HALIDON HAPPENINGS Issue 04 864

Halidon Happenings

IMPORTANT DATES

Easter raffle

P&C Meeting Monday 13thth May 7pm in the conference room

Student Banking Mondays 8:15am undercover area

Newsletters Every fortnight

Dates to remember ANZAC dawn service: Friday 12th April Mother’s day stall: 9th/10th May Quiz night: Friday 14th June

Facebook Request to join: Halidon Parents & Citizens private page

Halidon Primary School Events

P&C Website

https://www.halidonpandc.org.au

P&C Newsletter 28-Mar-19

By Hayley Davies

WIN an Easter hamper to the value of $200 courtesy of the very generous James Kennedy at Kingsley Life!! Raffle tickets will be on sale from Wednesday 3rd April with the winner announced on Wednesday 10th April. Further ticket info to follow!

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Note from the president On behalf of the P&C, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all the new and returning Halidon families for 2019. We have an exciting year ahead, with planning for this year’s calendar of P&C events well underway! In addition to crowd favourites such as: Colour Run, Anzac Breakfast and Mother’s & Father’s Day stalls, we are looking forward to introducing a few NEW events in 2019! Keep your eye out for details on our Adults Quiz Night, Easter Raffle, Grand Cinemas Private Movie Screening and end of year Community Event! I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our amazing volunteers and P&C members; without whom our fundraisers, canteen operations and parent voice for the school would not be possible. I’d also like to thank the families who have already transferred their Voluntary $45 P&C Contributions for 2019. As a not-for-profit organisation, our P&C continue to be grateful for the support we receive from the Halidon community. A main objective of our P&C Association is to focus on the improvement and provision of products and services around our school to benefit the children. Whilst we do hold events throughout the year to help raise funds for certain projects and resources, the Voluntary Family Contributions assist greatly in the general running of our P&C, without which we would not be able to provide the services and benefits we do for the school and children. If you would like to make a P&C Voluntary Contribution, these are paid directly to the school, the same as your student contribution fees. The P&C Contribution is $45 per family, per year (not per student). Thank you again to your continued support. I look forward to welcoming you at our next event, the Anzac Day Breakfast on 12th April.... and to many more occasions throughout the year! Mel Harry P&C President

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Canteen A few more volunteers are needed to finish off term 1. If you are available on the 5th or 8th April please sign up to volunteer HERE

please be aware that from term 2 some changes have been made to the canteen menu. A new menu will be released shortly.

HaliDads Camp Out

On Saturday 23rd March, the Halidad’s hosted their first Halidon Dads and Father Figures School Camp-Out. The response from parents and kids was amazing and we managed to get 115 of us into just over 40 tents pitched on the school grounds.

Everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere and it was really special seeing how much our kids enjoyed themselves.

Some parents and their kids were experiencing camping for the first time and after the good times that were enjoyed on Saturday and Sunday, hopefully it won’t be the last!

Dads, Father figures, Grandparents and their kids formed groups on the school oval and were playing cricket, soccer and footy late into the Saturday evening. Then, after everyone finally made it to sleep, we woke up on Sunday to another beautiful morning and the smell of bacon and egg breakfast rolls cooked up by the parents.

Every member of the Halidad’s committee worked really hard to make the Camp-Out happen, not to mention a great deal of support from Mel, Shelley and the P&C. We are also grateful to Helen and Andrew for allowing us to use the school grounds for the event and for all the support they have given the Halidad’s so far. We need to thank some amazing support we received from businesses in the local community: Bakers Delight in Kingsley for suppling our bread buns, aprons, napkins, discount vouchers and colouring competition material and Richard from Cuppa Time, who turned up with his coffee van for our much needed caffeine fix in the morning.

Finally, we would like to thank all the amazing parents and kids at Halidon for supporting the Halidad’s and what we are trying to do. We would ask you to keep on supporting us and we look forward to hosting more events over the school year.

Paul Barnes HaliDads

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Moolanda OSHC

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Young Engineers Term 2 enrolments for the Robo Bricks after school club are now open! Click HERE to enrol.

ANZAC dawn service Halidon’s ANZAC Day dawn service will be held on the last day of this term, 12th April 2019. The service will be followed by

a community breakfast for a gold coin donation per person. Items available for breakfast will be as follows:

- Ham and cheese Croissants - Muffins - Hot cross buns - Fruit - Juice & water station

There will also be a coffee van at the school from 6am-8am.

We need all hands on deck in the lead up and during the breakfast service so please add your name if you can help out.

Sign up HERE!

The proposed format for the day is as follows:

6:30am Service Commences

7:15am Service concludes and breakfast is served (gold coin donation per person)

7:45am Breakfast ends and classrooms are open for parents to visit

8:45am First teaching session commences

10:40am Break

11am Second teaching session commences

12:30pm School day concludes

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