NOTE: If you have tried to contact Rebekah Brown about the Fete and clicked on the below email link it may not have sent to her. If you have emailed her and haven't heard back, please contact her again. All donations can start to be dropped off in the Front Office from now until the Fete.

Our school Fete will be on Friday 15 March 2024 from 4-8pm (Term 1, Week 7). We are already well on our way with preparations. Please see information below about requesting volunteers in the lead up to the Fete and requests for donations. We really rely on our school community working together to ensure the success of our school Fete. 

Store Convenors 

Before the end of this year, we will send out information regarding volunteers for the Fete Day. We are currently requesting store convenors for the following stores in the preparation and lead up to the Fete. The Fete Coordinators will also support each of the store convenors and provide more details on the roles once allocated. Please contact Rebekah Brown rebekah.brown@cg.catholic.edu.au if you would like to take on one of these roles or if you have any questions. 

Store	Role of the Store Convenor
Hampers	Collect all of the donations on Friday Week 6, Term 1 2024 and pack the hampers.
Plant Store	Start to pot and grow plants in time to sell for the Fete Reach out to organisations (Bunnings, garden centres etc.) for donations of plants.
Book Store	Sort the book donations prior to the day of the Fete Allocate prices.
Fish and Chips Store	Organising a menu for Fish and Chips. Ordering and purchasing of products.
Drinks Store	Gradually purchasing drinks when they are on sale (purchasing to start as soon as possible).
Cake Store	Organisation of plates and instructions to be sent home in the week prior to the Fete. Allocation of prices on the day.
Biscuit Decorating	Purchasing of biscuits (arrowroot biscuits) and items to decorate biscuits. This role will include creating a process around biscuit decorating and different ways children can decorate the biscuits. Available on the day of the Fete to set up.
Badge Making	Organisation of designs/artworks for the badge making. Purchasing of any products required for this. Cutting out the circles for children to decorate.

At times, we may need to ask the store convenor to purchase some of the items required for the store. However, this money will be reimbursed as quickly as possible. 

Donations 

The Fete Committee has decided to send out all of the requests for donations for the 2024 Fete at one time so that families don't feel like there are requests every week or two. We rely on our community to donate a couple of items per child. Please see below a list of the items we are requesting. All of these items can be sent to school with your child or delivered to the front office. Thank you in advance for your donations and support. 

Tombola

For the 2024 Fete, we are doing Tombola a little differently. We are asking that a full jar is donated. In the past, we have asked for empty jars and the Store Convenor has filled the jars. The items also don’t need to be in a jar. They could be in a zip lock bag, a plastic container or anything that is enclosed and we can stick a raffle ticket on. 

Items that can be put in the tombolar jars/containers:

• Lollies and chocolates 
• Jar of trinkets - small toys, erasers, stickers, hair accessories, craft supplies, stationary etc.

Hampers

We are asking that each child in each year group, donates one or more items for the below hampers. Each year level has been allocated a theme. Year 6 has not been allocated a theme, as they will no longer be at St John’s in 2024. If Year 6 students would like to donate an item, they can choose any theme. Please see below images of past hampers. 

Kindergarten - Baby hamper (e.g. wraps, clothes, nappies, rattles, baby toys, wipes etc.)

Year 1 - Pet Hamper (eg. pet toys, treats, feeders, bowls etc.)

Year 2 - Kids Toy hamper (e.g. puzzles, fidget toys, board games, balls etc.)

Year 3 - Pamper hamper (eg. bath salts, candles, body products etc.)

Year 4 - Parents hamper (eg. wine, beer, chocolates, nuts etc.)

Year 5 - Home hamper (eg. tools, cleaning products, Bunnings gift card etc.)

Books

We will be having a book stall. We would love donations of books to sell at the Fete. These can be picture books, children and adult novels, recipe books etc.