How we spend PTA funds

PTA fundraising directly benefits students across the school. Recent contributions have supported: 

• The annual Bird of Prey visit 
• The Susie Rymer Music Fund 
• Improvements to school facilities, including changing rooms 
• Contributions towards a new school minibus
• Upgraded lighting technology in the Forum
• New microscopes for the Science Department 

In addition to funding projects, the PTA runs a range of popular community events throughout the year, including Burns Night and other social evenings that bring families and staff together. 

These initiatives enhance the educational experience at Harrogate Grammar School and help ensure students benefit from opportunities beyond the core curriculum. 

Get Involved 

If you would like to support the PTA, we would be delighted to hear from you. Whether you can volunteer at events, share professional skills, or simply attend and support our activities, your involvement makes a real difference. 

Successful PTA bids

• Design Faculty
  Back drop & lighting system for advanced photography – £400
• Maths Faculty
  Maths challenge – £450
• Design Faculty
  Mechanics Kit – £785
• Whole school
  Mini Bus – £5,000
• PE & Sport Faculty
  Netball strip – £200
• Whole school
  External benches/tables – £3,000
• English Faculty
  £1,050 to fund three new camcorders to support English department and BTech Media Studies.
• Learning Support Faculty
  £500 for Learning Support, £250 of which will fund students who are not able to access the mainstream curriculum for food technology to take part in a pioneering Jamie Oliver Home Cooking Course which leads to a Level 1 BTEC in Home Cooking Skills. The other £250 will help fund an innovative project set up at Harewood House to give students the opportunity to work alongside the head gardener in the grounds and walled vegetable garden of Harewood. The money will go towards buying seeds and tools and other equipment for the students. The course will lead to a City and Guilds Level 1 in Horticulture Skills as well as Level 1 in Land-based Studies.
• Performing Arts Faculty
  £349 for a new mixing desk in the Library Theatre
• Science Faculty
  £150 to fund a bird of prey demonstration for all year 7 students to support work they were doing in STEM week £250 to help towards funding of a BTech Science trip to Drax Power Station to see how science works in an international company and to see the work carried out to minimise the environmental impact of the station.
• Modern Foreign Languages Faculty
  £750 to put on two performances of “La Chanson du Retour”, a musical adventure in French given by Theatre Sans Frontieres – bringing fun into the medium of French and inspiring over 260 students to sing, rap and speak in French with this interactive theatre performance.
• PE and Sport Faculty
  £820 to purchase new fitness equipment – a weights bench and squat rack, rubber olympic disc weights with safety handles and a wall mounted mirror so students can check posture to avoid injury.
• Music Faculty
  £2000 to support the Music Tour to Amsterdam in June 2012. The £2,000 has been raised by parents and music students doing a number of fundraising activities including bag packing at Asda and M&S, coffee mornings and raffles.