Spring Fair is on again – and it is time to act.

The Spring Fair is a time to celebrate our fantastic school community and have loads of fun at the same time.

Even though it is a while away – Saturday, 25th August – we need to start thinking about how we will achieve another great community event.
We have already had a terrific response to the committee roles and for stalls – thank you one and all.
We still need, however, some parents to put their hands up for the following stalls for this year.

These include:

• Badges
• Books
• Chocolate wheel mc’ing
• Corn on the cob
• Fairy Floss/Toffee Apples/Popcorn
• Gift Baskets
• Ice Cream / Gelato
• Indian Food
• Plants
• Slushies (? new stall)
• Stalls tea and coffee

All of these roles, if shared evenly among families, are not difficult. They will not take too much of your time and meetings are quick and do not occur too often.

As convenor of this year’s Spring Fair, I ask that you step up to help and see what you can do for this event, for the school, and ultimately, for your child/ren.

Please contact Bernard Purcell  ASAP to assist us in making this year’s Spring Fair another great school event.

It is with pleasure that we announce the date for the 2012 Eastwood Public School Spring Fair which will be held this year on Saturday, 25th August. The Spring Fair is a time to celebrate our fantastic school community and have loads of fun at the same time. It may seem like a long way away now but starting early in Term 2, we will be starting to prepare and get organised.

Bernard Purcell will again Convene this major event this year – thank you Bernard, but as this will be his last year here at Eastwood PS it is vital that we have at least one or two people work with Bernard to learn the ropes with the intention of continuing to support this fantastic event in the future.

Our first Spring Fair meeting for 2012 will be held in Week 2 of Term 2 on Wednesday, 2nd May at 7.30 pm in the school staff room. It is very important that we have as many people as possible attend this meeting so that we can start planning and organising the fair. If you have helped with the Spring Fair in the past and intend to do so in the same role or a new role this year it is very important that
you attend the first meeting. If you have not helped before or are new to the school, please come a long and find out how you can help and be a part of this fantastic event this year.

To be able to run the Spring Fair as successfully as we have in the past, we need people to put up their hand early and assist with the project roles such as:

• Sponsorship
• Logistics
• Stalls Co-ordinator
• Food Stalls Co-ordinator
• Newsletter
• And many other support roles

If every family at the school pitches in and helps in just a small way, the Eastwood Public School Spring Fair will again be a success in 2012. Each year, the Spring Fair raises a large amount of money for our school and is one of our major fund raising events for the year. All money raised at the annual Spring Fair goes directly back in to the school, as it has every year, to help with the education of all of our children.

So let’s all help make the 2012 Spring Fair our best ever. We hope that you will all give thought during the school holidays as to how you can help this year. By doing this you will be helping your school, and ultimately, your child or children.

For more information, please contact Bernard Purcell on 0424 175 700 or Jo Harris on 0411 183322 to assist us in making this year’s Spring Fair another great school event. We thank you in advance for your support and look forward to seeing you at the first meeting.

The Eastwood Public School Spring Fair was a huge success and part of the success is due to our sponsors. Attached is a copy of the sponsors for 2011. Please take a moment to have a look at the list and where possible, please support them with your business.

Spring Fair Sponsors 2011

Over 3 months ago I wrote the first Spring Fair newsletter – asking for the school community to come together on one day and make it a great event. Well, that happened and then some.

What a great day – good weather, loads of people from within and without the school community, rides, food, entertainment, goodies and then more food.

While we were successful in raising money for the school from the day, the real outcome was fun and friendship and coming together as a community.

May I just thank each and every one of you for making the day so wonderful. I never tire of watching children have fun – children of all ages.

I worked very closely with a few folk who put in an extraordinary amount of time and effort. They are:

Jo, Christine, Allen, Winnie, Owen, Caroline, Gloria, Sri, Andrew, Holly, Matt, Virginia, Suzette and Harrison.

To all the stallholders and support people – WELL DONE. The stalls looked great, the food was terrific and the effort was immense. The Spring Fair does not happen without you so take a well-deserved bow for all the work you did in the weeks leading up to the day.

To the stall helpers – thank you for your time in making each and every stall successful.

Thanks to the people who used their photographic skills to capture the day – in particular Arthur and Geoff . It is fantastic to have such lovely moments captured.
A special thanks to Robyn for organising the “Back to Eastwood” display in the hall – it maintained strong interest throughout the day – maybe we can do it again in the future? It has given us more reason to start archiving our valuable collective history that is Eastwood Public School.

To our dignitaries, John Alexander our Federal representative and Victor Dominello our State representative; thank you for your time and interest in what the school community is doing. Both gentlemen commented on what a great feeling was in the air on Saturday.

I would like to give a warm thank you to Marist College Eastwood who assisted us in many ways in the lead up to the Spring Fair. It is marvellous to bring the whole community together and I hope we can help them and St. Kevin’s in the future as they helped us this year.

The teaching staff who came to the Spring Fair and gave time and energy should be applauded – it is selfless gestures like this that make the day what it is – a roaring success.

To the office staff – a HUGE thank you for helping us week in and week out – and being on hand on a weekend to make sure that it all ran smoothly – you are fantastic.

To the maintenance staff – what can I say – long hours and heavy work for days leading up to the Spring Fair with nothing but a smile and patience – you were the backbone of the team lads so THANK YOU.

And finally – to our Principal – Mr. Whitney; we all thank you for being a great school leader and top bloke. It should be noted that you give so many extra hours to the school and with such grace and good will – Thank you sir.

So…

As we all say our thanks for good weather, no accidents and a terrific day – take in this feeling of good will and smile – you did a great job.

Warmest regards.

Bernard