Dear Parents and Carers,

This week I have spent 4 days at the Catholic Leader’s Day and the Catholic Leader’s Retreat in Bowral. The focus of the Leader’s Day has been the refinement of the system Learning Agenda. The Learning Agenda for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn is centred on five focus areas:

1) Instructional Improvement

2) Instructional Leadership

3) K-2 Literacy and Numeracy

4) Curriculum 

5) Data

It is not by chance that St Patrick’s has been aligning our planning and thinking in both a strategic and practical way to these very important elements that have high impact on the success of education.

The Leader’s Retreat experience was led by Professor Br David Hall with the theme, ‘The Virtue of Hope: Leading Learning and Mission.’ We have focused on the core purpose of Catholic schools. One quote for thought and reflection is we are spiritual beings on a human journey from the French philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

SPORT

Congratulations to our St Pat’s students who have recently represented our school with pride in a variety of sporting pursuits.

 

Georgina had a great time on Friday at the Mackillop Basketball trials.

  

Sienna: Freestyle 12^th, Drew: Freestyle 7^th, Maddie: Freestyle 12^th, Nate: 50m Freestyle 12^th, 50m Backstroke 6^th, IM 6^th, 50m Breaststroke 8^th, 50m Butterfly 6^th.

Brodie made it onto state in the 100m Freestyle and 50m backstroke. 2^nd 100m Freestyle, 3^rd 50m Freestyle, 1^st 50m backstroke, 3^rd IM, 6^th breaststroke, 4^th butterfly.

In my absence, I would like to commend and thank the other members of the school leadership team: Mrs Perryman and Mrs Grant, and a new member to our team, Mrs Ferris for working diligently in the wet to ensure that school continued to flow smoothly.

I look forward to being back at school next week.

Kind regards,

Jo