2023, Term 2, Week 2 Newsletter
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,
Koroit Irish Festival
Catering
With over 600 baked potatoes, 250+ Irish stews and 200+ cheese toasties, our Parents and Friends team had a huge weekend. The popularity of the catering that our school team produces is evident every year as the size of the queues seem to get larger! Thank you to all parents, carers and friends of our school who contributed to making the weekend so successful. Thank you. There are many people, businesses and groups to thank, however, a special thanks to Amy Perry and Tammy Langdon for their coordination of this huge catering event. Also, to Andrew McMahon and McMahon's Family Catering for the Irish stew and David Lane for his annual donation of ALL the potatoes. All major contributors to our fundraising effort will receive a thank you letter from our school.
Procession
Our school group looked amazing in this year's procession. Thank you to all the families who were able to have their child participate. It was an adventurous ride! I would like to thank Tim and Bec van Rysingen for bringing their shiny big tractor, Mick Lane for arranging the trailer and lollies and Mel Lilley for coming up with the idea in the first place. It was a fantastic and fun representation of our school in the festival.
Library Volunteers (Volunteer levy opportunity)
We are missing our beloved Mrs Celina Brown! We are looking for any parent, carer or friend of St Pat's who may be interested in volunteering some time in our library or even from home. If you think you may enjoy spending some time doing library duties such as book returns, returning books to shelves, keeping books in order, covering books (could be done from home) and other library duties, could you please make contact with Nick or Bronie. We can organise some training and opportunities for you to help out and reduce your volunteer levy. A happy library is an ordered library! We thank Monique Brown who has been volunteering some of her time to help out in our library lately.
School Uniform
Transition
This term we have begun our transition to Directwear as our supplier of school uniform. See further in this newsletter for what is now available through Directwear. We will continue to have a sale on on our exisitng stock here at school and as this stock runs out the items will then need to be purchased through Directwear. We thank Dion at Directwear for his support in getting this process under way. The reason for transitioning to Directwear is to ensure that stock is available to our school families in a timely manner, the uniform items are of good quality and it supports our school administration by outsourcing.
Tunics
We currently have families interested in purchasing tunics for their child. Directwear would initially like to place an order with a minimum of 15 tunics, if you are interested in purchasing a tunic ($90), please contact Bronie to express your interest.
Term Learning Letters
Please see below for a Learning Letter from your child's classroom teacher/s providing some information about learning and events in their classroom this term.
Link to Term 2 Learning Letters
Kind regards,
Nick Murrell
Principal
2nd Place Winners
Our school was lucky enough to receive 2nd place in the Koroit and District Kinder Leprechaun trail competition! See the picture above of Mr Murrell receiving the prize from Carly and Nova Jordan. Thanks to Mel Lilley for entering us!
No Student Awards
There were no student awards given this week due to the short school week.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to Annie McMahon and Seamus Brady who are celebrating their Birthday at this time.
Dates to Remember
REMINDERS
May
12th - Moyne Cross Country run and soccer
14th - Mothers day
19th - National Walk to School Day
19th - WPH Division Cross Country
24th - AFL Football Clinics
26th - Learn and Explore Morning
30th - Parent Information Night, Foundation 2024
31st - PnF Meeting
1st - Moyne Winter Sports
2nd - Little Learners
8th - WHP Division Girls Senior Football
9th - WHP Division Winter Sports
12th - Kings Birthday Holiday
Cross Country Championships
Congratulations to Red ‘Cork’ House on winning the St Patrick’s Cross Country Shield this year.
Results were - Cork 1st place on 261 points, Claire 2nd place on 223 points, Limerick 3rd place on 203 points.
AGE GROUP | GIRL | BOY |
Foundation | 1st Milla Leishman 2nd Florence Young 3rd Georgie Atwell | 1st Scout Langdon 2nd Atticus Sherry 3rd Logan Huckstepp |
Grade One | 1st Ora Cuolahan 2nd Mimi Martin 3rd Ella Van Rysingen | 1st Banjo Milward 2nd Max Hillam 3rd Sam Wood |
Grade Two | 1st Olivia Foster 2nd Tilly Van Rysingen 3rd Lydia Andriessen | 1st Fraser Gleeson 2nd Hudson Smits 3rd Harry Atwell |
Grade Three | 1st Tayla Milward 2nd Lila Stephenson 3rd Poppy Martin | 1st Harrison Lilley 2nd Jack Lane 3rd Jonty O’Keefe |
Grade Four | 1st Sadie Langdon 2nd Tarneisha Harris 3rd Ava Monnier | 1st Harvey Porter 2nd Bailey Askew |
Grade Five | 1st Ellie Dobson 2nd Ruby Hillam & Layla Smits 3rd Tessa Shanahan | 1st Will Lane 2nd Lincoln Arthur 3rd Logan Harlock |
Grade Six | 1st Esther Gleeson 2nd Elise Mahony 3rd Addy Fechete | 1st Jaxon Leishman 2nd Billy O’Connor 3rd Tighe Perry |
Directwear Uniform
As mentioned in previous newsletters we are transitioning to Directwear to supply the school uniform. As stock runs out at school Directwear will start supplying the items, they will be available to buy on their website at www.directwear.com.au
Uniforms can be collected from the Directwear home address in Warrnambool or posted to you.
Items now available on the website are:
Short Sleeve Polos - sizes 8 & 10 $28.95
Black Sports Shorts -sizes 6, 8 & 14 $32.50
Grey Pants - sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 & 16 $54.50
Contact details for Direct wear are:
email info@directwear.com.au or phone Dion Jansz: 0412 654 406
Uniform can be purchased via directware.com.au.
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