Meeting opened by the President Melissa Iredell at 8.05pm.

In Attendance 14 as per attendance registers (parents & teachers (12 + 2)
Apologies 1 as per attendance register

Previous Minutes
It was resolved that the Minutes of the meeting held on 3rd May, 2004 be accepted, moved by Vickie Rollo, Seconded by Jeff Schembri.

Business Arising
" Korean Translations - Finished.
" Cola Drainage - It was moved by Donna Collier that the Cola repairs be removed from the P&C spending list. Seconded by Jeff Schembri. All for.
" Funding Applications from Hornsby Council - We have missed this year's deadline, which is at the end of May. Melissa has 2 ideas:- 1. Ethnic project - interview parents on their experiences at school and put together a booklet. 2. Ceramics in Schools $16 per child run by a qualified ceramics teacher with a Multicultural aspect.

Treasurer's Report
Melissa reported that Terry will be able to attend meetings from next term.
Written report circulated for period ending 30th April 2004 compiled by Terry Liddicoat. Melissa Iredell spoke to same. Moved by Gail Clayton, Seconded by Leanne Dries.

Committee Reports
Book club - Nil
Building - Meeting held on 25th May. Other options discussed were revamping Japanese area & an alternative Nomad Building.
Canteen
Vickie Rollo - Redoing menu & bringing out winter menu. New urn in the process of being purchased. A few new Korean volunteers. Still looking to replace Margaret Little as supervisor. Still going through Govt Legislation re Healthy Canteen.
Clothing-
Leanne Dries -
Community Relations
Karen Yates (read by Donna Collier) - Our Open Day is on Thursday 17th June. We have put up two School banners advertising our school open day. One banner is located at the school's front gate, the other on the cnr of Midson & Ray Roads. We have put up the school information/photo boards in various pre-schools. We will be having a Meeting on Friday 11th June at 2pm to finalise arrangements for the open day. We will be needing helpers on the day. It would be great if anyone who is interested in helping on the open day to attend this meeting as it helps us allocate things for you to do on the day better. If you cannot attend but wish to help on the day, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Julie Hanley asked if anyone could help on the day looking after any children that attended. Vickie Rollo offered her help.

Fundraising & Social
Kathy Dixon - Mothers Day over 380 gifts & lots of Mothers, Grans, Aunts sharing the day with the children. Thank you to the Dads who helped serve.
The Trivia night is our next event on Saturday 31st July 2004. There will be tables of 8, so get together & make a table. A raffle will be held and will finish on Trivia night. Raffle books will go home with the children and each week there will be a prize drawn for children who bring back sold books. Any donations for the raffle would be appreciated. Next meeting on Wed 16th June at 7.15, Kathy's house.
Gardening
Melissa for Jon - Gardening Report 7/6/04
Brilliant job at last working bee, 24 adults (15 families) from Kindy & Year One.
Built retaining wall along 16m of area and news-papered and mulched existing areas. 8 wheelbarrows snaking up & down the slope, Kids playing soccer. Picnic rugs spread out across the oval. Another day like that and the retaining wall will be finished. We have the sleepers stored in the vault. And the budget is spent so there will be no more purchases made. One option is that later in the year we could call on donations from families unable to get to the working bees to provide plants for the embankment. Tag them with classrooms' name and maybe pizza for the winning class??? Special thanks to Uren family for taking the green waste away. Richard Kirkby, Pennant Hills Golf Club greenkeeper, has said he is still coming out to look at oval. Julie Hanley has accepted a quote from Hoarst to remove trees, will do in next School Holidays.
Next working bee years 4 & 5 - only two year five families turned up to the last working bee. 27th June 12:30 - 4:30pm
Safety House
Margaret Ramsey - Constable Trundle came to School last Friday. All walkers received a lollypop. He talked about safety, stranger danger etc to all children at assembly.

Traffic
Elizabeth Timmins - Meeting held on 2nd June. Present: Elizabeth Timmins, Karen Grozier & David Smith. Apologies: Megan Cornell, Susan Harding, Graeme Arthur, Donna Collier.
Traffic problems were identified:-
" People parking in drop off zone
" Dangerous parent behaviour (summoning children across road, children allowed to exit/enter car on road side of car especially adjacent to pool fence in Kent St, Parking too close to corners making those corners blind for other drivers
" Lack of footpaths (Barombah Road near back gate & Wycombe Rd)
" Lack of appropriate crossing point on Kent St, from opposite side of road where footpath ends, to the school gate. Apparently Council has refused a zebra crossing due to the crest further up Kent St providing inadequate visibility for the crossing.
" Excess speed of drivers generally in Wycombe, possible by drivers avoiding Midson Road speed-bumps.

Action Plan:-
" Improved communication of road safety around the school - coloured flyers attached to school newsletter, perhaps one per month, focusing on a particular aspect.
" Traffic issued to be raised at Orientation Day, as there is a captive audience at this time of new parents.
" Having traffic wardens controlling or directing the drop off zone, particularly at the beginning of Term 1. It is envisaged that this would be more of an educational exercise than a policing exercise. Such wardens to be parent volunteers, wearing a fluoro top.
" Elizabeth Timmins to contact Hornsby Council to firstly liaise with the council traffic committee, seeking their ideas and comments; and secondly about the possibility of having a lolly-pop person controlling the crossing of Kent St.

Correspondence In/Out

PRINCIPALS REPORT
A very busy few weeks -
Debating - Year 5 & 6 teams have now had 2 debates each. I am very proud of all students. Year 5 has won both debates so far, and although Year 6 has lost their debates they performed very well. Thanks to Mrs Barton for her organization, Miss Peyton and the Meyers for their support of the Year 5 debaters and Geoff Casson and Mrs Gray for their support of the Year 6 team. Also great to see so many parents coming along to support their children.
" Multi-cultural Perspectives Public Speaking Comp - an outstanding event which we hosted today. All students performed so well and were a credit to themselves their families and their schools. The adjudicator was in awe of the very high standard of presentations. Mrs Barton did an excellent job of organizing the day.
" Success at Zone Cross Country with a number of children moving through to the next level.
" I've mentioned in newsletter but I'd like to thank the gardening Committee and all the parents who helped at the last working bee - so much was achieved.
" Next week the Community Relations Committee will be assisting with our Kindergarten Open day - Thursday 17 June. They have already been working hard to promote this day.
" Assessment and Reporting - tomorrow children will take home information re P/T Interviews. These interviews form one part of our A&R Schedule - which also includes the administering of standardized tests, the completion of assessment tasks and work samples, the maintenance of student profiles and the completion by teachers of a report which gives social and attitudinal progress as well as a detailed comment about progress in English and Maths and other areas. These will continue throughout the year and a summative report covering all KLAs will be issued to students at the end of the year. Portfolios are not going home this term - this is due to current industrial action which a majority of teachers across the state are supporting. Teachers feel that supporting this action will not impact on student learning.
" Stage Meetings later in the term will allow teachers to analyse assessment data and use this to plan the T&L program for their students for the following term. Data from the BST, PWA and CSA has also been analysed to identify students in need of extra support and also to identify general areas for further work by teachers in classrooms. There is always a need for improvement in some area and analysis of data assists us in this process.
" Next term will also be very busy - the Athletics Carnival is in Week 2. There will also be the BST and PWA for Years 3&5. We are planning an Olympic Travelathon to coincide with the Olympics. This will take place on Friday 20 August and will be a school fundraiser. During Book Week Mrs Ralph has organized a special performance and also a visit by local author Gordon Winch. Later in the term as part of our Education Week celebrations we will be having a concert at Carlingford HS. There's always something happening at Epping Heights.

GENERAL BUSINESS
" TABLES - We need 20 new tables. Kathy & Gail will look into this, but approx prices are $65-70 each. Moved by Karen Grozier, Seconded Sue Cale that "The P&C buy 20 tables up to $1500.00 if we are satisfied with storage under Library Building". Anne Pascoe to find out what hire cost would be. Exec will decide as there is no July meeting.
" Signing on - Everybody needs to sign on at functions i.e. Working Bees.
" Federal Survey - No responses received.
" Storage - Julie has given us the old sports shed, but it is leaking. We will look at fixing leak.
" Plates & Cutlery - Look at prices, but probably need to hire as required as again we have nowhere to store them.
" Archive Photo's - School photos - many years worth. Melissa suggested that we package up & sell to Year 6 (Batches from K-6)
" Guest Speakers - Melissa suggested Sue Buckle (Ceramics teacher) - Look at booking 1st Term 2004, Neville Goldsmith (Returned Services Talks) - No. Other suggestions - School Nurse, Dance Teacher, Nutritionists, Boys Education, Speech Therapist, Literacy Consultant. Julie advised we have a new parent who is a Speech Therapist, and she will try to get her.