Dear Parents and Carers,

Special Farewell

Today we say a fond farewell to Mrs Chauvier. We thank Mrs Chauvier for her 14 years of dedication to the St Patrick’s community as a member of staff. Mrs Chauvier was a valued member of the classroom support assistant team until taking up the role of Office Manager in 2016. Mrs Chauvier is leaving very big shoes to fill in our front office position. It is true many people won’t know most of the work of the school office manager imagining the joy of answering phones, checking entry of visitors to the school, chatting at the counter, applying bandaids to scrapes and scratches and being the ‘friendly face and voice’ of the school. Whilst all this is true (and can all happen at the same time in the first three minutes of the day) the ‘other work’ involves everything about the daily, weekly, monthly, annually accounting of all monies in and out of the school…invoicing, receipting, processing payments, managing school fee transactions. Then there is the preparation and management of the school budget documents and the meetings with system auditors and accountants, ordering resources, stocktaking office resources, supporting a student or two ‘who need a little extra love and a job to do (shredding is always therapeutic) and now we are probably at morning tea….! And now it is organising the morning tea for the special visitors who surprised us with a visit then booking the bus for the class excursion and booking the room for the staff going to Canberra for PD…

So, it is true we are going to miss Mrs Chauvier so much, she is indeed one in a million! We wish her well in her new endeavours and know that any organisation will be blessed with her presence, her personal skills, her friendliness and of course her high work ethic.

Celebrating Students

This week we congratulate Isabella Clifton-Collins! At the recent Dalgety show Izzy won her riding class under 7 years which qualified her to compete in the Champion rider under 12 years. She was so proud to beat older riders in this event. Her pony Charlie won his pony height class and he won reserve champion pony. Isabella is so excited to be representing St Pats, and we are so happy she will be in our school team at the inter schools competition in May!

Kind regards,

Jo