If you love mangoes, here’s your chance to indulge in fresh juicy Kensington Pride mangoes and support our fundraising drive.

The Mango Fundraiser only use Bowen Special Mangoes which are more formally known as Kensington Pride Mangoes.  When you buy Mangoes from the Mango Fundraiser you know the fruit is coming directly from the farm to you.  Your mangoes aren’t being held for long periods in storage or ripening rooms.

We are selling trays of mangoes picked and packed during the premium harvest in a single layer tray.  Each tray will usually have between 9 and 14 mangoes, with a total tray weight of approx. 4.5kgs.

Cost per Tray is:  $24

Place your order through Qkr! by:   Mon 30th October, 2023

Collection: collect your mango tray(s) in the week of 4th December, 2023 (last week of school)

For Further information contact: Jodie Holloway via email: hello@swissfish.com.au or call/text her on 0433 216 243 

Money raised will be used to:  support our P&C programs

Masterplan for Buranda State School

The Department of Education project planning team presented the masterplan for Buranda State School to the P&C general meeting on 7 June 2023.

A copy of the slides presented is available at this link.

The Department later provided clarification regarding funding and key detail below:

  • The plan is subject to the Ministerial Designation process and so the final master plan will be subject to any terms and conditions that may arise through the Ministerial  Designation process.

  • The community will need to understand that  whilst the master plan is extensive and includes a staged  development, it is only stage 1 that is currently funded.

  • Further stages will be subject to in-catchment demographics and funding availability

Buranda Fest Sunday 11 September 2022

Buranda Fest (our school fete) was held on Sunday 11 September 2022 from 11am to 4pm on the Buranda State School oval.

Friendliest Pet Competition

We held a “Friendliest Pet Competition” at the fete. Here is one of the entrants - “Snowy” who belongs to Daisy W - can you spot the picture that isn’t “Snowy”?

Thanks to our many sponsors

P&C meeting Wednesday 3 August 2022 at 6.15pm

The next P&C meeting will be held on Wednesday 3 August 2022 at 6.15pm in the school library.

The minutes of the last P&C meeting (held on 1 June 2022) are available at this link.

The agenda for this month’s meeting is available at this link.

Buranda Fest sub-committee report is available at this link.

If you can’t attend in person, you can join online via Microsoft Teams at this link using the Teams App.

If you don’t have the Microsoft Teams App, you can access the meeting via the web at this link (Meeting ID 468 176 376 931, Passcode LKbrFq).

If you have any difficulty accessing the link, email president@burandasspandc.org.au (please email before the meeting starts at 6.15pm as replies during the meeting may not be immediate).

Winter Solstice on 18 June 2022

The next major P&C event is a working bee to weed the school garden and the Winter Solstice on Saturday 18 June 2022. Make sure you put it in your diary.

Entry to the Winter Solstice is free and we’ve lined up the School Choir and a great band, plus lots of yummy food so we’re super excited about it. We will have free face painting for children as well as a fire in a brazier (surrounded by a fence for children’s safety).

The working bee will start at 2pm and the Winter Solstice will run from 4-7pm.

If you can help with the Winter Solstice (e.g. serving soup or popcorn), there is a sign-up sheet for volunteers at this link.

The working bee to clean up the school garden will hopefully enable the school garden to reopen in term 3, once QBuild complete some repair work to the drainage system in the garden.

Safe route for children opens under Logan Road linking school to Hanlon Park

After a 9-year campaign by Buranda parent Laura Klein for improved safety for children going to Buranda State School, a bike and pedestrian path has now opened under Logan Road at Stones Corner linking the school with Hanlon Park.

The P&C Association congratulates and thanks Laura for her courage and tenacity in spear-heading the campaign.

The P&C Associations thanks Brisbane City Council for building this path.

Generations of Buranda State School kids and many others will benefit from vastly improved safety that the underpass now gives for crossing Logan Road to or from Hanlon Park.

P&C update - 24 May 2022

The next major P&C event is the Winter Solstice on Saturday 18 June 2022. We’re finalising the yummy food and entertainment that will be on offer and will advertise those details next week along with a sign-on sheet for anyone who wants to volunteer to help.

Everyone is super keen to fix the school garden so that Mr Bryant can hold classes in it again. We’re hoping to that we’ll be able to hold a working bee to clean up the garden before the Winter Solstice. If we can hold a working bee, we’ll let you know details in coming weeks. 

We’re still looking for convenors for the uniform shop and for the tuckshop. We’d very much like to restore the weekly tuckshop as soon as possible but haven’t succeeded so far.

Our next monthly meeting will be next Wednesday, 1 June 2022, at 6.30pm in the school library. Everyone is welcome to come along to share ideas for helping the school.

We need to update the P&C Constitution to reflect a 2022 version of the Model P&C Constitution for Queensland. We’ll hold a Special Meeting at 6.15pm on Wednesday 1 June 2022. You can see the proposed changes to the constitution at the link provided.

Chris McGrath
P&C President
E: president@burandasspandc.org.au
M: 0432899097
P&C website: https://www.burandasspandc.org.au/
P&C on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurandaPandC

Thank you to all the Students who participated in our School Banking Program!

School Banking program has now finished at Buranda State School!

I wish to say a big thank you to all the students who participated in the school banking program at Buranda State School.

School Banking has been a great fundraiser over the years for our school. Our school received a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which was based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year.

Even though School Banking is now finished, I hope the students will continue their banking journey to learn more about saving and compounding interest!!

- by Jodie Holloway, School Banking Coordinator