School Fete

School Fete - March 22, 5:00 - 8:00pm

FETE

We’re hearing lots about families getting involved and helping out as we’re preparing for next week’s fete.  A big thankyou to all of those people.  Donations from businesses (including lots from our school community) are now flowing in, meaning our raffles and auctions on the evening will be very interesting.  Thanks again to those have donated anything.  Speaking of donations, thanks to everyone who has donated items for the Easter Raffle.  Lots of families have been very generous and we thank you for that.

Plans for Proceeds from the 2019 Fete

It’s always good to enter a major fundraising event with targets for the money raised.  Over the past few weeks we have been considering options for funds raised through the 2019 fete and School Council last night approved 2 projects, those being:

• At Scotsburn we’re looking to build ourselves an outdoor BBQ area.  For a school community that is tight and has lots of gatherings, an outdoor gathering space will be brilliant.

• At Buninyong we plan to create a home economics room, by undertaking a minor renovation of the meeting room in the admin building.  The room will be expanded and include a number of ovens, sinks and decent bench spaces.  This will be well used on a number of fronts, including:
  • Cooking with a whole class is a great learning opportunity and we can’t really do that at the moment.  We think lots of teachers would take the opportunity to do some cooking with their class if we had the required facilities in place.
  • The facility would allow the grade 3 team to take the next step in their work with the chickens and vegetables.  That is, to actually use what is produced to cook with the kids…..a real Kitchen, Garden Program.
  • The Base 1270 Team would use the facility, particularly during Vacation Care.  
  • The facility would be brilliant for the fete or any other time catering is required.

We think both of these projects would benefit all students at the school for years to come.  So let’s get behind the fete and work together to see if we can make it something special.