Bicicletta Friday Market - 27th July

The children are always excited about Friday Markets, especially when it’s their turn to be in charge! During our weekly Friday afternoon learning games, several children made signs to accompany biscuits and popcorn that their families had made whilst other parents starting frying sausages and laying out the home baked goodies.

 

Once the bell went, there was a stampede. Everything was sold! What a great success!

Thank you so much to all of the people who helped; whether you collected the sausages and bread, started the sausage sizzle, baked, set up, sold or packed up, you all made a valuable contribution for which we are very grateful.

If you have any ideas or requests for how the money is spent, please let us know.

Friday Market 27 July - helpers needed!

Prep Bicicletta is rostered to run the next Friday Market on Friday 27th July. 

We need parent volunteers to help with the following things: 

• one person to pick up the sausages and bread (the school will pay),
• two people to arrive at 2:30 pm to heat up the BBQ and start cooking the snags by 2:45 pm so they are ready by 3:30 pm,
• lots of other helpers to arrive by 3:20 to staff the stall - set up your goodies to sell, work out prices, 
• people to help clean up afterwards, both the BBQ and the area around the market,
• and of course people to bring items to sell (edible or otherwise).

There will be a sign-up sheet up on the communications board on Monday - please put your name down to help. 

A few parents have requested that we buy some mechanised pencil sharpeners, so we are planning to buy these with the money you raise. If you have any other suggestions for how the money raised could be used, please let us know.

Friday Market

Congratulations on an amazing Friday Market!


We raised $675.40 in total, which is a very impressive effort by any account, and particularly given the short notice this time.

Thank you to everyone who donated food. Having sampled more than was sensible (in the spirit of supporting the stall of course) I can say that the food was excellent and we managed to sell every single item.


Thank you as well to everyone who helped out with setting up the stall, selling and packing away at the end of the day.  It is a wonderful way to support our learning community and we really appreciate all your hard work.

The money from each Friday Market stall is divided between the hosting learning community and the kitchen garden program. Half of the money raised each week goes to Margaret who runs our gardening sessions. The other half is for us to spend in our learning community on resources that we feel are important or that we can't find the money for in our school budget.  

This semester we would like to put the money towards greening up the terrace (the bag and main entry area). This is a great space but it's being underutilized at the moment and we would love to make it a really stimulating and welcoming environment for the students so we can make the most of our classroom space. We will be asking for donations of plants and pots for the terrace soon, and scheduling a working bee. I will post information about specific items we are looking for in the next couple of days.

Thankyou again for all your hard work. We are extremely lucky to have such a supportive and enthusiastic parent body in our learning community.