Dunraven PTA

 

Next meeting - Tuesday 18 May, at 6pm (until 7.30) in the Sixth Form block, room 004.

 

Dunraven School is preparing for the next phase of Building Schools for the Future, and we the work for our new and refurbished school buildings is due to start in the summer. What are the proposed plans? What improvements to the school will BSF offer?  What will the school look like? Will there be enough outdoor space still? What will happen during the construction period? How will my child be affected?

To find out the answers to these and any other questions you might have, come along and meet the architect and landscape designers as well as representatives from Lambeth BSF and from Engage, who have designed and will be building and managing our new school premises.

There will also be information on the new uniform supplier, with samples and prices. Dunraven will be selling uniform from next year through the school.

 

DPTA Quiz night was held on 31 March 2010 at 7pm.


On March 4 we are held a special additional DPTA meeting in the LS Library from 6-7pm for all parents and carers to come along and help write the rounds for the quiz night and volunteer to help.  

 

Meeting on Tuesday 15 December 2009.

Gillian Smith and David Boyle gave a presentation on the Building Schools for the Future [BSF] redevelopment and refurbishment programme that will be underway at Dunraven from the autumn of 2010. Families were given an overview of the proposals from the 2 companies who are bidding for the BSF programme in Lambeth. There will be a final decision early next term as to which plans will be used. Further information will be available in the Spring Term. The BSF session was followed by a tour of the new Sports Hall with DoL for PE, Pete Dixon.

The next DPTA meeting will be in the Lower School Library on Tuesday 4 March 2010 from 6 - 7 pm to plan for the social event to be held on March 31 - the DPTA Quiz Night. This meeting will also ask parents to look at a selection of our school policies and documents for comments and feedback

The previous meeting was on Tuesday 13 October 2009 in the lower school library, chaired by Joy Andrews (assistant principal) and Michelle Beute (parent governor).

The agenda was:

  1. Welcome and introductions

  2. Aims of the DPTA

  3. Suggestions and comments

Some of the suggestions made were:

  1. Improving the website to make it more up to date with recent events . Some activities never appear at all eg Activities week photos and articles

  2. Having a forum or chatroom in the website for parents to exchange Qs and information

  3. Providing parents with more opportunities to get involved with the school eg helping on visits, with the library after school, running quiz nights and car boot sales, international evenings and talent shows, BBQ night

  4. Information on the website of who to contact , and how, about certain things eg - appointments , lost property, homework issues etc

  5. Fund raising ideas using cake sales , bring and buy sales etc to buy a specific item the school needs

  6. Welcome evening for not just Y7 but Y8 and 9 too

  7. Welcome evening for Y7 needs to be 30m longer

  8. How can families find out about more the new building programme for 2010-2012

  9. What clubs are running and when, where and by whom?

A small group of parents offered their contact details to Ms Beute to meet again soon to plan some events, based on these suggestions, for this year

 


 

Dunraven School is preparing for the next phase of Building Schools for the Future, and we the work for our new and refurbished school buildings is due to start in the summer. What are the proposed plans?

What improvements to the school will BSF offer?  What will the school look like? Will there be enough outdoor space still? What will happen during the construction period? How will my child be affected?

To find out the answers to these and any other questions you might have, come along and meet the architect and landscape designers as well as representatives from Lambeth BSF and from Engage, who have designed and will be building and managing our new school premises.

There will also be information about the new uniform supplier and a chance to look at samples of their stock which will be sold from the Dunraven premises.