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SCHOOL CAPTAINS AND VICE CAPTAINS 2022
On Monday, our School Captains and Vice Captains and our House Captains and Vice Captains were announced at our Presentation Day Assembly. This was the first year that our Year 5 students gave speeches, and we were impressed with their efforts. We are looking forward to our End of Year Liturgy where we will have our first ‘Handover Ceremony’. All of our 2022 student leaders will be presented with their badges in Term 1 2022.
EMERALD NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE’S LINKING ALMS APPEAL
For the past several years, our St Patrick’s Staff have donated food items and gifts to The Emerald Neighbourhood Centre’s Linking Alms Appeal and these were presented at our End of Year Liturgy. This year we would like to extend this invitation to all St Patrick’s School families. Should you wish to donate, there is a black donation bin in the school office. Please find below a list of food and gift suggestions:
- Christmas Day goodies (biscuits, lollies, puddings, custard, chips, soft drink, bonbon’s, tinsel, cards)
- Pantry staples (tinned soup / vegetables / fruit / meat, long life milk / custard / cream, tea, coffee, sugar, condiments, cereal, pasta, pasta sauce, rice, cordial)
- Toiletries (toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, conditioner, bandaids, tissues, toilet paper)
- Gift ideas (clothing, toys, games, puzzles, books, hair products)
- Food / gift vouchers
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Congratulations to the students in Year 5 and 6 who received an academic award at the award ceremony today. The effort and dedication to their learning is acknowledged in their receiving of these awards.
SWIMMING CARNIVAL
Last Friday, our Year 4 to 6 Swimming Carnival was held at the Emerald Aquatic Centre. Thank you to all the students who participated in the swimming carnival and for their efforts throughout the day. All students should be proud of the spirit that was shown at the carnival when cheering on their sporting houses. A massive thank you to all the teachers, support staff and parents who helped to set up the carnival and provided their assistance in the running of the carnival. Your assistance was greatly appreciated, and we are lucky to have so many supportive parents and friends in our school community. Lastly, thank you to all the staff at the Emerald Aquatic Centre for allowing us to hold our swimming carnival at their venue and for all the help and assistance they provided on the day.
The results from the swimming carnival are as follows:
Swimming House Champions: Patrick
Spirit Award: Kennedy
Age Champions:
The results from the swimming carnival are as follows:
Swimming House Champions: Patrick
Spirit Award: Kennedy
Age Champions:
END OF YEAR CONCERT
Thank you to all of our families who attended our End of Year concert throughout Tuesday. It was a wonderful day with many fantastic performances. Gathering as a community is very much appreciated by our children and they certainly enjoyed being able to present their concert items to their families.
ST PATRICK’S FUNDRAISING COOKBOOK
Our St Patrick's Fundraising Cookbook COME TO THE TABLE is now available for purchase at the school office for $40. Come to the Table supports the wonderful work of our Emerald Neighbourhood Centre. $5 from each book sale will be donated to ENC.
For those interested in the cookbook specs:
300 pages with over 400 recipes!
250 x 210mm portrait
115 gsm CVG silk pages with Wibalin Hardback case with white foil stamped book title
Navy ribbon bookmark
You are most welcome to purchase more than one copy. Come to the Table will make the perfect Christmas present!
For those interested in the cookbook specs:
300 pages with over 400 recipes!
250 x 210mm portrait
115 gsm CVG silk pages with Wibalin Hardback case with white foil stamped book title
Navy ribbon bookmark
You are most welcome to purchase more than one copy. Come to the Table will make the perfect Christmas present!
2021 P&F REPORT
Thank you to all families who have contributed to our St Patrick’s school community during 2021. This year the P&F provided a forum for discussion of the new uniform and our tuckshop. The P&F was able to make contributions to both the construction of the new playground and the school musical, while continuing to support the Mother’s and Father’s Day stalls.
The role of the P&F is evolving and with that we value parent and family engagement and the partnerships between school, families, and community. In response to a need highlighted by families we were able to organise Luke McKenna from Unleashing Personal Potential to present a session on supporting children’s mental wellness.
We hope to be able to provide more opportunities like this that allow school community members to gather and connect, whilst building our capacity to support our children.
The P&F is open to all families. We look forward to your ideas and suggestions in 2022. Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday.
The role of the P&F is evolving and with that we value parent and family engagement and the partnerships between school, families, and community. In response to a need highlighted by families we were able to organise Luke McKenna from Unleashing Personal Potential to present a session on supporting children’s mental wellness.
We hope to be able to provide more opportunities like this that allow school community members to gather and connect, whilst building our capacity to support our children.
The P&F is open to all families. We look forward to your ideas and suggestions in 2022. Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday.
INTERSCHOOL DEBATING
Last week our Debating teams competed in finals at Emerald Christian College. St Patrick's 2 defeated Emerald State School 4 to win the competition. In the second final, St Patrick’s 3 defeated St Patrick’s 1. Archie Clarke received Speaker of the Night for this debate and came second overall for Speaker of the Debating Competition. All of our teams spoke confidently and knew their speeches well, this was recognised by the adjudicators.
Congratulations to all of our students who have worked diligently in preparing for these debates. We will continue to develop these skills in the classroom in preparation for next year's competition.
AVALON ZOOM CONCERT
St Patrick's school has developed a community connection with Avalon over many years. In the past, our student leaders have been responsible for severing afternoon tea at Café 126. Unfortunately, since Covid restrictions have been in place our students have not been permitted to attend Avalon.
Our school is very committed to continuing to develop a community relationship with Avalon. Although we are unable to do this in person, we are able to connect virtually. On Monday 25th October we will engage in a zoom meeting with the residents of Avalon. This will take the form of some students speaking to the residents over zoom and then the residents will follow a link to enable them to watch our school bands performing their eisteddfod items. We are hopeful that this format is successful so that we can continue to engage with the residents of Avalon into the future.
The success of our Avalon zoom presentation has resulted in the zoom concert becoming a regular occurrence. The zoom concert will involve students meeting in the boardroom with Mrs Heinemann to present instrumental, singing and poems to the residents of Avalon. The next zoom concert will occur on Monday 15th November. We look forward to continuing our community relationship with the residents of Avalon.
Our school is very committed to continuing to develop a community relationship with Avalon. Although we are unable to do this in person, we are able to connect virtually. On Monday 25th October we will engage in a zoom meeting with the residents of Avalon. This will take the form of some students speaking to the residents over zoom and then the residents will follow a link to enable them to watch our school bands performing their eisteddfod items. We are hopeful that this format is successful so that we can continue to engage with the residents of Avalon into the future.
The success of our Avalon zoom presentation has resulted in the zoom concert becoming a regular occurrence. The zoom concert will involve students meeting in the boardroom with Mrs Heinemann to present instrumental, singing and poems to the residents of Avalon. The next zoom concert will occur on Monday 15th November. We look forward to continuing our community relationship with the residents of Avalon.
PREP TO YEAR ONE TRANISITIONS
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This week, our Preps had their first visit to the Year 1 classrooms. This was their first visit with 2 more remaining over the next few weeks. During their visit, they read a story and completed an activity. The students thoroughly enjoyed sitting at their ‘own’ desk and working with the Year 1 teachers. |
TECHNOLOGY MAKEY MAKEY LESSONS
This term, our Year 5 and 6s are learning about circuitry using our Makey Makey kits. With Makey Makey everyday objects are transformed into touchpads empowering students to interact with computers as creative tools. The computer becomes an extension of their creativity, fostering imaginative play and discovery. ‘Makey Makey’ is a play on words - students having the ability to Make their own Keyboards (“Ma-Key”). Our Year 5 students are creating their own game controller and our Year 6 students are designing a sensor to hide in a gift box to detect someone secretly sneaking a peek at a birthday gift.
INDIGENOUS ARTIST
This week we welcomed Arthur Conlon to our school. Arthur conducted guided drawing sessions with all classes. Throughout the guided drawing sessions Arthur shared indigenous stories with our students. The students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed working with Arthur and we thank him for sharing his talents and stories with our students.
NEW SCHOOL UNIFORMS
Our new boy's formal uniform and school sports uniform will be compulsory from the beginning of 2023. Girl's will have a choice to wear the dress or blouse and culottes as the formal uniform option.
All Prep students in 2022 will be required to wear their Prep shirt and the 'SPE' sports shorts or culottes.
All students are required to wear black shoes and white socks.
All of the uniform items are now available to order. The uniforms are available to order online www.wearitto.com.au and may also be directly purchased from our uniform shop which is opened at the following times:
All Prep students in 2022 will be required to wear their Prep shirt and the 'SPE' sports shorts or culottes.
All students are required to wear black shoes and white socks.
All of the uniform items are now available to order. The uniforms are available to order online www.wearitto.com.au and may also be directly purchased from our uniform shop which is opened at the following times:
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BACK TO SCHOOL UNIFORM HOURS
Thursday 2nd December 9-1pm Tuesday 18th January 9-2pm Thursday 20th January 2-6pm Tuesday 25th January 8-10:30am Thursday 27th January 8-10:30am Thursday 27th January 1:30-4pm |
NEW SCHOOL UNIFORM HOURS FOR 2022
The following will be the new uniform shop opening times beginning in 2022. Monday 8am - 10:30am Tuesday 8am - 10:30am Wednesday 1:30pm - 4pm |
STUDENT SIGN-IN AND SIGN-OUT PROCEDURE
A new Student Attendance booklet and computer is available for parents to sign their children in and out of school when attending appointments throughout the day, arriving late to school and leaving school early. The booklet and computer are located in the front office. Parents are asked to use the booklet to find their child’s details and then use the computer to account for their child’s attendance. The staff in the front office will support families with this new procedure.
NEWS FROM OUR ST PATRICK’S PARISH
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IMPORTANT PARISH UPDATES
Weekend Mass attendance numbers have now increased to 200. Frs Truc and Yon look forward to meeting you all in person. St Patrick’s Parish are now utilising a QR code system. Upon arrival, please scan and enter your contact details. Alternatively, you can register at the Church doors. At all services parishioners attending are asked to clean the area they have used. Spray bottles and chux provided at the doors. Just a reminder that our Church and Parish Office will be closed on Mondays for deep cleaning. Office hours are Tuesday through to Friday, 9am to 3pm. Mass times are Tuesday at 12:00 – 1:00pm and Wednesday 7am, Thursday 8am, Friday 9am. Attendees are welcome to stay for the remainder of the hour in private prayer. For those wishing to visit the Church outside those times, please contact the Parish Office to organise a time. |
Parishioners are welcome to attend our St Patrick’s Parish
Weekday Masses: Monday NO MASS Tuesday 12 noon Wednesday 7:00am Thursday 8:00am Friday 9:00am CHILDREN’S LITURGY Children’s liturgy will begin this weekend. It will be on Sunday at 8am. |
COVID RESTRICTIONS
As a school we continue to endeavour to provide as many opportunities as we can to engage our families in our school activities. Due to COVID regulations we are required to put into place measures to ensure that we are meeting the requirements of the number of adults within our school and also ensure social distancing when adults are present. We thank families for their continued support in regard to our restrictions.
PARENTS AT ASSEMBLY
With the lifting of some restrictions, we are now able to welcome all families back to our assemblies. It will no longer only be the families of classes presenting at the prayer assembly and the parents of the Work of the Week students.
PLAYGROUNDS
All of the school playgrounds are closed before and after school. We ask that no children play on the playgrounds after school as this is a time when the playgrounds are cleaned.
We also ask that families do not arrive at school before 8am in the morning for drop off and leave the school grounds as soon as they have collected their children at 3pm.
We thank all of our families for their continued support.
PARENTS IN CLASSOOM
The lifting of some COVID restrictions now allows for parents to enter classrooms. We are still however required to ensure that we are social distancing within the classrooms. Based on the average size of our classrooms we are able to have up to 12 adults in the classroom at one time.
Before and after school are times when teachers are preparing for student learning and lesson preparation. If parents would like to meet with teachers before or after school to discuss their child, please email the teacher to arrange a suitable time.
In the mornings, students will continue to be asked to take their bags to their classroom and then go to the undercover area where leadership members will be on duty. All students will continue to engage in the morning walk before lining up in the undercover area at the 8.40am bell.
Students are still required to move to the pick up locations at the 3.00pm bell. The pick up locations are the bus waiting area on Borilla street, the drop off zone on Anakie street and in front of the school office on Yamala street. Students are not to wait in the undercover area to be collected by their families in the afternoon. All playgrounds are not to be played on in afternoon.
PARENTS AT ASSEMBLY
With the lifting of some restrictions, we are now able to welcome all families back to our assemblies. It will no longer only be the families of classes presenting at the prayer assembly and the parents of the Work of the Week students.
PLAYGROUNDS
All of the school playgrounds are closed before and after school. We ask that no children play on the playgrounds after school as this is a time when the playgrounds are cleaned.
We also ask that families do not arrive at school before 8am in the morning for drop off and leave the school grounds as soon as they have collected their children at 3pm.
We thank all of our families for their continued support.
PARENTS IN CLASSOOM
The lifting of some COVID restrictions now allows for parents to enter classrooms. We are still however required to ensure that we are social distancing within the classrooms. Based on the average size of our classrooms we are able to have up to 12 adults in the classroom at one time.
Before and after school are times when teachers are preparing for student learning and lesson preparation. If parents would like to meet with teachers before or after school to discuss their child, please email the teacher to arrange a suitable time.
In the mornings, students will continue to be asked to take their bags to their classroom and then go to the undercover area where leadership members will be on duty. All students will continue to engage in the morning walk before lining up in the undercover area at the 8.40am bell.
Students are still required to move to the pick up locations at the 3.00pm bell. The pick up locations are the bus waiting area on Borilla street, the drop off zone on Anakie street and in front of the school office on Yamala street. Students are not to wait in the undercover area to be collected by their families in the afternoon. All playgrounds are not to be played on in afternoon.
MAKING JESUS REAL
St Patrick’s School is an MJR school. MJR is a values education resource. MJR is centred on the belief that we are all God’s children and are called to try to be like Jesus Christ in the way we live. We are Jesus’ friends. He calls us into friendship with God and he calls us to imitate his way of living. MJR values include respect, honesty and trustworthiness, understanding, tolerance and inclusion. They focus on the Gospel values of compassion, justice, humility and forgiveness. These values also encourage students to do their best, treat others fairly, be responsible for their actions, follow principles of moral and ethical conduct and stand up for others against bullying. Our main aim in Catholic Education is to invite students, parents and teachers to be aware of and grateful for God’s loving presence in their daily lives. MJR’s main aim is to get us ‘switched on to God’s presence’ by reflecting on our lives each day to see where God has been in our experiences.
Another focus is not to leave Jesus as merely a person in history, but to emphasise that Jesus Christ is a mystery with us now. We live ‘in the now’ and we will always have ‘the now’. MJR demonstrates a strong connection to many Catholic spiritualties, such as the Ignatian and Franciscan traditions, particularly with aspects such as the imitation of Christ, respect for others and for creation, and reviewing the events in our lives. The Sacrament of the Present Moment is a central theme. Through emphasis on simple and memorable prompts such as WESTIE (Welcoming, Encouraging, say Sorry, say Thank you, Inclusive and Enthusiastic), MJR inspires positivity and gratitude. I encourage you to have talk to your child about how they can Make Jesus Real.
St Patrick’s School is an MJR school. MJR is a values education resource. MJR is centred on the belief that we are all God’s children and are called to try to be like Jesus Christ in the way we live. We are Jesus’ friends. He calls us into friendship with God and he calls us to imitate his way of living. MJR values include respect, honesty and trustworthiness, understanding, tolerance and inclusion. They focus on the Gospel values of compassion, justice, humility and forgiveness. These values also encourage students to do their best, treat others fairly, be responsible for their actions, follow principles of moral and ethical conduct and stand up for others against bullying. Our main aim in Catholic Education is to invite students, parents and teachers to be aware of and grateful for God’s loving presence in their daily lives. MJR’s main aim is to get us ‘switched on to God’s presence’ by reflecting on our lives each day to see where God has been in our experiences.
Another focus is not to leave Jesus as merely a person in history, but to emphasise that Jesus Christ is a mystery with us now. We live ‘in the now’ and we will always have ‘the now’. MJR demonstrates a strong connection to many Catholic spiritualties, such as the Ignatian and Franciscan traditions, particularly with aspects such as the imitation of Christ, respect for others and for creation, and reviewing the events in our lives. The Sacrament of the Present Moment is a central theme. Through emphasis on simple and memorable prompts such as WESTIE (Welcoming, Encouraging, say Sorry, say Thank you, Inclusive and Enthusiastic), MJR inspires positivity and gratitude. I encourage you to have talk to your child about how they can Make Jesus Real.
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A TOUR OF OUR SCHOOL
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Our school was originally established by the Presentation Sisters in 1902 to serve the catholic families of the Central Highlands area of which Emerald is the geographical hub. The Sisters ended their ties with the school in 1992 due to the decline in their numbers and a shift in their mode of service to people and especially children.
St Patrick’s School exists for the education of children from Prep age (Five) to Year Six and is a co-educational facility serving the township and surrounding districts of Emerald. At our school, we aim to develop within our students the ideals of academic excellence and personal growth which are centered around the deepening of our Christian faith. We strive to have these aims as the centre point of any relationships and curriculum which occur within our community. |
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