P&C Presentation Day Speech 2025
The Griffith North Public-School P&C would like to warmly congratulate all our students on a productive school year. Thank you to each student for your contribution to making GNPS an amazing school. We especially acknowledge the students graduating year 6 this year. Together with your families, you have made a huge impact on GNPS and we hope you look back on your time with great memories. We wish you all the very best as you take the next steps in your education journey and can’t wait to follow where your journey goes. A special mention to the families that are finishing up with GNPS this year – some of you after many years as part of our school community – we are very grateful of your contributions and the legacy you have left with this school.
We are one of the fortunate schools that operates a canteen full time and employs three amazing staff. Paulina, Linda and Meghan work together to bring our students and school members fresh and healthy food every day. Our canteen team prepare and pack over 18,000 meals every year with the care and detail as if it was the only meal. A huge thank you to Hannah who has worked hard to streamline our canteen accounting systems and to Rachel who has become our MySchool connect problem solver. Thank you to our volunteers who come in, sometimes on short notice, to assist anywhere they can from baking cookies to wrapping rolls.
A huge and heartfelt thank you to all the teachers and support staff at GNPS. Your work each and every day to pick up, put down, follow up, encourage, praise, protect, grow and calm our students is amazing. Your work is beyond what we can recognise today but we hope that you feel everyone in this room appreciates each of you. Thank you to Susan and Ashley who work tirelessly to support our school and the P&C, often behind the scenes and without fuss.
Throughout 2024 we have held various fundraising events including: raffles, stalls, chocolate drives and our infamous lamington drive held in September every year. This year we topped our record and made over 15,000 lamingtons in one day! A huge thank you to the team at Bertoldo’s who make our lamington drive possible. The community support on the day to dunk and roll is outstanding, and it has become a great day of friendship and fun for all.
We would like to thank and share our appreciation to families and businesses in our town that continue to make generous donations. It is because of these donations that we can fundraise and invest back into our wonderful school. Thank you to families who have sold raffle tickets, bought chocolate boxes, made lamingtons or turned up to our events – we can’t do it without you! It is a year that we, with your support, we as a school community, have been able to deliver a new infant playground for our school. This is testament of what we can do and will have a lasting impact on students for many years. We look forward to welcoming everyone along to our grand opening tomorrow night at the carols from 6pm.
To our wonderful executive team, Kylie, Rachel, Heather and Ashley – you are truly the greatest support to our P and C. You just say yes! Thank you to our wonderful P&C members who come along to make decisions, share the tasks and support the school community. Our Griffith North Public School is special – it always has been and always will be an amazing school. Our GNPS P&C works on contributing to our school’s sense of fun, creating friendships in our community and fundraising. We are here to nourish and grow our school community through activities and events. We are here to support our students and families to keep having fun, creating new friendships and sometimes we fundraise too!
We do welcome new members in 2025. As some of us are finishing our journey with GNPS we encourage you to come along to P&C and bring your amazing new ideas and excitement. It is fresh faces and new families that inspires us in what we do. Thank you.
Cate Yates (President)
