News & Notes

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to order copies of the 2021 calendar of artwork created by our very own talented students.

• The Calendars are £10 each.
• All images are high-quality photographs of Hollyfield Students artwork.
• Printed by a local company.
• We think they will make great Christmas presents and are therefore placing each Calendar in an envelope in case you want to post them.

 NB: If you would like your Calendar before Christmas please place your order by the end of the week.

All proceeds will go into the PTA funds which are then directed into a wide variety of school initiatives to benefit all students.

How to order your 2021 Calendar

If you would like to order one or more Calendar please:

• Click on the link here, complete the order form
• Transfer the payment to our account – please remember to label your payment ‘Art Calendar’.
• We will then pass your calendars to your child to bring home for you to enjoy or deliver to you if you don’t have a child in school.

Please email ptahollyfiela@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Join us on our Christmas Tree Sale on Hollyfield School.

DATES:

-> 5/6th December

-> 12/13th December

TIME: 9.00am – 5.00pm

Entrance via Lamberts Road gate, Lamberts Road, Surbiton

EVERY tree bought generates a donation to the School

The PTA are linking up with a local charity ‘The Dons Local Action Group’ to collect unused devices and re-distribute them to students who don’t currently have access to suitable technology at home to enable their learning. Some Hollyfield students have no access or limited access (due to having to share with a sibling or parent) to a computer laptop or tablet and are therefore falling behind in their studies.

Every device donated will help a student stay connected and your donation will make a huge difference to these children. Donated devices will go to students of Hollyfield School first. Once all our students in need have received a device, the Don’s Local Action group will supply other students in the area.  We are also planning to fund ‘dongles with wifi’ to enable students to get online. These will cost approximately £75 each.

Please help us bridge the digital divide.

How can you help?
If you have a laptop or tablet that is less than 8 years old, in a reasonable condition, that you no longer need, please donate it.

Please complete this online form to organise collection:  https://www.keepkidsconnected.co.uk/selectborough

Your device will be picked up and an IT specialist will securely erase the hard disk data so that it is unrecoverable using the industry standards such as DoD Short and SATA Secure Erase. Tablets will also be restored to the device factory settings, which similarly ensures any data cannot be recovered.

CloudReady, a version of ChromeOS, will then be installed so the device effectively becomes a Chromebook.

If you do not have a device that you no longer need but would still like to donate you can donate money
that will go towards funding dongles with wifi/data subscriptions. Please contact the PTA
ptahollyfield@gmail.com

Maybe your company is able to sponsor the purchase of ‘dongles with wifi’ or has devices it no longer
uses that can be donated, if so please get in touch ptahollyfield@gmail.com.

Please help us to keep Hollyfield Students connected to their education. Every device matters because every child matters.
It really will make all the difference to a student’s life.

Thank you.

The Hollyfield School PTA and The Dons Local Action Group
For more information visit the website at www.keepkidsconnected.co.uk