PTA Annual General Meeting – 2019

Malundu School Parents and Teachers Association (PTA), will this Saturday 6th April 2019, host its Annual General Meeting in the School Hall starting at 09:00 Hours.

All parents and guardians are invited. We would like to see and interact with all the parents, so that together we can discuss the welfare of our children, as partners in their development both academically and socially.

IMPORTANCE OF PTA IN A SCHOOL

The PTA is a body comprising of parents and teachers of an institution of learning who meet annually to discuss matters on the educational, moral and spiritual well-being of the students or pupils of a particular learning institution, at every school level.

Every child begins life within a particular family. The child is raised and taught some fundamental principles in life, such as what is right and what is wrong, the kind of behaviour that society approves of and those which society regards as anti social. Thus children begin life in a home environment learning and being exposed to life principles. Gradually, as the child grows older it becomes imperative for the child to meet persons in a different environment where formal education takes place.

This new environment is the school. At the beginning children have difficulties coping and accepting this “strange” place but they gradually begin to become accustomed to it. What is very important to note here is that discipline and learning which was initially and exclusively the responsibility of the parents, must now be shared between parents and teachers. The child begins to learn a lot of things and very new things, new ways of doing things and so forth.

Besides the teachers who have become a new phenomenon in the child’s life, other pupils or students play a role in the life of the child because of constant interaction and communication. This phenomenon sometimes brings confusion in the mind of the child. It is however a very important process because it is the only means by which a child can acquire formal education and training and gain financial independence in future. Teachers become the watch dogs and the regulators of the new way of life, helping the child to adapt to everything seemingly new for the child.

But because the parents still play an important role in the life of the child, it becomes necessary and important to group the two main actors at this stage of the child’s life to work together in raising a complete human person. The idea of a PTA came to be borne out of the necessity to avoid conflicting methods and approaches in raising the child. PTAs have contributed immensely in the educational, material and moral well-being of the children.