Update from our Liaison Officer - Nicole Beresford

For those P&Fs who have recently had their Annual Community Meetings, I hope they all went well. Congratulations to those who have been elected as P&F committee members for 2024, and thank you to those who are stepping down from their position, for your involvement and commitment.

We've had a few calls to our office recently, with P&Fs asking how they can try and recruit more parents to join the P&F, or encourage parents to take up a committee position. If these questions are also relevant at your school, please contact our office so we can provide you with some resources and brainstorm some ideas.

Since our last newsletter, we have updated our resources section of the website and have included a new tip sheet called “Why Join your P&F,” an ACM section and a handover section where you can download a check list of the type of information you may need to collate and have available for the incoming committee members for 2024.

As you will have read earlier in the newsletter, we have set a date for the Parent Induction evening, and we are wanting your feedback on topics for discussion. How have you found the first year operating under the new P&F Terms of Reference? What has been going well and what have you found challenging? It’s been great to see that parents have been using our Facebook Parent Connect group to ask questions and offer each other possible solutions to any challenges they are facing.

As always, please get in touch with me if you would like support at your last P&F meeting for the year, your first P&F meeting in 2024, or to brainstorm ideas for your P&F planning meeting. We are here to provide advice and resources to P&Fs, and new committee members. I can be contacted on 9338 9987 or via email support@csp.wa.edu.au.