy, time out, bereavement counselling or any small group activity to do so in a quiet, undisturbed setting.  

Due to the nature of our school building, this will be a separate facility in the school with small breakout rooms, heating (and air conditioning!) so it is a big project. Mrs Morgan has been exploring ideas with the local council and we hope to have plans to share with you in 2026! 

Our second project is to improve our school library facility – an ongoing project as luckily it is well used by all our children – but the condition of the books suffers as a result. So we hope to improve both the room and the stock. 

Last year, thanks to a great committee, brilliant Class Reps, our PTA raised over £16,000 with a range of events supported by you, the parents and families, your children and our community. We spent over £14,000 for improved outdoor equipment, enhancing each teacher’s capitation allocation to improve classroom learning, purchasing the Monster Phonics resources to improve standards in literacy, supplying great new sports kit for school teams, hiring buses for events plus a commitment to the sensory room and library upgrade. 

So what’s ahead in 2025/26 … and how can we all help? 

• We shall continue with the term Discos plus Christmas and Summer Fayres which usually raise a combined total of around £10,000. 

• We are introducing a “100 CLUB” Anyone linked to our school can purchase their own ‘number’ via a £5 monthly standing order. Each month there will be a winning number for a cash prize of £50 with a special Christmas bonus of £200! (If there’s enough uptake then these sums will be higher!!) There is no limit to the number of participants nor the amount of ‘numbers’ available – you just have to have a family link to our school. To sign up, please complete the online form, see link below and here. The online form needs to be completed by the 30th September for an October draw. 

• To further support our library project, could we ask that as you do a book ‘clear out’ before Christmas or birthdays, that you consider donating really good condition books to our school library please? 

• We shall continue with events such as Pub Quiz, Colour Run which were all very popular last year. 

If you have a great fund raising idea, then chat to your Class Reps…. anything is possible!  

Your amazing donations for high quality raffle prizes always ensure superb ‘hamper’ prizes and great profits…. Thank you! Please continue your amazing support by donating, turning up at events and by joining our new ‘100 CLUB’. Remember you are the P in our PTA! 

We look forward to working with you all this year.  Thank you from your friendly PTA!