JULY 27 2023 NEWSLETTER
CHILD SAFETY STATEMENT
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents and Carers,
Thank you to the families who came along to our 2nd Working Bee for the year. Our task was to freshen up the front gardens of the school. A particular thank you to Paul Dumesny and Adrian Parkinson for providing trailer loads of mulch.
Next week we welcome Charlotte Dumesny from Emmanuel College for Work Experience. Sam Kenna and her family begin their big trip around Australia for the remainder of the year and Janine is due back from her European Tour. Isabelle Dix has done an amazing job of keeping the office ticking along in Janine's absence.
It was great to see so many parents browsing the book fair and selecting books with their children and thank you to those who did an online order. Every book sold benefits our school library.
Olga Lyons
FROM THE RE LEADER - ELIZA DWYER
CLASS NEWS 12OR
SUSTAINABILITY NEWS
For the rest of the year we will be having a fortnightly focus that the entire school will be working on. Each assembly we will discuss what our new focus will be and why it is important to us, not just here at St Pats but out in our community as well. We will be monitoring throughout the week how we are going with our focus and announce a winning classroom each assembly. We gained this new idea from when we attended the awards day at the MCG last term. We got to speak with other schools from Victoria and share ideas.
This week's focus is:
What SHOULD be going in our yellow bins and what SHOULD NOT.
Last week we noticed a lot of rubbish that was in our yellow bins that should have been in our red bins. Things such as wrappers from snacks, coffee cups and tissues just to name a few.
Did you know that even if the yellow bin is contaminated with just a small amount of waste that should be in the red bin, the ENTIRE yellow bin then needs to be put into landfill.
A JOB WELL DONE!
What a great team of workers we had for our Term 3 Working Bee! Thank you to all who contributed.
SPORTS NEWS
HOCKEY WINTER TORNAMENT
Last Friday, a group of students participated in the inaugeral hockey tornament was held in Warrnambool. We hope that our students efforts have inspired others to pick up this exciting sport and that the competition becomes a regular event on the local schools sporting calendar.
AWARDS
Give Yourself to Goodness: Tilly Gapes for being a responsible bus monitor for the foundation children.
Foundation: Olive Dywer for working hard on her reading skills and magic words. Elsie Lee for making great progress in her reading. Molly Sheehan for her neat writing and presentation of her work!
Year 1: Jonty McCosh for settling back in well to school life and routine.
Year 2: Visual Arts - 1/2D for all being wonderful focused learners during art this term. Hudson Malady for being a fantastic Year 2 leader and coming to school with a smile on his face. Max Simpson for being a fantastic Year 2 leader and always putting effort into his work.
Year 3: Taj Chisholm for a great reflection in reading groups this week. Will Versace for making a good start to homework this term. Jack Leddin for his ability to include all success criteria in his 5 minute writing pieces! Hudson Lehne for making a good start to homework this term.
Year 4: James Sproal for being a fantastic role model and for a creative Big Write piece. Isla Burris for being a generous and helpful class member. Ethan Gramss for his high level engagement with all the reading task board activities. Tara Wolff for a positive attitude towards her schooling and a creative Bg Write piece.
Year 5: Eli McLaren. Lincoln Hamilton for being responsible and completing classroom jobs in a timely manner. Occy Hayes for actively conributing to class discussions and sharing his brilliant ideas. Jensen Rowbottom for being a cooperative and helpful class member. Annika Fitzsimmons for confidently sharing her ideas and working hard independently.
Do You Have a Health Care Card?
If you are a Health Care Card holder please provide the school with a copy. This one simple action can mean a reduction in your school fees and an increase in the amount of funding our school is allocated.
BOOK WEEK IS COMING! August 19 - 25
Book Week will be celebrated in Week 7 of Term 3. The Theme is READ GROW INSPIRE! Children can dress up as a book character or something related to the theme on Friday August 25.
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