MORNING ASSEMBLY

Every morning St. Pat's begins the day in the COLA with a community song and accompanying movements to assist us all in becoming calm, centred and ready to learn for the day. Teachers and students then have opportunity to acknowledge the fabulous St. Pat's behaviours students are exhibiting each and every day. The school community recognises all students through strong applause. The Leadership team is  overwhelmed with the number of students who are asking to lead our assembly daily. This is a great opportunity for students to develop confidence in leading our school in song.

Celebrating our Senior Writers

Please enjoy reading the beginning of this creative and exciting story written by Rowan in 5/6G

Bang Bang Bang! Gunfire shot across the field only centimetres away from my head. I started crawling away from the gunfire. The bridge swung open. I climbed in. 693 near the stable I said to myself. I ran checking every room number until I found 693. Locked of course. I got my hair pin out of my hair.

Scratch scratch went the pin when I started to unlock the lock. A groaning click came from the lock. 

Darwin, Arthur and Evelyn are you in here? 

I turned on my torch. Darwin, Arthur, Evelyn are you in here?

My torch swept across the room.

Nooo! I screamed. WHAT HAPPENED? Was I too late? No I cant be.

How can they be DEAD? I did everything they said. How could this happen.....

FABULOUS READING RESULTS!

Learning continues at St. Pat's each and every day. Our recent reading results sees close to 70% of our students benchmarked at or above expectations for reading across the school.

We use the DIBELS assessment (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) which is a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of literacy skills. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures that can be used to regularly detect risk and monitor the development of early literacy and early reading skills in kindergarten through eighth grade. We will assess again in the middle of the year and check that every student is making progress.

The recent introduction of the InitiaLit program in Years K-2 sees 80% of our middle to junior primary students benchmarked at or above level in reading. Definitely something to celebrate.

AFL SKILLS CLINIC FOR K-2

Today our Year K-2 students participated in an AFL skills clinic morning supported by Steve and Darby from the Giants. Our Year 6 captains capably ran a variety of groups focussed on ball skills and hand eye coordination.