Address:
William Patten Primary School
Stoke Newington Church Street
London N16 0NX
Office Manager: Rita Quigley
SENDCo: Caitlin Shaw
William Patten Primary School
Stoke Newington Church Street
London N16 0NX
Office Manager: Rita Quigley
SENDCo: Caitlin Shaw
As we start a new academic year it’s fantastic to see all the new faces joining the William Patten community. As a Parents Teacher & Friends Association (PTFA) we’d like to welcome everyone to the school.
The current PTFA committee consists of Jason Coulloupas, Anne Hammant, Rob Ryan, Jen Yang and Graeme Edie.
Our role as a PTFA is twofold, firstly to support our amazing school with funds to facilitate a number of hugely important activities including fit for sport staff at breaks and large projects. Secondly our role is to help bring the parent community together and provide ways for us all to meet, socialise and help foster the school community.
As a PTFA team we are excited to share the upcoming events we have planned:
20th October 2025 – PTFA Annual General Meeting (zoom)
23rd October – Meet and Greet
14th November – Movie Night for families
3rd December – Christmas Jumper Day
6th December – Winter Fair (see below)
The PTFA is a group of parents, carers, friends and school staff that volunteer their time to make our school a better environment for our children. Our goal is to create a school community for the whole family through a wide range of fun and creative initiatives, events, and fairs. These events bring the school and community closer together with a primary focus to raise funds for our children’s benefit. We all know that schools have had a tough time financially for some years now, so the funds raised by the PTFA will go towards ensuring that our children can continue to enjoy music lessons, educational school trips and themed events throughout the year, such as arts, international and science days, a Christmas tree and decorations. We are also in discussions about having a longer-term fundraising initiative to update the Early Years playground, details on this are being drafted as we speak. We will provide more specific details around funds allocation in time.
In order to achieve our goals we are asking for as much support as possible; from helping with donations for events, giving time to support the running of events, but most importantly by attending and supporting our events to make them worthwhile for the school and the community. See the dates for your diary section which lists our upcoming events.
We are 100% volunteer-led, and all our current volunteers have full-time jobs too. So we are looking for some additional help by gathering extra volunteers. All help is welcome; from taking an active ongoing role to donating a few hours of your time occasionally.
We are currently looking for:
| Role | What’s involved | Time commitment |
| Social Media Coordinator | We need someone to maintain the PTFA’s social media (Instagram) and keep our presence on the school website up to date. | <1 hour per month. It requires minimal time as we simply need someone to help publicise events periodically. |
| Fundraising Coordinator | We need one or more people who are willing to seek donations and gifts in kind from local businesses as well as explore opportunities for corporate sponsorship for bigger projects (e.g. playground refresh). | 1-2 hours per month (can be shared) |
| Happy-to Helpers | We are looking for a list of people who are happy to help at PTA events, by
• setting up for events • running the bar and serving refreshments at events • selling raffle tickets etc • clearing up after events And to go on, a list of helpers who we can reach out to with requests for other help as needed |
On-going but event specific |
And of course, we are always looking for parents who have a specialist skill/job that may be useful to the school for learning or fundraising purposes – you could be an art expert or a professional comedian for example or be able to give a raffle prize or attend as special guests at our fund raising events.
Please get in touch! Our email address is below.
Arbor: login.arbor.sc
Facebook: Please search for the William Patten PTFA page and request to join. You will be asked the name of your child’s class as security.
Instagram: William_Patten_School_ptfa
PTFA email: williampattenptfa@gmail.com
Hello Parents and Carers,
It is the time of year again for William Patten’s Winter Fair! The fair is always very fun and it’s a wonderful way to raise funds for the school and celebrate the festive season. This year we are planning some delicious food, mulled wine and mince pies, festive games and of course a chance for the children to meet and have their photo taken with Father Christmas.
As you know these events are only possible with parents and carers volunteering.
There are many ways to help this year:
Volunteer your time at the fair – you can sign up to see the volunteer roles https://volunteersignup.org/FTF8H. There is a full list of stalls that need assistance.
– Donate a prize for the raffle to the school office
– Donate baked goods to the bake sale (morning of the Winter Fair)
– Participate in Festive Jumper day on 3rd December and bring along a tombola wrapped bottle (alcoholic or non-alcoholic, please label) to the school.
– Return the Wishing Tree envelope (these will go out the weeks leading up to the fair)
– Bring your family and friends along on the day
– Festive Jumper Day (for Tombola)
– Send your child to school in their most festive jumper on Wednesday 3rd December.
On this day we are asking for donations of wrapped bottles of alcoholic/non-alcoholic drink or wrapped candy for the tombola event at the Winter Fair. Please label your wrapped item as “adult” or “child” so we know who the prize is appropriate for.
Wishing Tree Envelope
Lastly, we will be sending home ‘Wishing Tree’ envelopes in your child’s bookbag soon. There will be information included also, but this is for parents to fill with something they think a child would like – easiest thing is £££, could be chocolate coins, could even be a small value gift card. Return this envelope to your child’s teacher or to the office. At the fair there will be a tree with all of the returned envelopes hanging. Children will be able to buy a ‘wish’ (envelope) for £1 and pick an envelope from the tree. There will be a few bonus envelopes hanging with large value gift cards to make it interesting. There are no ‘losers’ as every child will receive something and again, all proceeds go to the school.
We need as many hands on deck as possible to make the fair run smoothly – but this isn’t just limited to parents. If you have a friend or family member (grandparent/aunt/uncle) that is able to help please encourage them to do so! Please click here https://volunteersignup.org/FTF8H
Any questions please contact the PTFA williampattenptfa@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
William Patten PTFA
Easyfundraising.org.uk:
Please note William Patten School – London is registered with easyfundraising. Easyfundraising is a simple and hugely effective way to raise funds for the school. Once registered, any purchases you make through a partner retailer (there are thousands of partner retailers) will generate a donation to the school at no extra cost to you.
In the coming weeks, if you’re shopping online, please remember to shop via the easyfundraising website or app. There are thousands of retailers on easyfundraising, including M&S, booking.com, Argos, Sky, Sainsburys Groceries, John Lewis, Clarks, WHSmith etc. who all give free donations to William Patten School, based on a percentage of what you spend at no cost to you (the percentage varies per shop, but some are up to 6%).
If you’re not already signed up, it only takes a few minutes, then you can begin using the easyfundraising website or app straightaway – simply visit easyfundraising first and then shop online as normal. This will be an enormous help to us, at no extra cost to yourself.
Please visit the easyfundraising page to get started:
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/williampattensch/
