Hi everyone! We hope everyone is easing into the school year nicely. Don’t forget to update your QKR profiles to reflect your children’s 2024 classes. Have you checked out some of the new tuckshop items on the summer menu? Our Tuckshop team have worked hard to provide some yummy options that can keep everyone cool through the summer months. We have some wonderful parents who volunteer in the tuckshop on a regular basis and other wonderful parents who just pop in when they can. And we appreciate them all! You would be amazed how big of a help it is to have a parent volunteer to spend 30-60 minutes in the tuckshop helping the team. You certainly don’t have to make a full day commitment to help out. Here are some tasks that need to be completed through the stated times of the day. If you could spare any of these times on a Tuesday through to Friday (Friday is definitely our busiest day), please reach out as we would love to have you!

• 8:15-9:00am Breakfast Club; making cups of cereal & milk, pouring juice, cutting up fruit.
• 9:00-9:30am Sticking order labels onto brown paper bags
• 9:00-10:00am Basic food prep; cutting fruit and vegetables
• 10:00-11:00am Making up Snack and Custard Cups
• 10:30-11:00am Packing lunches into class tubs
• 11:15-Noon  Washing dishes

You can put your name down for just one task at the time and day that suits you; then you’re out the door. All tasks are under the supervision of our wonderful Tuckshop Convenor, Lisa, so you won’t ever be thrown in the deep end without direction. We really do have such a great team, who are very welcoming and are always up for a laugh.

If food isn’t your thing; we would also love to hear from you if are interested in volunteering in our uniform shop, just once or twice per month! Some regular members of our team have moved onto high school and there are some spaces to fill in our monthly roster. Our Uniform shop will be back to normal opening hours from this week; Fridays 8:30-9:00am, before school parade. Please note; sales are via QKR only, no cash or EFTPOS will be available.

Our P&C meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month through school terms. Our first meeting for the year will be held on Tuesday 13^th February in the Admin building at 5pm. We wish to invite everyone along and we would love to see you there. If you can’t make it but would like an opportunity to share your thoughts or ideas; please do not hesitate to reach out.

We welcome you to contact us at any time! You can email us on; communication.calliopess@gmail.com for our Communication Officer or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for our Executive team.

Warm regards,

Heidi, Geoff, Angela and Lisa.