Parents and Friends 

Welcome to our SFS Families and a warm welcome to our new SFS families who have joined us this year.   We are pleased to present our new Parents and Friends Committee for 2024:

President – Lourdes Iape

Vice President – Elena Senise 

Secretary – Kirei Reed & Natasha Pizzimento

Treasurer – Melissa Turner & Raquel Netto 

General Members:

Bruntha, Jo, Cenie, Courtney, Gail, Laura, Melody, Ruchira, Sabrina, Shanelle, Shivanthi & Stephanie

We have a wonderful year of events coming up!  If you would like to join as a general member we would love to have some new parents, please contact Lourdes on sfspfa@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au 

Our secretary 

Name: Kirei Reed

Age: 40

Hobbies: 

Children at the school: Tom Grade 5 & Sam Grade 2

Footy / Favourite Sport: Richmond Tigers 

Favourite Food: Love Japanese, Mexican (especially margaritas)

Favourite Destination: Noosa is my favourite place.

If you were stuck on a deserted island, who would you like to be stuck with? 

I’d take the deserved island alone, the peace and quiet would be nice!

Please join us for our P&F meeting 

Monday 19th February 2024

7:30pm 

Community Room 

All are welcome it’s a great night to come together and share ideas!

We would love to see any many parents as possible.

We welcome any suggestions you may have for us to make OUR events a success, feel free to email us at

sfspfa@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

A huge thank you to the parents & helpers for all your amazing hard work on Pancake Day, without your support these events are not possible so thank you from the P&F 

The Kids absolutely loved seeing you all helping in their learning spaces a huge thank you!

Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying their pancakes! 

If you missed out to help, not to worry there are plenty more opportunities throughout the year so keep your eyes peeled for further call outs for helpers.

Colour Explosion Booklets and Notices were sent home last week.

Get your Colour on, St Francis de Sales is hosting a Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun! 

Our Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun will be on 28th March.

Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun, students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match! Don’t want the prizes, donate your donations to one of the five causes – Carbon Neutral (tree planting), Great Barrier Reef Foundation (coral planting or turtle protection), The Smith Family (reading support) or Oz Harvest (providing meals).

Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.

Extra Incentives to Fundraise!

• Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
• Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
• $10,000 Budget Booster Bonanza Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student
• Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2024.
• A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

For more information, please contact sfspfa@sfslynbrook.catholic,edu.au

Happy fundraising!

We are pleased to advise the uniform shop will be open every Thursday at 8:40 am

Located in the Community Room

All Items $5.00

Cash or EFTPOS

Have any old uniform at home? Why not donate them to the uniform shop?

Please ensure they are laundered and stain free. 

We accept all donations summer and winter uniform, feel free to leave any donations at the office with Lorenza or Viv.

Every Friday -1st Lunch 

$1.00

All flavours are subject to availability on the day. 

Parent helpers will cut the tops off them for children to make it easier. 

The PFA are also looking for volunteers to help on a Friday morning, so if you could spare 45 minutes of your day to come and help, please contact Lourdes sfspfa@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

Please Note:

A current and valid working with Childrens Check is required. 

Join our Facebook page to get lots of useful information, copies of forms and ask questions top other parents. 

http://www.facebook.com/groups/641162342719850/ 

Please Note: you must answer the questions to be accepted into the group 

All volunteers and helpers at SFS must have a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC).

 These checks are very easy to apply for, and free for volunteers. 

We love having parent helpers with all our Parents and Friends events, the children love seeing their parents at school.