Dear Parents and Carers,

Last weekend five of our St Patrick's students formed our school team at the Interschools Equestrian Competition held here in Bega. Our team members, Amber, Clancy, Demi, Izzy and Thea paraded beautifully in their equestrian uniforms and won ribbons all day! St Pat's were the runners up in the overall pointscore. This was out of 16 schools and with only 5 team members, a great achievement. Some of the results are:

• Izzy was age champion- year 3/4 and
• Thea was runner up age champion- kinder/1/2
• Clancy was 3rd in her handler class and 6^th in Hunter Class

Congratulations to all of our girls.

Wednesday was a cold but clear day for the Junior Cross Country - Fun Run. It was great to see our Kinder to Year 2 students out and active running the course. Thank you to the sport captains and school captains for their great leadership and support, and of course thank you to Mrs Harnett for organising the great event!

At St Patrick's we have a strong commitment to staff professional learning. At the Year 3-6 staff meeting this week our teachers met with a consultant from Sound Waves to further their knowledge and understanding of the synthetic phonic program we are teaching at St Pat's. 

At the same time, the K-2 staff had further PL on the InitiaLit synthetic phonic program we have been teaching for the past 3 years. Our school data shows the great progress of our students in reading based on their active participation in this program.

It is good to acknowledge and remember we are all lifelong learners!

Blessings

Jo