P&F News

What’s happening in your P&F and Committees

Thank you everyone for a great term. It has been such a full first term and flown by so quickly.

In brief:

Our Year 6’s hosted a wonderful Welcome Reception
Year 2 catered beautifully for the JP swimming carnival
Our Prep Shop Volunteers, updated, fitted and re-fitted nearly every boy in the school
Our Tuckshop roster was full of helpful smiling volunteers
Our Social Committee ran the most successful Easter Raffle yet

No wonder everyone is feeling ready for a holiday! To all our parents, we can’t thank you enough for your continued offers to volunteer, your ongoing enthusiasm and all your hard work.

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and look forward to treating our mums in Term 2 at our first event – the Mothers Day Morning Tea on Thursday 5 May.

A quick reminder for your calendar, the 2nd P&F meeting will be held on Monday 16 May in the Lookout at 3:00pm.

How is the P&F Contributing to our School Community this Year?

P&F contributions to the school will be ongoing as the year progresses, however, at this stage we are pleased to let you know that funds will be distributed as follows:

In addition to chess and typing, the P&F will also be subsidising the new exciting co-curricular drama program
Any funds raised by our Sports Committee will be used for the school sports program across areas such as; sports equipment, coaching, training/sports clinics, etc.
The purchase of new “easy to use” coffee machines, which will hopefully be available for our Mothers Day event

As further fund items are approved, more updates will follow – so keep your eye out in future Prep Talk editions!

Working on behalf of the parent body, the P&F is so pleased to be able to contribute to our school community and welcomes any suggestions from parents on ways you might like to see P&F funds utilised.

The Prep Shop continued throughout the term to be a flurry of activity. Our volunteers continue to do an amazing job and we thank them immensely for all their hard work. Please find below a note from Kylie Strawbridge, our wonderful Prep Shop Convenor, with an update on the Prep Shop.

Novak LaForest – P&F Secretary

Prep Shop News

The Prep shop has recently completed changeover from summer to winter uniform and we are in the midst of fitting new boys with their winter uniforms ready for Term 2. We are eternally grateful to the team of volunteers who have managed the stock changeover, assisted with the fittings for our new boys and run the shop during its busy regular opening hours. Thank you. The shop could not operate without you all.

The Prep shop will continue to open Monday 3-3:45pm and Wednesdays 8-8:45am to assist you with your son’s winter uniform needs. Alternatively you can complete an order form which is attached on the following page in SPACES (https://spaces.newington.nsw.edu.au/lindfield/pages/247-prep-shop). Please deliver it to the office or email it to the Prep shop lindfieldprepshop@newington.nsw.edu.au. Your order will then be processed and the uniform will be delivered to your son in his classroom.

The winter sports uniform includes the new training t-shirt ($30) which boys in Years 3-6 can wear during Monday and Wednesday training rather than ‘destroying’ their white PE shirts in the muddy fields.

While you attend your son’s school sports on Saturday mornings (or any time at all) why not show your support for Newington by wearing/using our Black & White supporters’ items. We now have new black caps, beach towels, folding chairs, lots of different balls and reusable bags to carry everything in, plus more.

Kylie Strawbridge – Prep Shop Convenor

Tuckshop News

Cheryll Clark, our Tuckshop Convenor does an amazing job ensuring our boys are provided with fresh, healthy food during each school term. Please find her update below:

Term 1 has seen the boys eat their way through over 400 ginger biscuits AND over 110 serves of “MacNCheese”. All of which was cooked in the Tuckshop.

New menu items for term1 were:

Cold Watermelon, Gluten Free MacNCheese,Gluten Free Garlic Bread & an Easter special of Hot Cross Buns.

We have had new shelves put up to increase our storage area and had a new freezer delivered.

Check School24 early next term for new winter items.

Sports Committee News

The parents’ Winter Sports Spreadsheet will be posted on Spaces in both the Sport and P&F section in the coming week. This useful concise spreadsheet outlines information on the winter sports rounds, uniforms, training, coaches and teachers supporting each team.

If you have any questions for our Sports Committee, please contact roedoc@bigpond.com.

Looking forward to a fabulous winter sports season after our training preparation this term and also the introduction of AFL for the first time.

Hopefully we will be welcoming back the famous Newington Koola sports BBQ in term 3. Fingers crossed.

Social Committee News

This year we had a fabulous response to our Easter Egg raffle. On the day of the prize draw excitement levels were high and many hopeful faces greeted the Easter bunnies! The lucky ones walked away with amazing Easter baskets and the rest enjoyed a small Easter Egg treat!

Plenty of eggs were kept aside and were provided to the accommodation centre of the Royal Far West Organisation (RFW) where children from rural NSW stay whilst accessing important healthcare services. The arrival of the eggs was met with great anticipation by the children who were looking forward to their annual Easter egg treasure hunt! Yet more happy children as a result of our Easter egg raffle!

Lastly the fund raising efforts from the Easter raffle reached a record level of just over $1,700. Thank you to all our families that contributed. Your fund raising efforts will assist in improving facilities and support for our boys.