2022, Term 3, Week 9 Newsletter v2

Acknowledgement of Country

St. Patrick's School acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work, the Koroitch-gundidj people of the Maar Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. 

Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Extract from the Diocesan newsletter

"Last week I took the opportunity to visit schools in our Southern Zone. On 25 August I was welcomed at St Colman’s Mortlake and St Patrick’s Koroit. Lucky for me, Book Week was taking place and I joined the St Patrick’s staff in dressing up as Gru and the Minions!"

School Fees

Outstanding School Fees

Each year our school receives approximately 85% of funding toward the overall cost of running our school for the year from the Federal and State Governments. Consequently, our school community is required to raise the remaining 15% each year to provide the tuition, programs and resources our children need to ensure the best education. This 15% is raised through School Fees, Student Levies, donations and fundraising.

Currently, we have a substantial amount of outstanding school fees for the 2022 school year, we understand that the school year is still yet to conclude, however, we are getting toward the home stretch. If you have any outstanding school fees it would be appreciated if you could attend to these in the near future. If you have any questions please contact Bronie or Nick and be assured of respect and total confidentiality. No child will be restricted in accessing a quality Catholic Education at St Patrick’s because of prohibitive school fees.

Volunteer Levy

If you are yet to claim your volunteer levy for time volunteered so far this year, please visit the office to collect a claim form. Picnic in the Paddock volunteering is now included in the schedule. This levy is able to be deducted from your school fees once volunteer levy forms are received. The Volunteer Levy amounts for each volunteering opportunity are to be reviewed in 2023.

5/6 Camp funding

Thursday morning, I sent an email to all families of Year 5/6 students. The email is regarding senior camp funding. Please check your inbox for this email. Some parents have reported the email went to junk or spam. If your email went to junk or spam try adjusting your settings to whitelist the email address or make important this recent email. It will help these future emails go to your inbox. 

5/6 Camp

We wish all the students, parent helpers and staff all the best as they embark on senior camp to Roses Gap next week. It has been a very long time since any group from our school has been on camp, and the excitement is obvious among our 5/6 group. We thank Andrew McMahon, Nick Monnier and Tara Leishman for volunteering their time to come along and support our students. Safe travels and enjoy the experience! I will see everyone bright and early on Monday morning. 

Kind regards,

Nick Murrell

Principal

Students of the Week

Room 1 &  2

Nora Povey: for being an excellent role model to others at school this week. Nora spent her lunch time picking up rubbish in the school yard. It was amazing to see her initiative in keeping our school clean and tidy. Well done Nora you are a superstar.

Olympia Jordan- for being an excellent role model to others at school this week. Olympia spent her lunch time picking up rubbish in the school yard. It was amazing to see her initiative in keeping our school clean and tidy. Well done Olympia keep up the amazing work.

Room 4

Room 4

Ava Monnier- for being a responsible student planning, researching information independently and using many interesting facts in complex sentences to form her animal report on the Tree Kangaroo. Well done Ava, we are looking forward to you presenting your information in a slide show next week.

Harry Lilley for the enthusiastic and responsible way you approach your learning in Room 4 and in Literacy groups. You are respectful to all your teachers and always try your best. Congratulations on creating your wonderful slideshow on sheep from your farm. 

Keep up the great work Harry!

Room 5 

Jobe Wilson: Jobe has been showing responsibility for his learning but putting up his hand to share the up-levelled sentences he has created in the lesson. Jobe is beginning to use Tier 2 words and he checks that his sentence makes sense. Jobe, you are beginning to write like an author. Well done.

Zoe Delaney: Zoe, we appreciate the respectful and polite way that you talk to teachers. We also like the way that you are beginning to put up your hand and ask for help when it is taking too much of your time trying to figure things out for yourself. This shows that your are keen to understand and complete your work. Well done.

Room 7

Room 7

Addy Fechete for always striving to do your personal best in all areas of your learning. You display curiosity during learning which results in wonderful and interesting discussions.  

Keep up the great effort!

Ace Bidmade for the engaged learning that takes place during every Art lesson. Ace, you are always enthusiastic and eager to participate in our Art lessons. Congratulations on the quality work you produce. Well done, keep up the amazing effort!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Jaxon Leishman, Isla Lilley, Miah Van Kempen who are celebrating their Birthday at this time.

Dates to Remember

REMINDERS

September

12th - 14th - Grade 5/6 Roses Gap Camp

15th - Lions Eye Health Program F-3

16th - Footy dress-up day

Last day of Term

October

3rd - School Returns

7th - Regional Athletics Ballarat

10th - Moyne Big Bash Cricket

12th - Parents & Friends Meeting  7.30pm

14th - Division Cricket Warrnambool 

18th - Gr 3 / 4 Junior All star girls Hooptime Regional Final, Hamilton

30th - Picnic in the Paddock

November

3rd -  Lions Eye Health Program 4-6

15th - Moyne Try-Athlon

Passtab - Visitor Register

We have just implemented "Passtab" - an electronic visitors register.  Please use the iPad at the front desk to Sign In or Out when you visit the school - we suggest you create a "Quickpin" (which will default to your mobile phone number) on your first login.
It should also be used for students arriving late or leaving early.  
See staff if you require any assistance.

Lions Eye Health Program

We are very lucky to have Lions Eye Health Program visiting our school this year. Their first visit is coming up this Thursday 15th October, where they will be working with our Yr F-3 students.  These students brought home a consent form this week (Tuesday 6th) for families to complete should they consent to their child being tested. If you did not get the form, it is attached below. We strongly encourage all families to allow their child/ren to participate. Lions Eye Health Program will be visiting our Yr 4-6 students in term 4 on Thursday, Nov 3rd. there will be a consent form for these students sent out closer to the date. 

Letter to parents from Directors of Catholic Education regarding election commitments

Positive Partnership workshop (free) for parents/ carers based in Warrnambool

Parents & Friends Association

Picnic in the Paddock

Community Events

Spring Holiday Program - Port Fairy

Gardening Program for Children

Warrnambool Vacation Care Program