Hello Everyone,
Remember this Sunday is our 40th Reunion which is going to be a really fun day listening to 1969 music, catching up with past pupils and old friends, swapping stories and sharing food at the community lunch. Which reminds me, don’t forget to bring that favourite family dish.
Please read the teachers pages to get all the stories from Laura. The feedback in the office is that they had a fantastic time.
We also have good news from our Build Team, the DA to Lane Cove Council was submitted yesterday. If you have not noticed the building plans for the new classroom are on the pin board outside Wendy’s classroom.
Remember next week is the last week of school so…..
Anyone with fees owing need to settle their account
All maintenance hours need to be WRITTEN IN THE BOOK!
With love,
Julianna
Posted July 1st, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
This week has been so quiet! Yesterday all the primary kids took off to Taronga zoo and so we only had the Preschoolers. It actually felt a little eerie in the school, even the chickens were wondering around looking rather perplexed, no doubt they were missing their favourite lunches!!!!
Reports have come in about the Laura trip and all is well and the festival sounds like it was an extraordinary experience. Next week we will have the full story in the newsletter.
Today I have been totally engrossed in the meeting with the Buildteam and everything is so close to submitting our building plans to Lane Cove Council for the DA Wow!
Our Buildteam is continuing to do brilliant work. If you see Jessica, Rachel, Danni, Myung Jin or Elaine in the play ground a cheer of encouragement would be great as this is an iron woman race run, swim and peddle!
With love,
Julianna
Posted June 24th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
Last Friday night we had a fabulous social!
The food as usual was scrumptious, Steve got a roaring fire going in a large brazier on the top deck and our two Dutch boys entertained everyone with two very funny performances.
This is Willem and Luuk’s last week at Currambena. They will leave a big hole in the school with their going and they will be very much missed by everyone especially the kids.
From the Community to Willem and Luuk we say a huge thank-you.
We all know Currambena means the happy place but it also means watering place so no matter how far you go at some time you need to come back to drink. So till then Luuk and Willem, keep chasing those trails of self-discovery and adventure and we will, be seeing you!
Laura Aboriginal Dance and Music festival
This Thursday a group of parents and kids from the two top classes are off on safari to Queensland with Wendy to be part of this great festival. Fran will also be flying out Friday morning back Sunday night to join them. After the festival the group will be trekking south seeing more amazing sights and be back to Currambena the following Thursday.
It is so wonderful that we are finally going to this festival as we have had a standing invitation from Boori Pryor for years.
With love,
Julianna
Posted June 17th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
The most exciting email has just arrived!
“I would like to congratulate your school on being part of the list of schools to be able to commence projects under this element of the BER program.”
So in other words we are getting the grant money to build our new classroom Whoopee!
MIDTERM SOCIAL T0 FAREWELL our Dutch boys
This Friday 12th June 6PM
We are asking each family to bring along your favourite dish enough for your family and a couple of extras.
So rug up, come along and enjoy good food, a glass of wine or two, great company and a special performance from Luuk and Willem as their farewell to us! The school will also be presenting our gift so please remember to come in now and write in the book for them.. We will need some people to come in a little earlier to set-up tables and then another group at the end of the night to tidy and put everything away.
MANY THANKS & CONGRATULATIONS
Thank-you to all those who came along to our Currambena annual general meeting also to all those who provided the great soups- they were all delicious!
A big thank-you to those who finished their two year term on Council Lisa Howard, Aileen Forbes, Myung jin Shim and Steven Gazzini.
Congratulations to our new council members Linda Meader Jones, Elaine Gazzini, Jackie Bysouth, Tony Middlemiss and to Deepa Luharuka.
With love,
Julianna
Posted June 10th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
How exciting we have two social events in two weeks!
Tomorrow is the warm up night at our AGM with soup and bread and next week is our major Term Two social with extraordinary Aussie food, music and banter to say good-bye to Luuk and Willem. So let’s give them a Currambena Ozzie night to never forget!!!
CURRAMBENA AGM,
HOT SOUP AND BREAD NIGHT!
Tomorrow night Thursday 4th June.
We are starting the evening at 5.00pm and are asking each family to bring food to share like soup and rolls
So if you want it hot, bring your pot and we can have it sitting on the BBQ plate to keep warm
If you can help to set-up a bit before 5pm that would be much appreciated.
CURRAMBENA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will start then at 6.00PM
MIDTERM SOCIAL TO FAREWELL our Dutch boys
Next Friday 12th June
So here is the chance to bring along that favourite family dish to share.
GRANTS
We have applied for two grants since early May. The first one I am sure you are all aware of which is to build a new classroom and the second was for $75,000 which is part of the National School Pride Program. Last week we received excellent news that we have been successful in this second grant and will know about the first grant in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile our Build team is working around the clock to get all the necessary plans and reports together to submit the DA to Lane Cove Council.
Over the July school holidays we will take the opportunity using a portion of the $75000 grant to upgrade the top toilets and incorporate a store room.
With love,
Julianna
Posted June 3rd, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
CURRAMBENA AGM
HOT SOUP AND BREAD NIGHT! Remember this is Thursday 4th June.
We are starting the evening at 5.30pm and are asking each family to bring food to share like soup and rolls..
So if you want it hot, bring your pot and we can have it sitting on the BBQ plate to keep warm
If you can help to set-up around 5pm that would be much appreciated.
CURRAMBENA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will start then at 6.00PM
Parents who wish to nominate candidates for the Election must do so in writing by this Thursday 28th May.
We have plenty of nomination forms available in the office.
We need five nominations for Council. We need a secretary to manage the minutes, a parent to represent Preschool and others to discuss and actively assist with the running of Currambena. Proposals and reports from the community are emailed into Council prior to each meeting. All of Council is then conversant with the agenda so we are able to keep our meetings to a tight time schedule with informative discussion and efficient decision making. Usually we are finished by 9pm.
Members unable to attend the Meeting may appoint proxies by lodging the proxy form (available in the office) at least 48 hours before the Meeting is to commence (i.e. by 6.00pm on Tuesday 26th May 2008).
NEXT MOST IMPORTANT DATE -Friday 12th June
A farewell evening for Luuk & Willem.
The plan for the evening is being cooked up now as we speak!!!!!!!!!!
CURRAMBENA REUNION
Any ideas or thoughts you have please talk to Wendy or Karen
With love,
Julianna
Posted May 27th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
CURRAMBENA AGM, HOT SOUP AND BREAD NIGHT!
We would love as many people as possible to come. We need the numbers for our AGM, it is another opportunity for you to touch base with our council members and generally catch up with each other to have a chat.
Remember this is Thursday 4th June.
We are starting the evening at 5.30pm and are asking each family to bring food to share like soup and rolls
So if you want it hot, bring your pot and we can have it sitting on the BBQ plate to keep warm.
If you can help to set-up around 5pm that would be much appreciated.
We need five nominations for Council. We need a secretary to manage the minutes, a parent to represent Preschool and others to discuss and actively assist with the running of Currambena. Proposals and reports from the community are emailed into Council prior to each meeting. All of Council is then conversant with the agenda so we are able to keep our meetings to a tight time schedule with informative discussion and efficient decision making. Usually we are finished by 9pm.
Parents who wish to nominate candidates for the Election must do so in writing at least seven days before the Meeting (i.e. by Thursday 28th May). We have plenty of nomination forms available in the office.
Members unable to attend the Meeting may appoint proxies by lodging the proxy form (available in the office) at least 48 hours before the Meeting is to commence (i.e. by 6.00pm on Tuesday 26th May 2008).
2008 CURRAMBENA FINANCIAL REPORT
For all our Currambena Association members please look to the link on our webpage to read the report
THANK-YOU TO…
those who walked with the kids on Friday and to all those who organized, set-up, cooked a great breakfast then cleaned-up!
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CURRAMBENA REUNION
Any ideas or thoughts you have please talk to Wendy or Karen
RESEARCH
Willem still needs a few more ex-students for his research so please look to his page and follow the links to answer the survey.
With love,
Julianna
Posted May 20th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
WALK TO SCHOOL AND THEN….
BREAKFAST AT CURRAMBENA
This Friday is Walk to School Day. Olivia has offered to be in The Lane Cove plaza at the dome outside Baker’s Delight at 8.30am to start walking with the kids at 8.45am.
HELP NEEDED…. Payman is organizing the food for the breakfast but we need more people for the 7am set-up of tables and the cooking of the bacon and eggs. The aim is to start serving about 8am and continue through till all our walkers have eaten.
CURRAMBENA REUNION
Things are starting to happen towards celebrating Currambena’s 40th and
we are in the initial stages of compiling alumni addresses etc.
An Ex-parent has lists from our last reunion on Apple Mac floppys.
So…. we need an old style Mac with a disk port to have a look at these disks. Can anyone in our community help?!
REQUEST FROM PRESCHOOL
Please see the Preschool page about signing in.
SOCK IT TO YOU
It is that time again if you are looking to buy quality socks. We have the catalogues at school in each classroom, so please pick one up. This is a fund raiser for the school.
RESEARCH
For Willem’s university studies he is required to do a research project. He is requesting help from our ex-Currambena students so please look to his page and follow the links to answer the survey. So far he has received lots of great responses but still needs more.
With love,
Julianna
Posted May 13th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
MAINTENANCE
We have our next information morning next week and as Sunday is Mother’s day we have scheduled our maintenance for Tuesday afternoon. we would love some sweeping and tidying to happen so the school is looking it’s best for Wednesday morning.
NEWSLETTER INSERTS
If you are wanting to put a note in the newsletter it is really helpful for the editing team to email your note in a word document just as you would like to see it in the newsletter.
SOCK IT TO YOU
It is that time again if you are looking to buy quality socks. We have the catalogues at school in each classroom, so please pick one up. This is a fund raiser for the school.
RESEARCH
For Willem’s university studies he is required to do a research project. He is requesting help from our ex-Currambena students so please look to his page and follow the links to answer the survey.
WALK TO SCHOOL DAY
Friday week is Walk to School Day. Olivia has offered to be in The Lane Cove plaza at the dome outside Baker’s Delight at 8.30am to start walking with the kids at 8.45am. Perhaps some of you parents would also like to walk with the kids
With love,
Julianna
Posted May 6th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
All of us who went to the NZ conference had a fabulous time and are all firing with new ideas and totally re-energized for another exciting term at Currambena.
Being part of and sharing the energy and passion of a wide range of people truly triggers the brain. We discussed and debated, listened, ate sumptuously, learned new skills, took photos, got lost in a little city!!!, made new contacts,explored two other great schools and in keeping to our Currambena philosophy we played every day.
Thank-you to the maintenance team who had the school looking well loved and attended to for school starting. A special thanks to Amba for being chief organizer.
You may notice the arborist people were in during the break and most of our trees have had a gentle make-over.
With love,
Julianna
Posted April 29th, 2009
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