Year 7 Mother & Son Dinner at Luna Park. P&F looks forward to a year of great events After so many postponements and cancellations over the past two years, it has been absolutely heartwarming to see parents back on campus. It was understandably a slow start to events in Term 1 as the school Thanks to all parents and College staff who have helped bring quite rightly prioritised the return to class for students. The return to all these activities to fruition and enable connections across our sport was a wonderful milestone for our boys and enabled parents parent community. to catch up on the sidelines again, and many families were able to attend performances and connect as a community. We now look to Term 2 and the remainder of the year. Coffee mornings and parent socials will continue to be rolled out for The Headmaster’s Welcome and P&F Support Group Showcase for each year group. We also turn our minds to planning for Back Year 7 parents was a wonderful evening in the Sesqui Courtyard – an to Newington Day (13 August) and the Newington Gala Ball (3 event that was not able to be held last year. Parent volunteers from all September) while looking forward to winter sports events including P&F support groups came together to welcome Year 7 parents and let the launch of the rugby season and end of winter sports season them see how the support groups operate across sport, the creative functions. Information on these and all events can be found on arts, NEW Social and all co-curricular pursuits at Newington. New Spaces and will be highlighted in emails from your P&F Ambassador each term. If you’d like more information, you are Our newest students accompanied their mothers to our annual Year always welcome to emailme at p&f@newington.nsw.edu.au 7 Mother & Son Dinner. Mothers and their sons enjoyed a wonderful evening together at the iconic Luna Park Grand Ballroom complete With so much more happening, all our support groups, NEW Social with a ferris wheel ride for the boys to top off what was already an and the P&F need parent volunteers. The time commitment can extremely memorable evening for all. be as little or as much as you can provide – every little bit helps. If you want to get involved but don’t know where to start please get NEW Social have resumed parent socials for each year group and in touch at p&f@newington.nsw.edu.au the new parent coffee morning initiative has been extremely well received. Attendance has been high and feedback extremely positive. As restrictions continue to lift, we are hopeful of many more Summer sport support groups have also been able to hold their end- opportunities to continue to build our Newington community of-season functions. in the coming year. At our recent P&F general meeting, Amy van Arkkels (Deputy, Mr Jason Howard Teaching and Learning K–12) talked us through the Class of President, Newington College Parents’ and Friends’ Association 2021 IB and HSC results which was very well received. 50 | Curiosity | News Autumn 2022 | Alumn,Comunityand Development