Parents and Friends Association
Year 7 parents welcome morning tea 2023
It was wonderful to meet many Year 7 parents at PFA’s welcome morning tea on the oval on Monday 30 January. Thanks so much to parents who volunteered to set up, serve tea and coffee, brought cakes and dumplings, and cleaned up!
New leadership
At the start of each school year a new team is formed to lead the PFA.
No experience required, just a willing spirit – see role descriptions for the president, vice president, treasurer and secretary at the bottom of this page and come to our Annual General Meeting on Monday 6 March to nominate yourself - or a friend or partner!
Be a parent rep!
The role of a Parent Representative needs no experience, just a willing spirit to facilitate parent connection in your student’s year level. You could organise coffee outings, a dinner, a Sunday afternoon picnic or whatever you like doing! We generally recommend 2 representatives to support each other for your year level. The PFA will support and help facilitate any events you wish to organise.
Please contact us via email pfa@koonung.vic.edu.au (or vittoriaobrien24@gmail.com) or call Vittoria O’Brien 0419 588 914 to find out more.
Koonung theatre parents
At the final PFA meeting for the year, we heartily endorsed the formation of the Koonung Theatre Parents as a sub-committee of the PFA. This committee will help support the fantastic productions that the school produces. If this is something you are interested in being part of, let us know and we’ll pass your details onto Katherine Harding: pfa@koonung.vic.edu.au
Secondhand uniform shop
Thank you to May-Na Bee, Sophia Quek and their team who have dedicated themselves to opening the shop each week, providing parents with an opportunity to recycle clothes and raise money for the PFA. Volunteers are always welcome (even one hour a month helps!). Send an email to: secondhanduniforms@koonung.vic.edu.au
Stay in contact with other parents through WhatsApp
In the spirit of fostering community and connection, the PFA is offering parents of every year level the opportunity to join your year level social group on WhatsApp. If you would like to join please click on the relevant link below.
2023 Year 7 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/DCf3gzmWMHD6trvITkhDpT
2023 Year 8 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IJeO7MdWY090zuftBZI4yI
2023 Year 9 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/I17H3ldHEvl5w8UbGCijzn
2023 Year 10 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/HjqluQXdJnMHJTJ8EVuNIR
2023 Year 11 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BmZCvVkAUXE7qfP5Z4FSuw
2023 Year 12 Parents
https://chat.whatsapp.com/GAcCsef3zlJIpWlrkkc8gv
PFA Oval Transformation Project
The Oval Transformation project is continuing!
Stage 1 will be a makeover to the playing field including fixing sprinklers (currently underway), sand, top soil and seeding - and then a new seating area along the Box Hill Crescent entry to the school.
We will share the plans for the seating area in Term 1 and we'd love parents, carers and students to work with our talented landscaper to do the planting and see it take shape.
Thank you for your generous donations and support of fundraisers last year - stay tuned this year for more!
Fundraising so far:
Direct Donations via TryBooking: $6,700
Profit from Mango Fundraiser: $1,400
Target: $50,000
Additional Shade Sail Grant funding: $25,000
Stay in touch
Keep up to date with PFA news via email (http://eepurl.com/gRpV2z) or WhatsApp (https://chat.whatsapp.com/DyJZv7jLeRs2KH7ix1E6Fn)
I hope to meet you soon at school and at our PFA events.
Martina Johnson - Koonung PFA vice president
PFA committee roles – nominate at our Annual General Meeting!
PFA President
- Run the PFA meetings, review minutes
- Be the point of liaison between PFA and Koonung for requests and enquiries
- Ensure the PFA events have volunteer teams to support them
- Represent PFA as required at events e.g. School Council, Information Night, etc
- Be a point of contact and support for any information regarding PFA events
- Write the end of Year PFA report
PFA Vice President
- Assist the PFA president with the activities and meetings
- Works with the PFA President in the planning and co-ordination of PFA events
- Runs the PFA meetings (when the PFA President in not present)
- Be a point of contact and support for any information regarding PFA events
- Represent PFA as required at events e.g. School Council, Information Night, etc
PFA Secretary
- Main role is to record the minutes of every PFA meeting
- Record all the attendance and apologies
- Document all correspondence received
- Email the minutes to the PFA group
- Assist the President with correspondence required
PFA Treasurer
- Liaises with Koonung Business Manager as needed to manage the PFA accounts (the PFA account is a sub account of the school accounts; the PFA has no direct access or control of the funds)
- Prepare the PFA accounts, using Excel spreadsheets, before each PFA meeting
- Must be able to use Excel and be good with numbers
- Present a summary of income and expenditure at each meeting (Treasurer’s Report)
- Prepare annual budget for PFA activities and calculate amount of funds available to KSC for PFA funded purchases
PFA contact details: pfa@koonung.vic.edu.au
Next meeting: Monday 6 March