Parent's Association  News

To all our St Bede’s Parents

 

Firstly I would like to introduce myself to the new parents, my name is Joe Pulvirenti and it is my second year serving as the president of the St Bede’s parents association. Viviana Rossios is our Vice President.

 

The mission of our St Bede's Parent Association 2023 is to support our children, our school, our parish community and of course our fellow parents throughout their St Bede's journey. The association is active in fundraising with a view to support the school to continue providing exceptional educational experiences, as well as providing opportunities for parents to socialise and support one another through the joys of parenting primary school children. In essence the role of the parents association is an important one for our school community.

 

The group representing you, our parents, on our committee this year are made up of a couple of new and some not so new members and once again this year we welcome Brian Grace and Larissa Boyhan as the school’s representatives to the committee.

 

Last year our fundraising goal was to raise enough funds to put towards the school’s proposed upgrade to the current sandpit and cubby house area and areas leading into the playground. The great news is that we were successful in raising enough funds to put towards the proposed playground upgrade and additional funds raised will be put towards new TVs in classrooms to replace the aging  comm boxes. Thank you to our 2022 fundraising team, Lisa Marulli, Viviana Rossios, Pascal Simonetta and Catherine Purtell, to the many volunteers whom volunteered their time and St Bede’s parents for supporting our course last year. Without your support, the playground upgrade would not have happen.  Stay tuned for exciting news regarding the plans around the proposed playground upgrade from Brian.

 

This year our fundraising goal is yet to be determined as we are considering various ideas put forward to us.  To get there, the fundraising team have a lot of exciting events and opportunities planned.  Our fundraising team have already met and are planning on bringing back such events as the Easter raffle, silver coin challenge, slime run, bingo night and much more.  In conjunction with this, there is the return of our much loved community events (non-fundraising) such as the  mother’s and father’s day stall, mother’s day dinner, father’s day breakfast TBC, father child camp (booked for the 21st and 22nd of October 2023) and we recently had Pancake Tuesday! 

  

We are currently seeking parent/s to help organise the mother’s day dinner in Term 2. This is a great event to organise with friends and to meet new people in the community. Please contact me or Viviana if you are interested to organise this much loved event.

 

I would also like to encourage parents to get involved in activities such as volunteering for tuckshop, our upcoming school disco and other events previously mentioned above. Please contact the parents association via Amanda Ferguson or let a member of the fundraising team (Viviana Rossios, Lisa Marulli, Belinda Sapuppo, and Catherine Purtell) know of your interest or ways you can help.

 

We have a number of exciting things being planned this year, so community, please support our course by supporting our events and getting involved. I look forward to seeing many of you throughout the year. 

Many Thanks

Joe

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