St
Josephs Home and School Chairpersons Report for 1st March 2018
I
am pleased to be able to present this report for our 2018 AGM.
I
only took over the chairperson’s position on the 31 May 2017 and I really just
threw myself in at the deep end. It has been a great way to get to know all the
teachers at our school not just my children’s ones and become more involved
with how things work within the school as a whole not just the small boundaries
of my children’s individual classes.
The
Home and School works very hard during the year to raise funds for our students
and school. And we are always on the lookout for new ways to raise funds that
do not expect just the school families to be putting their hand in their
pockets. In saying that as a Home and School we expect every family within our
school to get behind our fundraising efforts to help make them the success we
want them to be. The end result is every
child in our school benefits from all that we do.
Before
I took over we had the successful installation of the new hall heaters and this
was our major contribution for the year. These have been working wonderfully
and the cool air conditioning was brilliant at the summer discos that we had. We also supplied Bibles to all our new entrants
this year. With help from a wonderful
committee we were able to pull together the first major event on the calendar
for myself as the chair. Luckily for me, Megan Phillips had all we needed to
know stored away in her amazing memory and with help from the rest of the
committee we managed to pull off a very successful International Food Fair. We
sold a total of 820 plates of food and 58 Cakes which was up from the previous
year. This resulted in a profit of $6000 for the Home and School. We have made
a very big note for ourselves that this year we need to up the amounts of food
for all stalls as we sold out very early.
My
next challenge was the junior school disco, having been a parent dropping
children at the junior disco in the past I did notice one thing, the children
didn’t really dance they just ran around. So this year we approached the disco
a little differently and requested parents dropped their children off and left. We had only 1 person operating the music, the
lighting was not to be tampered with and we gave the children a clear set of
rules at the very beginning of the evening, the main one being no running
around only dancing. We then set about teaching the children how to dance which
involved committee members and a couple of the parent helpers getting out on
the dance floor and dancing with the kids. This worked brilliantly and our wonderful
principal who said she was only pocking her head in for a quick visit ended up
dancing the night away with the kids until the very end - well done Lorraine.
We
then produced another wonderful evening for our senior leavers. With Adele’s
amazing organisation skills in the kitchen we served a lovely Red Carpet themed
leaving dinner for our year 8 students. They were then joined later by the year
7 students for a dance and finished with supper. Thank you to all the team who
helped pull this together.
During
the school holidays Rebecca Meek and myself then started with the challenge of
putting together the Whitestone Wipe Out event that we will be holding in
April. This involved a lot of walking and discussion on how the menfolk will be
able to pull off the varying obstaclea that we had on our wish list. This has
evolved and we are getting down Facebook page has been very well taken care of
by Sam from Nudge Marketing.
So
as for the year to come for fundraising, the committee has decided to let the
Whitestone Wipe Out happen before we make any firm decisions on what other
events or fundraising ideas we will be running alongside the International food
fair.
I
would like to personally acknowledge the help our wonderful Megan Phillips has
given me and making it possible for me to be able to coordinate the events
having had no involvement with the Home and School prior to becoming the chair.
Without Megan it really would have been a very stressful time and she has made
it so easy to understand how things work.
Adele,
now where do I start, we can find you anywhere from the uniform shop, in the
kitchen, dressed as a Mexican or scaling down the side of a very very large
rock with camera at the ready. Adele is not only fully submerged in the Home
and School but literally anywhere help is needed around the school you are
truly awesome Adele.
As
we all know we also lost a wonderful woman from our Committee and school
community with her retirement last year and that was of course the always
smiling Jocelyn Marsh. Jocelyn will be very much missed and we will never be
truly able to replace our wonderful Jocelyn. She has promised me she will still
be a familiar face at our events.
To
our treasurer Sherilee thank you for all your work in keeping our books
balanced. And to our secretary Suzanne you do a wonderful job I know sometimes
our meetings may be just a little confusing to keep up with. Also I need to put
a big thank you out to all the husbands that come along and help us with the logistics
of setting things up for us.
Finally
I would like to thank the whole committee for making me feel so welcome and
being such a great bunch of ladies to work with.
Thank
you
Rebecca
Heffernan
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