Dear Lindfield Community

Firstly welcome back to Newington for 2013 and a particular hello to all new families who have started here this year. It can be daunting for everyone, both kids and parents, to come into a new environment and learn the ropes of a new or different school. However I hope that you have found enough assistance from those around you here at Lindfield to help you feel more settled.

On that note I do hope that you have all received your invitations to the P&F Welcome Reception on Saturday the 23rd of February at 7.30pm. It’s a great night and the perfect opportunity to meet others, including our Teachers, and to get to know those around you. It’s very relaxed and our Grade 6 Parents are already well in hand organising the event. If you are coming along please remember to RSVP to the office.

We are always looking for more volunteers to help so if you would like to assist either the Tuckshop or Prep Shop or join our Social and Fundraising Committee please get a form from the office. These are 3 areas where can we always use more help and it’s a good opportunity to meet parents from other grades.

Our Sports Committee, in conjunction with Chris and Mark Caulfield, are on a mission to ensure that our weekend sport is the best in can be for our school. They have already negotiated to increase the Cricket and Basketball skills coaches from 1 to 2 coaches on a Monday afternoon. We are also hoping that we can get more parents involved on the weekend and Chris has now sent out a request for parent coaches/managers to work with the relevant Teacher at the Saturday games. Undoubtably there are a plethora of parents out there with great sporting skills that they would like to share.

Our first P&F meeting for the year will be on Monday 25 February, in the library and starting after 3pm. As we’ve mentioned before we realise this is not ideal for many parents but the night time slot appeared not to be either. We are giving this new time a try and if your children are not at afternoon activities then there will be a teacher on duty to supervise them. Young kids are welcome to come with their Parents to the meeting, just bring something along to entertain them. If you are running late from other pick ups it’s not a problem you are still welcome.

 Judy Ryan
P & F President