Parents Association
Parents Association Update
Hello from the PA and welcome back to Term 2, we hope that you had a restful break with your family and ate lots of Easter eggs.
Our main event this term is the Mothers Day lunch, and it would be great to see some new faces at Elwood Bathers. It is such a fun day and Michelle Thomas, Cass White and Kate Korber have planned such a wonderful day to celebrate us mums. It’s a great way to get to know other mums from your year level and from other year levels.
There will be a couple of big surprises for the mums including a secret individual surprise from your kids.
There has also been some amazing entertainment organised with our very own band playing - Sam and Sam @samsambutdifferent (follow them on instagram).
The after party is organised at Bellucci Bar (151 Martin Street) from 4.30pm with Bellucci opening the bar just for us St James mums.
Mums who no longer have children at the school are also more than welcome, please share the link with them below.
Be sure to book tickets now as we need to confirm final numbers, on what is always a very memorable event.
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1044801
SAVE THE DATE NOTICES:
We will provide more information on the parents night out soon but in the meantime, SAVE THE DATE - SATURDAY 5th of AUGUST
DONATIONS FOR SILENT AUCTION @ PARENTS NIGHT OUT
If you have anything for the silent auction, please let Virginia or Connie know. Holiday houses, wine, chocolates, books, children’s items, cosmetics or skin care (anything any-one would like to buy). Or if you are a regular at a business, you can ask them for a donation,we like to support and promote local businesses to the school community.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB
You may see the 2 issues that come out per month on the Scholastic book club. This is kindly managed by Danielle Rohan who needs to hand this over and we are looking for a volunteer. It doesn’t require much work at all and only pushing a button for go, twice a month. If you are interested, please let Connie know.
NEW ENROLMENTS
Sending a reminder that current families need to put their enrolments for siblings into Prep for next year, by the end of next week. St James is also taking enrolments for new families next year and hope that all St James families can put the word out for any potential new families.
THANKS FROM THE PA
We are very grateful for the continued support of all our parents, the school and local community. All our PA members are volunteers who generously give up their own time to organise our school events.
Contributions from our fundraising efforts will be put towards many areas across the school. Some initial ideas that have strong support from the PA group and school community are 1) Outdoor furniture for the Tilley playground 2) Improving school security 3) Retractable cafe style blinds for the exterior of the undercover area so it can be used during hot or wet days.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly:
FUTURE CALENDAR DATES
- Dad’s Catch Up - every 3rd Thursday of the month. Next dads drinks booked at Marine Hotel on Thursday 18 May.
- St James Mothers Day Lunch - Saturday 20 May 2023 at Elwood Bathers. After party at Bellucci Bar on Martin Street at 4.30pm
- Parents night out - Saturday 5 August 2023 at Brighton Yacht Club
- Colour run - Friday, 10th November 2023 at Elsternwick Park
- Dads, special friends and kids camp at Anglesea YMCA for 2024 - 22-24 March 2024
PARENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISER CALENDAR 2023
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