25 February 2010

P&C Meeting Minutes December 2009

Corrimal East Public School
P&C Meeting Minutes
Date: 8th December 2009

Meeting Opened: 7:06pm
Attendance: Leanne Banach, Brad Chapman, David Schofield, Jodie Jenkinson, Scott Penning, Marie Ledwos, Jackie Jansen, Nicole Petre, Donna Cairney, Sharon McFarlane, Gail Privett, David Burke, Jenny Hayward.
Apologies: Leanne Mason.

Previous Minutes Accepted as Correct:

Moved: Leanne Banach Seconded: Scott Penning

Business Arising from the Previous Meeting:
- DET Interactive classroom bundles – Vote taken and carried unanimously to go ahead and purchase 3 interactive bundles at a cost of approximately $10000.

Correspondence – Incoming – Various fundraising to Sharon McFarlane, P&C Federation newsletter. Receipts to Marie Ledwos.

Correspondence – Outgoing - Nil

Moved: Leanne Banach Seconded: Jenny Hayward

Treasurer’s Report: Tabled by: Marie Ledwos

Opening Balance: @ 01/11/2009 $ 20061.73

Plus Deposits: $ 1109.00

Less Payments: $ 574.20

Balance: @31/11/2009 $20596.53

Cash received: $

Accounts to pay: $ 1808.87

Cash Available: $18787.66

Moved : Marie Ledwos Seconded: Sharon McFarlane

Canteen Report: November 2009 Tabled by: Jodie Jenkinson

Opening Balance: $ 4831.65

Receipts: $ 4758.95

Payments: $ 2958.33

Closing Balance: $ 6632.27

Moved: Jodie Jenkinson Seconded: Brad Chapman

Fundraising Report: Tabled by : Sharon McFarlane

- 1st meeting back we will talk about Family Portraits. A volunteer needs to be found to organize it.

- Fundraising committee confident that there will be enough helpers to support the fete next year.

- Kids sale – the children loved it. $400 - $500 roughly raised.

- Suggestion that the Fundraising coordinator be an executive position.

Moved: Sharon McFarlane Seconded: Leanne Banach

Clothing Report: No Report Tabled Tabled by:

Total Sales: $ 0.00

Less Accounts: $ 0.00

Plus Accounts Paid: $ 0.00

Total Banking $ 0.00

Moved: Seconded:

Principal’s Report: Tabled by: David Schofield

BER – looks set to start in early February.
School Self – Evaluation – Management Plan just about completed. Needs fine tuning with budgets early 2010.
Kindergarten Orientation – yesterday and next Monday. Thank you to Kim Pepper for her efforts.
Class Structures 2010 – 11 classes next year numbers very volatile, we could quite well form a 12th class sometime in Term 2.
Learning support class – new teacher appointed Sarah Rodgers-Smith. Thank you to both Natasha and Maree for your outstanding contributions.
Presentation Assembly – next Monday at Corrimal High School.
Party Day next Tuesday.
Year 6 Farewell – tomorrow night. Thank you to parents on the Year 6 committee.

9. Thank you for your support during the year, our P&C play an integral role at CEPS.

Moved: David Schofield Seconded: Leanne Banach

General Business:

- Ideas on how to make the P&C meetings more attractive so more parents will attend.
Example: set a goal if 10 parents attend at start of year boost to 20 by the end of the year.
Bring ideas to next meeting.

- February meeting we set a plan on how to spend money that is raised during the year. So we can let people know what we are raising money for.

- Jackie Jansen presented a P&C funding wish list of suggestions which funds could be spent on.

Meeting Closed: 8:35PM

Next Meeting: 9th February 2010

01 February 2010

Parents & Citizens First Meeting for 2010

Parents & Citizens First Meeting for 2010

A big welcome to all parents of children to attend our first meeting for the year on Tuesday the 9th of Feb at 7.00pm in school staff room.

This is a great opportunity to meet other parents from the school and get a real hands on with the issues that effect your child and their schooling, i especially extend a warm invitation if you have a new student enrolled at our school to come along.

You will find that we are a friendly bunch who just like you want the best for our kids and their time at school.

To all our regular attendees look forward to seeing you all again.

We will be accepting nominations for all committee roles at this meeting with our Annual General Meeting scheduled for Tuesday 9th March.

So come and get involved with the school community.

Scott Penning