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Fifth edition of FPS’ Fantastic Fete/La Fête Fantastique newsletter!

10 DAYS TO GO! LET’S COME TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE!

We cannot wait to bring our wonderful community together for our Fantastic Fête! Free entry and open to all, we would love it if you could invite your friends, family, neighbours and broader community to celebrate with us!

Feel free to follow us on Instagram and Facebook, invite your friends to our Facebook event here and share our social media posts!

Thanks to Nelson Alexander, we also have corflutes (as well as A3 posters and A6 hard copy flyers) available from Mary’s office if anyone would like to put one up in their front yard or window or local café or hand out to friends.

Or you can print the A3 poster here or share around the JPEG version here to your networks on WhatsApp or SMS!

FREE ICE-CREAM AND POPCORN FOR FPS STUDENTS!

Like last year, our FPS students will all receive a wristband next Friday (the day before the fête) to wear on the day so that they can claim their FREE ice-cream and popcorn! Particular thanks to Frosty Boy for donating all the ice-cream and Nelson Alexander for the popcorn machine!

VOLUNTEER AND SIGN UP FOR A SHIFT AT THE FETE!

We are still in need of some people to help us with packing up for the day, the crepe stall, the lolly stall, the African Feast stall, the sausage sizzle, the lemonade stall and rubbish monitoring. Leap Kids is also looking for some very brave souls who would like to volunteer to be dunked in the dunking machine!

If grandparents, uncles, aunties, neighbours or friends (who are over 18) can help out on the day, even for a 1 hour shift, that would be most welcome! (Please note that in line with our child safety obligations, children under 18 can only volunteer on a stall with their own parent or carer.) Any questions, please email our volunteer coordinator: Charlotte George: cclgeorge82@gmail.com or call/text : 0410 454 413.

Also, if anyone has a marquee or esky we can borrow for the day, please fill it in on the sign up sheet (towards the bottom)!

The sign-up sheet is here: volunteersignup.org/AD4EM. We will send everyone instructions on what to do before the day!

BAKE SALE CALL OUT

What’s a fête without a bake sale? If you are able to, bake a plate of goods to be sold at our Bake Sale, please sign up on the Volunteer sheet and pop by the office to collect your essential bake pack and important instructions or you can access the instructions online here All items to be dropped at the bake stall on Fete day between 10am and midday.

For all those who are not bakers – swing by the stall and buy a delicious treat instead!

AFRICAN FEAST

Plans are underway to make even MORE delicious African treats this year at our African Feast stall!

If you want to get involved, please get in touch with Marian Nadra on 0421 494 or with Badria!

CRÊPE CALL OUT

Know how to make crepes? Les Crêpes d’Olivier is back again, this time with a new Krampouz to try out with! He will also be selling ready-made “crêpes au sucre”! If you can assist by making some crêpes the night before or the morning of, please sign up on the volunteer sheet under “I can make crêpes”! or contact Lauren on

0411 112 145

LEMON CALL OUT

Have a lemon tree? Or a neighbour with a lemon tree? We are looking for lots of lemons for our fresh lemonade store. If you can donate some lemons, please leave them in the box at Mary’s office!

TOKENS

We have tried to keep the fete as inclusive and affordable as possible with reasonable pricing and have arranged a number of free activities and free live entertainment for everyone.

Like last year, we will be selling tokens for $2 each for all attendees to use at all parent run food and market stalls and any paid activities and games. (External stalls like Frencheese, the Coffee Cart and the Language International Bookshop will accept card.)

We will be selling tokens in the week leading up to the fête as well as at the Welcome Desk (on the side of the Napier st campus) from 12 to 4pm on the day by card or cash.

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT!

Our FPS students will be performing up first so please ensure students arrive at 11:30am on the George st side to meet with Bree who will walk all students over to side of the stage just before 12pm. Please note that L’École du Samedi will be conducting their usual classes and activities inside the Napier st building and the playground until 12pm so please drop students to the George st side before then. Reminder FPS kids are not required to wear their uniforms!

Check out all the exciting performers we have in store!

TIME	PERFORMER
12:00pm	Welcome
12:15pm	Fitzroy Primary School student performances: Whole School, Senior School, Junior School, Senior Choir, Junior Choir, Duet, Year 1/2 M and Year 1/2E dances
1:00pm	Interview with Anasina Grey Barbaro MP for Northern Metro with Maida and Sumaya
1:05pm	Tim TamZ: Parent band featuring Tim, Tamil and Zvi
1:35pm	Melbourne Djembe African drum and dance workshops
2:05pm	Paper Jellyfish: Teacher band featuring Bree McKernan
2:15pm	La La La Chorale: Melbourne’s French Choir
2:45pm	French Music School: Piano students
3:00pm	Mzuri Dance workshop
3:30pm	Chikchika
4:00pm	Thank you and closing

A big thanks to Yarra City Council and Brunswick South Primary School (for the stage) to make the live entertainment happen!

ACTIVITIES AND GAMES!

We have a jam-packed schedule of activities!

TIME	ACTIVITY	COST
12:00 to 4:00pm	Facepainting, hairbraiding, henna and nail and hair salon	1-2 tokens
	Leap Kids Carnival – Dunking station, Jaffa smash, Hoops and Archery	1-2 tokens
	The French Circus School Workshops (every 30 minutes)	FREE
	Sophie’s Our Languages exhibition	FREE
	Photobooth	FREE
	Almost French Early Learning Centre Craft Corner	FREE
	French Bilingual Association Art Exhibition and Activities	FREE
	Bunnings Collingwood planting activities	FREE
	Fitzroy Library reading nook and badge making corner	FREE

CALL OUT FOR GOOD QUALITY CLOTHES AND TOYS

Doing a Spring clean out? We are running a second hand goods stall selling:

Good quality children's clothes
Children’s toys (clean and in good condition)
Crockery and ceramics (no chips or cracks please)
Other good quality miscellaneous items (that are small and manageable!)

Please get in touch with Tania Lewis either via email: tania.lewis@rmit.edu.au or sms: 0433 473 720 if you have goods to donate or you have a portable clothes rack they can lend for a day!

CALL OUT FOR BOOKS

It’s time to dust off their shelves and donate your gently-loved books to our school fete!

We welcome books for all ages – from teeny tiny readers to those who need reading glasses to see their reading glasses!

Condition is key! We’re looking for books that are gently used, not “dog ate my homework used. No tears, no scribbles, no missing pages – just well-loved stories ready for their next adventure!

Multilingual books are our jam! If you’ve got books in languages other than English, bring ‘em on! Let’s celebrate our diverse community!

Drop off your literary donations at the school reception during school hours by Friday 9th November.

CALL OUT FOR CRAFT, JEWELLERY AND HAND MADE ITEMS

If you, your kids or someone you know love making bracelets, earrings, necklaces, craft, bracelets or other hand-made items or have good quality items that you’d be willing to donate to the school, please drop off to school reception by Friday 9th November or at the stall by 11am so that we can sell it at our Craft stall!

Badria has been showing parents how to make candles at and they look and smell amazing! They’ll be available for sale at the Craft stall for the Fete!

FOOD AND MARKET STALLS

We have a huge variety of delicious food and fabulous market stalls on offer thanks to our parent and carer community! On offer, we’ll have:

La Boulangerie (Bakery)
Halal sausage sizzle,

African feast stall

Lemonade and drinks stall
Crêperie
Bake stall
Popcorn stall
Ice-cream stall
Lolly stall
Fairyfloss stall
Second hand books
Second hand clothes and toys
Jewellery and craft stall
And more!

Plus, we’ll have external businesses, Language International Bookshop, France at Home as well as Frencheese offering delicious raclettes and Four Rascales coffee cart!

SILENT AUCTION HAS RAISED $8000+ and counting!

Wow! We are blown away by the Silent Auction which has already raised over $8000 for our school playground! Thank you everyone!

With over 120 items now available including dance class vouchers, bikes, gym vouchers, custom Fitzroy and Sydney prints by FPS teacher Jenni, and one in a kind framed FPS student artwork thanks to art teacher Leah! The link to the FPS Online Silent Auction is here so please feel free to share with family, friends and broader networks!

If you know any local businesses who might like to donate, feel free to provide them with a letter in English, French and our Donations flyer to provide them with more information about FPS and our fete. Or if you have any last minute items to add, please email fitzroyprimaryfete@gmail.com.

HOW YOUR SUPPORT WILL HELP OUR COMMUNITY

All funds raised from the fête will build on the funds we raised last year to purchase FPS’ new George Street playground due to be installed in January 2025!

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