Parents and Friends Association
Bunnings BBQ and Bake Sale - Saturday 26 October
Dear Volunteers
Thank you to you all; our volunteers and bakers from Saturday’s Bunnings BBQ and Bake Sale!
We persevered through wind, rain (and sunshine), selling out of both sausages and cakes by 4pm.
Provisional results are $1394 from the BBQ and approximately $1089 from the bake sale. That’s a fantastic result!
A special thank you to Lou Will and Janelle Leeding for the coordination and organisation of the BBQ. It all ran very smoothly and the Bunnings customers made special mention that the sausages from Dench Butchers, Forest Hill Chase, were very tasty.
A special mention to Kyle Crawford from Wallaroo Camping Hire for the donation of the hire of the ice chests.
We also discovered that the Koonung Community hides an amazing number of bakers! A wonderful amount of donated baked goods came in from so many families. Also a marvellous contribution from the Koonung Food Tech classes led by Kelly Szlachetko, who baked for us on Thursday, meant that our stock levels were sky high.
A special mention to those bakers who baked SO MUCH stock they could have run their own bake sale! They know who they are.
A special thank you to Naomi Robinson for preparing the packaging and cute tags and for assisting with coordinating the event. Also to Tara Payne and Lauretta Zychla for their Halloween decorations.
It’s wonderful to be part of the strong community spirit at Koonung!
Andrew Gifford
PFA President 2019
Wanted......a Book Sale Coordinator for 2020 and onwards
Dear Koonung SC Community, the PFA runs a very successful and effective 2nd hand book sale at the school each year in December. In 2018, the sale raised over $7K for the PFA to allocate back to the school and returned over $17K to parents who sold their books. The sale is run by an army of volunteers and has been led for the past 6+ years by Carolyn Minster.
As Carolyn’s time at Koonung comes to an end, we need someone to volunteer as the coordinator to be able to continue this fabulous service to the Koonung families.
The event this year is well in hand but the opportunity is available for the next coordinator to be able to shadow Carolyn and see how the event runs. Carolyn will also be available to mentor this person through the sale in 2020.
We have a full list of duties (summarised below) available for anyone who is interested and advise the process is fully documented. The process has been in place and bedded down for a number of years and is very efficient.
There is a definite possibility to have 2 people run the event as joint coordinators.
If you have been looking for an opportunity to become involved with Koonung in a role which really gives back to both the school and the families, then this role is ideal for someone who has some time in September/October and then again mid November-early December.
Please contact Andrew Gifford at pfa@koonung.vic.edu.au with any queries or to express interest.
Summary of role:
Prep work-September/October-about 1 hour a week producing the 2nd hand book list/setting sales date/ booking rooms/updating volunteer app/updating flyers.
Mid November-early December-about 3 hours a week. Organising early book drop offs/organising storage of the items/clearing the cupboard from last year’s stock
First week of December-Thursday to Monday of book sale week-Set up (Thursday), book collection (Friday), Volunteer pre sale (Friday night), Book sale day (Saturday), Paperwork completion (Saturday afternoon), Book return and pack up (Monday)
December/February-ad hoc requests for books to be addressed
PFA information
Upcoming PFA meeting dates for 2019
December Christmas Dinner TBA
Your Committee for 2019:
President - Andrew Gifford
Vice President - Danielle Croyden
Secretary - George Anastasiou
Treasurer - Nicky Smith
PFA Contact Details
If you have any questions or would like to help out with PFA events or come to our meetings, please emailpfa@koonung.vic.edu.au - we would love to hear from you.