Dear Parents,
Please pass on our enormous thanks to all the Grandies and Great-Grandies that attended our annual Grandies Day. They made it a wonderful day for the children and it was thrilling to see how much interest they took in the inquiry the children involve themselves in at Kindergarten. We were overwhelmed with the unexpectedly large turn out and were so pleased that they could all take the time to spend the morning with us (one eighty-nine year old grandie even drove himself to the function, proving age is no barrier when the heart is willing!) Thanks to the very generous donations of all our grandparents (and super neighbours, Trevor and Ian!) we were able to purchase $1500 worth of books for the children’s library. These books will be covered in our upcoming working bee and distributed into classrooms so that the child whom the book has been purchased on behalf of can share it with their classmates before it goes onto the library shelves.
In the rush of the morning we did forget to make some very important thankyous.
*Thankyou to Mrs Emma McKenzie for coordinating Grandies Day again this year.
*Thankyou to Harry’s Mum, Vanessa, for the delicious kisses cupcakes that she prepared for all our Grandies (Vanessa, it was such a kind thought that made the staff feel so supported, you have officially been voted our cupcake queen!)
*Thankyou to Mr Rob Wagenfellar again this year for scones and cream, and the extra time he put in at work to make sure they were ready for our special guests.
*Thankyou to Duane and Megan from Festival Photos for managing to photograph fifty families in fifty minutes!
*Thankyou to Mrs McGee, Mrs Blake, Miss Jess and Mrs Lock for spending their afternoons preparing our environment and an extra special thanks to Mrs Lock for coming in on her day off!!
*And last but in no way least, a massive thankyou to our wonderful parent helpers on the day, Owen’s Mum Christine, Sophie’s Mum Karen, Eddie’s Mum Estelle, Max’s Mum Tabytha, Dougal, Daisy and Fergus’s Mum Chloe, Ethan’s Mum Jay, Jack and Molly’s Mum Sophie and Raphael’s Mum Louisa. Our book sale and morning tea would not have been able to occur without you.
Professional photos taken on the morning will be available on line in approximately two weeks. If Grandies filled in the e-mail box on their photo form they will receive an e-mail alert when their photos are ready to be viewed. We will also put details on our blog site and ask that parents forward the details to their respective grandies (at first peep yesterday they looked quite stunning!)
Kind regards
Mel and Jeanine
