NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE 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, 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
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, 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
Worker of the Week
YEAR 6 GRADUATION
On Monday 2nd December, the Year 6 students of St Patrick’s will be celebrating their Graduation. Fr Raj will be leading us in our Prayer Liturgy, beginning at 5:30pm. The Graduation Liturgy will be followed by dinner and dancing in the undercover area. It is a special time of thanksgiving for the gift of our students. Congratulations to our Year 6 students on completing their Primary Schooling.
A reminder that the students are asked to be at the Church at 5:15 pm dressed in full school uniform. Due to large attendance numbers, families are asked to observe the seating allocations in the Church. |
GRADUATING CLASS OF 2019
YEAR 6C Emily Dawson Lara Ferguson Sophie Gauld Charlee Howard Georgi McDowall Tarisai Ngoroyemoto Bella Pease Shelby Summerville Zoe Tessmann Kaleija Tucker Ava Upton Adelaide York Bradley Barrett Tate Caffery Kynan Embrey Sofilisi Fakatava Nate Gilliland Hayden Isles Charlie McNamara Cooper Porter Michael Ross Darcy Ward |
YEAR 60 Talia Alexander Ivy Clarke Immiejin Cougan-Prince Francine Daguit Lara French Gracie Gersbach Jayla Grant Gabrielle Guernieri Libby Jensen Matilda Kerr Poppy Millar Jada Ryan Isabelle Smith Harvey Kachel Jayden Kenny Alex Lee Antonio Monteath Jackson Porter Xylen Rogers Matthew Stone Brent van der Merwe Jett Wills |
YEAR 6S Reese Anderson Gypsi Brunker Clancy Curtis Maddison Day Gracie Finch Jennifer Fletcher Lucinda Garner Olivia Hales Marissa Kiely Bree McDowall Jorgie Mitchell Nadia Nisha Abby Nixon Will Campbell Oscar Green Coby Harris Reilly Jarvis Rudra Kanukati William Ludlow Ellis McCarthy Dustin McGavin Peyton Watts |
YEAR 4 - 6 SWIMMING CARNIVAL CHAMPIONS
Age Champions
SEMESTER TWO REPORT CARDS
Next Friday, the reports for Semester Two will be available through Parent Lounge. 1) Enter the following URL to access: https://601spe.rok.catholic.edu.au/parentlounge 2) Enter login credentials: username and password 3) Academic Reports – Semester Two 2019 If you have forgotten your login credentials, please contact Megan or Belinda for assistance. Your child’s report is a written record of their demonstrations of learning. It represents a summary of progress based on judgements made by the class teacher from formal testing, work samples and regular consultation and classroom observations. This written report provides just one means of communicating your child’s faith, academic, social, emotional and physical development at school. It is important that we as parents/carers discuss our child’s report card with them. |
UNIFORM SHOP HOURS 2019 / 2020
Tuesday 3rd Dec 8.30am to 9.30am Tuesday 3rd Dec 2.30pm to 3.30pm Wednesday 4th Dec 9am to 10am Monday 9th Dec 9am to 11am Tuesday 10th Dec 9am to 11am Wednesday 22nd Jan 9am to 10.30am Thursday 23rd Jan 9am to 10.30am Friday 24th Jan 9am to 10.30am Tuesday 28th Jan 8.45am to 9.45am Wednesday 29th Jan 8.30am to 9.30am Wednesday 29th Jan 2.30pm to 3.30pm |
KINDNESS PROJECT
This term at St Patrick’s School, we are focussing on Kindness. Last week I began my discussions by attempting to define Kindness. This week I would like to discuss Kindness as a personal choice. In my research, I came aross a beautiful quote: “Kindness is the sincere and voluntary use of one’s time, talent, and resources to better the lives of others, one’s own life, and the world through genuine acts of love, compassion, generosity, and service.” Moreover, kindness involves choice. Kindness involves choice because there are many alternatives to kindness that will tempt us through life — including, of course, apathy and anger. Circumstances may test us. People may try us. News may trouble us. Yet, despite these obstacles, we each have the beautiful ability to actively choose to be kind.
When we actively choose to be kind, we can begin to see kindness as so incredibly meaningful, magnetic, and memorable, in part, because kindness can make us and those around us feel utterly incredible — incredibly useful, incredibly optimistic, and incredibly honoured to be of genuine service to others. When we choose kindness, we can begin to truly accept that we’re all worth the effort and all our efforts have worth. Through choosing kindness, we can do something important every single day and not only end up changing the world for the better, but also ourselves as well: when we’re kind to others, we make people feel valued and when we’re kind to ourselves, we refuse to let ourselves be devalued. Kindness is our ally – our friend.
When we actively choose to be kind, we can begin to see kindness as so incredibly meaningful, magnetic, and memorable, in part, because kindness can make us and those around us feel utterly incredible — incredibly useful, incredibly optimistic, and incredibly honoured to be of genuine service to others. When we choose kindness, we can begin to truly accept that we’re all worth the effort and all our efforts have worth. Through choosing kindness, we can do something important every single day and not only end up changing the world for the better, but also ourselves as well: when we’re kind to others, we make people feel valued and when we’re kind to ourselves, we refuse to let ourselves be devalued. Kindness is our ally – our friend.
Academic Awards 2019
A TOUR OF OUR SCHOOL
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. |