Mother's Day Stall - Friday, 10 May

Our annual Mother's Day stall is always a highlight on the school calendar. Kids love choosing a gift for their mum or special adult and we thank all families for your support.

Each child is asked to bring in a donated gift of approximately $5 value and then brings $3 to the stall on Friday, 10 May, to shop at the stall. If you can help at the stall on Friday, 10 May, our wonderful coordinator Kristen would love to hear from you at kristenmjennings@gmail.com.

Junior Cross Countrysnow cones

In what is a really busy time for our school, we'd like to say a big THANK YOU to the parents who have responded to the last minute call for volunteers to ensure our Junior School kids can have a snow cone after their cross country run this Wednesday, 8 May. A $2 snow cone makes all the difference to our little hot, bothered and tired people at the end of their run. This one fell off our radar and we sincerely appreciate that our school community has once again stepped up to make this happen. You are awesome, thank you!

Fete Update

Fete Raffle Tickets

Have you been selling up a storm for this year’s Fete raffle? If you have been selling physical tickets, please be aware that we have extended the deadline for returning these until NEXT Friday 17 May Please return the sold tickets and cash to the P&C Payment Box in the Grade 1 building or lower floor in the Admin Building by then. For those selling via the online links, please continue to do so. 

FlexiSchool Fete Orders

The original deadline for ordering your Fete goodies via FlexiSchools has passed but don’t worry, we are working on extending this deadline to be THIS Friday 10 May. Please log onto FlexiSchools and pre-order your child’s All Day Ride Pass, canvas painting (Prep-Gr2), and $10/family Fete Donation Levy.

 
Fete Cake Stall

Everyone loves the YSS Fete cake stall, and it is usually one of the highest grossing stalls, thanks to the amazing support from families who donate a wonderful array of home made baked goods and sweet treats. We'd love your help to beat the record set last fete!!! Here's how to help:

1. Decide what you'd like to contribute - see the latest fete newsletter for ideas

2. Collect packaging

• Collect packaging from outside the Tuckshop between 7:30-8:45am on:
• Thursday 16 May & Friday 17 May
• Thursday 23 May & Friday 24 May
• (You might also want to consider recycling your cherry tomato, berry, or other similar supermarket packaging – perfect for biscuits!)

3. Bake & label your goodies:

Once you've created your masterpiece/s, please label all of your goodies (with the labels provided) showing ingredients and whether they contain allergens such as gluten, eggs, dairy, nuts, soy, sesame, or others.

4. Drop off your goodies

5. Drop off your donations:

• outside the tuckshop on Friday 24 May between 7.30-8.45am or 3:00-4:00pm;
• Or at the Cake Stall on Fete day—Saturday 25 May—from 8:00am.

Class performance timetable

ALL YSS kids will star at the Fete in their year level performances. To help you plan your timing on fete day here are the times and locations for the year level performances, and also for students involved in the music program:

Stage 1

12:00pm Opening Ceremony

12:15pm Prep

12:30pm Year 1

12:45pm Year 2

1:00pm Year 3

1:15pm Year 4

1:30pm Year 5

1:45pm Year 6

Stage 2

2:00pm Year 3 - 2pc strings

2:15pm Year 4 - 2pc strings

2:30pm Year 5 - 3pc strings

2:45pm Chamber Strings

3:00pm ----------------

3:15pm Junior Choir

3:30pm Senior Choir

3:45pm Senior Band

Election Day Sausage Sizzle

With more than 2000 people expected to vote at Yeronga State School for the Federal Election on Saturday 18 May, this is a terrific opportunity for us to raise funds. We need help BBQ'ing, serving, setting up and packing down and will greatly appreciate your help. If you can spare an hour or two between 7am and 4pm, please let coordinator, Sue know by signing up at https://signup.com/go/GrdNtid.

Easter Raffle results

The Easter raffle results we've all been waiting for... 126 prizes... more than $4,780 raised ($600 more than last year's record)! ... 4J was the class winner with 50 books sold - 4J we'll be in touch regarding a class reward.

What an incredible community we have. Thank you to everyone who donated and wrapped prizes, bought and sold tickets, and of course to our terrific raffle coordinators, Sarah & Kristen. Congratulations to all 126 prize winners. We hope you enjoyed your Easter goodies.

New Nature Play area in the Junior School

We were excited to see the fences up and the digger working away in the new Junior School Nature Play area last Friday, 3 May. Our new Nature Play area is on its way! 

A huge thank you to Adam Stafford and Gunne Constructions for doing all the ground works on our new Nature Play area. Adam worked all through the weekend for us getting everything ready for some more exciting work next week.

And another thank you to Matt from Barefoot Landscaping (www.facebook.com/barefootlandscapedesigners/) who is managing the project for us. Matt is going above and beyond the original scope to bring our vision to life. 

Woolworths Earn & Learn

Woolworth’s Earn & Learn stickers are back and we are collecting so that our school can earn some awesome resources. Simple collect the stickers each time you shop at Woolworths and don’t forget to ask neighbours and family to collect on our behalf too. While our coordinator, Carolyn is organising things, please feel free to start dropping them into the P&C Payment Box for safe keeping.

Hamish Townsend and Kym Mansfield

Yeronga State School P&C Co-Presidents
ysspandcpresident@gmail.com