Parents and Friends

The Parents and Friends’ Association is a very active part of our College community. Many fundraising and social events are organised by the Parents and Friends and the support that is provided by this group enriches the College enormously. Funds raised by the various activities are channelled directly into resources which benefit students.

Being involved in P & F activities is a great way to connect with Cathedral College Wangaratta students and families. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month in the staff room from 7.00pm. All parents/guardians of students at the College are eligible to become members and are welcome to attend monthly meetings or express your interest to the President.

There is also a closed ‘Cathedral College Parents’ Facebook page on which you can stay up to date and connect with other parents. The P & F welcome all members of the school community and aims to:

encourage friendship and communication between parents
ensure the range of events offered are inclusive of the whole school community
promote a sense of belonging
be highly approachable and reliable
feel connected by the common purpose of being part of the College community.

The Parents’ Website, hosted by Independent School Parents, provides parents of children attending Independent schools with accurate and up-to-date information about non-Government schools, policies and educational issues.

Together at home – ‘From our kitchen to yours’

As we have been ‘together at home’, many of us have had the opportunity to explore creative and nourishing pursuits, including cooking and baking. It has been an opportunity to create new recipes or revisit old and be together as a family to enjoy cooking and eating at home.

We would like to create a ‘keepsake’ of this time and aim to publish a collection of recipes that we have cooked and baked in our homes. Thank you to Clare Chapman who contacted me with this wonderful idea.

Cathedral College families, staff and students are invited to share recipes. It may be something that you have created or a treasured family recipe that you revisited. We will endeavour to have the collection published and available to purchase by the end of Term Three or early Term Four (a wonderful Christmas gift perhaps?) and this will be a fundraiser for our College Parents and Friends Association. We would like to have a balance of healthy, nutritious recipes and those recipes that are for special occasions or, ‘sometimes’ food.

Please email your recipe and include the following details under these headings.

Family/Student Name
Recipe Name – be creative if you wish!
Ingredients (please be specific)
Method (step by step)
Whether is it gluten free, dairy free, vegan, paleo etc or has an allergy warning
Other notes (suitable for freezing, keeps for four days, best served with etc)
A ‘styled’ photo of the dish would be great. Only high-resolution images will be included.

*Please note that these must be original recipes. They cannot be from sites like Taste.Com. You can amend recipes to make them your own by adding, omitting or changing ingredients.
* You can share more than one recipe
*If we receive multiple recipes for the one dish, they may not all be included.

All recipes must be received by July 31, 2020. Please email recipes to jdrage@cathedralcollege.vic.edu.au