Friends of Salvado

🌟 Friends of Salvado (FOS) – End of Year Newsletter 🌟

As we wrap up another wonderful year at Salvado Catholic College, the Friends of Salvado would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to every family, staff member and volunteer who has supported FOS in 2025. Your time, ideas, donations, and encouragement have made a huge difference to our school community.

✨ Highlights of 2025

This year has been filled with amazing moments, community spirit, and successful events. Some of our favourite achievements include:

🎉 Colour Fun Run 

An incredible day full of joy, colour, and excited kids!

🎫 Raffles & Fundraisers 

Our Term Raffles, Christmas Raffle, and VIP Carpark draws were all a hit.

🍭 Event Stalls & Community Days  

From sausage sizzles to treat stalls, families showed up with huge support.

💛 Classroom & School Support 

Funds raised throughout the year contributed to improved learning spaces, additional resources, and future upgrades that directly benefit our students.

Thank you to every family who purchased tickets, volunteered at a stall, donated items, or simply showed up. You helped make these events possible.

💰 Where Your Support Went

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our Salvado community, FOS has been able to contribute to a variety of initiatives that enrich our school environment.

Funds raised this year supported:

• ⌨️ Synthesiser

• ⛺️Shade Sails

• 🖼️ A Frame FOS noticeboard

• 🧮 Primary Math Resources

• 🎨 Primary Art Table Mats

• 🛝 Pre Primary Playground Equipment

• 🚮 Early Years Loose Parts Play Pods bins & membership

🙏 Thank You to Our Volunteers

A special thank you to all our committee members, class reps, and parents who put up their hand throughout the year. Whether you helped once or at every event, your contribution mattered.

To those finishing their time on the committee, we are deeply grateful for your hard work and heart.

To those joining in 2026… welcome! We can’t wait to work with you.

🎄 A Final Message

Thank you for another incredible year of community, generosity, and teamwork.

We are so proud of what we have achieved together and look forward to an even bigger and brighter 2026.

Wishing all Salvado families a joyful Christmas, a safe holiday break, and a wonderful start to the new year.

With gratitude,

Friends of Salvado (FoS) Executive Committee

📣 Join the FoS in 2026

We would love to see even more families get involved next year!

You don’t need experience just a willingness to help.

Even one hour per term makes a huge impact.

Ways to help include:

• Assisting at events

• Sharing ideas

• Helping pack or prepare items

• Attending meetings to provide input

• Offering your skills when needed (creative, organisational, practical)

Being part of FOS is a great way to support your child’s school and connect with our community.

🌟 Be Part of Our Parent Community! 🌟

We’d love for you to join our school’s Parent Facebook Group – a space created just for our amazing parents and carers. 💙

Here you can:

✨ Stay up to date with school news and events

✨ Share ideas and ask questions

✨ Connect with other families

✨ Be part of the conversation that helps shape our kids’ school experience

👉 Click here to join: Facebook Group

Together we can build a supportive, fun, and connected school community. We can’t wait to see you online! 🌈

Order Your Entertainment Book and Support FoS!

 This Christmas, every Entertainment Membership comes with an extra surprise under the tree… a Bonus Visa Gift Card yours to gift or enjoy. 

🎄Multi City Membership Best Value! 

Unlock thousands of offers across Australia, New Zealand and Bali plus a $50 Bonus Visa Gift Card. 

🎄 Single City Membership

Access incredible local savings plus a $30 Bonus Visa Gift Card. 20% of your Membership purchase will also directly support a cause of your choice. 

And that’s not all…

Support now to unlock our 12 Days of Christmas limited time offers exclusively for Entertainment Members.

Support Our School with School Ponytails!

We’re excited to share an easy way to support Salvado’s while keeping your child’s school look neat and coordinated!

When you shop for school uniform accessories and sports house/faction colours through School Ponytails, 20% of every order comes straight back to our school.

It’s simple:

Shop via our exclusive link:

https://www.ponytailsandfairytales.com.au/discount/SALVADO%20CC?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fsalvado-catholic-college-byford-wa-6122

You’ll find uniform bows, sports house colours, and more – and every purchase helps fund initiatives and activities for our students.

Look great. Support Salvado! It’s a win-win!

Support Our School with Your Business!

We invite parents, especially those who own businesses, to contribute donation gifts or vouchers to help support our school community. Your generous contributions make a real difference and enrich our fundraising efforts. If you’re able to donate a gift, voucher or special offer, please contact us at FoS@Salvado.wa.edu.au. Every donation helps us build a stronger, more vibrant community for our children. Thank you for your support!