Parents’ Page

Dear DH parents,

It feels unbelievable writing this that nearly a year has gone by since we starting planning events for the PA and what a great year it’s been! During the last three terms we’ve been busy bees! We were involved in Headmasters’ drinks, Bonfire Night and the “It’s a Knock Out” Coronation events

We’ve hosted the amazing Winter sparkle Party, Rocked out with the children at the Neon Disco, had great fun putting our brains to the test at the more than memorable quiz night and just recently seen the return of the hugely popular Dads’ camping. By taking part in these events you have helped us raise over £5000!! From this we have been able to purchase items like the tipi, that is now being used year round in break times, Forest School and during lessons. We’ve also been able to purchase smaller items like generators for Mr Keane.

But we are keen to spend more and, as you may know, we have been working hard behind the scenes to get the Fundraising Initiative off the ground, which will see all the children, lead by the Prefects, staff and parents, having a say about what PA funds are spent on. This is now underway so please encourage your children over the holidays to think about and talk to their class council about what they would like to see at school.

The criteria for the spending is: It helps build friendships, skills, new learning or makes school life more fun or forward thinking.

If you have any ideas we would love to hear about it, please contact the PA at dorsethousepa@gmail.com and we can go through the process with you.

Of course none of this would be possible without our amazing PA team, who give up their free time to plan and organise these events, so we want to say a massive thank you to them, for all your brilliant ideas and inspiration and we hope we’ve kept to our promise of making it easy and as fun as possible! Also to Lucy Davies and Lucy Macmillan who help sort out the accounts and document everything amidst busy jobs and family life, we hope you know how much we appreciate you. Lastly, as you may know, we are in the process of organising a very special Christmas party which will include an online auction. If you could offer something special as an Auction Lot we would love to hear from you. Please contact either: Sophie or Tillie s.anstee@yahoo.com hello@w9maida vale.com or your PA rep to discuss. So please save the date for Saturday 25th November for what promises to be a fabulous evening!

Thank you for your continued support. We hope you have a beautiful Summer and look forward to seeing you in September.

Keep it Fun, Keep it Easy, Keep it DH!

Dolly and Jo - Co-Chairs