Welcome to the Glen Eira College Parents Association in 2020

The Glen Eira College Parents Association welcomes you to our school community in 2020. We are a group of parents and carers who support the school community with events, news, friendships and a little fundraising - All GEC parents and guardians welcome. Our meetings are friendly and informal, and your level of involvement is up to you. I

f you are interested in being involved, want to come to any of our meetings or are not already receiving our emails, please send an email to gecpa@gec.vic.edu.au.

Volunteers (welcome even in a small way). The easiest way to be involved with GECPA is to come to our events, but we especially appreciate those who can volunteer a bit of time. We know not everyone is able to make a regular commitment, but we also rely on people who turn up just once or more during the year to help out a little. And we also need people to join our committee.

Eliza and Jelena

Co-convenors

Family Picnic Booran Reserve Sunday 23 February 11am-1pm

Join us near the back corner of the park by the shade sails. BYO picnic, picnic rug, basketball etc.

All Glen Eira families welcome.

GECPA Meetings

The first GEPCA meeting for 2020 was held in a Glen Huntly café and was well attended with lots of enthusiasm for the year. The next meeting will be Thursday 5th March at 7pm, upstairs at Grilled in Koornang Road, Carnegie. Future meetings will alternate between weekday evenings and Saturday mornings.

Call for trivia night team and coordinator(s)

GECPA is planning a trivia night in late winter. Previous Trivia nights have been lots of fun and very successful school fundraisers. We need a few more volunteers to assist planning the night. Please email GECPA if you can help gecpa@gec.vic.edu.au

2nd Hand Uniform Stalls

Thanks to parents who helped with the stall in January and donated uniforms that were very much appreciated by school families. The stall made over $1000 for the school. The next uniform stall will be held next term as the weather changes. Please donate unwanted uniform to the office.

Weekly walk and talk

We have a social walking group which meets once a week to walk and chat for an hour. We meet on Tuesday evenings (weather permitting) at 7:45pm at the corner of Crosbie and Murrumbeena Roads at Duncan Mackinnon Reserve. So that we can keep in contact, we have set up a messaging group on Whatsapp. To join the group, just email us your name and phone number. (If you don't already have Whatsapp installed on your smartphone, you will need to do that first -it's very easy to install and to use). send an email to gecpa@gec.vic.edu.au if you want to walk with us.

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Ride 2School Day Friday 13th March

Glen Eira College encourages to students to walk, ride or scoot to school– half way is ok, exercise and cuts traffic at school gate, especially on Ride2School Day.

Heat Fire and Flood

Elwood College, Phoenix Theatre, Saturday February 29 Glenhuntly Rd, Elwood 3.30pm

Professor Nigel Tapper: is a Professor in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University and lead author on the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment . He specialises in reducing urban heat impacts.

Lalitha Ramachandran works on heat and flood issues, runs an environment consultancy, Ecosens, and was a former Senior Project Manager in Sustainability at the City of Port Phillip.

Rob Gell AM is a coastal geomorphologist, inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and a member of the Victorian Coastal Council for 9 years.

Hear from the experts and participate in a discussion with the speakers. Free entry is available, but you will need to register here.

Human Sign: Call for Victorian Climate

Monash Clayton Sun Feb 16 at 10:30am - 12pm

Want to kick off 2020 with a powerful message for climate action? Then join Friends of the Earth, ACF Bayside BCCAG and others for a human sign at the Monash University Clayton soccer pitch.

The Victorian Govt will soon set Emissions Reduction Targets for the years 2025 and '30. It's the first time a state government will set short- and medium-term targets across the whole economy. With climate impacts occurring much faster than scientists predicted, the litmus test is whether the targets help keep global warming below 1.5°C.

Families, kids, grandkids – all welcome. Register https://www.actonclimate.org.au/humansign

2040

Where: Shirley Burke Theatre – 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale VIC 3195

When: Wednesday 26 February 2020, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Join the Cities of Kingston and Bayside for a free screening of the film 2040.

Award-winning Australian director, Damon Gameau takes viewers on an adventure around the world to meet innovators and change-makers pioneering the best solutions to help improve the health of our planet and the societies that operate within it.

This is a free event, however registration is essential as seats are limited.

https://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/events/free-2040-film-screening

Cathy McNaughton

GECPA

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