Parents

PTA

The PTA is an important part of school life and is made up of staff and parents, brought together with the common aim of enhancing the experience of our pupils during their time at Malton School.

Much of the work that the PTA undertakes is to help school make a success of events throughout the year, particularly where community and school are brought together.  We often help to run a bar or provide soft refreshments at school productions, visitor talks and Celebration Evenings.  We always provide refreshments for parents and visitors at Sports Day too.

Another vital role of the PTA is fundraising.  PTA funds help provide additional learning resources; contribute to improving the school environment based on pupil feedback and benefit extra-curricular projects.  Departments are invited to bid for PTA funds twice a year to help them buy extra resources.

The PTA also gives parents the opportunity to become actively involved in school life, to meet other parents and to meet regularly with staff to support the pupil- teacher-parent partnership and importantly to have a voice.  The PTA meets at least once a term and the Headteacher or Deputy Head are always present.

Finally, PTA meetings and events provide an opportunity for parents and staff to meet and socialize which is often quite difficult once a pupil moves into secondary education.  The PTA is also there to welcome new parents and pupils to school during the Year 6 induction events.

Get Involved

Parents don’t need to join the committee to be involved.  All parents are very welcome to attend any of the PTA meetings, to make suggestions to the PTA committee for future fundraising events or to put ideas forward for how funds might best be spent.  Simply volunteering to help at any of the future events provides a valuable contribution to the work of the PTA.  For further information or to put your ideas forward, contact PTA Chair, Sammie Delaney at PTA@maltonschool.org.

PTA Annual General Meeting

Our last AGM took place on Tuesday, 16 September 2025. A copy of the minutes can be found below.

The next AGM is due to take place on Tuesday 22 September 2026.

PTA Committee

  • Chair: Sammie Delaney
  • Communications: Caroline Sims
  • Treasurer: Rachel Holtby
  • Events Co-ordinator: Rebecca Bratley

PTA Supported Events

Recent events supported by PTA members through activities such as running a bar, providing refreshments or selling raffle tickets include We Will Rock You and Sports Day.  The funding raised through these and other activities, enables additional projects in school to be supported.  In 2024/25 the PTA raised just over £3,000 of additional funds for school.  This included:

  • Quiz Night on 11 October – this raised an amazing £1,100 for school funds.  Thank you so much to everyone who came along and had a fun evening.
  • KS3 Celebration Evening on 16 October – this also raised £300
  • Christmas Concert on 9 December
  • KS4 & KS5 Celebration Evening on 18 December
  • School Show running every evening from 25-28 March 2025 – this raised almost £900

Parents Forum

You can access the presentations from the 2024/25 forums below:

  • The Autumn 2024 Forum was on Careers Provision at Malton School, led by Mrs Johnson.  You can find a copy of the presentation here.
  • The Spring 2024 Forum was on the subject of helping keep your child safe online. You can access a copy of the presentation here.
  • The Summer 2025 Forum was on Body Image and Wellbeing.  You can find a copy of the information, including links to the podcasts and websites here.

pta funding bids

School departments are able to bid for PTA funding to purchase additional items for use by students within school.  Over the 2024/25 academic year, funds raised by the PTA have been used to buy:

  • a 3D printer
  • PE vests
  • Subscription to ‘The Week’ for a lunchtime current affairs discussion group
  • Djembe drums

The PTA have also been able to provide financial support to:

  • Gardening Club PDA
  • The School Show (We Will Rock You)
  • Y11 Prom

next meeting

The next meeting of the PTA will be the AGM on 22 September 2026 at 7pm. Minutes of the meeting and AGM held in September 2025 can be found here.

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