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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Hello Everyone,
A HUGE CHOCOLATE CAKE thank-you to our “BuildTeam’!
They are frantically and exhaustively working around the clock to meet, discuss, decide and prepare the submission for Building the Education Revolution grant which is due the first week of May. And that is only the start!
The concept plans and notes from our community discussion Monday night are in the office so please come and have a look.
This is a wonderfully exciting dream that is now on the way to reality.
Our apologies especially to any Preschoolers that did not know our social was cancelled last week. We will definitely be organizing something in Term two so keep your eye on the newsletter
REMINDERS
FEES NEED TO BE PAID TODAY OR TOMORROW – or please, please come and talk to me. I hate sending out those letters in the holidays!
TERM TWO
Monday 27th April is a public holiday and Holiday CASP
Tuesday 28th April is Coordination Day and all day CASP
WEDNESDAY 29TH APRIL IS FIRST DAY BACK AT SCHOOL
MAINTENANCE SUNDAY
This will be happening from 9.30am till 1.30pm so please bring you gloves and any tools you may want to use.
I am really excited about going to NZ next week for the three days Education Conference and of course catching up with my family.
Have a lovely break everyone and I look forward to seeing you all next term
With love,
Julianna
Posted April 8th, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
THANKS TO…..
the library team especially to Kerrie (Dan’s Mum in the K1 class). Take a few minutes and pop up to the top floor as it looks fabulous right down to the hand painted posters!
REMINDER
Our Build Team are running a brainstorm/information evening about our building plans starting at 7pm on
Monday 6th April.
So if you want to know what’s going on or would like to have a say be there!
Please look for the flier from our “BuildTeam”
This Friday 3rd April weather permitting is our Currambena evening social. This is our end of term gathering of all our community, kids, parents, teachers and extended family starting around 5.30pm. We are asking each family to bring food to share, enough for your family and a little extra. Most people bring a main and a salad and even some bring a dessert as well. There will be a bar selling beer and wine. If the weather looks unsocial we will put a cancellation note on the gate on Friday morning.
Maintenance and fees
This week is the deadline for getting those maintenance hours written in the book and making final payments for outstanding fee plans.
Because I am off to NZ to a Conference I am doing all the invoicing before term finishes.
With love,
Julianna
Posted April 1st, 2009
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Hello Everyone,
Our love and thoughts go out to Steve Gazzini and Michelle McGrath who are both facing some heavy challenges in their lives at this time.
A big thank-you to Payman for organizing and running a great café last Friday. Also thank-you to all the wonderful bakers and to all those people who came in for a chat and a cuppa.
Thank-you again to Payman for blitzing the CASP kitchen. The fridge was practically skipping it had had such a load taken off it!!!
If you are noticing lots of meetings with people around the school it will more than likely be in regards to the building plans. Please see the page from our “BuildTeam”
REMINDER
Please keep Friday 3rd April open in your diaries for our Currambena evening social.
With love,
Julianna
Posted March 25th, 2009
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Hello Everybody
The “How to talk so kids will listen” evening went very well with an attendance of about 35 people. Thank-you to all those who helped organize the evening with design & printing of the fliers, enveloping, addressing and posting of the fliers, setting up for the evening and to our two presenters Fran and Chris. Thank-you Chris for dragging yourself from the sick bed.
To all you who attended if you are hungry for more information or have many questions put your name down for the Conflict Resolution course.
The flier is further over in the newsletter.
Thank-you to Marcus and Tony who have been working on the wiring and set-up of the computers in the craft room and the kindergarten room.
Thank-you to Eduardo who quietly and very efficiently works around the school fixing and repairing. If you haven’t already noticed he has put in a new timber sleeper around the garden outside the front of the CASP windows.
Reminder
We have our Currambena Café this Friday starting at 2.30pm. We would love if you could provide a plate to sell with the tea and coffee.
With love,
Julianna
Posted March 18th, 2009
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