{"id":35,"date":"2014-11-06T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/head14.minchacademy.net\/?p=35"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:17:55","slug":"our-pta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/2014\/11\/06\/our-pta\/","title":{"rendered":"Our PTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our PTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our PTA is a very impressive outfit. Now, of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m duty-bound to make remarks like this but please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass off my claim as one of those head teacher platitudes. Know that I have worked with a good number of PTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over the length of my career but none of them come within a country mile of our team here. What is it that makes them special? Yes, they raise much needed funds for the school- and a very significant amount at that, and yes, these funds have been well used to provide excellent opportunities and resources for the children. This is clearly the core purpose of PTA work and resources like the library, the scrap store and Woodhenge are educationally exciting as well as being intrinsic to the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision and ethos. However what sets our PTA apart is the level of their commitment; their resourcefulness and their creativity. The events themselves are often on a very large scale and\/or often unique to Minchinhampton- the Fire Works and the Comedy night being prime examples. Children and adults alike love these kind of\u00c2\u00a0events\u00c2\u00a0and they\u00c2\u00a0also provide a focal point for the community at large. I would strongly urge you to get involved in any way you can- partly for the undoubted pleasure of taking part and partly because it represents the perfect way of supporting your school and your children. Ahead of the Fire Works on Saturday, I would like to say again, a big thank you to the PTA for all their fine work.<\/p>\n<p>N Moss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our PTA Our PTA is a very impressive outfit. Now, of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m duty-bound to make remarks like this but please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass off my claim as one of those head teacher platitudes. Know that I have worked with a good number of PTA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over the length of my career but none of them come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/2014\/11\/06\/our-pta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our PTA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minchacademy.net\/headteacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}