Principal's Corner
This week, Mrs Jo Reed has been in Bowral for Catholic Leaders day and a Principal's Retreat. She has given me permission to make this week's newsletter all about our Fete which is next Friday 14 March, 4-7pm. This means there is only one more week left to ensure you have returned raffle tickets, purchased pre-orders and signed up to volunteer.
The Fete is our biggest and best community event of the year and we can't wait to see you all there. We have so many wonderful stalls and events organised. Have a look below at the map for the day!
Performances
All year levels will do a performance at the school Fete. Please see below the time each year level will perform and some costume ideas. A big thank you to Georgie from Footsteps who has been teaching our students their dances.
- 5.10pm - Kindergarten - Gummy Bear (Bright colourful clothes)
- 5:20pm - Year One - Tricky Frog (Green clothes, frog eyes)
- 5:30pm - Year Two - 5, 6, 7, 8 (Cowboy hat, cowboy boots, country clothing)
- 5:40pm - Year Three - Rhythm is a Dancer (Silver/metallic clothing, sequins)
- 5:50pm - Year Four - Bye Bye Bye (Red/white/black, baggy clothes, bandanas)
- 6:00pm - Year Five - Hit the Road Jack (Black/white, suspenders, bowties, fedoras)
- 6:10pm - Year Six - Saving Up (Oversized t-shirt, baggy pants)
FETE PRE ORDERS 2025
You can pre-order the below items on the Qkr! App. We are also taking cash (not eftpos) payments in the Front Office this week. Pre-orders will close on Thursday 13th March at 3pm.
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Fete Four – Your child can get a sausage sandwich, drink, zooper dooper and coloured hairspray without having to carry around any money! These can be picked up from the Information Stand from 4pm on Fete Day. |
$7 each |
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Ride Wristband – Enjoy unlimited rides on the Storm Ride, Teacups, Giant Slide and beat your friends at Mini Golf or Soccer Shoot Out! These will be available to collect from the Rides Service Desk. |
$30 each |
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Lucky Lock – Purchase a key (or several!) for chance to win an esky full of wine and beer – valued over $1000! |
$10 each |
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Raffle Tickets - Pay for your raffle ticket booklet on Qkr – if you don’t have cash this is an easy way to buy a raffle ticket! |
$2 each $30 book |
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Student Art Sale – Pre-purchase a beautiful artwork that your child has created as part of their Visual Art lessons. Only one artwork available per student. This can be collected on Fete day. Discounted price for more larger families. |
$8 x 1 $13 x 2 $18 x 3 $23 x 4
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Volunteers
We still have many spots left that we need to fill for volunteers. Please sign up to volunteer at the below link:
www.signupgenius.com/tabs/13572DC02A2C2ECC4A18-fete2
Donations
We rely on our community to donate a couple of items per child to help with the success of our school Fete. Please see below 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 so much in advance for your donations and support.
Tombola
We are asking that a full jar is donated. 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 tombola 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. Please see below images of past hampers. Kindergarten students are more than welcome to contribute to any of the below hampers. All items can be dropped off to the Front Office.
- Year One 2025 – Baby hamper (e.g. wraps, clothes, nappies, rattles, baby toys, wipes etc.)
- Year Two 2025 - Pet Hamper (eg. pet toys, treats, feeders, bowls etc.)
- Year Three 2025 – Kids Toy hamper (e.g. puzzles, fidget toys, board games, balls etc.)
- Year Four 2025 – Pamper hamper (eg. bath salts, candles, body products etc.)
- Year Five 2025 – Parents hamper (eg. wine, beer, chocolates, nuts etc.)
- Year Six 2025 - Home hamper (eg. tools, cleaning products, Bunnings gift card
Lucky Lock
We will be having a Lucky Lock competition again for the 2025 Fete. An esky is filled with alcohol and locked with a padlock. We sell keys and one key opens the lock. This lucky person wins the esky and its contents. To run this competition, we would love donations of the following:
- Alcohol - Wine, beer etc. ( Please drop these at the front office)
- Old keys that are no longer useful
Pre-loved Soft Toys
We are asking for clean and in good condition pre-loved soft toys to be donated.
Raffle Tickets
Each family received one Raffle Ticket Booklet. Raffle Tickets are $2 each or $30 a book. All Raffle Ticket books (sold or not sold) need to be returned to the Front Office by this Thursday 13th March.
Prizes:
- First Prize: $1000
- Second Prize: $500
- Third Prize: $250
Spinning Wheel
This year at the Fete we will be having a spinning wheel. We have had so many wonderful donations that you can win from spinning the wheel. Some of the donated items are as follows:
- Wee Jasper Distillery - $420 worth of Gin
- Shaw Winery - 2 bottles of wine
- Raiders Club Holt - 2 x $50 vouchers
- Brudine Vet - $109 voucher to spend in store
- The Picnic Train - 8 tickets for the train
- Kippax Vet - Bag of food and a voucher for a free consult
- Higgins Dental - Teeth clean
- Oliver Street Photography - Voucher
- Belconnen Bunnings - Ryobi Pressure Cleaner
- Power Kart Raceway - Jungle Golf (Family Pass)
- Flip Out Majura - Voucher
- CanTurf - turf voucher
- Urban Brow Studio
A big thank you to the above businesses for their generous donations.
Rebekah Brown
Assistant Principal and Inclusion Coordinator