St Pat's Shamrock: Week 11, Term 2, 2018

Principal's News from Jenny Hawkins

Have a joy filled holiday

Dear Heavenly Father,

We thank you for the joy that our children at St Patrick's School bring to us all. We ask you to bless them and their families and keep them safe during the holidays. We thank all of our parents for the help and support they have given us at school. We look forward to welcoming our children back to school, rested and ready to be engaged and motivated in their learning, always faithful to our loving God in Term 3.
We ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen

Year 1 and 2 Science Expo
There were many excited and enthusiastic engaged and motivated Year 1/2 learners sharing their Science Projects with us on Wednesday in the hall. Well done to our Year 1/2 and their families for the huge effort made in preparing the projects.

Parent Helper Training
Mrs Hills continued the Parent helper training sessions this week. Thirty-one Prep parents have now participated in the training sessions. The children love learning with our parents. Thank you to all of our parents who are able to support learning at school.

P& F Fundraising Update

On Monday, Annie and Bree presented the school with a fundraising cheque from the 2017 P&F fundraising efforts. The cheque included $4000 from the Chocolate fundraiser. In fact, the total funds raised by the P&F in 2017 were $27,000. We wanted to share with you, what the funds were used for to ensure that our whole community is aware of the benefits to our children that come from the extra funds raised each year.

The funds were used to purchase the following:

Flexible Classroom Furniture $10000

Adventure Playground Upgrade $12000

Class set of ICT devices & portable trolleys Prep-Yr 4(Contribution towards) $ 5000

TOTAL $27000

Annie and Bree also presented the school with a Certificate of Achievement for the $10,705.25 raised through the 2018 Colour Run. Congratulations to 5J for being the class that raised the most funds and and an extra special congratulations to Maddy Prep C who raised $600.

Funds from the Colour Run will contribute to the replacement of a number of classroom Epsom Short Throw Projectors for the Interactive Whiteboards and the Teamboard and Projector clean and check of all projectors throughout the school.

Hall Kitchen Update

There will be another meeting early in Term 3 to ascertain progress on the hall kitchen refurbish.

Team Kids

Please find the Team Kids booking information below. Team Kids will commence at St Patrick's as our new OSH provider on Monday 16th July at the start of Term 3.

Robert our Handyman

Robert Norman took over as our school handyman this year. Robert has a Working With Children Check and currently works between two schools. Robert has been keeping our grounds tidy and following up with necessary repairs and maintenance around the school. Robert will be doing more work around the grounds and inside the school during the holidays.

School Closure days for the remainder of the year

Term 3 Closure Day Friday 24th August
Term 4 Closure Day Monday 5th November

Term 4 Closure Day Wednesday 21st November

Congratulations

The St Patrick's Emeralds Netball team(represented by 10 of our Grade 5 girls) won the Under 13 Section 7 Grand Final on Saturday Congratulations to the team; Lara S, Alice M, Mae O, Mia S, Mina T, Catia B, Mimi L, Brigid T, Ella C and Kate R along with their coach Kate Magnanini for a fantastic win and showing great team spirit and determination to win a very close game - 9 goals to 8.