Information about the PTA for the

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• Information about the PTA for the
• International School of Helsinborg
• How we work
• Current Members of the PTA board
• Current Projects
• Recent Successes
• Class Representatives
• Useful Information

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• THE PTA VISION
• To create a better everyday School
• experience for the students at ISH

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• The PTA is elected from those who volunteer to
  help every year and operates for a calendar year.
• Class representatives are selected at the
  beginning of each school year.
• The PTA board meets approximately every 6 weeks
  and a full meeting with all class representatives
  is held 2 or 3 times a year.
• A voluntary donation of 300 SEK per family is
  requested at the beginning of each school year to
  help subsidise activities within the school
  provide funding towards class trips organise
  social events for parents, students and teachers
  support special needs within the school.

Pictures from Spring Fair 2007
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PTA what we do
Parents and teachers together play an active and
important role to meet the goals of PYP, MYP and
Diploma programs at the International School
The Idea The Concept The Task
The PTA is the platform that helps with simple
efficient support in all practical school issues
using cooperation between the school and the
parents
Raise money through do- nations
and membership fees
Provide links to external expertise when not
available within ISH
Organise practical help for all kinds of school
events and activities
Actively help promote develop the school
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• Communication
• Minutes from meetings
• Minutes from board meetings are published on the
  main school website
• Issues to be brought up at the next meeting can
  be taken up directly with a board member or via
  the class representatives
• The Accord
• Since February 2007 a newsletter called The
  Accord has been published.
• Opportunities for parents to share information,
  ideas, advertise articles for sale, as well as
  general PTA information is published
• New Parent Welcome Book
• For all new parents and teachers to the school a
  44 page handbook has been published with
  information about Helsingborg, helpful
  information about Sweden and general useful
  information to help settle into life in Sweden
• Discussion with local companies
• In an effort to help promote the school to the
  local company, representatives of the PTA are
  present at meetings to help provide information
  and promote the school.

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How we work
PTA Board
Chairman
School Principle
Vice - Chairman
Class Representatives Parents
Teachers Students
Diploma Program Coordinator
Secretary
MYPCoordinator
Treasurer
PYP Coordinator
Social Secretary
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• Current Parent Members of the PTA Board

Chair Victoria Goldberg 0704-24 49
41 victoriagoldberg_at_comhem.se
Secretary Sofia Jargell 042 22 32
02 sjargell_at_hotmail.com
Vice Chair / Treasurer Jeremy Harvey 0702 65 15
85 Jeremy.m.harvey_at_allergon.com
PR / Communication Neelam Bertelson 0768 66 44 20
ianseu_at_hotmail.com
Social Secretary Sarah Craxton-Viberg 0733 22 18
80 Sarah.craxton.viberg_at_telia.com
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• Current Projects
• Since January 2007 a large project has been
  initiated in cooperation with the school to raise
  money to replace the current football pitch with
  an all-weather surface.
• The new surface would more provide many
  activities both for Sports in PE as well as in
  Fritids and general play at school.

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• Recent Projects
• Over the recent years the money raised by the PTA
  has helped the school in numerous ways. This
  includes, but not limited to
• 100s of new books for the school library
• Common room areas for the MYP and Diploma
  programs
• Playground equipment
• IT equipment

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Class Representatives
Class Representatives help to stimulate and
support the active contribution of parents to the
school community. They are the eyes and ears of
PTA from the parents perspective.

• Contact between class teacher, parents and
  students
• Contact with other Class Representatives
• Forward parents ideas to the PTA board

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• Useful Information
• Bank-Giro Number
• For donations to help the PTA our bank account
  bank-giro number is 5605-0214
• Country Contacts
• To help families settle into Sweden we are
  building a list of home country contacts that
  are more than happy to help with answering
  questions or helping a new family settle into
  Helsingborg. This list is always expanding, if
  your country is not listed then please contact
  any member of the PTA board for help
• Australia Denmark Kristine Skjold Svendsen
  042 69001
• France Marie lien 042 225122 / 0706 340070
  (speaks Italian too)
• Germany Kira Abeln 042 203117
• Teresa Engren Latin America 042 270385
• Spain - Isabel Jimenez 0702241259
• United States of America Lisa Arras Skoglund -
  0704920133