Fitzroy Primary School`s Fantastic Fête
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Third edition of FPS’ Fantastic Fête newsletter!
CHANGE OF DATE! 9th NOVEMBER 2024
285 Napier St Fitzroy 12-4pm
SPREAD THE WORD!
Thanks to Maria Garcia with the help of Sophie Audren, Leah Mariani and our FPS students, our poster is finalised and ready to be spread around the community! Doesn’t it look awesome?
Nelson Alexander will be organising the billboards to go up around our school but we would love your help to get the posters up around the local shops, on an old corflute in the front of your house, posted on your local Good Karma network and circulated round to your friends and family! Let’s make this fete as fantastic as possible ! A link to the electronic file is here!
FAIRYFLOSS/BARBE À PAPA BROUGHT TO YOU BY LA CRÊPE!
We are so excited to announce that new local business La Crêpe has generously donated FPS a fairyfloss machine! That means, we will be making LOTS of fairyfloss or barbe à papa at our fete! Huge thanks to Hayley Bateman and André Stephan for organising this!
La Crèpe is a charming French crêperie nestled in the heart of Richmond, serving up delectable sweet crêpes, savory galettes and timeless French beverages. We would love it if the FPS community could pay La Crepe a visit to show them our deep appreciation for their support of FPS!
MARQUEES AND TABLES
We are still on the look out for another school or business to assist us with supplying about 25 marquees and 30 trestle tables for the day. If anyone has any contacts (beyond those schools that are part of the “Fete Collective” or Wales St), please let us know!
FPS 2024 SILENT AUCTION AND RAFFLE CALL OUT
Do you, a family member or friend own their own business? Or do you have a friendly relationship with a local business you could ask that would happily support FPS by donating goods or services (e.g voucher) to the Fitzroy Primary School Fete online silent auction? If so we’d love you to reach out! The more neighbourhood connections we have the better!
You can provide them with a letter in English, French and our Donations flyer to provide them with more information about FPS and our fete.
In return, we will advertise their business on the silent auction online site. Useful information you can provide is:
-x1 (only) high res image of goods or a company brand logo
-a short description (with dimensions if relevant) to help bidders be enticed
-$ value to help bidders
-send voucher donations to:fitzroyprimaryfete@gmail.com
Donations would be appreciated by Oct 12
Any donations are welcome from small to large, think coffee cards, dining, movie, classes or experiences vouchers. Goods provided can include hampers or items like a new waffle maker!
The online silent auction will close Sunday Nov 10 the day after the Fete and winning bidders will be notified.
For further information please don’t hesitate to contact Sally or Marine on fitzroyprimaryfete@gmail.com
CALL OUT FOR BOOKS
A fete can’t be a fete without a book stall, so for all those who have books clogging shelves in your house, just begging for a new home, donate them to FPS’ fete!
We’re looking for donations across genres and styles, from coffee table hardcovers to cookbooks to novels to picture books and any other style of book in between.
For all ages: adults, young adults, and kids.
New or preloved, but in good saleable condition (no tears and pen marks, missing pages, ripped cover, etc.)
Colouring and stickers books welcome, if never used.
We would also love to offer books in all languages, especially languages relevant to our school community.
Drop off during school hours at reception.
CALL OUT FOR CRAFT, JEWELLERY AND HAND MADE ITEMS
If you, your kids or someone you know love making bracelets, earrings, necklaces, craft, bracelets or other hand-made items or have good quality items that you’d be willing to donate to the school, please drop off to Mary so that we can sell it at our Craft stall!
Badria has been showing parents how to make candles at and they look and smell amazing! They’ll be available for sale at the Craft stall for the Fete!
CALL OUT FOR JARS
If you have any large jars lying around, please bring them in and drop them to the front office so that we can organise a lucky dip for the kids!
LIVE MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT AND ACTIVITIES!
We have a jam packed performance schedule on the day featuring our very own FPS students, the Tim TamZ (FPS parent band), Mzuri Dancers, Melbourne Djembe and much more!
Mzuri dancers
Kids will also get an opportunity to do French Circus Workshops with Anthony, badge making with Fitzroy Library, plantings with Bunnings, face painting, hair braiding as well as drum and dance workshops!
FOOD AND MARKET STALLS
We have a huge variety of delicious food and fabulous market stalls on offer thanks to our parent and carer community! On offer, we’ll have:
- La boulangerie (bakery)
- Le Monde (world) sausage sizzle,
- African feast stall
- Lemonade stall,
- Crêperie
- Bake stall (Keep a look out, we’ll need lots of people to bake something for the stall!)
- Popcorn stall
- Ice-cream stall
- Lolly stall
- Fairyfloss stall
- Second hand books
- Second hand clothes and toys
- Craft stall
- And more
Plus, we’ll have external businesses, Frencheese offering delicious raclettes and a coffee cart!
FETE VOLUNTEERS!
We will need lots of people to help volunteer their time on the day! We will send through a volunteer link shortly and we encourage you to fill it out, or even invite others to help out, whether your family members, friends or neighbours!
We’re still looking for people who could help with:
- Coordinate the Le Monde Sausage Sizzle stall
- Assist with publicity and marketing including on social media;
- Assisting with coordinating the stalls on the day
- Coordinating the craft and jewellery store and assist with sourcing items and/or making items for the stall;
- Organising any games/activities for the kids
- Assisting with logistics on the day
If you’re interested, please just join the Fete Committee whatsapp group here or you can contact the fête co-ordinators: Evelyn Tadros evelyntadros@gmail.com 0402 137 182 or Lauren Marquet lauren.marquet@gmail.com 0411 112 145.
HOW YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP OUR COMMUNITY
All funds raised from the fête will build on the funds we raised last year to purchase FPS’ new George Street playground !
