Darlington Public School S & C Meeting Minutes

Darlington Public School

Minutes 6th May, 2009

Meeting commenced: 6.04pm

The President acknowledged the traditional owners.

Present: Julie Moffat, Sue Newsome, Marijke Tombs, Kathi Hillier,

Peter Denholm, Lesley Blackett, Paul Mclean, Sue Firth, Jo Watson,
Peter Marks, Stuart Horton-Stephens, Rebecca Askew, Rebecca
Barrett, Ron Clarke, Binh Pham, Greg Try, Martine Eve-MacLeod,
Anna Butler, Lisette Tennant, Catherine Lassen, Michael Keating,
Sally Vanos, Belinda Edmunds, Monica Pogonza, Sue Toprak,
Dominique duCros, Karen Oliveira, Jacki Jarrett, Trish Graham,
Alejandro Rodriguez

Apologies: Lulu Mitchell, Michael Texilake, Mary Thompson, Yvette

Novak, Jen Burn, Georgina Andrews.

Previous meeting’s minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on 1st

April 2009 were circulated by email prior to and tabled at the
meeting. Minutes accepted with one clarification-SCEG grant result
due in August.

Principal’s Report: held over until next meeting.

President’s Report:

• Tabling of President’s report - see report attached

• House Colour T shirts now available. $17 (kids), $19 (adults)
• S&C Events calendar now on Darlo parents Blogspot
• Halloween Fete October 31st followed by Disco in the
evening

Treasurer’s report:

• Treasurer’s report was tabled - see bank reconciliation

attached.
Update: Purchase of Library Circulation desk discussed. Further
update next meeting.
Action: Trish/Kathi to inform meeting of supplier and installation
date.
 • Discussion re Foxtel package choices. To be held over until
further information available from Colleen.

New Business: held over for next meeting

Meeting closed: 6.20pm

Minutes: Marijke Tombs and Sue Newsome

Darlington School and Community Association

President’s Report – 6 May 2009
Julie Moffat and Lulu Mitchell

• House colour T shirts – the new order has arrived

• S and C Events Calendar - was distributed to all parents in April
• S and C information on the school website – is about to be sent to Paul
McLean and it will have a link to the S and C events Calendar
• Easter Raffle
- Co-ordinated by Mary Thompson and a team of helpers
- 11 baskets of goodies were won
- Over $2000 raised – Kathi will have exact figure.
- Fantastic effort from all the kids and parents. The staff bought lots of
tickets too! Robyn Walmsley won a basket.
• Mothers’ Day Movie Mayhem - Please encourage everyone you know
to go this Friday. It’s a lovely night to have out and know your children
are being well cared for and having fun. Put your form and money in by
Thursday.
• The Bingo night is the next fundraising date to put aside – June 20 at
the School. Kathi Hillier is co-odinating
• Fete co-ordinators - 2 people have been found who will work together:
Marianna Koulias and Sophie Nicholl.
• Traffic safety issues - after an initial email, no-one volunteered to look
into the traffic safety issues raised at April’s S and C meeting. Lulu will
make further enquiries.
• Volunteers - from the beginning of the year have been wonderful in
making notes look classy, bringing food to S and C meetings etc. Lulu
still to let some people know what teams they are on.
• S and C will be trying to make more use of the noticeboard at the
bottom of the Abercrombie gate stairs for notices of events and
meeting minutes.