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GEC Parents Association (GECPA) – Join Us!

All GEC parents and guardians are welcome to attend our meetings – a great chance to meet some school families and help the school.  Our meetings are friendly and informal, and your level of involvement is up to you.   If 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 to Eliza and Svetlana.

 

Our next meeting will discuss

  • Party in the Park – Allnutt Park Bentleigh Sunday 17th March
  • Multicultural picnic– welcome to Year 7 families – Wednesday 20th February 6:30pm
  • Movie Night
  • Autumn school uniform sale

Volunteers (welcome even in a small way) and other suggestions welcome.

Multicultural Picnic - Wednesday 20th February 6:30pm - 8pm

All Glen Eira College families are invited to share a picnic dinner at the school to get to know other school families. Please bring a plate of food from your culture to share and your picnic set - plates, cups etc. to reduce rubbish. Last year’s picnic was very enjoyable - a sublime summer evening in the school garden sharing a variety of delicious food from our many family backgrounds and catching up with school friends and making new ones. Two parents with kids who just started at GEC met again for the first time since their primary school days!

Second-hand Uniforms - January sale 

Thanks to parents who ran the stall, donated uniform items and sorted, labelled, washed and mended clothes. The uniform stall raised over $2400 for the school and helped families reduce the cost of school clothes.

Weekly walk and talk  

We have a social walking group which meets once a week to walk and chat for about 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).

Ride2School Day Friday March 22

Active transport is a great way to encourage a healthy lifestyle amongst students and the wider school community. Whether they ride or scoot all the way, or part way, it's a great way for all students to get active, learn new skills and increase their confidence. National Ride2School Day is a fantastic opportunity to encourage active travel within your school community. The day celebrates those who already actively travel to school and encourages those who don't to start. In 2015 Glen Eira College adopted an active travel charter to encourage students and staff to travel by active means. Half way is ok - so if you are driving organise for your kids to walk from say Glenhuntly Road or station, Booran Reserve or scoot or ride from EE Gunn Park or the Town Hall.

Bicycles

Gran Prix Bicycles offer school families a 5% discount and 5% donation back to Glen Eira College.  Collect a loyalty card from the school office and present it in store at Gran Prix Cycles, Glenhuntly Rd, Caulfield South.

 

Cathy McNaughton

GECPA