Community Association
Our Community Association
Our Community Association brings together parents, carers and staff to strengthen connections across The Academy and help create a welcoming, supportive school community.
Our Associations at Kelvinbridge, Milngavie and Newlands play an important part in school life. They provide opportunities for families to connect, encourage open communication across our community, organise a range of social events and activities, and raise funds to support both The Academy and wider charitable causes.
Whether helping at an event, supporting fundraising or simply coming along and getting involved, there are plenty of ways for families to be part of our Community Association.
Get Involved
The Glasgow Academy Community Association (Kelvinbridge) brings parents and carers together to support school life, strengthen our community and help organise events and activities throughout the year.
We’re always delighted to welcome new members, whether you’d like to help with an event, join the committee, take on a committee role or simply come along to a meeting and find out more.
Everyone is welcome, and there are lots of ways to get involved.
Get in touch
We’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to get involved, find out more about the Association or come along to one of our meetings, please contact us at Chair@tgacommunity.org.uk.
The Glasgow Academy Milngavie is a small school but Community Association events are always well attended by parents, pupils, grandparents, friends of the school and members of the local community. Money is raised both to enhance the extra-curricular activities and for charity.
In the past few years the Community Association has purchased staging, Flip cameras, gardening equipment and benches for the playground area. The committee also raises funds for our school charities.
Our school makes good use of Community Association members’ expertise to take forward initiatives. We have Community Association parent representatives with backgrounds in marketing, sales, finance, media and technology.
Members of the Community Association run the school’s Healthy Tuck Shop and are always around the school to help with catering and organising events.
The Glasgow Academy Milngavie Community Association runs a subscription system where parents pay a small amount on a yearly basis. This money is used to buy the pupils presents at Christmas time and to provide refreshments for seasonal children’s parties, for example.
Each year group has a Community Association representative who will introduce themselves to new parents and support the families with information about our school and the community.
The Glasgow Academy Newlands has a very active and supportive Community Association, which meets two or three times each term. Their first event in the school calendar year is usually a barbecue to welcome new parents and encourage their involvement in the various activities they put on.
The Halloween party is primarily for the children, but in recent years has seen adults wearing costumes and entering in to the fun of the evening.
Towards the end of the first term the Community Association not only organises a Christmas Fair, but also provides gifts for the children as well as a special visitor for their Christmas parties. Towards the end of the middle term a ‘Spring Fling’ is arranged for the children with fun and entertainment laid on. The Spring Fair is also a popular event and, like the Christmas Fair raises funds for the school. There is also a Community Association link on the Easy Fundraising website that allows the school to benefit from parents’ on-line purchases.
Over the course of the past few years the Community Association has bought a new Wendy House for the playground, 6 iPads for the school, a bread maker, construction frame, puddle suits and numerous other items of play equipment for the Nursery/Kindergarten. The Community Association treats the whole school to a trip to the Pantomime each December, as well as funding a special ‘storyteller’ to visit the children on World Book Day. In conjunction with the school, the Community Association organises for personalised gifts for Mothering Sunday, enabling the children to produce a special memento of their time in the school.