Macedon Primary School Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers,

Cape Bridgewater – Year 5/6

We have been in regular contact with the year 5/6 campers and they are enjoying fantastic weather and some unique and exciting outdoor adventure activities.  The photos from the sand boarding look stunning.  This is a new camp for the Year 5/6 group and we will be taking feedback from the students, parent helpers and teachers to see if we maintain this as a regular camp into the future.

Working Bee

Our final working bee for 2019 is scheduled for Saturday the 9th of November.  This will be a good chance for us to get together and tidy our school before the fete on the 23rd of November and the final Farmers’ Market of the year on the 30th of November.  If you can spare an hour or two we would love to see you.  We culminate all of our working bees with a BBQ at 12pm. 

Some of the jobs we will be tackling on the day will be.

-          Weeding the front garden beds.

-          Tidying and weeding Middle Gully Reserve Garden Beds

Macedon Primary School Fete – November 23 – 10am – 3pm

We completed a walk through for the fete this week and have started completing the final plans for the event.  There is such a wide range of stalls and engaging activities for children to have fun with.  Middle Gully will be a buzz with the Wild Action Zoo, pony rides and a plant sale while the oval will be jam packed with rides and activities for children.

We are still looking for volunteers for a number of stalls and events and rely heavily on our community pulling together to support our school fundraising.  If you can spare some time on the day or could support us in the lead up to the event please get in touch.

There are now boards at the front of the school where parents can write their names against various activities. Please email the Fete team if you can help in any way - macedonpsfete@gmail.com

School Band Proposal

We are looking into the possibility of developing a user pay instrumental music lessons and band program in the future and are seeking input from families to gauge the interest in this idea.  If this is something that would interest you and your children.  Please take the time to complete the short survey below to register your interest and provide us some feedback.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1m2M3XnESRb8mLeO1ZUkorvSSVhnpvU2QvCvRkMc6AL4/edit

Matthew Forrest

forrest.matthew.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

Fete News #13

***There are now boards at the front of the school where parents can write their names against activities***

Thank you to those who are having conversations with the committee as to how you can be involved and help make the fete a great day.  We are always here at macedonpsfete@gmail.com to note your interest and accept offers of help. 

We have allocated classes to stalls to help direct your involvement if you’re unsure.

F Tadd - Devonshire Tea 

F Strong - Hand Ball Competition

1 Hall -   BBQ   

1/2 Glassey - Plant stall 

2 Wutheridge - Luck Jars 

2/3 Taylor - Cakes, Produce and Home-made Stall

3/4 Hamilton - Baked Potatoes 

4 Coates/Smilie - Wood-fire Pizza 

4/5 Smith - Chocolate Toss

5/6 Bortolot - Green Screen Photo Booth 

6 Baker - Paper Planes Competition 

We are still looking for

-Entertainment acts to perform on the day

-People to help with site preparation on the Friday afternoon

-Set up on the Saturday morning

-Pack down Saturday afternoon

AND plenty of helpers for cooking, selling and as go-betweens throughout the day…

Another grand announcement – The soon to be available on-line tickets for our Limited Ticket Wine Fridge Combination Lock Raffle.  This is a premium priced raffle, limited to just 60 tickets where the lucky ticket holder who opens the combination lock, walks away with a fully stocked wine fridge, valued around $1500.  This raffle will be open to the general public – so if you want in, better be quick!!

Reminders

-Raffle booklets went home last week.  $2 per ticket for a chance to win some fabulous prizes.  These can be returned to the office anytime now until 21st November.

-Lego Competition. Entries will be accepted on Friday 22nd Nov (or earlier by arrangement). Ideally creations fit into small to medium sized box for transporting.  It’s a great project for a wet weekend. 

Donation requests

LARGE GLASS JARS -  for the new and improved War on Waste version of lucky cups.

LUCKY ‘JARS’ PRIZES – to the value of $5 in a paper bag.  Additional brown paper bags will be available at the donation box. Items could include Hair accessories, toys, lollies (please no nut products), pens, erasers, jewels - anything you think children would love!

COFFEE CUPS with LIDS! –clean disposable cups. These will be used as coin voting boxes for the Lego Competition. 

CHOCOLATE – in boxes, blocks, bars and bags. A nice collection is coming together for the Chocolate Toss game.

LEMONS - We have a recipe. If you’d like to made the lemonade syrup drop us an email at macedonpsfete@gmail.com.

Thank you for your kindness and generosity

Collection boxes are located in the foyer, or see Emma in the office.

 Your fete committee 2019

Perri Jackson, Christine Denyer, Renee Briffa, Alison Taylor & Tanya Graham

Macedon Primary School Fete 2019 is Proudly Supported by Macedon Ranges Family Law   www.macedonrangesfamilylaw.com.au

We are encouraging people to actively travel (walk, ride or scoot) to school for the month of October. There are prizes to be won for those who actively travel to school at least 10 times. All the students who do this will go into a draw and names will be drawn out at an assembly later in the term.