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Parents & Friends’ Association
Connected, Inclusive
and Supportive
"Our Mission is to build a strong school parent faith community through
engaging, facilitating and providing social gatherings to foster a connected,
inclusive and supportive parent network, whilst raising funds through our
activities for the Riverview Bursary and continuing to support and grow
our college community."
Welcome to the end of 2017, and a big thank you to all the parent
community of the college for the support you have shown to
me and especially to the Executive Committee of your P&F.
It has been a very busy year for the P&F and I believe we have
successfully delivered another full calendar of events for the whole
school community.
I commenced the year with a focus on building on the theme the
P&F committee of 2016 started with, which was to create a more
connected community. We expanded on our motto this year when
we looked at not only creating a more connected community,
but one that is inclusive as well as supportive. So 2017 saw us
launch with a vision of being a CONNECTED, INCLUSIVE &
SUPPORTIVE community. This theme shone through everything
we did as a committee this year.
We hit the ground running at the start of the new school year
with a Mass and morning tea, after which followed a string of
events, including two cocktail and information evenings, a charity
morning tea supporting Mary’s House, the Twilight Picnic in the
Boathouse and, of course, our major fundraising event, Bistro
View, which was a great success.
In Term 2, we hosted the annual City/Country Mothers’ Luncheon
with well over 300 mothers descending on Ramsay Hall at the
college. With special guest speakers and an opportunity to build
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friendships, everyone felt privileged and proud to be part of the
Riverview schooling community. In keeping with promoting a
connected, inclusive and supportive community, many local
families kindly offered their homes and provided a lovely B&B
experience for our country mums, who went to great trouble to
journey to Riverview for the lunch.
Our encouragement of greater faith participation has continued
with our encouragement to parents to attend our Masses held
on the first Friday of the month. Many thanks to Fr Ross for his
dedication to this service.
I am delighted to report that our efforts this year have culminated
in a very substantial donation towards the Riverview Bursary
Foundation, with a contribution of $100,000 raised throughout
the year. We believe in its core values and are proud that our
efforts will go towards helping a number of young men, who will
be given the privilege of a Riverview Jesuit education. The gift of
a Riverview education has the ability to not only change the lives
of young boys, but also their families. If our efforts have a positive
influence on them, then we can deem our efforts to be a success.
The executive committee, alongside the Year, House and class
parents who all work together for the purpose of creating a
Connected, Inclusive and Supportive Riverview family all deserve
a tremendous thanks for their hard work and efforts throughout
the year. Thanks for taking up the challenge of another year and
for working with me. I would like to take this opportunity to wish
all the parent community a healthy, safe and relaxing Christmas
break.
R I C K D 'A M I C O , P& F P R E S I D E N T