Dear Families,
Welcome to Term 1 Week 5! Happy International Women’s Day for Sunday, where we celebrate all women in all their diversities.
Kindness makes you
the most beautiful person in the world,
no matter what you look like. (Jay Shetty)
P&F Annual General Meeting
I’ll start with the official business – we had the P&F AGM last week. Thanks so much to everyone who came along.
Here are the results of a very tightly contested election process:
President – Cath Day
Vice President – Mark Bauer
Treasurer – Annette Cannell
Secretary – Paul Osborne
Thank you to Mark, Annette and Paul for your ongoing support and commitment to our school. I am not alone in saying how pleased I am you will be involved in the P&F this year, so thank you.
I am honoured to once again be the P&F President. It will be my last year in this role as I think two years is enough before someone with fresh ideas is needed. I was very proud of what we, as a parent group, achieved last year, and I hope to build on that by continuing to make improvements. Please feel free to let me know how you think we’re travelling!
The four positions above are the minimum official roles we must fill. We have many, equally as important roles that make up the P&F. We couldn’t do what we do without these wonderful people:
Uniform Shop Coordinator - Cheryl Hendy
Vacuum Roster Coordinator - Paul Osborne
BBQ Coordinator - Mark Bullock
Casserole Bank Coordinator - Lisa Bauer
Entertainment Book Coordinator – Jo Hamilton
Coordinator of Class Coordinators - Kim Beaumont
Fundraising Coordinator – Rowena Gribble
Communications Coordinator (all Terms) - vacant
ELC Representative – Mark and Rachael Bullock
Movie Night Coordinator (Term 1) – tentative volunteer
School Directory Coordinator (Term 1) – tentative volunteer
Disco Coordinator (Term 2) - vacant
Revue Coordinator - Monica Campbell
Walkathon Coordinator (Term 3) - vacant
Trivia Night Coordinator - Rowena Gribble
Fete Coordinator (Fete will be in March 2021, planning to start Term 2) - vacant
If anyone is interested in being the Communications Coordinator, Disco Coordinator, Walkathon Coordinator or Fete Coordinator, please get in touch! There might be three or four of you that think, ‘together we can nail this!’ Great, please let me know. There will be lots of help available, we just need someone (or a couple of people) to take the reins and run with each event/activity.
A quick rundown on the P&F
We have three things we like to focus on in the P&F: Community; Charities, and Fundraising.
Community – There will be a number of community based services and activities throughout the year that we would love to see as many of our families participate in. For example, we have our wonderful uniform shop, our fabulous tuckshop that will be opening again soon with a facelift, there’s BBQs, vacuuming of the school by parents (that actually saves the school thousands of dollars each year), a parents revue night (fun and laughter in Term 3), and a casserole bank (provides home cooked meals for families that could do with a helping hand).
The P&F have also established a Facebook page (Holy Trinity Community). This is a closed group only for Holy Trinity parents and teachers, and offers another avenue for communication.
Charities – The P&F will continue to support our charities this year. Our local charity is L’Arche who offers supported living in community households together with a rich social and cultural life, for adults living with intellectual disability. Our International charity is a sponsor child, Lydia, through Global School Partners.
Fundraising – Throughout the year the P&F hold various fundraising events and activities to contribute to our charities, but also support some school improvements. Have you noticed the work going on in the Kitchen Garden (outside Kindy and Year 2 rooms)? OK, so we didn’t pay for all of it, but we contributed a large sum towards the works, and we can’t wait to see the end result! It looks fabulous already.
Welcome Night and BBQ
So lovely to see such a great turn out to the Welcome Night, and wonderful to meet some new families. Huge shout out to Mark Bullock and his crew of wonderful helpers that cooked up a storm! As always, a great feast so thank you very much. Always a treat when I don’t have to cook dinner, an absolute bonus when it’s good food!!

Did somebody say ‘It’s a Fete year!’?? Well, it should be if we have one every two years. But the School Board decided to change the date to March 2021 for a number of reasons (less competition, historically better weather, Term 4 is just crazy etc).
We are having a Fete Meeting next Wednesday 11 March in the Staff Room commencing at 6.30pm. All welcome, please bring your wonderful ideas.
Our Fete Theme is – Around the World. We already have a Greek food stall locked in thanks to our wonderful Greek community! Sas efcharisto. (now it’s in print, I really hope that’s right!!)
Upcoming events/activities
Term 1 (13 March)
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Friday Week 6
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Working Bee
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Term 1 (3 April)
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Friday Week 8
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Movie Night (for the family)
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Term 2 (8 May)
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Friday Week 2
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Mother’s Day breakfast and stall (for the Mums, and families)
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Term 2 (22 May)
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Friday Week 4
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Disco (for the children)
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Term 2 (19 June)
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Friday Week 8
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Trivia Night – tentative date (for the Parents)
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Term 3 (8 August)
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Saturday Week 4
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Revue (for the Parents)
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Term 3 (21 August)
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Friday Week 5
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Walkathon (for the children)
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Term 3 (4 September)
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Friday Week 7
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Father’s Day breakfast and stall (for the Dads, and families)
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Term 3 (11 September)
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Friday Week 8
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Working Bee
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Term 4 (TBA)
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TBA
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Christmas craft day (for the family)
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Term 4 (12 December)
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Friday Week 9
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Christmas Concert and BBQ (for the family)
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I commit to continue being an avenue for parents to raise issues, concerns, suggestions, and look forward to chatting with as many of you as I can this year. Here’s cheers to a wonderful school year. I think I’ve said enough so thanks everyone for reading!