Parenting: What's the role of a PTA?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Listener Ellie Kemp wants to raise the subject of school Parent Teacher Associations and the difficulties they face in finding parents who have the time or the confidence to volunteer, particularly in rural areas, as well as the increasing reliance schools have on the money they raise. Ellie is Chair of her son’s school PTA. What is the role of PTAs, what part do they play in children’s learning and what are the benefits for the volunteers and pupils? Jenni Murray speaks to Ellie, Gill Sims, illustrator, blogger and author of the Why Mummy series and Tracey Handley, from the charity Parentkind.
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| 1:10.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to this week's podcast for parents. |
| 1:15.0 | Now it's not news that schools are often struggling to find enough money in the budget to do all the things expected of them. |
| 1:22.0 | And we've heard endless stories about parents |
| 1:25.2 | being asked to chip in from time to time. It was this subject that prompted an email |
| 1:30.6 | from Ellie Kemp who chairs the Parent Teacher Association in her son's school, which is in a rural area and struggles to find enough parents to help particularly with fundraising. |
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