Yeronga State School eNewsletter

P&C Report

FETE this Saturday, 25 May!

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Volunteer please! WE NEED YOU!!!

Thank you to everyone who has already signed up to volunteer for the fete. We can't stress how important it is for the fete to run smoothly. Everyone will have a great time with a little elbow grease from the school community. Please roll your sleeves up and get to know your fellow families by volunteering an hour or two on the day (or more if you like). Head to the Yeronga State School P & C Association Facebook page to claim your spots. There are LOTS of volunteer spots that still need filling.

Please don't be shy, if the volunteer shifts for your childrens' class stalls are full, you can sign up for another class or year level at a time that suits you. It's a terrific way to build connections with other families at school and it's also great fun!

Sell! Sell! Sell! & Buy FETE RAFFLE TICKETS

This is an easy and effective way to fundraise for the Fete and our school - please help us reach our stretch fundraising goal of $25,000 in ticket sales. Tickets for sale ONLINE now! Total prize pool worth over $10,000. First prize worth $5,000, thanks to Brisbane Travel Centre at Moorooka. Drawn 25 May, 5:30pm at the fete. Winners notified by announcement and text/email.

A special online link has been created for each class to track who sells the most tickets. The class that sells the most tickets will win a movie afternoon for their class complete with ice cream and pop corn! Please share your class link/s far and wide! And don't forget to BUY tickets to be in with a chance to WIN!

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 need everyone's help to beat the record set last fete!!! And you don't even need to bake - think protein balls and lolly necklaces or check out these links for inspiration:

Last minute bake stall ideas: CLICK HERE
No-bake baking: CLICK HERE
Gluten free ideas: CLICK HERE
Vegan baking: CLICK HERE

Here's how to help:

Decide what you'd like to contribute
Collect packaging from outside the Tuckshop between 7:30-8:45am on 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!

Bake & label your goodies:

Once you've created your masterpiece/s, please label all of your goodies (with the labels provided - link in this newsletter and also sent via Parent Rep emails) showing ingredients and whether they contain allergens such as gluten, eggs, dairy, nuts, soy, sesame, or others.

Drop off your goodies
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 - Music program performances

1:00-1:30pm - Strings students arrive and unpack at the Music room. Students may choose to say in the Music Room whilst Mrs Eastgate tunes instruments or enjoy the fete activities until 2:00pm

2:00pm - Strings students return to the Music Room to prepare for their performance

2:30-3:00pm - Strings perform (Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Chamber Strings)

2:45pm - Cosmio Singers and Stella Voce students arrive and meet in the Music Room

3:15-3:30pm - Cosmio Singers perform

3:30pm-3:45pm - Stella Voce perform

3:15pm - Senior Band students arrive and meet in the Music Room

4:00-4:15pm - Senior Band perform

Guitar lessons - now offered after school Mondays

Our extracurricular guitar lesson provider is now offering classes at our school on Monday afternoons. To find out more or to enrol your child please contact Blaise Asnicar, Virtuoso Guitar School, on 0448 620 396.

Cross country snow cones

A big thank you to all the parents who volunteered for the snow cone stalls at the school cross country days. Together these raised close to $1,200 for our school - $723.80 through the Senior cross country in February, and $473.50 at the Junior cross country in May. The Junior School cross country was the same week as the Mother's Day stall so we asked a lot of our school community that week and they came through on both occasions, thank you!!!

Mother's Day stall success

Thank you to our whole school community for donating such a lovely array of gifts for our kids to buy for their mums and special people in their lives. A record $2,171.80 raised with every child in the school having the opportunity to select a gift on 10 May. A huge thank you to Kristen Jennings for doing another fabulous job coordinating the stall, and to families who donated and bought gifts, to the teachers who brought their classes to the stall in the hall, and to the mums who volunteered on the stall to help the kids pick the perfect gifts.

Democracy Sausage Sizzle

On Federal election day, Saturday, 18 May, a fantastic team of parents, teachers and students put up their hands to volunteer for our Democracy Sausage Sizzle, just a week before the Fete. We sold 850 snags and 220 bacon and egg burgers with 25kg of onions and made a profit of $2,125.58.

From 7am to 4pm an army of volunteers worked together to feed the hungry voters and families, and many stayed well beyond their volunteered hour. The YSS Garden Club, Sarah Cordingly's Beeswax Wraps and ReThink info hub + store joined us to create what was a brilliant community atmosphere.

A massive thank you to Sue Tape for coordinating the BBQ and for staying the whole day from beginning to end, and all the awesome parent, teacher and student helpers and the many many school families who came and supported by buying a snag.

Nature Play

Not to be outdone by the crew on the Democracy Sausage Sizzle, 30 fabulous people turned up on election day to help finish the new Junior School Nature Play space so the fences could come down.
There was digging, planting, watering and mulching - the team moved several cubic metres of sand and mulch. The kids ensured all was working correctly and added their own touches to the creek. A massive thank you to all the parents and kids who turned up in force despite the fact that most will be back this Saturday to volunteer and support the fete. The Nature Play space is looking fantastic and hopefully only a few more weeks until it is open for play for our Junior School kids. Nature Play is funded through a Commonwealth Bank grant secured by the P&C, with extra funds contributed by the P&C. This is only possible with the support of our wonderful school community - thank you!!!

Woolworths Earn & Learn

Woolworth’s Earn & Learn stickers are back and we are collecting so that our school can earn some awesome resources. Simply collect the stickers each time you shop at Woolworths and don’t forget to ask neighbours and family to collect on our behalf too. Please drop the stickers into the special Earn and Learn box on the ground level of the Grade 1 building, or in the P&C payments boxes, or to YOSHC. Let's collect as many as we can!!!

Hamish Townsend and Kym Mansfield

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