Administration News

National Boarding Week

This issue of The Boarding Buzz is mainly centred around National Boarding Week, which is well covered in the reports from the Head of Boarding and Boarding Captains. I would like to share a couple of extra thank yous and announce the winners of raffle at The Darcy Effect stand on our Field Day.

Thank you to Mrs Teresa McAllister and the Year Twelve Hospitality students who supported the Field Day by selling coffee and collecting funds for the lamb rolls on sale. All proceeds were donated to The Darcy Effect.

Thank you to the Catering team for organising the cake for National Boarding Week and for cooking and serving the lamb at the Field Day. As is tradition at Foundation Day, the eldest and youngest students at the school cut the Foundation Day cake. We chose to continue this theme with the National Boarding Week cake this year with our eldest boarder and Boarding Captain Brianna Cunningham and our youngest boarder Isabel Bailey cutting the cake.

The winners of the free raffle for students for students at The Darcy Effect stand were Madison Belfield (Year Ten) and Mila Jeppe (Year Eleven) who both went home with a bag of merchandise from The Darcy Effect and Jack Willis (Year Ten) for winning the AFGRI prize of a John Deere Esky.

We also thanked our Boarding staff (Supervisors, Bus Drivers, Cleaners and Catering team) with a small gift of chocolate.

A final thank you to our Principal, Mr Mathew Irving for his support of the week. It was a great way for Great Southern Grammar to celebrate 'one community'.

We cannot tell you how much it was appreciated.

Regional Visits

A reminder that the next regional visit on the Principal's road show, will be held in Mount Barker/Kendenup on Friday 7 June. This event is open to all current, future and interested families. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Julia Bairstow by Monday 3 June.

The road show will continue through the year with the following events scheduled.

Denmark on Friday 26 July
Newdegate Field Day in September
Esperance Show in October
Albany Show in November

We encourage all families to attend these events if you can and help us spread the word to friends and family in these regions.

Allowances

The 2024 Student Allowances Guidelines is available. Please click here for more information.

Please see information for 2024 Boarding Away from Home Allowance here.

Please see information for ABSTUDY Fare Allowance here.

Farm Household Allowance is a payment for farming families in financial hardship.

To get this you must:

be a farmer or partner of a farmer
meet the income and assets test limits
meet mutual obligation requirements

A farmer must contribute significant labour and capital to a farm.

Read the full conditions under who can get it here.

Farm Household Allowance fact sheets are also available below.

We hope this information is helpful and as always, if you have any queries, please don't hesitate to us.

Mrs Dianne Franzinelli | Boarding Administration Officer