Fort Street High School

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Emailfortstreet-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

P&C

Parents and Citizens Association

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The Parents and Citizens Association (P&C) is highly active and contributes substantially to the life of Fort Street High School. It provides a forum which enables parents to get involved in the organisation and direction of the school. The P&C initiates and supports programs to enhance student learning, manages the uniform shop and assists with fundraising for and running the Instrumental Music Program (IMP).

The P&C meets online at 7.30pm on the second Wednesday of each month during school term time, unless otherwise specified.

You can follow the P&C on Facebook here

P&C Executive Committee

President Mr Michael Easton
Vice President

Ms Elizabeth Kenyon

Ms Kirrily Druery

Treasurer Mr Hung Ngo
   
Secretary Mr Peter Bestel
Executive Members

Ms Suzanne Trimmer

Ms Tracey Chen

Ms Neha Goel

Ms Helen de Wolfe

P&C Representatives and Sub-committee Coordinators

Foundation Representative Mr Michael Easton
IMP Representative Ms Suzanne Trimmer
Finance Committee Representative Mr Michael Easton
Canteen Committee Representative Vacant
Fundraising Committee

Ms Alison Austin

Ms Elizabeth Kenyon

Uniform shop Coordinator Ms Tracey Chen
Second Hand Uniform Coordinator Ms Sally McCausland
Sports Coordinator Vacant

Uniform shop

See the uniform page for the latest updates on how to order from the Uniform Shop.

Governance

The P&C is a body corporate under the Parents & Citizens’ Association Incorporation Act 1976, the constitution can be viewed here.

Fort Street P&C Constitution

Fundraising

One of the roles of the P&C is fundraising, which is contributed to the school, to provide better facilities than government funding covers.

The funds that the P&C can make available to the school come from P&C memberships, uniform shop sales and the proceeds from events such as Fort Fest, IMP concerts and Senior Drama nights.

In 2019 the P&C gave the school more than $200,000 to provide sporting facilities, classroom technology, faculty assets and numerous other items.

Grants

The P&C is also active in applying for local, state and federal government grants. Funds received from these grants enable the school to build better facilities for our students and run projects to improve educational outcomes.

In 2020 the P&C won grants to refurbish the library foyer and establish the Kitchen Garden and composting program.

If you have information about upcoming grants, experience with or an interest in applying for grants, please contact the P&C.

Community events

Community Events run by the P&C aim to build community awareness within the school, give parents, students and other supporters an opportunity to meet informally and to contribute to the school and to raise funds.

Meetings

The P&C holds meetings usually at 7:30pm in the school library on the second Wednesday of each month during school terms. These meetings provide an opportunity to learn more about what is happening in the school, how it operates, to ask questions and to meet other parents. The Principal usually gives an informative report on the recent happenings within the school.

Most of these meetings focus on a particular topic, which is often aimed at the parents of a particular year group.

Upcoming agenda

The next P&C meeting will be held on Wednesday 18th October at 7.30pm, in person in the school library.

Elephant Ed will be running an in-person Online Safety seminar from 6:30pm – 7:30pm beforehand. This 1 hr session, paid for by the P&C, will focus on how parents can talk with their kids about issues including consent and online bullying. We encourage all parents to attend and take advantage of this great seminar. for more information on Elephant Ed visit https://www.elephanted.com.au/about

The agenda will be emailed to all parents and carers and also added here prior to the meeting.

Read our P&C Consitution here

Minutes

Membership

Membership of a P&C association entitles you to vote at the general meetings and the annual general meeting. All memberships are renewed yearly, before or at the annual general meeting. Please see the link to the membership form below for more details.

If you wish to become a member, please fill out the linked membership form and email to the P&C via the address below or submit to the school office. Note that the fee for joining the P&C is $1, which can be paid to the P&C bank account via direct deposit (please ensure that you supply your name with the deposit).

The P&C bank account details are:

Fort Street High School P&C Association

BSB: 032-267

Account: 247674

Contact: The P&C can be contacted on fortstreethighschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fortstreethighschoolpandc/