Have your say today! P&C 2020-2023 Planning Survey

Your are invited to please take a few minutes to complete the P&C 2020-2023 Planning Survey to help us prepare for 2020 and beyond. This is your chance to provide feedback and input that will help to shape the P&C's services, initiatives, activities, communications and priorities for the next 3 to 4 years. ALL members of our school community are invited to participate (members and non-members).

Have your say here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/YSSPCsurvey2019.

Thank you to all Yeronga State School families and friends for your outstanding support of P&C fundraising, activities and initiatives this year. The generosity of our school community enables the P&C to provide significant financial support for infrastructure and resources to assist our children and school that wouldn’t be available through any other means. Your input through the survey will ensure the P&C continues to meet the needs of our school community well into the future.

Seeking a new P&C Treasurer in 2020

2019 has been a big year for the P&C and our wonderful Treasurer, Anna, has advised that she will step down from the role next year. This is key role on the P&C Executive Committee and we are keen to find a new Treasurer in time for our AGM on Tuesday, 18 February, 2020. 

If you are an accountant, or have book keeping or accounting experience, we'd love to hear from you! Our Finance Officer looks after our books, but we need someone with an ability to provide oversight and explain the monthly financial statements to members at our monthly meetings. Please email Kym at yerongasspandc@gmail.com if you'd like to find out more, or to nominate for P&C Treasurer in 2020. You'll be joining a terrific team!

2020 Extracurricular activities

The P&C will again offer a range of extracurricular activities next year, including expanded days and times of some offerings to enable more children to participate. Please visit the P&C website for the current list of activities, and contact providers directly for bookings and more information (http://yerongasspandc.org.au/index.php/extracurricular/):

Chess

Before school Chess will be expanded to 4 mornings a week:Tuesdays, Wednesdays (beginner class only), Thursdays, Fridays (elite class only)

After school Chess: Tuesdays

All classes will be held in the Art Room (ground floor, D block)

Cost: $10 per class, which includes a free chess board for term 1 enrolment

Bookings: Chess Mates  info@chessmates.com.au, www.chessmates.com.au  
 

Piano

Our piano teacher, Rachael Ryan, will offer before school classes 5 days a week in 2020. Lessons are 30 minutes and will be available from 7:00am to 8:45am. Afternoon lessons will also be held each week day, half hourly from 3:00 to 6:00pm. To book please contact Rachael at rachaelemilyryan@gmail.com, or on 0459 705 943.

Guitar

Guitar lessons will also be expanded to before school in 2020 each school day (5 days a week), in addition to afternoon lessons. The venue for guitar lessons will change to the Library (computer lab room at the back of library). 

To book your child in for lessons on Monday, Tuesday, or Friday contact: Kurt Lucas at ku.lucas553@gmail.com or 0450 928 590. For Wednesday and Thursday lessons contact Rowan Russell on 0433 799 379 or rowan_russell@hotmail.com.

Art and Craft 

Sophia Dias will be back at YSS in 2020 for Art and Craft classes on Monday and Wednesday afternoons (3:15-4:15pm) in the Art Room (ground floor D block). All materials and a light afternoon tea are provided with the class fee. Wednesday classes start 29 January, and Monday classes start 3 February. See attached flyer for more information and to book please contact Sophia at www.kidsart.fun, kidsartfun@gmail.com, or 0422 539 568.
 

Tennis

RISE Sport will continue to offer Hot Shots tennis lessons at YSS. Children are encouraged to develop at their own pace and progress through 4 stages: Blue, Red, Orange and Green. Modified balls, racquets and courts are used in early stages to make tennis more enjoyable and easy to learn. For more information or to book contact Rob Da cunha at 0432 089 755, rob@rise.com.au, www.rise.com.au/yeronga-tennis-lessons/.

RISE is also offering Holiday Sports Camps over the summer holidays. Children from Prep to Grade 6 will have the opportunity to experience a range of activities including tennis, netball, soccer, cricket, sprinting, ball games, jump rope/agilities over the 4 days - see the attached flyer for more information. To book contact  0432 089 755, rob@rise.com.au or visit 

www.rise.com.au/holiday-sports-camp/.

 
Dates 16th–19th December, 2019 AND 20th–23rd January, 2020
Time 8:00am – 12:00pm
Venue Yeronga SS Tennis Courts – Park Road, Yeronga

Summer Holiday Art Classes: www.kidsart.fun

For a fun and creative holiday activity for your kids, the P&C's extracurricular art teacher, Sophia Dias, is offering a range of classes. Fees includes art supplies and materials and healthy morning tea. Please see the attached flyer and contact Sophia directly to book (kidsartfun@gmail.com, 0422 539 568):

Week 1 (16 to 18 December 2019)

Ages 5 years old and up

Venue: Randall Art Studio, Mt Coot-tha Botanical Gardens

Time: 9 - 11am (2-hour session)

Fee: $40/day

Week 5 (13 to 17 January 2020)

Ages 8 years old and up

Venue: St Lucia Community Hall

Time: 9 - 11am (2-hour session)

Fee: $40/day

THANK YOU for a terrific year!

On behalf of the P&C, THANK YOU for your terrific support throughout 2019. This has been an enormous year of activity, community and milestones and we can't thank our members, parents, carers, teachers and school community enough for your incredible support for P&C initiatives. Thanks to you and our fellow parents and carers, the terrific teachers and school admin team, our school is a vibrant, connected and supportive community that comes together to provide a range of important resources to support our children and their education.

This year we celebrated a tremendous Fete, creation of the new Nature Play space for our Junior School kids, and air conditioned every classroom in the school. This is in addition to a huge list of annual activities including Bunnings sausage sizzles, an election BBQ, Easter raffle, Mother's Day and Father's Day stalls, snow cone stalls, a fabulous Trivia Night, the Building Fund Appeal, World Teachers' Day morning tea, Welcome BBQ/picnic, and Welcome Morning Tea for new families to our school. WOW! That's a lot of activity, no wonder everyone is starting to feel a little weary as we head to the end of the school year.

Thank you for your contribution to our school community. We wish you a wonderful summer holiday and Christmas festive season and look forward to seeing you back at school in January 2020.