St Peter's Parents Association
| What does the St Peter's Parents Association do? |
The SPPA represents all parents of St Peters’. Our committee is responsible for fundraising for special projects, but our primary focus is on friendraising. We look to actively serve our parent community by offering fun nights out with other parents, support services (cups of tea and coffee) during school events such as Parent Interviews and we also provide education and inspiration for parents and the wider community during our Annual Speaker Series.
We meet once or twice a term to plan events for parents, like our Annual Quiz night, and Speaker Series, and to plan fundraising activities to support the purchase of extra resources. Our meetings are attended by Principal Dale Burden, and senior students, who report on new initiatives, and provide a unique insight into what’s happening at school.
We’d love to welcome new parents to our meetings, but if that’s not your thing, we have plenty of other ways to help. We need volunteers to help with our events in 2017 and we’d love to hear your thoughts on how else we can support you as a parent at St Peter’s. Please feel free to contact our President directly anytime:
sacha@coffeeculture.co.nz.
Our main source of income is through the annual levy for families. These funds are supplemented by our fundraising activities which include helping with catering at Athletics Day, running our Annual Quiz Night and the sale of promotional items like school umbrellas.
We also receive funds from the AFFCO calf scheme. Under this scheme, when dairy farmers send their bobby calves to AFFCO it donates 40c per calf to a school of their choice – pick St Peters’! Similarly we also receive money from telecommunications company Deltacom, which donates a percentage of telephone bills to schools nominated by their account holder.
Over the last few raised we’ve committed over $200,000 in funding for the school’s Outdoor Education facilities and invested more than $100,000 in other projects including the Prep School Adventure Playground, Makerspace 3D Printer for the library, Lighting Console for the Auditorium– saving the school thousands in hire each year, Irrigation for new grapevines, uniforms for Kapa Haka, roaming microphone for School Chapel and most recently $40,000 to upgrade the Sports Conditioning equipment in the school weights gym
Our meetings are held in the BEC. We arrive from 7pm for a cuppa and start the meeting at 7.30pm sharp. Our final meeting for 2016 will also include our Christmas function so look out in the weekly school newsletter, InTouch, for our first meeting dates for 2017.
President: Sacha Coburn
Vice President: Lizz Hawkins
Treasurer: Karen Barker
Secretary: Morag Gurnsey
Trust Board representative: John Fegan
Foundation representative: Aksel Jepsen
Uniform rep: Janeen Mockford
Immediate Past President: Philippa Lowe
Committee members:
Mark Nogaj
Richard Crafts
Bronwyn Page
Virginia Livingstone
Linda Gordon