St Catherine's Moorabbin eNewsletter

Parents and Friends News

2024 - What a Year!!

We had some amazing events and lots of fun bringing them to you!! We have a big list of people to thank...

To our P&F members: Julia Runci, Abbey Walters, Rebecca Megyeri, Kendell Entwisle, Kirsty Goold, Laura McKell, Angelina Piccolo and Juliette Greskie - thank you for everything this year for all the amazing events, action and hardwork done around the school! Thanks to Vish Sahota for organising the sponsorship from Bendigo Bank for the new marquees - $5000 is a lot of money and we are so thankful!

We have raised a lot of money this year. We purchased the new soccer goals, the blackboards and we are proud to present in 2025 the lunchtime games club - lots of fun activities for chilling out at lunchtime in the courtyard! We helped fund the kids activities last week, and we will also be funding upgrades around the school in 2025 - so keep your eyes peeled!

Thank you to our retiring member Juliette Greskie for her many years of hard work. We wish to acknowledge the volunteer efforts of families who are leaving St Catherine’s sadly at this end of this year, and during their time have volunteered in Canteen, on P&F or as Board Members – Kylie Carapeto, Claire Castrillon, Angelina and Carlo Piccolo and our Grade six families who are graduating from St Catherine’s – thanks for all your efforts and support of school activities.

Christmas Carols wrap up!

What a sweltering night it was - thanks to all those who helped on Thursday night with set up, supervising the jumping castle and pack up! Thanks to our fabulous staff for the BBQ dinner options and cold drinks - much appreciated!!

Thank you to Julia for coordinating it and Hannah, Vish, Lozan, Gabriella, Karen, Pam, Kate, Amanda, Kaz, Kendell and Terri for their help on the cake and ice cream stall at the Carols, it ran smoothly thanks to so many hands making light work. Thanks to all who baked or donated food as well, plenty of hard earned pocket money was spent on the stall and it was a sweet success!

Raffle winners!

Thank you to all the local businesses and school families who donated prizes - there was over $7,000 of prizes donated!! Thanks to all the families who purchased tickets - we are proud to announce over $2000 was raised for school upgrades!

Canteen!

A very special canteen on Thursday with fabulous ice creams... they are $2 so please send some extra coins along! Also some Christmas lucky dips, and the usual chips and snacks for 50c! Thanks to the organisation from Angelina Piccolo and the great team of mums - Hannah, Stef, Claire (and Isaac) and Jane for running canteen every Thursday with the Grade 6s. Thank you to Jane Filihia for volunteering to coordinate canteen in 2025! If you have 30mins spare on a Thursday to join the roster, contact Jane on 0403 509 938.

Bunnings BBQ from November!

Thanks to all those volunteered and donated supplies to the school - we had a very successful BBQ on November 18. Thank you to Shane Currie, Duncan Gosling, Claire Castrillon, Michelle Tang, Abbey and Cohen Walters, Darren Brady, David Entwisle, Sifa Filihia, Rebecca Megyeri, Laura McKell, Hannah Trinca and Matt Plas. Thanks to Kendell Entwisle for organising it - we raised over $2,300.

Working Bee Thankyou

Thank you to all of our volunteers who worked so hard at the Working Bee last weekend. We managed to avoid the rain and the extreme heat and ended up with perfect weather conditions. It was wonderful to spend time with our beautiful school community and achieve such an amazing result to get our school oval looking fabulous in time for the Christmas Carols.

Thank you to our mighty team of volunteers: Bernard; David, Laura, Cameron, Emma and Joshua; Duncan, Karen, Abbey and Georgia; Matt, Hannah, Oliver, Henry and Lily; Matt, Vanessa, Lachie and Mitchell; Nat, Harvey and Chelsea; and Shane.

We really appreciate the time that you were able to give up out of your weekend, especially at such a busy time of year.

UNIFORM SHOP

Thanks to all those families for donating items - we are accepting washed, PSW branded items only. We will be open for the final time on Thursday, and will reopen on Thursday 30 January for donations and summer purchases! Our uniform shop has been very successful this year with over $700 in profit for school upgrades! Thanks to Laura McKell for coordinating it this year!

COLOUR RUN, Mothers and father's Day Stalls

These events don't happen without the organisation from Abbey Walters - a teacher at OLSH College Bentleigh - and Mum to Pace, Jensen at St Cath's and Cohen now at St Bedes. Thanks Abbey for all your extra effort and organising - St Cath's is so lucky to have you!!

MURAL

Our Mural will be painted in February!! Thank you to Suzanne Currie for her fabulous work in bringing it to fruition, a lot of hours on emails and phone calls with the project manager, working group and Artist. We can't wait to see it next year! Thanks to Matt Casey and staff and Duncan Gosling for removing the shrubs last term in preparation.

MUMS AND DADS GROUPS

Thanks to those who participated in the extracurricular events for parents... be it drinks, soccer or dinners... building friendships in the school community is a very special element of St Catherine's! Stay tuned for more events in 2025!

..........and Lastly,

The entire P&F Committee would like to extend a huge thank you to Nat Taffe for not only coordinating the committee this year, but for all her years of service. Nat's passion, dedication and enthusiasm for creating events for the students and families, and fundraising to help continue to make our school thrive have been nothing short of amazing and we are so incredibly grateful for her efforts. As Nat, Mike, Harvey and Chelsea embark on their next adventure settling in to life in Bendigo, we wish them the best for the future and will miss their presence at the school and on the P&F Committee so much!