Isabella State School P&C plays a significanat role in fostering a supportive and enriched environment for our students, parents, and the broader school community.
Meet our 2025 Executive Committee:
President: Sarah Simpson
Treasurer: Katie Gilmore
Secretary:
What is our focus?
The Isabella State School P&C has identified the following key initiatives aimed at revitalising our association and further supporting our school community:
1. Increasing membership
The P&C is committed to increasing membership among students' parents and families, recognizing the vital role they play in shaping our school community. Parents bring valuable knowledge, diverse experiences, and fresh perspectives that ensure our decisions remain relevant and effective. By joining, families contribute to meaningful discussions, helping to create a supportive and inclusive environment for all students. Their input helps us stay connected to the evolving needs of our school, ensuring we make informed choices that benefit everyone. Together, we can build a stronger, more engaged school community that prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and student success. Join us today!
2. Strengthening community engagement
Our goal as a P&C is to strengthen community engagement, especially with students' families, to create a more welcoming, informed, and involved school community. We believe that when families feel connected and valued, students thrive. By fostering open communication, hosting inclusive events, and encouraging participation, we aim to build a supportive environment where every family feels heard and involved in their child's education. Strong family-school partnerships lead to better outcomes for students, and we invite all parents and caregivers to join us in making our school community stronger together.
P&Cs Are Vital to School Communities?
Parents and Citizens Associations are crucial to the vibrancy and effectiveness of school communities for several reasons:
1. Enhanced Educational Resources:
Our P&C often fundraises for essential resources that the schools might not be able to afford within their standard budget. This includes technology, musical instruments, sports equipment, and general improvements around the school.
2. Community Building:
P&Cs foster a sense of community among parents, teachers, and students. Joining your local P&C is a fantastic way to join a supportive network of passionate parents, staff and community members. Your contributions as a P&C Member will be recognised, respected and greatly valued.
3. Reducing costs for families:
Through our fundraising efforts, our P&C supports a wide number of equipment, subsidising extracurricular activities, school camps, excursions, or transport costs, ensuring that P&C plays its' part in supporting students access to a well-rounded education.
Do you see any opportunities to support P&C with achieving these goals?
Becoming a P&C Member is a valued and respected volunteer role. P&C recognises that every person who volunteers has limits. Members set their time, their availability and offer to help where and when they can. Attendance at meetings is not mandatory and will not reduce your ability to be consulted on matters of importance. This P&C are dedicated to building a strong, robust P&C full of members who support initiatives where and when they can.
Opportunities to make improvements to the school are a negotiated process between P&C and School Leadership Team. Suggestions for improvements are an important way to capture new ideas. This is a great way that new members can help as everyone sees different avenues for improvements.
P&C Pop-Quiz:
Did you know? Isabella SS P&C are responsible for the school tuckshop and uniform shop. Profit from the tuckshop pays for the employment of the Tuckshop convenor and supporting casual staff, purchase of stock and operation costs.
Did you know? Thanks to previous Isabella SS P&C committees, every classroom was fitted with refrigerators to keep every student's lunch and water cool. The P&C are responsible for the ongoing maintenance and replacement of these refrigerators.
Did you know? P&C can apply for grants that the school are not able to. This makes a P&C a vital avenue of financial support to a school. Are you good at writing grants? We'd love to hear from you!
P&C Contact
You can contact Isabella SS P&C at: exec@isabellasspandc.onmicrosoft.com