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PTSA
The Parents Teachers Students Association is a school community organisation which acts as a supportive arm of KGV school. Our aim is to bring together parents, students, teachers and friends of KGV and thereby help to provide the best possible environment and learning experience for all students. Our focus has been to engage the community and act as a bridge between the school and the community.
The past year has been a unique one, faced with challenges and unpredicted changes throughout the year. Year 2019 had a promising start, after which we faced the Hong Kong protests followed by the global COVID–19 pandemic, resulting in long school closure between February till mid May 2020. These circumstances led to a very quick move over to online learning.
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Despite these disruptions, we were still able to serve our parents and students by supporting them through these turbulent times. We worked hand in hand with the school to communicate prompt and accurate information on changes and reported feedback from parents to the school to support continuity of learning.
Membership
PTSA annual fees continued to be kept at $400 per family. We have succeeded to maintain this fee over the past five years without compromising our services to the community. We offer a wide variety of services, including an onsite uniform and stationery shop, management of lost property, wide variety of events, educational workshops and an exclusive student Identity card with a privilege scheme.
PTSA Committee
We are grateful to our dynamic parent committee members who voluntarily commit their time and effort towards the betterment of the school and our students. Their valuable input, feedback and advice with the partnership of the school management has helped enhance the learning experience of our students.
We bid farewell to three committee members who will be stepping down from the PTSA at the close of year 2019-2020. A huge thank you to Shilpa Dhanuka, Rowena Chow and Stephan Hon for all the time and energy they have put into shaping our committee and adding value to the learning experience of the students.
Our new committee will be elected at the coming Annual General Meeting to be scheduled between October and November 2020.
Sponsorship
We stood firm to our commitment of donating funds to various school projects which provide enrichment opportunities for our students. The total contribution for the year towards sponsorships was HK$153,500.00.
Y11 language emersion program- $150,000 Hebe Haven 24hr yacht club - $3,000 Public spirit prize at Speech day - $500
PTSA Shop
The Hong Kong Government instructed all schools to remain closed for face to face learning from February to mid May 2020. As such, the PTSA shop had to follow, causing our sales to drop significantly. However, we resumed business in May and June 2020 until end of term.
The past summer was affected by the third wave of the COVID-19 virus. As such, we were unable to keep the shop open for sales. However, we still managed to service our parents, as we quickly adopted online mode of ordering. To support this remote ordering system, we created a new website which provided a platform for all information, a uniform catalogue and new remote payment options.
Lost property continued to be managed by the Shop using the policy in place to manage the in and out flow of items.
Events and workshops
The year started off well with our busy calendar of annual social and cultural events as well as educational talks for parents. Unfortunately, with the onset of the pandemic, all events from February onwards were postponed. We hosted a range of valuable educational talks for parents across all ESF schools which were all very well attended. The feedback from parents was overwhelmingly positive as these educational opportunities supported them in their parenting.
Parent talks conducted: Dealing with Bullies – 24 September 2019 Depression and Anxiety – 22 October Creating an environment for your child to thrive – 25 January 2020 Yoga for breathing – video for KGV Yoga for wellbeing – videos for KGV
We would like to thank all our professional speakers who shared their expertise and valuable knowledge with our community. As the situation of Covid-19 continued, we supported our community by providing two specially designed videos on breathing and holistic wellbeing yoga to support any wellbeing issues our students and parents may have had in those circumstances.
To engage the community and celebrate diversity we hosted our annual cultural events and some social events, which were our Diwali lunchtime celebration, Chinese new Year
celebration, Teachers Day lunch and Coffee mornings.
The celebrations included food, music, dance, games and social gatherings which were enjoyed by all our students, staff and parents.
In addition to the regular social events, we introduced a celebration of World Teachers day to express our appreciation towards our hard working teachers who relentlessly work towards shaping our students into remarkable young adults. A grand buffet was organized by our parents who wished to express their gratitude.
Moving forward, we have scheduled several events for the year ahead using online mode which has proved to engage a larger number of parents. We hope to adopt online means for some of our events in the time to come as a new way of communication and engagement.
Student ID card
Each year the PTSA issues personalised student KGV Identity cards to all students which not only provides school identification and student status but also an exclusive ‘Privilege scheme’. This popular ‘Privilege scheme’ lists a wide range of exciting commercial outlets providing discounts to our students. We are thankful to all our committed vendors for providing these privileges to our students annually and hope to build on these partnerships annually.
Kiran Budhrani PTSA Manager
PTSA Account Summary 2018-19
INCOME
PTSA Membership Shop sales other income Government Grant
Total Income
EXPENDITURE
Staff expenses Other expenses - Operation Shop Purchases Donations to school
Total Expenditure
Surplus / (Deficit) Actual Year to 30/06/2019 HK$
579,584.00 2,130,767.00 68,811.00 15,372.00
$2,794,534.00
577,172.00 181,461.00 1,552,258.00 256,396.00
