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Spending

PTFA Donations to TBSHS in March 2025

With the school relocating in Autumn 2024, the PTFA transferred £44000 to the school split, almost equally, between new furniture and to the library. The PTFA had lots of departmental requests and, due to the generosity of Parents and Friends through fundraising, were able to approve over £9000 of requests. The funds will provide:

History

  • Richard Knight, expert military historical education officer presenter for a Year 8 & 9 assembly
  • Teacher training for Lessons from Auschwitz programme, run by the Holocaust Educational Trust

Audio Visual

  • Stage deck platform and legs with stage click on skirt bar and pleated skirt

Literacy

  • BIC cristal soft ball pens
  • Pen grips
  • Handwriting paper

English

  • Fiction books about sustainability for guided reading lessons

Science

  • Thirty pocket scales
  • Twenty-five digital scales
  • Eleven wall-mounted periodic tables for science classrooms

Art

  • Pooki A3 hand printing press

Religious Studies

  • Mihrab

House System

  • Dart board and stand

Modern Foreign Languages

  • Thirty French and German fiction books for The Library

Drama

  • Digital theatre plus

Computer Science

  • Parts and materials for students to build an arcade machine (wood, joystick,
    Raspberry Pi Processor)

Green Team
(Horticultural Section)

  • Wood chippings and compost to create a garden

Physical Education

  • Gym and exercise mats with racks
  • Fourgym ballsand two medicine balls
  • Non-slip balance board and five skipping ropes
  • Two resistance bands set

Maths

  • One-hundred and seventy-five sixth form student subscriptions to
    integral website

Geography

  • Atlas globe
  • Two anemometers

Learning Support

  • Three Twinkl (individual) annual memberships

Music

  • Sixteen SubZero MiniCommand USB MIDI controller and keyboards

PTFA Donations to TBSHS in February 2024

All departmental requests were approved meaning the PTFA donated approximately £8000. The funds will provide:

  • a series of workshops with an expert on World Wars I and II for years 8 and 9 to History (this is a repeat of the donation provided in previous years)
  • light boxes and a sunset lamp to Art
  • memory sticks to German
  • a shredder to Design and Technology
  • blocks to Drama
  • keyboards to Music
  • bunsen burners, tripods and gauzes, bench mat, test tube stands and a Focus elearning subscription to Science
  • a sound bar to Media Studies
  • a touch typing subscription and a selection of books for Emotional Literacy Support and storage for therapy resources to Learning Support
  • dictionaries to English

PTFA Donations to TBSHS in January 2023

All departmental requests were approved meaning the PTFA donated £5417.37. The funds will provide:

  • a series of workshops with an expert on World Wars I and II for years 8 and 9 to History (this is a repeat of the donation provided last year)
  • sheet music for concerts to Music
  • Leventhorpe Book Awards books for year 7 pupils to English
  • an Original Workbee Z1 CNC Machine to Design and Technology
  • two digital cameras to allow the introduction of digital photography into the A Level course to Art
  • Colorimeters and funds for the restarting Eco Group to Science.

PTFA Donations to TBSHS in January 2022

After reviewing requests from departments, over £8000 was donated by the PTFA. The funds provided:

  • a 3D printer to Design and Technology
  • an electrophoresis tank and several sets of weather sensors for the new GCE Environment Science course to Science
  • books for year 9 students to study Seminal World Literature to English
  • the renewal of a language subscription, which was successfully introduced during lockdown, to support years 9 to 11 learning at home, and MP3 players for A level lessons to Modern Foreign Languages
  • a series of workshops with an expert on World Wars I and II for years 8 and 9 to History
  • A Macbook Air to support the software for successfully running live performances and events in school to Computer Science
  • New trophies, house mascots and house flags to the House System.

2020/2021 Spending

In 2020/21 approximately £16,871 was donated across the different departments and also to the Library and Learning Support. The high level overview of these donations is as follows:

  • £1488.77 to Art
  • £600 to Business Studies
  • £973.25 to Design and Technology
  • £642 to English
  • £1000 to Geography
  • £316.88 to History
  • £851.38 to Mathematics
  • £1495.42 to Modern Foreign Languages
  • £1066.50 to Music
  • £3827.62 to Science
  • £2500 for Exams
  • £508 to Learning Support
  • £1601.45 to the Library

In preparation for the move to the new school, the Committee has allocated funds which they wish to put towards creating an outdoor space with the relocated table tennis tables installed and an area where students can sit and relax during break times.

Furthermore, the PTFA committed to raising funds to put towards the ICT fund and the minibus fund. Both of these funds require on-going financial help to keep up to date with the latest technology and to enable students to be transported on important educational trips as well as sporting fixtures.

For the minibus fund, after discussions with the school £10,000 has been committed to the fund and the extra funds previously allocated to it have been moved to the new school allocation. Furthermore, 40% of profits are being put aside for furniture at the new school.