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P&F News

MEET OUR EXECUTIVE

Mr Brendan Zimmerle

PROFILE

Executive member
Brendan’s Role: Diocesean representative for SSPS
Q&A Time for Mr Zimmerle

Brendan Zimmerle (Zimmo) has 2 girls at St Saviour's Primary, Miley 4D and Asha 1M.

Q1: What interested you in becoming involved with SSPS school parents?

To be involved in and help shape the environment within the school.

Q2: What are your favourite foods?

Chocolate and Asian

Q3: What are your interests and hobbies?

Cars and camping.

Q4: What are your goals and expectations?

To help make the school a fun place to learn.

Q5: What is your favourite sport?

Motorsport

Q6: What are you most scared of?

I’m scared of talking in front of people

Q7: What would you do if you won $1000 000?

Pay off my debt, share some with family and friends and go on a holiday.

We have a few more profiles of our P&F Executive coming in Term 3.

NAME CHANGE:

Since 2018, Parents and Friends (P&F) have been looking for a change of name. The state body, renamed as Catholic School Parents Queensland (CSPQ) wanted to remove the old stigma that P&F is focused on fundraising, and to focus on the other areas we assist with. Whether it be social events, pastoral activities or coordinating parent assisted activities, the P&F has for years been a link between parents and the education system, bringing the community of the school together for the betterment of the school and most importantly the students, our children.

Considering this, the committee has been discussing changing names. We have come to an agreeance on a name and would like to seek your support for the change. The name we have chosen highlights the ideals that are important to the committee members, and we believe to all parents of the school. We are at essence a tool for engagement, a liaison between parents and the school and working hard to keep our school community interacting and enjoying each other’s company as our children become lifelong friends. We put forward our new name and look for any objections to the change to be raised prior to our next meeting in Term 3.

We are F.A.C.E. = Family and Community Engagement at SSPS.

We look forward to your feedback and welcome all family or community of the school to our meetings. Come along and meet and greet other caring people from our school community. Any conversation or concerns please email us at SSPpandf@twb.catholic.edu.au

DATE CLAIMER:

Next P&F Meeting – Tuesday 21^st July at 5:30pm in the school staff room

Maximum of 20 people can be in attendance. Please register your attendance via email sspandf@twb.catholic.edu.au

COLOUR RUN:

This year has had a lot of impacts, no news to anybody. The P&F has had to make a tough call and this year we will not be able to put together the Family Fun Day like we have in previous years. But we can still have a community event. In November (date to be confirmed) we are planning on having the Colour Run and a family gathering (CoVid-19 restrictions pending) along the lines of a community market afternoon, with bottle stall, raffles and stalls for people to share their wares or business with the school community. So if you have a knack for organisation or party planning and want to share your sense of pride in our community, please put up your hand and let us know how you can help. A small amount of your time will have a large impact, particularly for the kids that have so many of their social engagements impacted this year.

PIE DRIVE:

Keep an eye out for our Term 3 fundraiser - HOMESTYLE BAKE PIE DRIVE. Information will be sent home soon. Orders will need to be placed by Wednesday 5 August, for delivery on Wednesday 12th August.

PIZZA TREAT DAY:

Special thanks to our Pizza Treat Day coordinator Cathy Condon and her wonderful volunteers, Mrs Wunsch and Mrs Bishop who helped distribute Pizzas and treats today for everyone at school. Pizza Treat Day is definitley a highlight each term. Thank you.

RECYCLING OF OLD UNIFORMS:

With the change of the new uniform there is an abundance of the old style uniforms still taking up room in our homes with nowhere to onsell or donate these uniforms.

As a school community we will be offering families the opportunity to recycle these uniforms. We have engaged the help of the Wilsonton Lions Club and will be able to use their charity "recycle for sight" where they already have contact with overseas communities and regular shipping through this charity. They will take all of the old uniforms and distribute them to these communities along with recycled glasses frames. This is an opportunity to keep the uniforms from contributing to the issue of landfill and also may be an opportunity to support the “Recycle for Sight” program, by collecting old glasses frames for the club to include in their own collection program. If you are cleaning up over the holidays please keep any old uniforms for now and we will have details soon regarding dropping them off to the school for recycling.

Danielle Hart

President St Saviour's Primary P&F