Connecting College and Community

We warmly welcomed both new friends and continuing members at the opening Friends of Pacific meeting on Tuesday night. It was wonderful to see the strong connections already within the group. We thank Director of Students and Head of Middle College Students, Mr Ben Ryan for sharing his journey and his vision for students at the College. We were also extremely privileged to receive a tour of the new building including a behind-the-scenes look at the Health Centre, Administration areas and Year 5 classrooms. We thank Dr Bronwyn Dolling and Pastor Tim for their continued support in 2019 and look forward to growing Friends of Pacific.

Parent Representatives

In the coming weeks, the College will be calling upon our P-12 parents to represent their class or year level as parent reps. We thank in advance the parents who will freely give their time to organise additional social gatherings and communicate with their year levels.

Events

We thank FoP Vice Chair, Allyson who has already helped with catering at the two recent swimming carnivals. The gift of Allyson’s time is much appreciated by the staff and volunteers of the College.

In June this year, we’ll see the return of our Golf Day at Pelican Waters with Erin and Darren Carter helping out with the logistics. We’ll also have the return of our famous Trivia Night in August. We are also aiming to support a Junior College Event such as a disco as well as our annual Mother’s and Father’s Day stalls and carnival BBQs. These are events that foster friendships and aim to draw the community together.

On a more practical level in 2019, FoP hopes to complete the FoP shed with insulation to ensure the workspace and storage area is a comfortable environment for our volunteers. We are also working to realign our current OCEANfest Facebook page to a Friends of Page page. Each FoP event will then be highlighted in its own right. We aim to also lend support, where possible, to the Recycle for Change Program within the College.

Our next meeting is set down for Tuesday 20^th March at 6.30pm in the College Library. All are welcome to attend.

Mrs Jenny Lee, FoP Chairperson