P&F News
We held our final P&F meeting on Wednesday evening. This was a time of celebration as we reflected on the events held this year.
Our aim this year was to build community and to hold fundraising events to cover the costs of the community events- we have resulted in a profit of around $6500 for the year! What an amazing effort! These funds will go towards playground upgrades in the future.
It has been an amazing year of fun while building community, with the bonus of raising money too!
We are already planning for 2025 and would love for more parents and carers to become involved in organising these events.
We will be celebrating our 70th anniversary at St Peter's in 2025 and look forward to celebrating this milestone.
For Term 1 we have planned:
Welcome BBQ
Purpose: to build connection
Date: Friday 7 February
Time: Straight after school with bbq sausages (including vegetarian) served between 4-5pm. Drinks available to purchase for $1
What: Games for children and time for adults to talk and make new friends
Please RSVP to pandfspclayton@gmail.com with dietary requirements by Friday 31 January
Easter raffle: 7 hampers (1 per class).
Donations for hampers 11-31 March
Raffle tickets on sale until 3 April (2 for $1)with the raffle to be drawn on Friday 4 April.
What is the P&F?
The Parent and Friends Association (P&F) aims to build community and encourage connections between St Peter's families, students and staff. It also has a secondary purpose of raising money to support initiatives at school. We are currently raising money to upgrade our playgrounds.
The P&F welcomes all parents and carers and strongly encourages you to become involved. If you talk to our current organisers I am sure they will let you know about the sense of pride and achievement they feel after an event, as well as the stronger friendships that have developed. At the end of the day, we are all wanting to provide opportunities that benefit the students of the school.
We hold meetings online- about once per month and use Whatsapp to communicate in between the meetings.
Parent Reps
This year we introduced parent representatives for each class and are aiming to build on this in 2025. The purpose of this role is to develop relationships within each class and to aid with communication across the school. In 2025, we ask that parent reps attend P&F meetings to then be able to communicate back to parents in the class what events are happening. You would also be a face to welcome new families into our community. Please contact pandfspclayton@gmail.com if you would like to get involved. There will be a meeting early next year for those volunteers who would like to have this role. There can be as many parents from each class as are interested to carry out this role.
All parents should be on the Whatsapp group as another helpful communication tool. 2025 groups will be set up for next year, but here is the code for this years' groups.
