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WORKER OF THE WEEK
SPORTS CARNIVAL
Our sports carnival was presented in a very different form this year. We are very thankful that all of our students had an opportunity to participate in this sporting event. All of our students performed very well, and several school records were broken throughout the week long event. Thank you to Mr Boyle for organised these events.
Congratulations to the following students who gained aged champion:
12 years girl: Taylah Tebbatt
12 years boy: Rhyda Coughran
11 years girl: Dayna Hemmings
11 years boy: Sione Fakatava
10 years girl: Anname van der Merwe
10 years boy: Knox Hamilton
Congratulations to the following students who gained aged champion:
12 years girl: Taylah Tebbatt
12 years boy: Rhyda Coughran
11 years girl: Dayna Hemmings
11 years boy: Sione Fakatava
10 years girl: Anname van der Merwe
10 years boy: Knox Hamilton
DAY FOR DANIEL FUNRAISER
We are pleased to announce that we will be participating in the Day for Daniel FUNraiser on 30th October. The funds raised will be donated to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. Bruce and Denise Morcombe established the foundation in May 2005 in loving memory of their son Daniel. Since its inception, the Daniel Morcombe Foundation has worked tirelessly to educate communities on child safety strategies and support victims of crime involving children. The safety of the children in our community is paramount and we are proud to support the Daniel Morcombe Foundation continue its mission of keeping children safe.
We’ll be sending an information brochure home next week, so make sure to keep your eyes out! This is an online fundraiser, so once you’ve received your materials from your child, jump online at d4dFUNraiser.com.au and create their personalised student profile page. Take your time to familiarise yourself with the page by watching the video, creating your avatar and most importantly sharing your link!
While it’s important to remember that we are holding this fundraiser to support the work of the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, all students that raise over $10 will receive a prize. These students will also enter the draw to win a $20,000 Webjet Ultimate Family Experience! Finally, every donation is tax deductable so please share far, wide and often.
We’ll be sending an information brochure home next week, so make sure to keep your eyes out! This is an online fundraiser, so once you’ve received your materials from your child, jump online at d4dFUNraiser.com.au and create their personalised student profile page. Take your time to familiarise yourself with the page by watching the video, creating your avatar and most importantly sharing your link!
While it’s important to remember that we are holding this fundraiser to support the work of the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, all students that raise over $10 will receive a prize. These students will also enter the draw to win a $20,000 Webjet Ultimate Family Experience! Finally, every donation is tax deductable so please share far, wide and often.
MUSIC NEWS
Last Tuesday approximately 35 St Patrick’s students performed at the Emerald Town Hall in one of three concerts featuring pianists, instrumentalists, vocalists and an actress. This event enabled participants to not only perform as a soloist or in a duet partnership, but also receive valuable feedback from our guest adjudicators, Mr James Raschle and Miss Renee Hamilton from Marist College Emerald. We sincerely thank James and Renee sharing their time and expertise with our students. All students performed to a high standard and can be very proud of the efforts they put in whilst preparing for this event.
The following afternoon our classes all attended a school concert featuring the following groups:
Year 5 bucket drumming
Junior Band
Senior Band
Percussion Ensemble (Chairs)
Senior Choir
Year 6 xylophones
It was wonderful for these larger groups to also be able to share what they have been practicing in their weekly rehearsals as well as in classroom music lessons.
The following afternoon our classes all attended a school concert featuring the following groups:
Year 5 bucket drumming
Junior Band
Senior Band
Percussion Ensemble (Chairs)
Senior Choir
Year 6 xylophones
It was wonderful for these larger groups to also be able to share what they have been practicing in their weekly rehearsals as well as in classroom music lessons.
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PREP VISION SCREENING |
BUILDING UPDATE |
YEAR 6 CAMP |
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The Prep Vision Screening has been rescheduled to 17th November. The forms that were returned at the beginning of the year will be used for this rescheduled date. If families have not completed a Prep Vision Screening form and would like to have their child undertake a vision screening please contact the school office.
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The building works that were due to begin over the September school holidays have been postponed. The building of the new toilets is now due to begin over the Christmas holidays.
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YEAR 6 CAMPThe Year 6 students will be attending their Year 6 camp to the Caves in Week 1 of Term 4. They will leave school on Tuesday 6th October and return on Friday 9th October. We know that this will be a very educational and enjoyable experience for our students.
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INDIGENIOUS ARTIST VISIT
Arthur Conlon visited our school this week to guide the students through the creation of indigenous drawings. The students love this experience and we were very excited to welcome Arthur back to our school.
MAYORAL STUDENT LEADERS SUMMIT
The St Patrick’s school captains and vice captains were invited to represent St Patrick’s school at the 2020 Mayoral Student Leaders Summit. This event was established in 2010 and has seen more than 1800 student and staff participate in the day. The event is held in a different location in the Central Highlands each year and it aims to gather the voices of the young leaders in the Central Highlands to gain insight to how our young community members can be encouraged and supported.
This year the event was held on the 10th September at the Emerald Town hall.
The students listened to Mr Lachlan Smart, an inspirational guest speaker. Mr Smart is a Guinness Book Record holder who completed an around the world aviation adventure. The students also listened to speakers from various schools in the Central Highlands who presented their vision for young people in the Central Highlands.
This year the event was held on the 10th September at the Emerald Town hall.
The students listened to Mr Lachlan Smart, an inspirational guest speaker. Mr Smart is a Guinness Book Record holder who completed an around the world aviation adventure. The students also listened to speakers from various schools in the Central Highlands who presented their vision for young people in the Central Highlands.
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
We are thankful to welcome our parents back to our school assemblies. In accordance with our COVID regulations of restricting the number of adults in our school grounds we ask that only one adult from each family attends the school assembly to view their child receiving a Worker of the Week award and only one adult from each family watch their child presenting at the class prayer assembly. If your child is not receiving an award or presenting at the prayer assembly, we ask that you do not attend assembly for the week. We would like to thank all of our families for their continued support.
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 AT ASSEMBLY
We are thankful to welcome our parents back to our school assemblies. In accordance with our COVID regulations of restricting the number of adults in our school grounds we ask that only one adult from each family attends the school assembly to view their child receiving a Worker of the Week award and only one adult from each family watch their child presenting at the class prayer assembly. If your child is not receiving an award or presenting at the prayer assembly, we ask that you do not attend assembly for the week. We would like to thank all of our families for their continued support.
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.
SCHOOL UNIFORM UPDATE
We continue the process of evaluating our current school uniform to ensure that it meets the values of our school community.
Our uniform supplier is currently in the process of creating some sample uniforms for a blouse and skort option for our girls’ formal uniform, a formal boy’s uniform and a cross functional design for our sport’s uniform for our boys and girls. These designs will take approximately 4-6 weeks to be available for our school. Once these items are available, they will be presented to our school community and another survey will be conducted for our families to have an opportunity to provide further feedback.
We would like to thank our families for their support in providing feedback regarding our school uniform.
Our uniform supplier is currently in the process of creating some sample uniforms for a blouse and skort option for our girls’ formal uniform, a formal boy’s uniform and a cross functional design for our sport’s uniform for our boys and girls. These designs will take approximately 4-6 weeks to be available for our school. Once these items are available, they will be presented to our school community and another survey will be conducted for our families to have an opportunity to provide further feedback.
We would like to thank our families for their support in providing feedback regarding our school uniform.
FAITH FORMATION
This term we will begin our Friday Faith Formation. Our Faith Formation sessions are designed to provide our students will different opportunities to further deepen their faith and relationship with Jesus. This will take place every Friday 12:40 – 1:20. Faith Formation will either be a Class Liturgy at 12:30pm or whole-school MJR Groups. Weeks 1, 4, 7 and 10 are MJR Groups and Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are Class Liturgies. Please see our Liturgical Roster for a more detailed term timetable.
PRAYER ASSEMBLIES
We are allowed to gather as a whole school once more for assembly, however adults need to adhere to social distancing and we are limited to 100 adults in the under covered area, including staff. Therefore, only one parent for each of the children who are receiving Worker of the Week as well as one parent for each of the students of the presenting class are welcome to attend. This will ensure we meet requirements. We will record the presenting class and upload this part of the assembly to their Google classroom so that both parents then have the opportunity to view their child’s Prayer Assembly.
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ST PATRICK’S PARISH MASS
Weekend Mass attendance numbers have now increased to 100. Frs Truc and Yon look forward to meeting you all in person. Please book online at: https://www.trybooking.com/BKHQZ or contact the Parish Office on: 0418 821 066 to register your attendance to weekend Masses. You are not required to bring the ticket. If you wish to watch a Mass online, you can join the community of St Joseph's Cathedral, Rockhampton at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQeYD6B2cSvFb4zqStn_Brg |
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CARITAS PROJECT COMPASSION
Thank you for supporting Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion Campaign. Your generosity will work for the freedom of those living in poverty, challenge unjust structures, and empower people to work for a sustainable way of life.
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YEAR 7 MARIST COLLEGE ENROLMENTSThe 2021 Year 7 applications for Marist College have opened. Families wishing to enrol their children in Year 7 at Marist College in 2021 are asked to complete an application form. Application forms are available from the Marist College website www.maristcollegeemerald.com.au .
Important dates: Enrolment Interviews – 11th August 2020 Year 7 Orientation Day 1st December 2020 |
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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