Dear parents, carers and families,

I would like to welcome everyone to the new school year 2025 and hope everyone had a great start to the new year and settled in well in their new classrooms.

First of all, lets please welcome our new committee elected on 25^th Feb at the AGM:

Principal: Tom Spykers

Chairperson: Susanne Lucas

Deputy Chair: Rachel Jaeschke

Secretary: Sara Walkem

Treasurer: Eliza Di Francesco

Parent members: Nigel Palfreyman, Lucy Cunliffe, Claire Wood and Anna Heath

Teacher representative: Lucie Cornelius

Community Representative: Sallie Brockman

Please feel free to approach any of us if you would like to raise any issues, make suggestions or want to leave feedback. All our meetings are open to any parent or caregiver to attend, and we will publish our meeting times in SZapp.

Our fundraising goal this year is to make a sizeable contribution to the upgrade of the new Early Learning Outdoor area. We will also focus on raising funds for our next year’s grade 5/6 students school camp in Canberra. With this in mind, there has been a lot going on already:

On Wednesday 5^th March we welcomed the Variety Children’s Charity and Jet Trek to Bicheno on their fundraiser that took them from Hobart to Devonport on their jet skis. We were given the opportunity to feed about 160x people for lunch, which was a great success and lots of fun.