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MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE FRIENDS/PARENTS TEACHER ASSOCIATION OF THE BESG HELD ON
THURSDAY, MAY 31^st AT 6:00PM IN THE SCHOOL HALL

Attendance

Suzanne opened the meeting by asking for votes on approval of the March 12^th meeting minutes, and April 23^rd meeting minutes. All approved.

Suzanne reported that the Year Book is in the process of being produced, this year’s edition to be smaller, due to money restrictions. It will consist mainly of photographs for children to cherish their year long memories. So far, over 1,000 YTL has been collected from the parents towards the Book, and additional 1,034 YTL is waiting to be contributed form the previous Year Book Committee.

Jumble sale will be on June 9th, from 11 – 2 pm. Daffodils money to be collected during the “Summer Fair”, Melahat volunteered to handle the “collection basket”.

Photo shoot session went well, with a comment from Suzanne about not being able to collect payment from several parents. The way of collecting the payment should be rearranged next year.

Summer Fair will be held on 23^rd of June, from 11 – 2 pm. Subcommittees have been formed: Suzanne to chair the F&B subcommittee, Stephanie games, which will include environmental quiz, “build a bird feeder” activity, obstacle course, as well as quiet corner with coloring pages. Dawn will contact Jose (last name escapes me), for details on slide show/presentation on conservation. Additional activities, such as tattoos and raffle, will be organized with the help of teachers. A possibility of organizing a “sun-screen station” within the nurses’ first aid center was discussed and Suzanne will put it forward to Glynis. David Laity will be in charge of tickets and tokens. Suzanne mentioned the need of possibly organizing a “Decorating Committee” which would need a creative person as a chair, to come up with recycled material decorations for the playground. Susie Snook was suggested as a candidate due to her art background. The discussion reminded Stephanie to ask for crushed drink cans for “how-many-in-the-bag” game.

Sports Day will be on June 27^th. The event schedule will be provided to the parents. It was decided to use the schools water bottle with cups for water distribution. Help from two parents, one for Infants and one for Juniors, will be needed at the water station. Ice pops will be also provided. Extra year books to be sold at the event.

Financial report by David Laity reminded the FPTA that the generous loan for the Board of Governors was repaid in full, leaving the FPTA with 453 YTL in the bank account. With the prospect of collecting additional 3,000 YTL during the Summer Fair, the FPTA will be able to fulfill their commitment of 1,500 YTL for the additional playground equipment, and leave the new committee with a healthy start-up amount at the bank.

Teacher’s appreciation lunch will go ahead as scheduled, on June 15^th.

Next, and the final meeting of this years’ FPTA will be on June 14^th at 7 pm.

Dawn kindly thanked the FPTA and what they had done for the school this year. Suzanne acknowledged this and also thanked the school and staff for all their help over the past year.

The meeting closed at 18:55.

MINUTES OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDS/PARENTS TEACHER ASSOCIATION OF THE BESG HELD ON THURSDAY, MAY 31^st AT 7:00 PM IN THE SCHOOL HALL

FPTA president Suzanne Alten opened the meeting with warm welcome to everybody, listing the past FPTA activities and thanking the 06/07 Committee for all the hard work. With technology advancement, emergency calling tree, one of the FPTA activities, became obsolete with text messaging system in place.

David Laity submitted the Treasurers report, informing the membership of 453 debt-free YTL in the bank account, and prospect of additional monetary collection of estimated 3,000 YTL during the Summer Fair event. That would allow the FPTA to contribute towards the purchase of additional playground equipment, contribute towards the expenses for the Journal, if necessary, and leave an acceptable amount in the bank for the new committee to start a successful year.

Suzanne asked for the votes on the amendments to the FPTA Constitution – all approved.

With the old committee ready to conclude a successful year, new committee members need to be elected: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Social Secretary, Infant Chair person and Junior Chair person. The GMA was successful in electing the new FPTA President for the 07/08 year, Ms. Lale Ozkan. Mark Brunner was nominated and elected as Junior Chair person.

The meeting ended with numerous thanks to the old committee and warm congratulations to the new one.