AISM PARENTS ASSOCIATION NEWS
Hello and welcome
It has been a busy start to the year and we have had lots to get through! As we now have so much happening in the Parents Association we will be distributing a fortnightly newsletter on Friday of each week A
SUB COMMITTEE MEETINGS
SPORTS
On Tuesday March 6th we will hold our first Sports Committee meeting. Ros Stanford, our vice president, will chair the meeting with Mr. Rod Seib, our new PDHPE teacher, being the school representative. The meeting will firstly outline the vision and role of the Sports Committee in AISM and what we hope to achieve from the Parent Association and the school. We will also elect our committee members for this committee at this meeting. It is intended that we have 4 members sitting on the committee as well as Rod and a member of the Parent Association Executive committee.
The meeting will take place from 11.15am. We have booked room G5 (next to auditorium). Please let us know if you are able to attend via email at email link. This is a popular and important committee that we know will have a lot of support. As we have stated, you are welcome to come along to be part of the meeting and it is not expected of anyone to do more than they can.
EVENTS
This meeting will be held on Thursday morning March 8th from 9.00am. We will conduct this meeting in Room G5 (next to Auditorium).
The events committee will have a wide scope and we will need to appoint a committee ASAP to start coordinating and organising our events for the year.
This committee will cover many areas:
· Bake stalls
· Trivia Night
· Social activities
· Student focus days (pie / pizza days etc)
· Fund raising activities
· International Day
This is a very important committee with a big involvement in school activities. With a strong committee and the continuing support from our Parent Community, this will become one of the main focus areas of our Association this year. Please come along and be involved in whatever way you can.
Email email via link to register your interest.
TRANSPORT
The transport committee is a very important committee within the Association. We play an active role in maintaining and supporting our transportation services in the school. The committee works closely with Mr. Peter Cheong our bus operator, as well as administration staff. Mr. Wagner represents the school management at these meetings and is an active supporter of the Transport committee.
We require a committee of at least 3 to continue on with this important work. Much progress has been made in 2006 and Nicole Thomas has made some great recommendations and implemented systems that are making this work. Nicole has resigned from this committee recently and we do thank her for her tremendous efforts. Her dedication and commitment to the student safety at AISM was unwavering and continual. I am sure Nicole will do an excellent handover of this chair and would support you as best she can. If you have any queries or would like to register your interest please contact transport committee on the email link below
ACCESS ROAD
We are continuing to encounter problems on the access road with people not following the safety and security procedures outlined by the school management and parent association.
The car park areas have now been upgraded to facilitate the increasing use of these areas; however, several people in our school community still do not follow procedures.
On the top car park, we ENTER at the first graveled roadway and park the vehicle. We then EXIT the graveled roadway closest to the school gate.
AT NO TIME SHOULD ANY VEHICLE PARK FORWARD OF THE GRAVELED AREAS. THERE IS TO BE NO DROPPING OFF ON THE ROAD. ALL VEHICLES USING THIS ROAD MUST PARK THE VEHICLE AND WALK THEIR CHILDREN INTO THE SCHOOL GROUNDS. REVERSING YOUR VEHICLE ON THE ACCESS ROAD IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. IF YOU WISH TO DROP YOUR CHILDREN PLEASE USE THE DROP OFF BAY ON THE MAIN ROAD AT THE FRONT OF THE SCHOOL.
THE GUARDS ARE THERE TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN AND ENFORCE THESE PROCEDURES. PLEASE RESPECT THEM AND UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS THEIR ROLE AT AISM.
VEHICLE DETAILS WILL BE RECORDED OF CARS WHO CONTINUE TO IGNORE THESE PROCEDURES.
THE 2007 UPDATED RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR PICK-UP AND DROP-OFF WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
CLASSES – to register your interest please email or leave message at school office
BAHASA MELAYU
The basic conversational course is generating some strong interest. Our mums conducting this course plan a weekday casual lesson. Once registrations are in we can organize our class. There will be a small cost to cover expenses.
ST JOHN FIRST AID – Basic course (Cost and course outline determined by number of attendees)
ART/CRAFT
Anyone interested in organizing a class or groups please let us know. I have spoken to Mrs. Armstrong regarding this matter and, if we do proceed, we will work with the school to find appropriate Art rooms to work in, fitting in with the school timetable. If you any ideas, or know of any people who would like to work in a relaxed social atmosphere please let us know. Some suggestions at this stage are:
· Scrapbooking
· Quilting
· Cross-stitch.
AGM
Please remember Friday March 16th is the AGM for 2007. All elected Executive roles will be nominated and elected. These roles are:
· President
· Vice President
· Secretary
· Treasurer
· 2 Parent Representatives
Our school level representatives for 2007 are
Junior School Pip O’Regan
Middle School Lyndall Rice
Senior School Rhonda Kortum
All members of the Executive committee now wear Parent ID tags with a RED strip Please do hesitate to contact any of us should you have a query or would like to be involved in some way.
Julie Howell and Roslyn Stanford