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DATES TO REMEMBER

March 6th School Photos 8th Hot Chip Afternoon Tea 9th Athletics Practise 16th Athletics Practise

KONGWAK PRIMARY SCHOOL

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* SCHOOL PHOTOS * A reminder that school photos will be taken this coming Monday 6th March. Photo envelopes must be returned by Monday. Sibling envelopes are availa-ble at the office if you would like a photo of your children together. FAMILY HOT CHIP NIGHT Thank you to those families who returned their prefer-ence notes for our Hot Chip Afternoon Tea. It will be held next Wednesday 8th March (straight after school). We look forward to seeing as many families there as possible. ATHLETICS PRACTISE Today the children in the senior grade went to Inverloch for athletics prac-tise. WELL DONE & GOOD LUCK ALEXIS Congratulations to Alexis Van Oss who came 2nd in the butterfly event at the District Swimming Sports last week. Alexis will now be swimming in the medley rely tomorrow at the Division-al Sports. Good luck Alexis! WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK It is a requirement that all parent help-ers and volunteers at school have a current Working With Children Check. If this involves you can you please or-ganise this asap and provide a copy of your card to school. Thank you. SCHOOL COUNCIL ELECTIONS

It is that time of year again when we seek interested members of our school community to join us on School Council. Inverloch and Kongwak Prima-ry Schools each have their own inde-pendent Councils. “Acting as a team,

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council supports the Principal to pro-vide the best possible outcomes for stu-dents.”(Improving School Council Gov-ernance Handbook 2016). The role of School Council includes: participating in the monitoring of the Strategic Plan, approving the Annual Budget and moni-toring expenditure, developing, review-ing and up-dating policies, raising funds for school related purposes, maintain-ing school grounds and facilities, re-porting annually to the school commu-nity and to the Department, creating interest in the school in the wider com-munity, informing itself and taking into account the views of the community and regulating and facilitating the after hours use of school premises and grounds. School Council at each school meets at least 8 times a year (twice per term) with some involvement expected on sub-committees such as Buildings and Grounds, Finance and Education. A huge thank you to Dermot Griffin, Karl Scothern and Sandy Norton from Inver-loch whose terms conclude this year. They are able to renominate. Roman Schmidt is retiring from the Kongwak School Council and on behalf of the whole school community I would like to thank him for the 6 years he has served on the Council, including 2 years as President. Mel Gibson-Goldsmith is also retiring following a number of years on Council and again, on your behalf I would like to thank her for all she has done during her term. Kath Brown’s term on council is also complete but she is eligible for re-nomination. At this time I would like to thank all our School Councillors for their time and support of our school. If you would like to nominate for School Council please collect a form from the office.

PFA NEWS

EASTER FAIR We are still looking for someone to coordinate our stall at the Easter Fair this year. Every year we have helpers and everyone does their bit, but we are in need of a main person to coordinate everything and attend some Easter Fair meetings at Inverloch. Your help would be very much appreciated. Please contact Kath Brown 0438 574 531 for further infor-mation.

FARMERS MARKET A big thank you to George Fairlie, Gab Patterson and Jessica, Ash & Isla McLean for helping at the Farmers Market last Sunday. Your time and help is really appreciated.

What a lovely morning tea we had on Monday morning for Gab’s 50th Birthday!

We were joined by her husband Marty and children Hannah, Ruby & Hamish.

Marty played the guitar and entertained us all, which the children really enjoyed.

South Gippsland Carers - Leongatha

South Gippsland Carers is a group of carers and families of people with additional needs and frail

aged

We are there for all carers who live in the South Gippsland region, and we provide support, social get-

togethers, information sharing and regular meetings

Meetings are held on the 4th Tuesday of the month from Feb - Nov (except Public Holidays)

10am – 12 noon: March 28th

, May 23rd, June 27th, July 25th,

Aug 22nd, Sept 26th, Oct 24th, & Nov 28th

Memorial Hall Meeting Room 2, Michael Place Leongatha

(opposite the Post Office)

For more information please contact Heather: 56 689 243

All welcome