Community Council Report

The Community Council (CC) met last week. Email addresses have been set up for the CC, uniform shop and tuckshop. Parents can use these addresses to contact CC members, or the tuckshop or uniform shop organisers. This will streamline communication and remove the need for Jacki in the office to pass on messages.

The email addresses are as follows:

communitycouncil.stpats@gmail.com – Kate Graham and Kim Paton will monitor the inbox

uniformshop.stpats@gmail.com – Bec Gaskin will monitor the inbox

tuckshop.stpats@gmail.com – Alicia Hargreaves will monitor the inbox

The tuckshop is very busy this term, the children are enjoying the winter menu and lots of orders are coming in each week. Thank you to the new volunteers who have joined the roster. Alicia is looking into some online ordering systems to phase out the brown paper bags. The meat raffle is unfortunately on hold for now due to COVID restrictions.

Online ordering for the uniform shop is ready for use. There is a link to access on the school website under ‘Parents’ à ‘Uniforms’ or via st-patricks-primary-school-gundagai.square.site . Please remember to contact Bec Gaskin if you need to organise a time to try on uniforms.

The CC is looking at different ideas for fundraising as we cannot hold face to face events at the moment due to COVID restrictions. The Crazy Camel fundraiser has been sent out, thank you to Lauren Gailey for continuing with the organisation of this fundraiser. We are also in the process of organising a rose bush fundraiser with Bunnings. Thank you to Simone Jones for her initiative with this great idea. Hopefully dinner at the school play can go ahead if restrictions allow. We really need your support with these smaller fundraisers as they are not as profitable as the larger events, so we all need to pitch in and spread the word to boost our profits.

The playground upgrade is continuing with the cultural space starting to take shape. Thank you to Jeremy Pearce for the donation of the sandstone blocks to be used as seating. Murals, story poles, a dry riverbed and native edible plants are part of the plan, however some maintenance issues with the learning hub need to be fixed first. Thanks to Renee Lindley and Emma Peterson for your continued help with this project.

Furthermore, the CC has written to the CE on behalf of the parent body to query some of the COVID restrictions placed on the school which seem to be in excess of the restrictions placed on public schools within the region. We would like the CE to review the restrictions to bring them in line with other schools and the NSW public health orders.

Kate Graham

Secretary, Community Council