Parent/Teacher Association (PTA) 2011/2012
The NGG International Department PTA
We are lucky parents at NGG ID; the school lets us get involved! In this work stressed world a few community-minded parents spend many a happy hour making things just a bit better for our beloved kids’ school. We do it because we care and because we have a few hours to spare after work, or we are lucky enough to be an expat spouse enjoying all the benefits. On the 16th June we celebrated all these loving and very helpful hands, we did it in style…we’ve done a fabulous job these past few years, we rock!
Our school has been undergoing some major developments over the past year. From the changing of our name from HIS (Hørsholm International School) to NGG ID, (Nordsjællands Grundskole og Gymnasium International Department) to us switching from the IB to the IPC and Cambridge curricula. Our new name links us closely to the large Danish department that we are very much part of, yet we still of course retain our internationalism and pride ourselves in our gorgeous mix of cultures and attention to detail in respecting every corner of the world. There are now some 220 students at NGG ID. These students come from 53 countries and many of them speak two or three languages. Yet, despite all our cultural differences these beautiful children of ours care for each other and are happy, safe and content in this stress-free environment in leafy north Zealand.
All the things that a school and childhood environment should be are carefully tended and respected in our little school by our excellent teaching staff and also by us, the parents and PTA. We aren’t too big to lose that safe feeling that children respond so positively to, and yet not too small that the school can offer our children a great start in their educational lives. There is an African saying that goes “it takes a village to raise a child.” In NGG ID we believe that we have a rare and beautiful blend of cultures from around the world, and that we can boast a progressive and harmonious village of our own in which our precious children can thrive.
The school now heads into the future with new curricula, it’s been a year of changes, but we the parents have the faith instilled by our little children; in their happiness and in their academic results that this is a very good little school, and, with all that in place that we support our teachers all the way as they prepare for the new semester. With all this change, we the Parents Council have had to realise that we too need a bit of new branding and have now decided to call ourselves instead the PTA (Parent/Teacher Association.) Like an old student on the first day of term, we will be there with a new haircut and with a sleek new set of directions for the new school year.
We have had to say farewell to a fair few of our volunteer based activities this past developmental year. Not for lack of love, just demographics. Instead we now face the future in the new sleek and slimmed-down PTA with a fine collection of leisure based activities for parents, as well as the possibility for all new families to come into the school and inject their new directions and energy into our existing PTA structures. We thrive on new ideas and welcome positive energy with open arms, so please don’t be shy! Our existing volunteer based activities now include our PTA; for which we require an elected Class Representative and Substitute Representative for each and every grade, the Welcoming Committee to help settle our new families, our very important Newsletter requiring journalists and layout, our inspired Events group, a PTA finance group to watch over our funds and a fine body of fundraising parents to help us inject cash into worthy schemes at school, home and abroad. Add on to this all those caring parents who help in their kids’ classes, events and fundraisers and on trips and you might now begin to visualise the strength of the support for this little school.
In the new semester we will be offering an informal monthly PTA meeting on the last Wednesday in every month in the canteen. In this meeting we’d like to air relevant issues, catch-up, inform and receive new directions. In conjunction with our excellent “The Cirkel” newsletter we are dropping our old notice board and continuing with the schools’ environmental stance by dispensing with paper copies and by staying in-touch electronically.
With best regards from the NGG International Department PTA
Heather Gartside Knudsen
PTA Chairman 2007- 2011
 2011 Welcoming Letter and invitation
 PTA Group 2011/2012
PTA Info (posted 13 Oct 2011)
Minutes June 2011 Enclosure 1 - 4 to Minutes June 2011
Minutes September 2011 (posted 7 Oct 2011)
 heathergartside@gmail.com
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