PFA update

Key dates

• 15 May Grandparent's Day
• 31 May: Second Hand Uniform Shop
• 21 June: School Disco with Winter Solstice activities (new event - more details to come!)
• 9 August: Trivia Night
• 16 November: School Fete

Hello everyone,

What a ‘Mother’s Day’ WEEK we’ve had! The Mother’s Day Breakfast, The Lunch wristband collection, Mother’s Day Stall and of course the Mother’s Day Lunch. 

Next week is Grandparents & Special Person’s Day and we are really looking forward to welcoming them to our school. 

The PFA can always use extra support and help, if you’d like to reach out or help in anyway please email Kate at pmpsparentsandfriends@gmail.com

Whole School Mother’s Day Raffle - still open

Tickets: Buy raffle tickets

The whole school raffle is still open so there is still time to treat your special person to a wonderful weekend away or a glass or 2 of delicious champagne, all while raising money for our wonderful school. 

Major Prize - Donated by the PMPS Lambis family

‘The Kirwood Coastal’ weekend away valued at $2,000!

Package includes 2 night’s accommodation with a late 3pm check out plus a welcome hamper.

Second Prize - Donated by Justin Holod from Marshall White; The Mother's Day Lunch major sponsor.

3 bottles of Billecart-Salmon Champagne!

The raffle will be drawn on Monday 13 May.

Get your tickets on the Parent Hub.

Mother's Day/Special Persons Stall 

A selection of gifts were provided by the PFA for children to purchase and give to their loved ones on Mother’s Day. The stall was a great success. The children came in their class groups and shopped up a storm. Many thanks to the parents who helped set up and help the children choose their gift. An extra special shoutout to Katya Ellis who sourced all the items and ran the event…thank you!

Mother’s Day Breakfast

This year to celebrate Mother’s Day, the PFA with support from school dads hosted a before school breakfast alongside Miss Molly's coffee cart who was serving delicious hot drinks.

A massive thank you to Kristen Holden who sourced the food and ran the BBQ and a group of Grade 1 dads who cooked up all the delicious bacon & egg rolls and ham & cheese croissants for the deserving mums - Dan Quinn, Tom Evans, Nick Borradale and Derek Babineau…thank you so much!

A special mention to two mums who pitched in - Kate & Louise!

Mother’s Day Lunch

The Mother’s Day Lunch will be in full swing when this is delivered!

I’m hoping it was a fantastic success and all the women had a great time. The past four Mother’s Day Lunch events have been organised by myself (Kate Esam) and Kate Ross (we’re often known as The Kate’s), but now we have decided to hand over the reins. If anyone is interested in taking on this event next year please reach out and email the PFA email pmpsparentsandfriends@gmail.com . We would love to attend a lunch that we haven’t organised!

This year the event was a bit different due to The Waterfront going into liquidation, but we pulled it together with minimal time. We’d like to thank Tara Hill who sourced some donations for us and the wonderful PMPS office staff who assisted us with printing and communications. 

Kate and I work tirelessly to put this event together for the wonderful mums of PMPS. It’s many hours of work; from sourcing donations, putting voucher packs together, handing out wristbands, cutting up lucky dip slips, writing emails/menus/documents, sorting the donations and liaising with the venue BUT we have really loved doing this together and putting this event on each year. It is an amazing feeling seeing the event come together and all the beautiful women there having a fantastic time. 

Grandparents & Special Person’s Day 

When: 15 May, 8:45-11am

Grandparents Day is next Wednesday. This is an opportunity for Grandparents and special people to come and visit the children’s classrooms, share some morning tea and sponsor a book in the library. 

Classrooms will be open 8.45-10am and the Library will be open 8.45-11am so that families can sponsor a library book.

To make the morning tea a success we would be grateful for any donations of bite sized goodies. Please drop donations to the staff room between Monday 13 May and Tuesday 14 May. We will be preparing platters in the staff room on Wednesday 15 May.

If you can volunteer to set up, make/distribute platters, clean up or help in the library please sign up Grandparents Day volunteering.

Winter Solstice Disco

When: 21 June, 5pm

Tickets: $15 per child

This year the school disco is shaking things up and including a lantern walk and night market for winter solstice. 

School Fete

The Fete planning starts very early. If you are interested in getting involved or have an idea you would like to suggest and help run, please email the PFA at pmpsparentsandfriends@gmail.com

Second Hand Uniform Shop

When: 31 May, 8:30-9:15am

Where: Classroom next to the oval

We are now selling brand new school drink bottles for $15 in the Second Hand Uniform Shop. Pop in to stock up on uniform supplies, including brand new House T-shirts.