Strathfieldsaye PS 2024 Community Arts Festival

We had a wonderful turnout at both our Arts Festival Gala Night on Friday 19 July and Community Arts Festival and Workshops on Saturday 20 July, and it was so exciting to hear everyone in attendance talking about how talented our amazing students are, and what a great job the organising team had done in putting the event together.

I can’t say a big enough thank you to Bec Soulsby, Melinda West and Sally Downes for all the hard work they put in over the last few months to make sure everything was organised and ready for our big weekend. I would also like to thank our wonderful parent helpers Sarah McCumber, Kim Kohlman, Kylie Tan, Ange Connelly and Melinda Rosser; and our additional staff helpers Rachael Connely, Jo Grace, Mick Roberts, Dave Taylor, Lindsay Dwyer, Lynley Jordan and Luke Dunstan; and our amazing Grade 6 helpers, Layla and Rachael, for all their assistance. 

At our whole school assembly this coming Friday 26 July (2.40pm start), we will be acknowledging all students who entered our Student Art Competition and awarding certificates to the prize winners in each of the categories, so we would love it if lots of our family members could join us for this special occasion. A list of all the Student Artworks Prize Winners is attached here

I would  like to thank all our amazing community artists who entered their precious artwork into our Community Artwork competition. This year we were honoured to have 53 peices of art entered into our competion which were judged by our guest judge, Geoff Paynter. We thank Geoff for his valuable contribution to our Arts Festival and we would like to congratulate the following prize winning artists – Greg Penno, Nadee Jayasekera, Sarah Wallace – Smith; and our highly commended artists – Susie McGrath, Belinda John, Kay Robinson and Ian Barry.

I would also like to thank our very generous sponsors – Brennan Development Group, Strathfieldsaye and Districts Community Enterprise, Their Care Strathfieldsaye, Rotary Bendigo, Axe Creek Coaches, Imagine Strathfiledsaye and Strategem – and our donors – Bendigo Pottery, Bendigo Woolen Mills, Bradies Tavern, Bromley & Co, Discovery Centre Bendigo, Fish ‘n’ Feathers, Forage, IGA Strathfieldsaye, JML Jewellers, Mandurang Valley Wines, Officeworks, Sarah The Painter, Stearns, The Zone Fun Park, Vin du Van Estate and Walkers Doughnuts.  Please take the time to browse through our 2024 Community Art Exhibition Booklet

Thanks once again to all the families and community members who braved the wintery conditions to join us on Friday and Saturday; your presence was very much appreciated.