P&C Newsletter – August 2023

School Athletics Carnival – 1 August 

Thank you to all the parent volunteers that came to help out at the oval. Congratulations to all the students for participating and good luck to those students going to zone!

Book Week Parade – Thursday, 24 August

• The Book Week Parade will take place on Thursday 24 Aug. 
• Parents and carers are invited to come to school to watch the parade from 9:15–10:15am, after roll call.
• Students are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character for the Parade.
• Every student who comes dressed for the parade will receive a voucher with a free pizza offer from Domino’s Sydney CBD & Pyrmont stores.
• Thank you to Domino’s Sydney CBD & Pyrmont for supporting our Parade.

Book Fair - Thursday, 24 August

• The P&C will hold a Book Fair in the school hall directly after the Book Parade. Parents will be able to take their child out of class to purchase books at the Book Fair.
• You will be able to purchase a book to keep and/or to donate to the library. All donations to the library will be acknowledged on the inside cover and your child will be the first to borrow the book.
• Books are priced at the recommended retail price and profit margins will be donated by the P&C to the library to purchase more books. As a guide, 

o   Non-fiction books : $ 15 – 30

o   Graphic novels : $ 15 – 18

o   Chapter books : $ 16 – 22

o   Picture books : $15 - 30 

If you are able to help with the Book Fair, please contact Luke (0402 484 778) or Dina (0411 205 378). 

P&C meeting – Friday 25 August

• The next P&C meeting is scheduled for Friday 25 Aug at 1pm in the school library.

Father’s Day Stall – Friday 1 September

• We are holding our first ever Father’s Day Stall on Friday 1 September after the school assembly, from 10:15am–12:30pm.
• Gifts range from $5- $30 and students can purchase a range of Father’s Day branded items Please provide your child / children cash to buy gifts for dad, grand dad, uncles and carers. Children enjoy shopping for presents for their parents.
• A massive thank you to Uliana Khivrych for organising our Father’s Day stall.
• Parent volunteers are required to help run this stall. Please contact Luke (0402 484 778) or Uliana (0415 703 338) if you are able to help on the day.

Canteen News

• A big thank you to Angelina (Sheena & Sherly), Tamara (Oskar), Heny (Vivian), Devi (Jannice & Jaden), Ming (Gabriella & Anastasia) and Uliana (Stephen) for helping out in the canteen this term. The canteen is super busy and having your help makes a big difference.
• Just a reminder that the canteen strives to be a healthy canteen and also sustainable.
• We use reusable hard plastic utensils for our daily specials (udon noodles, chicken karaage, poke bowls and butter chicken). The students have been told that they need to return these reusable utensils in tubs provided or to the canteen. Please speak to your child if you are ordering a daily special and remind them that these plastic utensils need to be returned to the canteen. Students who repeatedly fail to return their reusable utensils will be asked to provide their own utensils from home, if they wish to order a daily special lunch.
• Lastly, if you know your child does not have lunch, please call the school or canteen at 9am and order with Jess (0452 372 012) or Jimmy (410 275 558).
• We are NOT a canteen that sells lunch over the counter. All lunches are pre-prepared, and it is very disruptive to make lunches on the spot for students who show up with no lunch.

Do you know ?

• FSPS is moving to a new Sentral Parent Portal that will replace Operoo and be the main school communication tool. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so asap. If you haven’t received any school emails on this giving you the student key to sign up or need help signing up, please contact the school office.
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