2025, Term 3, Week 5 Newsletter

Child Safe Statement and Commitment

The Child Safety Officers at St Patrick's are Tegan McDonald and Shona Louden principal@spkoroit.catholic.edu.au or slouden@spkoroit.catholic.edu.au

Acknowledgement of Country

Principal's Message

Dear parents and carers,

📚 Book Week 2025 📚

This week we are celebrating Book Week! Our Dress Up Day and Parade will be held tomorrow at 9:00am in the hall. We welcome and invite everyone to come along and watch.

The theme this year is ‘Book an Adventure’. We can’t wait to see the creativity and excitement from our students as they bring their favourite characters to life.

3 Way Conversations and Parent Teacher Interviews

Our 3-Way Conversations are coming up this term. We are trialling a new structure where conversations begin during the day to help reduce after school commitments for families and staff, while still having after school appointments available. 

If you have a PSG meeting, the 3 way conversations will happen during that scheduled meeting in addition to the PSG meeting. You will not need to attend the below 3 way conversation meetings.

🗓 Dates:

• Monday 8th September from 12:30pm
• Tuesday 9th September from 12:30pm
  
  Some classes will only require one day of interviews depending on student numbers (please see PAM for available times). Teachers who do not have two allocated days of interviews will be assisting with supervision and multi age activities in the hall.

⏱ Format:

• 10 minutes – Student led sharing of learning (3 way conversation).
• 10 minutes – Teacher discussion with parents.

This is a valuable opportunity for students to celebrate their progress and for parents and teachers to come together to support ongoing learning.

These interviews are now available for booking in PAM.

Upcoming events for the week ahead:

• Book Week - Dress Up day Tuesday 19th "Book an Adventure"
• School Closure Days Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd
• First Eucharist - 24th August, 9am St Pius X Church
• 5/6 camp - Melbourne 25th-26th August
• 3/4 camp - Ballarat 3rd-4th September

Kind regards,

Tegan McDonald

Principal

Reflection

Feast of Assumption of Mary, Friday 15th August

Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.  

On Friday, students and teachers reflected on the Feast Day of Mary during morning prayer in their classrooms. The day marks the Feast of the Assumption, celebrating Mary being taken into heaven at the end of her life. It is an important day in the Catholic tradition, recognising Mary’s special role in faith and her example of devotion and care, values we can all appreciate and learn from.

Parenting Practitioner sessions

Free Parenting Sessions with Helen Diamond – Don’t Miss Out!

We’re thrilled to be welcoming Helen Diamond, Parenting Practitioner from CatholicCare, to St Patrick’s on 28th August. With nearly three decades of experience, and her own journey as a parent and grandparent, Helen brings warmth, wisdom and practical support to families.

Helen will be offering free one-on-one parenting consultations during her visit. This is a wonderful opportunity to talk through any challenges, ask questions or simply gain new insights to support you on your parenting journey.

Spaces are limited, so be sure to register your interest by emailing Helen directly at helen.diamond@catholiccarevic.org.au. You won’t want to miss this!

School Closure Dates - Term 3

Please note that there are 2 school closure dates in Term 3 for staff Professional Development.

• Thursday 21st August
• Friday 22nd August
  

There will be no staff on site on these days.

First Eucharist

Congratulations to the students from St Patrick's who will be celebrating their First Eucharist this Sunday at 9am mass at St Pius X, West Warrnambool.

Lydia Andriessen
Harry Atwell
Jobe Dobson
Tadhg Duus
Olivia Foster
Fraser Gleeson
Hudson Smits

Our Diocesan Community

Please click on the link for the July 2025 edition of “Our Diocesan Community”

School TV

Register here.

Footy Colours & Hot Dog Day

Leading in to the end of school term and football finals, the P&F are organising a Hot Dog day for Thursday 18th September.  Orders via CDF Pay, closing 9am on Tuesday 16th September.

Picnic in the Paddock

Picnic in the Paddock is a major event on the St Pat's calendar and hosts families and friends from all over the south west to come and see our wonderful school and enjoy a really fun day out for everyone. We have a committee who meet twice per term to organise the event. PIP is on Sunday October 26. 

We have 2 meetings remaining before the event:

• Wednesday September 10th @ 7pm (Term 3)
• Wednesday October 8th @ 7pm (Term 4)

If you have been interested to know more about PIP or wondering if you'd like to get involved, please feel free to come along to any or all of these meetings, without any commitment. We will be organising sponsorship packs, sampling some new merchandise, and chatting about tasks to be completed before the event. We'd love to see you there!

Little Makers Market

The call is out for any young creatives (15 years & younger) who might wish to have a stall at the the Little Makers Market at Picnic in the Paddock this year. Please see flyer below for more information.

Parent contact information

If you have changed your phone or email, address or wish you update your non-guardian emergency contact details, please send an email to Bronie or Kate so we can update your detail in our database. 

bmoloney@spkoroit.catholic.edu.au or kdobson@spkoroit.catholic.edu.au 

Directwear Uniform

School Uniform is available from Directwear www.directwear.com.au  

Uniforms can be collected from the Directwear home address in Warrnambool or posted to you.

Contact details for Direct wear are:

email info@directwear.com.au or phone Dion Jansz: 0412 654 406

NEW ST PATRICK'S SOFTSHELL JACKETS!
Now available to order through Directwear.

We’re excited to introduce our brand new school softshell, waterproof jacket!

These jackets are warm, durable and feature the school logo – perfect for chilly mornings and outdoor play.

✔ Comfortable and weather-resistant
✔ Smart, uniform compliant design
✔ Available in a wide range of sizes

Current families are welcome to purchase and begin wearing these immediately!

📌 PLEASE NOTE:
From 2026, these jackets will become a compulsory uniform item (if wearing a jacket) for all new Foundation students as we begin to phase them in across the school. Current families are not expected to purchase but are welcome to.

Canteen & Cake Raffle

The Canteen & Cake Raffle are coordinated by our P&F.

Canteen operates at lunchtime on Wednesday and Friday.  Wednesday is sales of  icy-poles and snacks and Friday includes distribution of lunch orders. 

Click here to sign up for the Term 3 Roster

Cake Raffle is just something for fun! Students can purchase tickets in the classroom on Friday mornings for 20cents and the raffle is drawn by a student from the family who has supplied the cake.  "Cake" is a general term - the prize does not have to be home made and you can choose to bring whatever you like biscuits, slice or chocolates.

Click here to sign up for the Cake Raffle Roster

Assembly Roster

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Harper Cuomo and Miss O'Keefe who celebrated their birthdays last week.  We hope you had a fantastic time celebrating with family and friends!

Star of the Sea - Parish Bulletin

Dates to Remember

Please refer to the public calendar on the school website for the most up to date calendar items.

https://www.spkoroit.catholic.edu.au/news-events

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