International School of Cape Town

Parent Involvement

PTA

PTA is primarily a social organisation, with the emphasis on fun and social events, with a secondary aim of fund-raising. They organise a number of key events throughout the year, including coffee mornings, parent dinners and the annual ISCT Fun Day.

PTA Charity Support
The PTA support the following charities through proceeds from various fundraising initiatives:

Tenterden Place of Safety
Wynberg, Cape Town
Provides shelter and education for children (ages 6-12) in need of care.

Bel Porto School
Landsdowne, Cape Town
Provides education for physically and mentally challenged children.

Mary Harding School
Athlone, Cape Town
Provides education for severely mentally handicapped children.

New World Foundation
Lavender Hill, Cape Town
Empowers poor, disadvantaged and marginalised people and communities to take charge of their lives.

Parent Liaison Committee

The PLC is a concerned group of parents who meet regularly to discuss and contribute to pressing issues of the school and concerns raised by parents. This is a formal group, with a constitution and with representatives of both the school and CfBT as members.

Bursary Trust Fund

The purpose of the trust is to provide financial support to underprivileged students to study at ISCT. The trust will give preference to potential students who were previously disadvantaged in South African society.

My School Card

Apply for your MySchool card and start raising funds for our school without it costing you a cent. Simply present your MySchool card whenever you shop at any of the MySchool partners (view the complete list on their website: www.myschool.co.za) and the partner will pay a small percentage of the transaction value, over to the school. These partners include Woolworths, Engen, Waltons, Toys R Us, Reggie’s, Quicksilver, Supaquick, Kalahari.net and many more.

Other opportunities to become involved

Library

The library is a vibrant and central part of our school. Anne, our librarian is always happy to have parents help with covering books, shelving, labelling or issuing. Parents are also involved in helping Anne with the annual Willie Wonka Cake Sale during Book Week in the third term (see picture below).

Reading

Parents in the Nursery and Reception classes have the opportunity to read to their children’s class at story time. There is a sign up roster outside the classroom.

Uniform shop

The Nearly New uniform shop is open on Fridays and Elizabeth, the parent who runs it is always looking for volunteers to assist during this time.

Class reps (parents)

Every class in the primary school has a parent class representative. Their role ranges from welcoming new parents and classmates to co-ordinating birthday cards for teachers and end-of-year parties.