INSPIRATIONAL AND ENDURING COMMUNITY From our Support Groups PENRHOS COLLEGE ALUMNI (INC)
Our Alumni Committee aims to perpetuate school and community spirit among our 9,500+ alumni members. Penrhos Old Girls are based in over 40 countries around the world, and our ever-growing network means ties to each other and the College reach far and wide. This year the Penrhos Alumni Committee hosted or supported the following events and initiatives: • Leavers’ 18-month, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year reunions. • Shakers and Stirrers annual networking event (with Wesley Old Boys). • Alumni High Tea. • Penrhos College Founders’ Day. • Pleiades annual meeting of seven sister schools to discuss alumni initiatives (Penrhos hosted). • Year 12 Mother Daughter Dinner (graduates are welcomed to the alumni community with a gift). • Great Southern Long Table Lunch. • Penrhos Alumni Endeavour Award (presented to Emma John). • Penrhos Alumni Margaret Way Scholarship (awarded to Olivia Sanderson).
AUXILIARY
The Penrhos Auxiliary works closely with the College to encourage and enhance social networking and friendships across the parent body of the Penrhos community. The Auxiliary also supports special projects which complement the main activities of the College. Our members are comprised of mums with daughters from a range of year groups. 2018 highlights included: • Participation and profile at the back-to-school family Sundowner via a welcome refreshment stand. • Pancake Day was a great success, whereby our volunteers assisted and supported the Chaplaincy with the preparation and distribution of more than 1,000 pancakes to Junior and Secondary School girls. • Mothers’ Day for Junior School was a lovely
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occasion on which we supplied flowers with wraps and ribbons, featuring a message about why mums are so special. The girls presented the flowers to their mothers / guardians after the Mothers’ Day Assembly. • The social highlight of the year - our Annual Spring Lunch - was again held at the beautiful, Beaumonde on the Point; it was a very special day, with fabulous celebrity MC Peter Rowsthorn. Our huge thanks for the support of our local community and the wonderful raffle prizes. • Year 12 Valedictory Week was a great success. Auxiliary provided Morning Tea in the Function Centre for Year 12 parents on ‘P Day’ and for all guests on Flower Day, in the Rixon Theatre Foyer after the assembly. We also supplied colourful individually-named tubs for each Year 12 student to collect their flowers on Flower Day. • On World Teachers’ Day, we supplied a range of special cakes for the Penrhos teachers to enjoy as a special thank you from Auxiliary on behalf of all parents. • And finally, we were pleased to continue our ongoing subsidisation of another successful edition of the Year 12 yearbook publication for our leavers and their parents.
FRIENDS OF DRAMA AND DANCE (FoDD)
2018 was another active year for the Friends of Drama and Dance (FoDD) - our priority remains to build a strong volunteer base to ensure there are enough helpers to support all activities in costuming, backstage, servery and promotion of the Arts at Penrhos. To this end, we secured more Responsible Service of Alcohol certificates through our members. FoDD maintained a healthy on-line presence via its Facebook page and utilised the PCN to communicate upcoming events and keep members connected. We continued Costume Shed Friday as a popular initiative, where members assisted the costume department to sort, launder and maintain costumes. FoDD sought to take advantage of fundraising
PENRHOS COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2018