Community Council Report
The Community Council (CC) held a meeting last Tuesday evening.
Thank you to the families who helped at the working bee, your time and hard work was much appreciated, and it is lovely to see the school grounds looking tidy again. We are particularly grateful to the families who continually answer the call to support and help with school activities, we are lucky to have these families at our school. The school community has a commitment to 2 working bees each year, which hasn’t been possible due to COVID restrictions, however we are hoping to return to this next year. In 2022 we will roster families on one working bee each to evenly spread the workload. It will also be a chance to have a BBQ and catch up with other families, while contributing to the school.
Fundraising this term includes a cake stall this Sunday at ‘Fun in the Park’. We will also have Halloween themed cupcake decorating kits for children to enjoy. Please contact Sam Johnson if you can help with cooking or if you can spare some time to help at the stall. It will also be a chance to promote the school within the community as we are currently taking enrolments for 2022. On Sunday we will begin selling tickets for our end of year raffle, and soon we will be sending raffle tickets home for families to sell and approaching local businesses to sell tickets. The raffle will be drawn at the conclusion of the street stall on Saturday December 4th. The street stall date has been changed again and will now take place on Thursday December 2nd, Friday December 3rd, and Saturday December 4th. We need everyone to make a big effort so our final fundraiser for the year is a success! Consider making a start on Christmas cakes or puddings to sell at the stall or approach a friend or relative who is well known for their Christmas baking and might like to donate something festive and delicious.
Planning for a school fete in March 2022 has begun. Thank you to Sam Johnson for kicking this off. We have had lots of great ideas for stalls and activities however we will still need more volunteers so please get involved.
Tuckshop continues to be busy. Thank you to our new volunteers, especially Wei Rui who is helping out a lot this term, which means we can offer the tuckshop to the children each week. The uptake of the School24 app for ordering has been great and it has improved the workflow for volunteers. Thank you to the parents who have adopted the new system so quickly. Please switch over as it is difficult for volunteers to process both online and brown bag orders and it increases the chance of errors with the lunch orders.
The cultural space is taking place. We are still working to get the water tank approved to hold the sandstone blocks, and we will have indigenous artists painting a mural soon.
We are putting the call out again for a parent volunteer to create a school yearbook. The yearbook is a popular memento that the children enjoy reading and looking back on. We have had a few requests from parents for the yearbook to be available again, however we need a volunteer to make it happen. Please let a CC member know if you can assist.
Kate Graham
Secretary, Community Council