October 2016 Dear Kindergarten Parents, The Queenwood Parents’ Association (QPA) welcomes you to Queenwood Junior School. As a Kindergarten family the QPA invites your family a one off opportunity to become Junior School Members of the QPA covering the full period of 2017-2023. The purpose of the QPA is to: • •
raise funds to the benefit of our daughters, be it items for use in school, contributing to costs of enhancing facilities and/or education programs; build and bring together a supportive parent community and to provide a social element to the parent community.
Joining the QPA is a direct support of your daughter’s School community as studies have shown that children learn more and have more opportunities when parents, teachers and the community all work together. Your membership will enable the QPA to continue to build a stronger parent community and just as importantly contribute to the environment our girls spend much of their time in, their school. The QPA responds to the needs of parents and girls, and through its fundraising has contributed to: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Upgrades to audio and lighting in the Astra Theatre Seeding a fund that supports families experiencing unexpected hardship Gymnastic Equipment for the Junior School Multi-purpose hall New musical instruments Mobile tennis nets for Junior School Vege Pods for Junior School Noticeboards for Junior School Honour Boards for the Senior and Junior School Additional seating and tables for the Senior School Walangari Sand Painting experience for Years 7, 8. 9 students BYOD charging facilities at Senior School New pool lane ropes
QPA Membership Fees also provides the following benefits for Queenwood and the parent community by: • • • • •
hosting the annual Welcome Back Cocktail Party for the entire Queenwood parent community; being a forum through which the parent community views can be communicated to the School; holding regular general meetings of the QPA throughout the year, at which any QPA member may attend and raise questions with the QPA committee; providing a Parent Year Representative programme in order to communicate regular information on QPA supported activities such as the QPA Gollf day, Educational and Inspiring Speakers eg Lisa Wilkinson in 2015 and Jean Kittson in 2014 hosting a variety of School community events through the Parent Year Representative programme such as, Year group events (mother/daughter, father/daughter), Mothers’ Day & Fathers’ Day breakfasts, Year group and parent socials.
The QPA achieves plenty, but we would like to do more and we reach out to you as a parent of Queenwood School to help increase our membership income.
Annual QPA Membership in 2017 is $45 per family, however, as a Kindergarten parent in 2017, we offer you a QPA Junior School (K- 6) Membership, a one time discounted fee of $270, providing you with seven years of QPA membership.
Once again, welcome to Queenwood School and our community, I would like thank you in advance for your loyalty and support of the QPA and look forward to meeting you at the Welcome Back Cocktail Party in February. Yours sincerely,
Caroline Forbes President 2016
Queenwood Parents’ Association
2017 QUEENWOOD PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP FORM JUNIOR SCHOOL (K-6) MEMBERSHIP FORM PARENT/S NAME: CLEARLY)
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