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SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN
​2022 - 2024

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WORKER OF THE WEEK

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SCHOOL MUSICAL – ‘Space Pirates!’​                 

Space Pirates tells the story of Gabby, a kid who gets picked on during a school trip to the museum. Everything quickly changes when an alien space ship accidentally beams Gabby and her classmates up to outer space. Things go from bad to worse when the alien space ship is suddenly attacked by SPACE PIRATES! It’s only after this whirlwind space adventure that Gabby becomes comfortable in her own skin, and her classmates appreciate her for who she is.
A matinee and evening performance will take place on Tuesday 21st June at the Emerald Town Hall. You won’t want to miss this fabulous show featuring our Year 6 students, so please save the date now! Further updates regarding ticket sales will be made closer to the event.

UNDER 8'S CELEBRATIONS

MINI VINNIES PIZZA DAY

Thank you to our Prep – Year 3 Teachers and Student Learning Assistants for organising the Under 8s Day celebrations at school last Friday.  The classes participated in activities that included active stories, outdoor play, craft making and visiting a petting zoo.  All of the students enjoyed celebrating with their friends.
Thank you, our St Patrick’s community, for supporting our Mini Vinnies Pizza Day Fundraiser. We raised over $800 for our local Emerald Neighbourhood Centre.

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Our school photos will occur on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th June.  The photo forms were sent home with students earlier this week. If you did not receive a photo form and would like photos for your child, please contact the school office.  If you would like your children to receive sibling photos, please also contact the school office to collect a photo form.

Students will receive their photo as an individual and as a class group. Students will be required to wear their formal school uniform with white socks and black shoes for their photos.  Hair ribbons are only to be blue or white.
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The band students will be given a band shirt to wear in their band photo.  They will not require black pants for their photo.  Band students will also require their instrument for their photo.

School leaders will be required to wear their formal blue uniform for the school leaders’ photo.

Students will have their photos on the following days.  We aim to also have all of our sibling photos taken on Wednesday so all students who are getting a sibling photo and have PE on Wednesday are required to bring their formal uniform to school for their sibling photo.

Wednesday 8th June   PM, PB, PG, 1H, 1A, 1P, 2G, 2P, 2H, 4O, 5S, 5B, 5K, 6S and Sibling Photos
Thursday 9th June       3J, 3E, 3L, 4G, 4L, 6M, 6P, Band Photos and School Leaders



MINI VINNIES SPECIAL GUEST

Last Monday, Samara Thompson visiting St Patrick’s School and worked with our Year 6 students exploring our Catholic Social Teachings. Samara is the Youth Engagement & Development Coordinator for St Vincent de Paul Society for the Rockhampton Diocese. The students had great fun exploring themes including Human Dignity and Preferential Option for the Poor.

P AND F FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Our P and F will once again assist at the annual Show Society Sponsor’s Dinner.  This is an event that our P and F have assisted in catering at for a number of years and a significant donation is given to our P and F in recognition of our assistance.  The volunteers are required from 5:30pm until approximately 10pm on Monday 31st May.  Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.  Please use the following link to register your help for a particular time:
Roster link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1roHO6Nt4iogspb7fprXWAM4g0cuEnvskSAIyWET5zmQ/edit
Thank you for your support.

P AND F MEETING
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​Thank you for your families who were able to attend our P and F meeting on Tuesday. Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 7th June. The meeting will also be offered via Zoom. A link will be sent to families closer to the date.
Thank you also to Samantha Elsden and Laura Clarke who were successful in obtain a grant on behalf of our P and F for the development of a vegetable garden for our school.  We look forward to seeing the development of the vegetable garden and the learning opportunity that it will bring for our students.

​CH CROSS COUNTRY TRIALS

​EMERALD DISTRICT RUGBY UNION TRIALS

​CH SOCCER TRIALS

Congratulations to Olivia Price and Sam Browne on making it into the CH Cross Country team. These children will now compete at the CAP Cross Country Trials in Rockhampton on the 30th May . We wish them all the best.
Congratulations to Blake Ritson, Angus Crawford and Gerard Van Zyl on their selection in the Emerald District Rugby Union Team.  They will now compete in the CH Trials in Rolleston on 4th May.
Congratulations to Augustine Chang and Ella Gellatly on their selection in the CH Soccer Teams.  They will now compete in the CAP Trials in Emerald on 23rd May.

READERS CUP TEAM

​St Patrick’s will enter two teams into the regional competition for Readers Cup. This reading competition requires the students to read five novels and to answer comprehension questions about each novel.  The competition will be held on Friday 17th June. 
Congratulations to the following students, Knox Hamilton, Ethan Farrell, Claire McDowall, Milla McCarthy, Ella Gellatly, Emma Glanville, Ava Magnussen, Isabelle Pettett and Deirmina Delaram. Thank you to Miss Krause and Mrs Heinemann for supporting the students.

CARITAS PROJECT COMPASSION

This week our Liturgical season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, which also marks the beginning of the annual Caritas Australia Project Compassion Appeal. Donations to Project Compassion allows Caritas Australia, the Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development, to work with local communities around the world to end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. We begin our Project Compassion journey by learning about Anatercia, a 12-year-old girl living in a small village in southern Mozambique. She began to take on more and more adult responsibilities as her mother has chronic health issues. She did most of the household chores and had to travel up to five hours every day to collect clean water. Water scarcity also meant that harvests were poor and there was never enough to eat.

Caritas Australia’s local partner, Caritas Regional Chokwe, was able to help Anatercia’s family to irrigate their farm to improve their food security. They also improved water access for households in the village, delivered sustainable farming training, and provided Anatercia with essential school supplies. Anatercia’s health, education and quality of life have improved, along with the outlook of her whole community for all future generations.
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Each classroom has a money box on their prayer tables if your family would like to financially support Project Compassion. More information about Project Compassion can be found at: https://www.caritas.org.au/project-compassion/

​TUCKSHOP

Our school tuckshop is a valuable service in our school, and we are extremely fortunate to be able to offer nutritious food for our students.
Our tuckshop has two convenors who work on Wednesday and Thursday and three convenors on Friday each week. The tuckshop also relies heavily on the support of our school community to volunteer their time to ensure that we can continue to provide this service for our families.
The role of a volunteer in the tuckshop is to assist in food preparation and packing the food into the tuckshop baskets once the food has been prepared. Volunteers are asked to assist from 8.30am until 11.30am on their volunteer day. According to new health regulations our volunteers are also required to be vaccinated for Covid.
Volunteering in the tuckshop offers a wonderful opportunity to meet new people and play an active role in supporting our school community. Your time volunteering is very much appreciated.
The following link enables families to add their name to the tuckshop volunteer roster. Please consider volunteering to support this valuable school service. You are also able to call our school office if you would like to add your name to the roster.
Tuckshop Roster Link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFAADcPqrAqicTQQFh1Yvc1-4hdezE4uZCyybWekRjM/edit?usp=sharing
We encourage all of our families who are able to do so to consider volunteering to spend time in our tuckshop. Your support is very much appreciated.

​ST PATRICK’S FUNDRAISING COOKBOOK

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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. 

SCHOOL UNIFORM UPDATE

We thank our families for their patience as we wait for the arrival of new uniform orders, particularly our boy’s formal shirt.
If you are currently waiting for your uniform order, please be assured that your order still exists, and you will be notified, and your order completed as soon as the uniforms arrive.
The full implementation of our new school uniform does not occur until 2023.  We are confident that supplies will increase throughout the year to ensure that the full implementation is able to occur at the beginning of next year.
It is not a requirement that students are in the new uniform for the upcoming school photos.
Thank you for your patience and a special thank you to Tineasha Bowen and Tineale Owens, in our uniform shop who have worked to get uniform orders to families as soon as they arrive.

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:
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NEW SCHOOL UNIFORM HOURS FOR 2022
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The following will be the new uniform shop opening
times beginning in 2022.


Monday                   8:00am - 10:30am
Tuesday                   8:00am - 10:30am
Wednesday             1:30pm -  4:00pm

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

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
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​CHILDREN’S LITURGY
Children’s liturgy will begin this weekend.  It will be on Sunday at 8am.



MAKING JESUS REAL
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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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St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
41 Yamala Street
EMERALD Q 4720
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