From Your P&F
Year 5 - P&F Welcome Function
Date: Thursday 29 January 2026
Venue: St Marcellin Centre
Information: Year 5 Parents and Caregivers are invited to attend an information session to be held in each of the Year 5 classrooms on Thursday, 29 January 2026.
This meeting is a chance for you to meet your son’s teacher and learn more about his classroom for the year ahead. It will be held in your son’s Primary classroom and will start at 6:00pm. At the conclusion of the Year 5 meetings, all parents are invited to the ground floor of the St Marcellin Centre where the P&F will host Year 5 parents for a Welcome to Marist function.
This will start at 6:50pm and is a wonderful way for our newest parents in the College to meet other members of their cohort.
RSVP: 2026 Year 5 Parent Information Evening and P&F Welcome
For event details and ticketing questions, please contact Sharon Hockaday | venuehire@marash.qld.edu.au
P&F Association Annual General Meeting
Notice of Meeting
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND TERM 1 GENERAL MEETING of the Marist College Ashgrove Parents and Friends Association
MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2026 at 7:00pm
Location: The Tower Building
Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/DIYNT
Getting involved with P&F is a wonderful way to foster strong connections with your Marist family across your journey at the College. Our Association enjoys stability through the generosity of many capable hands, carrying jobs of all shapes and sizes. We are sure you would enjoy volunteering through our various activities and sub-committees that all help to make our Marist family the special community that it is.
NOMINATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE POSITIONS
A key item on the AGM agenda is the election of Executive positions* for 2026:
President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
*Nominees for Executive positions require a blue card, or willingness to obtain one.
All members of the Executive retire from office during the AGM, and all positions declared open. Elections for these positions are then held from the nominations received. Nominations can come from any member of the P&F. Individuals are also eligible to re-nominate for a successive term within the conditions of the Constitution.
If you are interested in nominating for an Executive role for 2026, please contact the P&F Secretary for a Nomination Form. (The form is attached to the Parent Orbit App AGM notice 23 January). Nominations will be accepted up until Sunday 8 February 2026. To be considered, the completed Nomination Form must be received in the P&F Secretary’s email by 8 February. secretarypandf@marash.qld.edu.au
The 2025 P&F Executive are open to a catch-up with anyone who is thinking about nominating and would like to find out more. Many people discerning if this is something they would like to pursue make enquiries at this time of the year, so please don’t hesitate to reach out. Just send an email to any of the Executive indicating that you are a current parent who would like to find out more about P&F nominations. From there we can arrange a phone call, coffee or reply to your questions over email. There is no obligation to nominate by making an enquiry.
Donna Lynn - President P & F - PresidentPandF@marash.qld.edu.au
Jane Wilcox - Secretary P & F - SecretaryPandF@marash.qld.edu.au
Stephen Ball - Treasurer P & F - TreasurerPandF@marash.qld.edu.au
Adam Bennett - Vice President P & F - VicePresidentPandF@marash.qld.edu.au
Proposed AGENDA – Annual General Meeting - Revised January
| Confirmation of Attendance and Apologies | Secretary 2025 | |
| Confirmation and Acceptance of Minutes of 2025 AGM | President 2025 | |
| Business Arising from the Minutes | President 2025 | * As raised in 2025 AGM minutes. |
| Correspondence Report | President 2025 | *Propose to carry over to General Meeting unless relevant to AGM. |
| Head of College Report | Head of College | |
| President’s Report | President 2025 | |
| Treasurer’s Report | Treasurer 2025 | Resolution 1: Accept audited financial reports. Resolution 2: P&F Donation to the school. Resolution 3: Provide access to the accounts to 2026 President, Vice President and Treasurer. |
| Sub-Committee & Other Activity Reports | Sub-committee representatives 2025
| Receiving of reports. *Propose general sub-committee business to be carried over to General Meeting unless relevant to AGM. |
| Resignation and Election of Executive | Head of College | |
| Appointment of Sub-Committees and Delegates | President 2026 | |
| Appointment of Auditor | Treasurer 2026 | |
| Public Liability Insurance | President 2026 | Resolution: Continue coverage under the College Public Liability policy |
| Notification to Diocesan Council | Secretary 2026 | |
| Blue Card Services Portal | President 2026 | Resolution: For the purposes of compliance with the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000 and for all other purposes, it is resolved that the Marist College Ashgrove Parents & Friends Association Incorporated continues to be linked to and operate through and under the Marist College Ashgrove Blue Card Services portal. |
| General Business | President 2026 | Agenda requests are required to be submitted for consideration to secretarypandf@marash.qld.edu.au no later than 4pm Sunday 8 February 2026.
Requests will be put into consideration for the Term 1 General Meeting agenda unless specifically relevant to the AGM.
There will be no general business taken from the floor during the meeting. |
| Meeting Close | President 2026 |
Proposed AGENDA – Term 1 General Meeting
| Confirmation of Attendance and Apologies | Secretary | |
| Confirmation and Acceptance of Minutes of Term 4, 2025 General Meeting | President | |
| Business Arising from the Minutes | President | *As raised in General Meeting minutes. |
| Correspondence Report | President | *Including any items carried over from the AGM. |
| Head of College Report | Head of College | *Propose to consider covered by the AGM report. |
| President’s Report | President | *Propose to consider covered by the AGM report. |
| Treasurer’s Report | Treasurer | *Propose to consider report as covered by the AGM report. Resolution: Payment of Annual CSPQ Levy |
| Sub-Committee & Other Activity Reports | Sub-committee representatives | *Propose to consider reports to be covered by AGM reports. *Include general Sub-Committee business in this meeting. |
| General Business | President | Agenda requests are required to be submitted for consideration to secretarypandf@marash.qld.edu.au no later than 4pm Sunday 8 February 2026.
There will be no general business taken from the floor during the meeting. |
Donna Lynn
President, Marist College Ashgrove Parents and Friends Association