P & C News
P&C News
Welcome to the first week of school for 2023! We’re all very excited to see our kids return to school and hope you are also excited for your little ones to start the new school year. For the first time parents with littlies starting, welcome to our school, we hope the first week goes well with minimal tears from all. As the year gets rolling, we will advertise the upcoming P&C events and fundraisers. If you’d like to contact us, we have a Facebook page: Calliope State School P&C, or our email address: pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au.
Australia Day Rodeo
Our first event for the year is selling drinks at the Australia Day Rodeo on Saturday 28th from 1 pm to 10 pm. We would love to start the year off on a high note and get parents involved in supporting the children of our school by volunteering an hour or two. If you would like to mark your volunteering off nice and early, flick us a message or head to our P&C page and click on the signup.com link.
P&C Meeting
Our first P&C meeting is on Tuesday 7th of February 2023 at 4:30pm (early one due to Valentines Day❤), in the Conference Room in the Administration building. We encourage all parents and caregivers to attend the meetings and find out what’s happening in the school community. If you would like to add anything to the agenda or send apologies, please email secretary.calliopess@gmail.com. The agenda is finalised the day prior to the meeting by 3pm. Apologies can only be accepted in writing via the email address.
QKR
If you haven’t had a chance already, please download the QKR app. It is used for ordering tuckshop, uniforms, and special events tickets. If you already have the app, please make sure that your child’s details are up to date! We can’t guarantee that your orders will make it to the right place if class details aren’t correct.
Uniform Shop
The Uniform shop will be open Monday morning next week 8am until 8:45am; otherwise, orders can be made on QKR. Please note that orders can take up to 3 business days to fill after the day of order. These items are then taken to the office, and the students are contacted to collect them. If you haven’t received your uniform order, please check, if it has been three days, that it’s not in your child’s school bag (we all have that one child) and that it’s not in the classroom. Please remember if you have any uniform concerns the admin ladies are unable to solve them, contact us via our Facebook page or email uniformshop.calliopess@gmail.com.
Volunteer Reminder
As I’m sure you are all aware, the executive committee are parents and caregivers just like you. We have families that require our attention, employers who have expectations of us, some of us (me) are even silly enough to have gone back to university. We joined the P&C as volunteers, we are committed to providing the best communication and experience we can for parents and caregivers, however, we can’t always respond to requests and questions as quickly as we would like. Please have patience with us, we are doing the best we can and appreciate your understanding and acceptance. Many hands do lighten the load and if you’d like to join the P&C we would love to have you onboard.
If you see Tenielle, Kate or Geoff around the school (or happen to be in Morven, say hi to Bec) please don’t hesitate to stop us, say hi and ask any questions. We’re very excited for the year ahead and can’t wait to work with you all.
Tenielle, Bec, Kate and Geoff