Parents and Friends

Parents and Friends

The school and its community strongly reflect the name ‘Holy Family’, with staff and parents working closely together to ensure that children receive the best possible education in a supportive and family-oriented environment.

The P&F recognises and values the important role that parents and carers play in the education of their children and aims to strengthen the partnership between family, school, parish and the wider community for the benefit of each child’s overall development and learning.

Our Broad Objectives

Community

As a part of our objective to encourage the development of Holy Family Catholic Primary School as a vibrant community, many fun social events are planned throughout the year.

These events include:

  • Welcome BBQ for new families and Kindergarten families at Holy Family
  • Mother’s Day Breakfast and Mass
  • Grandparent’s Mass and morning tea
  • School disco
  • Health and well-being events
  • Father’s Day Breakfast and Liturgy
  • The Colour Fun Run
  • Trivia night

We hope you can all be part of these events – as attendees and/or volunteers – as they contribute enormously to building a strong sense of school community. Event dates are in the attached calendar. Reminders also appear in the school newsletter before each event and can be found online at https://www.hfldbb.catholic.edu.au/news-events/calendar/

Communication

The P&F holds 1 forum per term to provide an opportunity for the school and parent community to meet to discuss matters of general interest. We invite you to join us. P&F meeting times are also in the online calendar, and published each term in the school newsletter.

If you would like to raise issues at other times, we encourage you to speak to any member of the P&F executive, or you can email your request to hfl@dbb.org.au

Broken Bay Catholic School Parents (CSP) – formerly the Diocesan Parent Council (DPC)

Alongside our school community events, a member of the P&F regularly attends the Catholic Schools Parents (CSP) meetings, that are part of the Catholic Schools Office, Diocese of Broken Bay. This enables us to keep up to date with developments in education and Catholic education in particular, exchange ideas on fundraising and other matters with other schools, and have a voice at diocesan level. For more information about the CSP, visit www.brokenbayparentcouncil.com.

Social Justice

Social Justice is a vital part of the Holy Family school fabric and provides an opportunity for us to contribute meaningfully in the fight against poverty and injustice in our community, region and world. We actively work with the school to support a range of initiatives throughout the year to help our children become aware of how they can make a difference to the lives of those less fortunate than themselves. The social justice team also works with the P&F to allocate funds to a diverse range of organisations such as the Cana Communities, St Vincent De Paul and Mary Mac among others.

Funding

Events and activities

The P&F’s key fundraising initiative this year is the Colour Fun Run.

Our major initiative remains to plan for the longer-term expansion of our co-curricular facilities, as well as assisting in the ongoing improvement of the school’s infrastructure. Addressing this issue is an enormous cost, and can only be undertaken in-line with CSBB Fundraising Guidelines and as a collaborative effort between the diocese, the Catholic Schools Office, the parish, the school and the P&F.

Planning and running of any fundraising event requires an enormous effort from parents, friends and relatives who volunteer their time, and we encourage as many of you as possible to get involved. We also thank in advance all of you who dedicate time to our fundraising efforts this year.

Application of funds

The P&F welcomes your views on how we will use the money we raise this year. Please provide your suggestions and any feedback to an executive member or at the next P&F Forum.

The P&F supports performing arts initiatives at Holy Family, including the Zing Dance program and other musical incursions such as Music Viva. Where funds allow the P&F continues to support the growth of the school band through equipment upgrades. Extracurricular activities that benefit K-6 may also receive support from P&F funds.

As you will appreciate, no specific amount of money is applied to meet these objectives as fundraising activities will vary in success from year to year.

Support

While often not visible to the general parent community, under the current Strategic Plan that the school board adopted, the P&F is responsible for implementing certain specific initiatives, including:

  • Welcoming new families;
  • Supporting the school and wider community in times of need;
  • Further developing the role of the P&F within the principles of “shared wisdom”; and
  • Planning for succession.

All of these activities grow and strengthen our sense of school community, a trademark of Holy Family. To continue to build positive relationships and the spirit of community, the P&F is committed to working closely with the Principal Mrs Dinale, the school board and the wider school community.

We look forward to working together for a great 2026. Please access the online Calendar of events at https://www.hfldbb.catholic.edu.au/news-events/calendar/

Please note that some event dates may change.

Parents and Friends Office Bearers 2026

President: Shahin Soroushian

Vice President: Maya Daniel

Secretary: Bridgid Faure

Co-Treasurer: Si Yuet Lo

Co-Treasurer: Nina Hua

CCSB Representative: Shane Norton

Class Parent Coordinator: Anna Roberts

Class Parent Coordinator: Steven Xu

Class Parent Coordinator: Carolyn Packwood

If you would like to contact the Parents and Friends Association you can do so by emailing us at hfl@dbb.org.au

P&F Meeting Minutes

All P&F Meeting Minutes can be downloaded below: