Welcome to the Taradale Primary School Parents and Friends Page

Whole school end of year celebration - Friday 12 December

The new books are here!!!

Thank you so much to all who generously donated to the school book drive. Most of the books are now here so we can begin the process of cataloguing. A HUGE thank you to Squishy Minnie, who organised all the books and gave us a generous discount so we could buy more! I'm sure so many of you do, but please support them over the holidays while you're thinking about gift giving.

The whole point of having a great library is to get kids reading more. So if your child would like to take a book to read over the holidays please encourage them. If you could have a special place or shelf where these books live and don't get muddled up with other books, that would be great. We are working from an honesty system, relying on kiddos and their grown ups to get them back to school. Particularly with some of the new sets, there will be high demand, so if you could get them back ASAP that would be great.

You can tell it's a Taradale Primary library book from two things: the stamp on the inside cover, and a little coloured sticker and graphic that helps with the cataloguing.

Garden club has changed this term to Tuesday afternoons 2:30ish - 3:30. All welcome.

Breakfast club is currently happening Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - big thanks to our volunteers for keeping this going. We'd still love to have breakfast club on the other days so let Chris know if you can help out.

SCHOOL WISH LIST:

In collaboration with the School Council we have come up with a Wishlist of jobs that we need help with at school and some items that could be donated. If you think you might have the skills or the items we need please let us know. You will be showered with thanks and appreciation! Please let Chris know if you can help

We need to:

Mowing
- at this time of year we have lots of mowing and would welcome some help. The school has a motor mower and a whipper snipper and Chris can bring in his ride on mower
Fix up our sports shed:
- install a solar light
- Replace some damaged weather boards
- re-paint the outside
- put together and install shelves (we might need to decide what is needed and then seek donations of shelves or get someone to price them so we can fundraise)
We need tools for outdoor investigations (hammers, trowels, handsaws - good quality) Happy to take second-hand if in good condition
Garden tools (also good quality) spades, shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, hand trowels, etc. Happy to take second-hand if in good condition
We would like to turn one of the storerooms near the sandpit into a workshop / tool-shed for the students to use. The space needs a big clean out and a fit out (open to fit out suggestions)
If anyone has or wants to make a largish A frame blackboard that we can use at the front gate to replace our sad current one that would be great!
Assemble a small shed for gardening tools. We have one, but need a clever person to take it from flat pack to functional

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About the Parents and Friends Club:

We use this page to update our community about the Parents and Friends Group activities and how you can be involved.

All parents and carers at the school and friends (community members) are welcome to join the group.

In collaboration with the school, fundraising events will support areas at the school including:

home readers
library books
games and quiet activities for students during break times
coffee machine for the Breakfast Club volunteers
new marquee for fundraisers
garden beautification
playground toys

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