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Community Update #3.4

This week we met with the building teams for the forthcoming works. The kinder is due to commence in a week. Our priority is ensuring the safety of each child, and maintaining as much play space as possible. The back gates will continue to be locked.

Currently, all children must enter through the front gates or the church driveway gates, and exit the same way. We will stagger the departure to ensure minimal conjestion. The bike shed is only accessible though the church gates. A reminder that the morning bell rings at 8.40, but children have until 8.55 to enter school, so there is no need to gather early.

Masks

Our allocation of masks and RATs has now ceased. Students are required to provide their own masks. We really appreciate everyone's efforts to keep our community safe. If you are requring RATs, please email the office and we will send a box home with your child.

We are delighted to see many parents joining us for Prayer time on Wednesdays and Fridays. Just a reminder that visitors to classrooms also need to wear masks.

Change of school closure date.

The school closure date has moved to August 25th. We are in the hands of the builders and had little say in the change. Apologies if this is problematic for you.

Daffodils

St Patricks is selling bunches of daffodils to raise money for the Cancer Council. The Cancer Council gives much needed support to people affected by cancer. The daffodil represents hope for a cancer free future.

One bunch of daffodils (10 stems) costs $10. You can order these through CDF Pay, by placing your order by Wednesday 10^th August.

You will be able to pick up the daffodils on Wednesday 17^th August (TBC).

Money goes to support cancer research that will save lives and keep families together.

SCHOOL CLOSURE

We are in the hands of the builders and their schedule so we had little choice about the change of date for our school closure. Apologies for the change.Our school closure is now Thursday August 25th.

Music Bus lessons at our school! Join Now!

The Music Bus runs lessons each week at our school.

Lessons are available in:

Keyboard (Prep-y6)
Ukulele (Prep - y6)
Drums (y1 -y6)
Guitar (Y2 - y6)

Junior Hoop Time

Last Thursday we had 43 students in years 3 & 4 represent St Pats at the Junior Hoop Time carnival at MSAC. We took 5x teams to compete against schools within the Dendy District, and show off some of their exceptional basketball skills. Unfortunately no teams made it through to the finals, however they should be super proud of their amazing efforts, enthusiasm and good sportsmanship throughout the day.

A huge appreciation and thank you to Miss Adcock, Miss Jepson, Kirsty Gemetzis, Richard Ford, Cathy Byrne, Sally Stafford and Rob Magnanini for coming along to coach, score and support our players. Without your help the day couldn't have gone ahead.

Well done to all our junior basketballers!

NAPLAN

The preliminary NAPLAN results have been sent to school. At this stage they do not incude individual results or writing results. These are due at the end of August. When they arrive, they will be made available to Yr 3 and Yr 5 parents.

PreLoved Uniform Shop- Onsite Dates

We are excited to advise that the PreLoved Uniform Shop will be operating onsite once per month, starting in August. There will be a trestle table positioned in the patio in front of the school. Parents will be able to purchase pre-loved school uniform items from the onsite PreLoved Uniform Shop between 3:00pm – 3:40pm on the dates listed below:

• Tuesday 23rd August
• Monday 12th September
• Friday 28th October
• Tuesday 15th November
• Wednesday 7th December

Parents are still able to email the uniform shop for purchases and items will be placed at the school office for pick up. The email address is stpatssecondhanduniforms@gmail.com
We thank the volunteers for putting their hands up to assist with the running of the shop.

Sacred Heart Girls College

As a priority parish school for Sacred Heart Girls’ College you may have families who are still considering secondary schools for their daughter(s). We warmly extend an invitation to St Patrick’s families to attend one of our Open Mornings before the closing date for Year 7, 2024 applications on August 19, 2022. Limited places are also still available for Year 7, 2023.

CHILD SAFETY MESSAGE - New Child Safety Standards

On July 1st the current 7 Child Safety Standards will increase to 11 Standards and include new requirements such as:

involving families and communities in organisations’ efforts to keep children and young people safe
a greater focus on safety for Aboriginal children and young people
managing the risk of child abuse in online environments

St Patrick's school policies and code of conduct have been updated to reflect the changes to the new standards.You can access the updated policies on the Learning Community Site via the Policies tab and by viewing the Child Safety section.

Please look out for the Child Safety Message in the Shamrock every week.

The new Standards are outlined in the information sheet below.New Child Safe Standards Information Sheet
New Child Safe Standards Information Sheet

Calendar Dates

Term 3 2022

August

Thursday 25 Closure Day (student free day )

Thursday 25 School Advisory Council Meeting 7pm

Tuesday 30 Dendy Athletics

September

Tuesday 13 Year 4 First Reconciliation 6pm

Wed 14 Rugby Gala Day (tbc)