Principal's Message
Parent’s Group Event – Bogan Bingo and School Holiday Movie
Our fantastic Parent’s Group are busy organising a great night for our parent community on Saturday 18 November. Please keep the night free and begin organising your tables.
More information regarding booking tables will be coming out soon.
The Bogan Bingo night will be our major fundraiser for the year. Please see the below design for what we are fundraising for. We are hoping to begin construction of our new nature play space area early next year. All Parent’s Group funds raised this year will be go towards this project.
Bogan Bingo is described as half game show and half party. One Bingo caller calls out the numbers and his budding DJ play songs from the 80’s and 90’s that rhyme with those numbers. Participants are encouraged to dress up in their daggy bogan clothes for the night.
Parent’s Group are also organising another movie day. This time the movie is during the school holidays. There will be a special screening of Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken for Billanook Primary School on Monday 18 September at 9:30am. The movie will be screened at the Boronia Metro Cinemas.
Tickets can be purchased via the Spriggy Schools app and there will be snack options available as well. Please see the Parent’s Group section of this newsletter for more information.
Father’s and Special Friends Breakfast and Stall
Another big thank you to our wonderful Parent’s Group for their work to celebrate our community’s fathers and special friends. They held a fantastic breakfast and backed it up with a stall. It’s always lovely to see the delight that our children have when buying a special something for their parents.
Nature Play Space update
We are excited to be able to share with our community plans that we’ve had drawn to create an engaging nature play space. Our aim is to use part of the gully area to create a space where our children can interact with the environment. We asked groups of children what options they’d like to see and the common themes were an area to dig, build cubbies, play with water, have access to more playground equipment and an area to climb.
The design below includes all the elements that the children suggested. Please note that we are not installing a flowing river in this area! There will be a hand pump (like you see in playgrounds) that our children will be able to use to pump out water into a very shallow riverbed. The design demonstrates the potential flow of the water, we don’t envisage that there will be water holding in the riverbed throughout the day. The design does include a space for climbing over logs, building cubbies, digging and for playing on the fort and slide. It will also open up an under-utilised part of our school grounds for our children and provide another area to play.
We are unable to begin construction until early next year as we need to wait until the new building is completed so we can gain access to the area. We have been fortunate to receive two grants totalling $30,000 for this project, however more funds are required.
There are parts of the project that we will complete at working bees and with community assistance. This is a separate project to the accessible playground that is planned in the space that is currently occupied by the Year 3/4 relocatable classrooms.
Regards,
Michael Puddy
Principal