We’re looking for donations of desserts to sell at the solstice celebration.
Please call or text Rowena on 0407-000 288 if you can bring something yummy. Why not have a baking morning with the kids before coming to the tree planting?
The Centenary Project — celebrating 100 years of Buranda State School
Thanks everyone for your ideas.
We’ve had a range of suggestions, from an artist-in-residence, to more nature-play spaces (with running water and places to make bush art and cubbies), improvements to the environmental ed classroom (our veggie garden and chook pen) and a big outdoor clock.
If any of those ideas has sparked another we’d still love to hear your feedback. This is a great opportunity to come up with a project that helps your child, and future students, make the most of their time at school.
Email ideas to burandapandc@gmail.com
P&C Meeting
Wednesday 6 June, 6 for 6.15pm, library
At next week’s P&C meeting we will also discuss sponsorship and plans for fundraising for the year. Please come along and be part of the conversation.
Membership of the P&C is free and is a great way to find out what’s planned for the school. It’s the place to come with great ideas or feedback on things you’d like to change.
We start meetings at 6.15pm sharp and invite you to come at 6pm to meet other parents and share a cuppa.
Learn more about the school’s heritage report
Wednesday 6 June, 6 for 6.15pm, library
The next P&C meeting will start with a presentation from Roger Todd, consultant architect.
Roger was engaged by the Queensland Government to prepare a School Conservation Management Plan considering how the school’s heritage listing should be considered in any planning for the Site.
You can download the report from Roger's heritage website.
Uniform News — can you help?
We’ve had some questions about the decision not to stock the ‘winter’ shirt. Basically, the company that produced the heavier, poly cotton shirt (note it wasn’t 100% cotton) scored very badly on the ethical fashion report and is no longer an EQ approved supplier. Our new supplier can provide a similar option, a cotton-lined polyester shirt.
However, it’s not 100% cotton, which is what some families are looking for, and it seems to be only the younger grades that buy this shirt (we have a massive oversupply of ‘winter’ shirts in size 10).
We’d like your feedback on whether you’re only interested if it’s a cotton shirt, or if you really want the heavier shirt so we can consider our options. Please give us an idea of sizes and how many you’re likely to buy.
The new shorts are also having a mixed reception. Some kids love them (especially the extra zip pocket) but some don’t. Our problem again is that we had to change supplier and our current supplier only offers these drill shorts or a mesh style.
Our uniform shop coordinator can’t make calls during office hours. So, if you want to volunteer to call all the EQ approved suppliers to see if one of them can supply a style similar to the old ones (at the right price), please contact us at burandapandc@gmail.com. We’ll give you our guidelines.
Otherwise, you can always buy other styles of maroon shorts from chain stores.
P&C Meeting - 6 June, 6 for 6.15pm, Library
Our next meeting will be held on 6 June 2018.
We start at 6pm to give everyone time to meet other parents and have a cuppa, then we aim to finish by 7.30pm.
Membership of the P&C is free and is a great way to find out what’s planned for the school.
Hope to see you there.
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Email us at pandc@burandass.eq.edu.au.
Second-hand uniforms
If you have uniforms your child has grown out of we’d welcome donations to the office.
If your child was sick last term and went home in a second-hand spare uniform we’d appreciate it if these were washed and returned so they can be used by another student who needs a change of clothes at school. Please drop them off at the office.
Winter uniform news
We have a huge stock of second-hand pullover jackets. Come by the uniform shop and make a donation to grab one as a spare. They’re not great sellers, so we’ll no longer be stocking this style (with no zip). When our new and second-hand stock of these are gone, they’re gone.
Note, as we no longer allow unsupervised access to the uniform shop (no key will be made available from the office) we are opening the uniform shop for extra sessions at the start of the cold weather.
Usual shop hours are Tuesday 3—3.30pm with Mina.