{"id":8610,"date":"2025-12-19T03:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8610"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:57:02","slug":"pc-update-5","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/pc-update-5\/","title":{"rendered":"P&amp;C Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&amp;C MEETING Updates \u2013 Last one of Year 2025 and this is a brief one post AGM<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 11th December 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principal\u2019s Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Budget: Faculty budgets approved; some P&amp;C funding requests remain and will be discussed during next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 The Principal\u2019s Director visited the school for an end-of-year professional development meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Positive Feedback: Orientation day well-received by parents and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 School assembly 12th December, Talent Quest on 19th December \u2013 marking closure of the year<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 End-of-Year Operations: Office closed during holidays; GA remains for maintenance. Staff return after Australia Day and before students return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Business<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Staff Acknowledgement: Appreciation expressed for teachers\u2019 efforts and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Drama Department Update:<\/p>\n<p>Current Drama teacher (Carolyn) leaving; acknowledged for HSC showcase success.<\/p>\n<p>New Drama teacher appointed and positively received, we wish ourselves and the new teacher best luck and continue our school\u2019s success in drama<\/p>\n<p>o Great proven teaching experience<\/p>\n<p>o Will teach Years 7\u20138 and optional for Years 9\u201312.<\/p>\n<p>o Temporary for one year; likely to become permanent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Membership Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Current membership stands at 37 financial members.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgement<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Proposing acknowledgement in a formal way for volunteers, in particular uniform shop volunteers due to frequency and the required time slots.<\/p>\n<p>Next Meeting<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Scheduled for Wednesday 11th February 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Thank You to FSHS Staff (End of Year Gift)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The GroupTogether collection has now closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Families raised more than $7500 to say a big \u2018Thank you\u2019 to the teachers and staff at Fort Street High School!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0The card with messages of appreciation is being sent to all the staff to read and they will be enjoying a well-deserved celebratory meal together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fort Street High School P&amp;C<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&amp;C MEETING Updates \u2013 Last one of Year 2025 and this is a brief one post AGM Thursday 11th December 2025 Principal\u2019s Report \u00b7 Budget: Faculty budgets approved; some P&amp;C funding requests remain and will be discussed during next meeting. \u00b7 The Principal\u2019s Director visited the school for an end-of-year professional development meeting. \u00b7 Positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-8610","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/8610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}