Altona Green Primary School Newsletter

A Message from Parents & Friends 

Hi everyone, 

 

We hope that you had a wonderful school holidays. It’s been a very busy start to Term four already for Parents & Friends. Here’s an update from us. 

 

Family Portraits 

Thank you to everyone who booked a session to have their photo taken. We are pleased to tell you that you helped raise $480 towards our fundraising for this year. We really hope that you’re pleased with your photos. 

 

Referendum BBQ and Bake Sale - Saturday 14th October 

How lucky are we to belong to such a wonderful community of helpers and bakers! Thank you to everyone who volunteered an hour of their time on Saturday to help make this possible and just as importantly to everyone who spent time baking and donated lots of delicious treats. We’re pleased to say that the cake stall was empty by 1pm.

 

Thank you to everyone who, whilst they voted, who came and bought a bite from the bbq or a treat from the bake sale. 

 

Big thanks to Liz Oblak for running the bake sale and to Tom Brockbank who prepared the most scrummy onions and helped set it up from 7am! 

 

We’re still counting our profit from this but we will let you know the total in the next newsletter. 

 

Grandparent/ Special Person’s Day - Friday 27th October 

We’re really looking forward to welcoming Grandparents/ Special Persons to the school next Friday. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a Subway lunch. 

The event will commence at 1.30 under Gumbuya with children and their special people meeting there to collect their lunches (if ordered). Please note you’re welcome to bring your own in and enjoy a coffee or tea. Then after lunch, children can take their special people to their classroom to enjoy an activity until 3.15pm. 

 

Friday Treats

For the remainder of the year, we will be selling icy poles up until Friday 15th December. These will be $1.50. 

 

Term four roster has plenty of spaces for volunteers  - please use this link to sign up:https://signup.com/go/NAryeRX

 

Bogan Bingo - Friday 17th November (ADULTS ONLY)

We’re excited to launch our first ever Bogan Bingo at school in November. This is an adults only event and tickets can be purchased via Compass Tix  - please see the Compass post. 

There is a $15 entrance fee which will get your bingo games, but we have lots of other exciting games happening on the night and we’re busy working on some big prizes. 

Spaces are limited and friends/ family are welcome. 

We are going to need some volunteers on the day to help set up and run some games. You can sign up here: https://signup.com/go/NAryeRX

 

Also we’re on the lookout for the following loans/ donations: 

  • Australia Day flags, bunting, signs, stickers, temp tattoos, etc
  • AC/DC, Cold Chisel, etc posters 
  • Clean (inside and out), uncrushed empty beer cans - please limit to 4 per household as we are not a recycling centre! 
  • Empty beer boxes in good condition 
  • Boxing kangaroos (fake, not alive please)
  • A couple of plain white sheets that you don’t need back

Remember to label any items you want returning. 

 

There will be a tub in reception for collection. 

 

End of Year Raffle

Just a reminder that if you have brand new gifts that you don’t want, can you think of school first before getting rid of them. We’re talking about body care sets, glasses, toys, general gifts, chocolates, xmas items etc… things that we can add to our raffle. It needs to be in excellent condition and unopened (we’re not an op shop)! If you have anything, please feel free to leave them at the office where we can collect. Bonus if it’s Christmas related! 

 

2024

We have already commenced writing our event plan for 2024, which we will be sharing with you before the end of the year. One part of next year's fundraising will be a Community Cookbook. We have a working group of parents working on this. We encourage family recipes, special tips, special recipes. etc from across everyone in our school community. We will be looking at working towards a submission date in November along with some samples.

 

More details on this in the coming weeks, but we thought that we would let you get your thinking caps on!

 

Parents & Friends meetings  - don’t forget! 

We really do need more volunteers to come and get involved. We’re meeting Friday mornings for the remainder of this Term. 

 

All our meetings can be found in the Facebook group - AGPS Parents & Friends Events - the link is:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1711670309087291/

 

We look forward to having a wonderful term or lots of school community events. 

 

Parents & Friends Committee