Parents and Friends Committee

Election Weekend

As you are no doubt aware the Federal Election is fast approaching on 18 May and our school with be host one of the many voting venues.  

To take advantage of the crowds on our grounds, Parents and Friends will be holding a cake stall.   We ask all parents, carers and friends of the school to contribute an item to sell at the cake stall.  More information will follow closer to the date.  A roster will also be distributed shortly.  

If you are able to assist on the day  or if you have any questions please contact Georgette on 0403174733 or georgette.antonas@yahoo.com

Raffle Results

Our term 1 fundraising raffle was a huge success with ten lucky winners and $3,374 raised to go towards our new bike parking enclosure. Our school is very lucky to have the support of many of our local businesses who donated a fantastic range of treats and vouchers for us to offer up as prizes. Some of these businesses have direct ties to our school with children who are students here, some are regular contributors to events and activities at our school and others are new supporters who very generously responded to our request to be part of our fundraising efforts. We could not have achieved such a great result without their generosity, please drop by their businesses and say hello to show your support. 

We wish to congratulate all of the lucky winners and offer a great big thank you to the staff from Mork who came down with Chocolate treats to give away helped to draw out the winners of the raffle during assembly. 

• Game and Puzzle from Spieledeluxe - Emma Brett
• North Melbourne Bookshop voucher - Ruby Vincent
• Northside Cycles voucher - Michelle McCurry
• Errols Restaurant and Bar voucher - Khaleed Leckie
• North Melbourne Recreation Centre Voucher - Eamon Mullen
• Holiday Crafts Hamper from Woolworths - Kunal
• Movie Night Hamper from Woolworths - David
• Picnic Pack Hamper from Woolworths - Chloe Do
• Chocolate Easter Egg and Coffee Hamper - Small Batch Roasting - Moe and Hux Hill
• Mork Chocolate Hamper - Matthew Rong

Thank you to the NMPS school community and our generous sponsors for helping us achieve this fantastic outcome and contribute to the building of the new bike parking enclosure for our students.

Cultural Sharing Workshops

In light of the huge success of the (Moon Festival) Dumpling Making Workshop last year, we would like to host a series of cultural exchange workshops over this year. This will be an opportunity to share a significant cultural event, and could include teaching participants how to make a special dish, or share a cultural activity. Activities need to be suitable for children and their parents/ carers.   Ideas could include: 

• Diwali
• Eid
• Passover
• Greek/ Orthodox Easter
• A Spanish afternoon- churros e chocolate
• African drumming
• henna workshop
• Bastille Day
• Latin Dancing
• Bollywood
• 4th of July
• more dumpling making....

Please let Georgette know and we can create a calendar of events: georgette.antonas@yahoo.com

Meetings for 2019

7pm in the NMPS Staff Room - all welcome!

Tuesday 14 May

Tuesday 11 June

July - no meeting

Tuesday 13 August

Tuesday 10 September

October - no meeting

Tuesday 12 November

December - no meetings

About Us

We are a group of parents and carers who meet each month to organise fundraising and community building events at the school. Last year we organised some fun events for the school including:

• School Fete
• Mother's Day Stall
• Bloke's Breakfast Barbecue
• Prep Welcome morning tea
• Dumpling making workshop for parents and kids run by some of our families from the Chinese community.

We would love to hold some other cultural sharing events.   Please contact us if you have any suggestions.