P & F Newsletter
Hi St James Families,
Last Friday was a big day for the P&F with our Father’s Day events scheduled at the end of busy and exciting week at St James! How good were all our kids (and clever teachers) in the concert?! What a fabulous job they all did with the guidance and help of our wonderful teachers and school staff!
SCHOOL DISCO- next Thursday 14th September
FOOTY DAY - PIES DAY- Friday 15th September
MORNING TEA/UNIFORM STALL- Monday 2nd October
REFERENDUM DAY BBQ- TBC- Saturday 14th October
TWILIGHT SPORTS- Wednesday 1st November
FATHER'S DAY THANKS
STALL!
A very big thanks go to our Father's Day Stall Coordinators, Lisa Noden and Penny Stewart who sourced and prepared some great gifts for the children to purchase for their dads this morning. They did a great job of making sure all the children had a good selection to choose from. Thanks also to Aimee Varga, Rachelle Mosca, Tash Den Elzen and Mel Baptista who assisted this morning.
BREAKFAST!
What a great morning it was for our kids with their dads/granddads this morning as over 430 people gathered in the community centre for the Father’s Day Breakfast. As the first sessions group arrived, the rain cleared, and it became a nice morning with lots of breakfast treats to be shared. Thanks to the many volunteers who signed up to help, the morning ran very, very smoothly and we hope the kids and dads enjoyed their special morning.
A HUGE thanks must go to our Grade 1 P&F Event Team of Kylie McMahon, Sonnya Tirtawidjaja and Fina Triany who have worked hard over this past 6 weeks planning for this BIG event, especially this last week! Well done ladies and thank you so much for being so lovely to work with!
Thanks also to the following people for their help with various tasks over the past 2 days. We could not have had such a great morning without your help.
Set up and food preparation on Thursday afternoon- Claire Doherty, Vanessa Soleman, Amy Dougherty, Stefanie Festa, Kylie McMahon, Sonnya Tirtawidjaja, Isabel Fernando, Nadia Harris, Emily Chew, Emma Lovick, Kyiie Brooks-Verberne and Patrice Barrie
Welcome/Sign-up Desk Volunteers- Joanne Hunt, Paola Weinberg, Belinda Bele, Yenny Lukito, Chandika Soccio, Nina Christina, Michelle Holmes and Claire Doherty
Food Preparation and Service and Clean up Throughout- Athulya Andrews, Lydia Morgan, Yonna Tang, Kylie McMahon, Sonnya Tirtawidjaja, Fina Triany, Anne Dawson, Alisha Weekes, Sarah Vogels, Cat Connaugton, Monica Moylan, Christina Fernando, Amy Dipierdomenico, Emma Lovick. Meg Callanan, Lakmini Dissanayake, Kylie Brooks-Verberne and Lena Zappia
Clean up- Jess Savoia, Kylie McMahon, Sheleigh Keating, Sonnya Tirtawidjaja, Fina Triany, Kylie Brooks-Verberne, Lakmini Dissanayake and Clemi Kohombanwickremage
RAFFLE!
Our Father's Day Raffle was drawn at the breakfast.
The winners were:
1st Prize- The Agius Family
2nd Prize- The Weekes Family
3rd Prize- The Holloway Family
4th Prize- The Knell Family
5th Prize- The CreusFamily
A big thanks to Jason Barrie and Clemi Kohombanwickremage for coordinating this raffle. Around $330 was raised from this to go towards our fundraising goals.
SCHOOL DISCO! – NEXT Thursday 14th September
By now you all would have seen the details for the School Disco coming up NEXT THURSDAY!!
With all that has been going on you may not have thought to buy your disco tickets but our fabulous Grade 3 P&F Event team of Amy Dougherty, Penny Conduit, Amy Dipierdomenico and Nadia Harris do need you to book by next Thursday 7th September so they can finalise plans for this. Booking by the due date makes it much easier for volunteer coordinators who are already fitting things around their own busy schedules.
The very popular DJ Sam is back for a super fun night for the Prep to 2's from 5-6pm and the 3-6's from 6.30-8pm. All here at St James Community centre. $10 includes entry, an icy pole and a sausage at the end.
BOOK YOUR TICKETS HERE:
https://www.trybooking.com/CKXES
HELP NEEDED! - This event requires the most amount of volunteers of any P&F event so we do need your help! We have already had quite a lot of volunteers sign up but do need a lot more. Many of the roles are for a short time on the sign up/sign out desk. Please sign up here if you can help: volunteersignup.org/WL3L7
PIES FOOD DAY for Footy Day - FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER
Flyers went home yesterday for our next food day which will be on Footy Day on the final day of term, Friday 15th September. Crumbles Bakery in Heathmont will be busy that day making 100's of party sized party pies, sausage rolls and mini quiches for our little footy fans and the day before making loads of Happy Face Biscuits. Please note that the party pies etc are a decent size, being from a bakery and are quite a bit bigger than the ones you get from the supermarket. Please go to your CDF Pay app and order before end of the day Thursday 7th September.
I will need 9 helpers for this morning. 4 to help from 9-11 with pre-packing snacks and drinks and 5 more to help us from 10.15-11 with sorting the pies into orders quickly so they do not go cold. I know it is close to the disco to ask for more volunteers, but both these events are very suited to being in the final week of the term and the kids really love them.
If you can help, please sign up here: volunteersignup.org/9HJKK
Thanks for your support,
Kylie