Friday 18 December 2020

Community Update # 4.12 Christmas Blessings

 Christmas Blessings of Hope, Joy and Love to our School Community
The Year 6 special Graduation cakes in front of the nativity scene in the school office

We finished the school year with a very special whole school mass. This was our first mass together since the beginning of the year and our first one with Father Siby. After the mass, we presented the Confirmation certificates, awards and Yearbooks to the Year 6 students as we said farewell to them for the final time. 

A video of the awards and presentations is displayed below. This is an unlisted video to protect the privacy of our students. Below is a video of the full Year 6 Live streamed Graduation and the Graduation Video prepared by the students too.

Year 6 passing on the Light of Leadership to the Year 5's

Year 6 leaders carrying the leadership candles

Congratulations to the following Year 6 students who were recognised with these 2020 awards:
  • Higgins Community Leadership - Kayley & Jack
  • Spirit of St Patrick - Christian 
  • Carol O' Sullivan - Grace
  • Core Values - Daniel
  • Salesian Scholarship  - Leo
Congratulations to Rhiannon and Scarlett from Year 4 for receiving the Eileen Nelson Award




Farewell and thank to our Year 6 families leaving our community 

We bid farewell to the following families who are finishing with us : 

Aranda, Bolton, Brooks, Crawford, Cromie,  Engelander, Fraser, Gravina, Fernando, Howard, Imber, Joy,  Kirkles, Leeton - Ball, Main, McAlistair, McGrath, Migliorati, Ogilvie, O’Shannessy, Paterson, Pickering, Quayle, Saito, Saunders, Santiago, Stewart, Tippett, Turner and Taylor families.


Some of these families have been associated with our school for several years and will be remembered for the tremendous support they have given our school in numerous ways to help our school community to thrive.


On behalf of all of the staff and students I thank all of these families and wish them and their children well in the future.


The video from Graduation 2020 will be uploaded to this page once it is processed.


Thank you and Christmas blessings from the Staff


We welcome all of the new Prep families and other families joining St Pat's across the school for 2021.

Thanks to all of our current families you who supplied morning teas, special cards and gifts for us all.

Thanks to the Parents and Friends, Class Reps, Parish Education Board members and all parents who supported us during 2020.

We are truly grateful for the support of a very special St Pat's community.


Christmas blessings, peace, love, joy and hope that we may all continue to flourish in 2021.

End of Year Student Reports

End of year reports were released through the PAM Parent Portal on Monday.

You can access PAM the following ways:

1. on the Quicklink bar in Flexi Buzz 

2. on our website - St Patrick's School Murrumbeena >Parent Information>PAM link

3. Otherwise the PAM address which you can add to your homescreen for quick reference is as follows: https://pam.spmurrumbeena.catholic.edu.au

(Your email address should be the one you provided to the school. If you have forgotten your password please do a password reset ).

The first part of each page of the report  indicates your child’s achievement against the Victorian Curriculum Standards for Religious Education, English, Mathematics, and whichever of the other curriculum areas that have been covered in Semester 2. The second part of the report indicates your child’s achievement against specific outcomes.

Within the dot points you will find one of the following  letters:

N indicates new content progression point 

P indicates the student’s previous  progression point

C indicates  the student’s current progression point

The next sections share information in relation to Social Development and Commitment to Learning, and your child’s school attendance. Finally, the teachers have provided a personal general comment for the end of semester report. 

Secondhand Uniforms

All secondhand uniform requests can be sent to Kellie at heathcote.kellie@yahoo.com.  Donations are welcome too. Please email Kellie to arrange drop off.


2021 Pink List: St Patrick's Community Pages

The P&F would like to support and promote our school families' businesses in the 2021 Pink List by publishing details under a banner of  'St Patrick's Community Pages'.
If you would like to have your business appear in the 2021 Pink List, please send a quick email to us at: pandf@spmurrumbeena.catholic.edu.au so we can start arranging our layout.

We hope that many in our school community will choose to support other families where they can.


2021 Term Dates

Sacrament Dates are published below for your reference. We are still awaiting the Confirmation date from the Archbishop and will publish that once it is announced.

Term 1
Staff only return Closure Day                      Jan 27
All children commence                                Jan 28
End Term 1                                                    March 30 at 1pm
Closure Day Staff PL  Day 1                        March 31

Closure Day Staff PL  Day 2                        April 1

Term 2 
Beginning Term 2                                          April 19
Year 5/6 Camp ADANAC                               April 19-21
Year 5 Reconciliation                                    May 5 10:30am
Year 5 First Communion                               May 9 9am & 5pm
Closure Day Reports                                     June 4
Year 4 Reconciliation                                    June 16 10:30am
End Term 2                                                     June 25 at 1pm

Term 3
Beginning Term 3                                          July 12
Closure Day Staff PL                                     August 20
Year 3 Reconciliation                                    Sep 8 10:30am                                 
End Term 3                                                     Sep 17

Term 4
Beginning Term 4                                          Oct 4
Year 4 Reconciliation                                    Oct 20 10:30am
Year 4 First Communion                               Oct 24 9am & 5pm
Closure Day Assessment                              Nov 1
Closure Day Planning 2022                           Nov 19
School Swimming                                          Nov 29 - Dec 10
End of term                                                     Dec 15 at 1pm

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