Welcome to Mandeville!

We are delighted that you are joining our amazing school.

Mandeville PTA (Parent Teacher Association) is a volunteer organisation open to all parents and carers of students, therefore we warmly welcome you to be actively involved. 

How to join us ?

The PTA can't exist without an injection of new volunteers each year, you are welcome to join us via :-

• www.facebook.com/groups/friendsatmandeville is a closed group, you will need to ask to join this group and once we have checked with the school office that you are connected to school, we will accept your request. This page is for reminders of events, co-ordinate volunteers and a forum for a sense of community amongst parents.
• https://www.facebook.com/MandevillePTA, which is a public page, mainly used for spreading the word on our events! Just click to like this one!
• follow us on twitter - @PTA_Mandeville1
• email any questions or even better, suggestions and ideas to pta@mandeville.herts.sch.uk

Committee members 2022-2023

Chair - Kimberley Baron 

Vice Chair - Marianne Otto

Treasurer - TBC

Secretary - Dean Grimshawe

PTA has 3 key aims

1. To arrange FUN activities for our children.
2. To support the School through fundraising events to purchase "above and beyond" resources that benefits our children.
3. To work hard to ensure everyone in our community find a way to be involved and be connected.

For 2021/2022, PTA is AIMING to raise AS MUCH AS WE CAN for 

• Phonics resources in line with new Government requirement, est £3,000
• Leavers Hoodies, est £930
•  Marvellous Me Yearly Subscriptions, £479
• £0000+ Big contributions towards a new extension building for sports and faith facilities.

We have now funded :

1. 10 Bicycle locks for Y5 Cycling Workshop (£10)
2. 2021 year6 Leavers Hoodies (£1,141)
3. Christmas Crackers (£96)

PTA events calendar 2021-2022

• Macmillan Coffee Morning - Friday 24^th September, 9-10am (let's start off with a good cause!) [Expenses :£0, Raised £205.76 for MacMillan]
• Second-hand Uniforms Sale - Saturday 25^th September, 10am-12pm [Expenses :£0, Raised £212.50]
• Ecokids Collections - Wednesday 6^th October, 8-9am [Expenses :£0, Raised £147.35]
• Autumn Trails - Sunday 31^st October, 4-6pm [Expenses :£0, Raised £177.50]

• Kindness In Cottonmill - Monday 8^th November [Expenses :£149.78, Raised £140.22]     

• Silent Bids - Bidding ends at 10am, Friday 3^rd December 2021 [Expenses :£0, Raised £389]         

• Winter Fair - Sunday 5^th December 11am-2pm [Expenses :£29, Raised £1539.01]

How can you help?

Amazon Smile

We are very excited to include this feature to raise more fund for our school! 

Do select https://smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1108457-0 when you shop on Amazon.  Once registered, your shopping will provide 0.5% of the net purchase price (excluding VAT and other shipping fees) of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to PTA account.  Thank you in advance.

Easyfundraising

Do you shop online? If so, you can also help us raise funds, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! You can do your online shopping and support Friends of Mandeville fund without any additional cost to you.

You will need to go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/JEP996/  and register for Mandeville PTA – St Albans.  Once you have registered, you can download the Easyfundraising App or go via the Easyfundraising website, select the retailer you want to shop at and the site will show you the commission the PTA earns from your shopping basket.

We won't know who shopped or what you bought, but we will get a percentage of the costs into our fund. The prices are the same as if you bought "normally" - in fact, there are sometimes special offers that could even save you money! It's easy, so why not help us raise much needed funds.

Stamptastic

All uniform needs to be named and stamping your children’s name on everything is a really easy way of doing this! We receive a 30% cashback for all orders placed at https://stamptastic.co.uk/ Quote AL12LE when checking out.

Direct Donation

Following on from parent suggestions, we launched the opportunity for monetary donations to be made directly to Mandeville PTA. There is a payment item on School Gateway for donations direct to the Friends of Mandeville bank account. This is a voluntary option for anyone wanting to donate in this way.

Match Funding

A match funding scheme can be adopted by any company no matter how big or small.  Barclays, for example, offers its employees the opportunity to match funds they raise for their chosen charity up to £750 per year.  This is available for three activities a year!  Aviva, in response to feedback from their staff, has introduced a '£Plus' matching scheme.  The scheme gives Aviva employees the chance to receive matched funds for any money raised on behalf of a registered charity of their choice.

Does your workplace have a match funding scheme? Find out whether your time or contributions can stretch even further.  We can assure you that it is not complicated and will cost the you nothing other than some time to talk to your employer.

So, that is a little bit about us!  We would very much like you to get involved so please come and talk to us during Friday Coffee Morning (weather permitting), in the playground or simply leave a message in the school office.  We are a friendly, enthusiastic group who are also interested in making a difference to the extra parts of school life.  

Kind regards,

Kim, Zakia and Mary