Parents & Friends 2017 has been a fabulous year for the St Joseph’s Parents and Friends. We would like to say a big thank you to our outgoing Co-Presidents Jackie Richards and Terri Stawyskyj. They have led the P&F Association for many years and through their leadership roles, contributed so much time and effort coordinating many events. Thank you for such a wonderful commitment to our school. On that note we have welcomed so many new faces to the P&F meetings, sub committees and events we have held this year. As mentioned in our speech to the new parents at the start of the year, everyone in the St Joseph’s College community is already a member of the P&F so it has been great to see all of these people come along. We started the year with a very successful Mother’s Day raffle for a Thermomix with funds from this being used for the bursary fund. We had a fun filled night exercising our grey matter at our Trivia Night which contributed funds to a fantastic science timeline mural which now brightens up what was a previously ordinary walkway in the science block. P&F also hosted our Old Collegians’ reunions, catering to our past students as they caught up and reminisced with their former classmates. In September P&F alongside the VCAL boys hosted a very popular BBQ at the TriUMPH Music Festival at Clonard this year, the weather was not quite what we had hoped for on the day but it certainly didn’t affect the
students’ appetites. Each year the P&F, as a gift to the Year 12 students, offers them the opportunity to do a basic CPR course, this was once again taken up by many students. Certainly a valuable gift but one that we hope they won’t have the need to use. We also contributed funds towards SJC Mental Health Week and were able to help fund the screenings of the ‘Screenagers’ movie to students and parents. Many agree this is an important and timely subject. And what would our P&F year be without the highlight of the social calendar, the annual Fashion Dinner for Mannya. This fantastic fundraising event was held at the newly refurbished President’s Room at GMHBA Stadium. It was a fabulous night and raised a record breaking $30,000 for Mannya. All in all it has been a very busy year for the P & F but it is all thanks to the amazing support we have from our members, our staff support team this year Kristen, Adele and Lauren and also the support from our academic staff. But mostly the amazing combined efforts of everyone in our school community and the wider community of generous businesses and individuals who have supported with donations of goods, services and funds, use of equipment and expertise and hands on labour force. This is a fantastic effort from everyone. So thank you. - Michelle Watkins & Sandra Higgins, Parents & Friends Co-Presidents
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