Ladies Shopping Night - Silent Auction Prizes

We have some great prizes at our silent auction on the Ladies Shopping Night 18/10/13 at the Papakowhai School Hall. Here's a preview of them. If you can not make the night we are accepting bids in the first week of the term via a school notice or you can contact us via email.

Silent Auction List
·       Carpet Court Rhino Carpet Rug, colour pewter grey, 1.9M x 2.7M valued at $580
·        Zone Dance Academy a terms worth of dancing for a class of your choice. Valued at $105
·       Room of Beauty a 30 minute invigorating head and scalp massage.
·       2 x Duo Family Photography vouchers each worth $259. The voucher entitles you to a family photo shoot and 3 5" x 7" photos.  
·       3 x Gordie Bins Hireage namely 120 litre bin for 6 month hire, skip hire for 7 days or a 240 litre bin for 6 months. 
  BodyMana, Pilates and Yoga  10 session pass. 
·       $100 Supermarket voucher
·       Staglands Family Pass
·       2x SHOTT cocktail drink trios
·       2 x Ally Todd Swim School 50% discount vouchers.
·       Mana Pharmacy $50 voucher
·       Paper plus, Porirua donation of a signed copy of Jonah, my story.
·       Plimmerton School of Dance Voucher one free term of dance lessons valued at $90
·       Sharron Bowers, set of three paintings for the silent auction table.
·       $250 Interislander Voucher
·       3 x City Fitness passes 3 month pass valued at $475 each
·       3 x Ramset Easy Lasers. Great for finding the correct measurement. Valued at over $250 each.  
·       2 x Hairdresser cuts from Kidz Kutz 2 x  1 x adult and 1 x child
·       Numberworks One English and Maths Tuition valued at $450
·       2 x GLO Hairdressing Vouchers
·       $50 British Goods Voucher
·       Necklace and bracelet from Candi Brown
·       Facepainting Wellington $80 value,  Party for up to 10 children or discount a longer party of 20 or 30 children (or adults)
·       House of Chic  3 different eye treatments valued at $52
·       Art by Abby Farrow – Canvas with ceramic bunting
·       Framed frock in Paper Art
·       Decorated Christmas Cake

On Track for Ladies Shopping Night and Playground Planning

Just received notice that our liquor licence has been granted for our shopping night on the
18th October at 7-930pm. Hope to see you then. Please feel free to share the event with all.

Some other great news is that we now have an experienced Marketing Person to come on to the committee Jennifer Kinsella. This will help with a plan of how we can get our playground fundraised and built in the shortest time.

We are still looking for an auditor, its a small once a year job. Feel free if you know someone associated at the school who may be just waiting for an approach from us. Having an auditor is essential to applying for large amounts of grants money.

Have you some skills we can utilise?

Last week I was impressed with the power of the school newsletter. Only minutes after Mark sent out the newsletter in email form with our notice - we had a new project manager.

Lizena Gray who is an experienced project manager from Telecom is coming on board to the Committee to help us with the playground project. This will be a great help in breaking down what seems like a major undertaking into bite sized chunks.

We are still on the look out for,

A marketing person...

With the start of our fundraising for the new playground we need help keeping everyone updated and the momentum rolling. If you have an interest in or prior experience in marketing you could be part of a small team around the playground initiative.
An auditor... 
This is a once a year opportunity to give back to the school at no monetary cost to yourself. The PHSC is a registered Charity but inorder to apply for significant grants for the school playground we need to get our accounts audited. Our financial statements will be completed up to the year ended 31st December 2013. 

If you have some skills that you think could help out the playground project, please let us know. It all helps at the end of the day and it is great for getting to know more about the school where our children spend a lot of their time, not to mention all the other parents.

Movie Night Blue Jasmine

Many thanks for all the parents and friends of the school who supported the movie night.
We raised $782 for the movie and raffles on the night. 
Thanks also to our sponsors, SHOTTs drinks, Butlers Café, Rebel Sport Porirua, EasiYo, Tupperware, Te Rauparaha Arena, Whittakers, Spoil Yourself Spa, O.P.I and Kenepuru Chemist.

  

A Possible Site for a New Playground

Mark Smith, Darren O'Leary and myself met with a playground stockist who has done refurbishments to our playground.
This was to get an idea of cost and a suitable site.
The possible site of Rimu block has been eliminated due to Ministry restrictions and lack of sun during winter. Below is a picture of a proposed site near the back of the hall and swimming pool.
Its a unused area that could look better with some planting, paths and play equipment. Infact you can still see the old abandoned maypole still there. It would be great to put in a flying fox, some tunnels and slides over this bank.

In ballpark figures we are talking about $80,000 for playground equipment without any site development ie retaining walls and landscaping. There is a lot of scoping that has to be done if we are going to apply for some grants funding.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events - Please keep the dates free

Friday 23 August, Afternoon Tea for Parents in the Staffroom, between 2 & 3pm. This is a chance for you to meet the committee and understand why we need a new playground. Then to

Tuesday 17 September: Movie fundraiser ‘Blue Jasmine’ at Lighthouse Cinema, Pauatahanui at 730pm Tickets $20. Email us for tickets homeandschool@papakowhai.school.nz or ring Lisa on 0275103973.

Friday 18th October: Papakowhai School ladies shopping night 7-930pm
Stallholders, craft demonstrations, silent auction and lots of fun. More details will follow.
 

Thursday 5th December End of Year BBQ Foodie night Parent and Student get together
Still under planning with some differences this year.

A New Playground - A new challenge

Its now official the Home and School, Board of Trustees, teachers and parents have a new fundraising mission of a new playground for the school.
With the growing number of students on the same playground space the time has come for a new playground.
This playground will be mainly targeted at 7-10 year olds but in no way limited to them.

A first estimate of cost is somewhere between $50,000 to $80,000 depending on specifics.  Unfortunately we do not have that kind of money sitting anywhere in a Home and School bank account to just buy it.  So we have started a round of fundraising up until Christmas that has been confirmed. Planning is continuing beyond this but obviously we need help. The Home and School Committee consists of less than ten parents. Please ask yourself what skills do you have that may help us to get to our fundraising goal quicker. It may be that you can offer us a voucher from your business for a raffle or you have baking skills and can help out with these at a function? It maybe that you can just give us some of your time at a fundraiser and that could make all the difference.

Please email us your ideas and thoughts on how we can get the money to fund the playground.

"I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it." -Millard Fuller