St Pat's Shamrock: Community Update #3.6

THANK YOU !!

Thanks to everyone who supported Daffodil Day. We sold $900 worth of daffodils and over $1000 has been donated on the Cancer Council fundraising page. That's almost $2000. That's fantastic !! You can still access the link at https://www.daffodilday.com.au/fundraisers/stpatsmurrumbeena.

Thanks to the Parr family and the Muskat family for their support with the daffodils.

Thanks to all of our children for designing the amazing Spoonville creations on view in our garden of hope.

Lightning Premier News and Netball Update

In week 1 of this term we had our Year 5/6 Netballers and Footballers compete at the Dendy Lightning Premierships. We had 3 teams of girls and boys netballers and 1 AFL team competing against other schools within the District.

All our students were fantastic and displayed great skill and sportsmanship throughout the day.

Our A-Grade netball team finished the day undefeated and went through to the Grandfinal, resulting in another great win and progression through to Beachside. We all returned to school with a shiny new addition to the trophy cabinet. Well done St Pats!!! (More netball news below...)

Our brave footballers unfortunately had their carnival cut short due to the recent St Pats outbreak on that Thursday. The boys showed great strength and resilience in staying calm and leaving the carnival mid way through to return to school.

Huge thank you to Tia, Mr Daidone, Gabby Parr and Christie Alexander for assisting and coaching our teams over the two days. Your help was much appreciated.

***SPECIAL NOTE TO A-GRADE NETBALL GIRLS: Sadly due to the current lockdowns, Beachside LP has officially been cancelled. Please read the latest update from SSV below.

"In the light of the Victorian lockdown extension of another week announced today, it is highly unlikely that SSV will run State Championships for the primary winter sport teams. Given the lockdown will preclude the finalising of any District teams and the inability of Divisions to attempt to reschedule (again) and hold meaningful winter playoffs in the upcoming weeks, South Metro Region and it’s 8 Divisions have made the decision to cancel all Winter Sport playoffs for 2021. This will “declutter” the remaining term 3 calendar for Districts to focus on their athletics carnivals.

It is unfortunate that we have had to make this announcement, but we are trying to deliver a premium sporting experience in trying COVID times. This decision will hopefully allow us all to refocus and move forward.

SSV follows the advice of the Victorian Chief Health Officer and DET. Further updates and advice can be found on the SSV website:

https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Pages/NEWSCoronavirusandschoolsport.aspx"

Dani Trott

Physical Education Teacher, Sports Coordinator and Year 1 Classroom Teacher

Weekly Assembly Awards

You can view the awards from last week on our virtual assembly video. The lockdown transformations are underway. Let's see who will visit our garden of hope in the next assembly.