St Patrick’s Primary School

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents and Carers,

Beach Days: Having the opportunity this week to celebrate St Pat’s kids - both learning and behaviours for learning has been such a joy. The students have thoroughly enjoyed having their 2020 ‘beachathon’ style day, and relished the opportunity to take time in the outdoors with their classmates and friends to be St Pat’s kids ‘out and about’. The pairing of older classes with younger classes has given opportunity to grow stronger connections between the students in our school. My thanks to the teaching and support team for enabling these days!

Chooks in the Coop: Thank you to Leeroy (KM) and his family for the gift of two chickens to populate our coop. They are settling in well to their new surroundings.

Mrs Banks, our resident chook expert will be teaching our students how to care for our new residents.

Challenging Learning: Yesterday we had a visit from a member of the teaching and learning team from Catholic Education, and a zoom meeting with an expert from Challenging Learning. They were looking at and talking about learning at St Pat’s. Part of the zoom involved a group of students from Year 2-6 talking with Mr Telford on zoom about what learning and challenge is like for them at school. It was a very insightful discussion. I was proud of the children’s candour and their ability to speak knowledgeably about the learning pit, the use of learning intentions and success criteria, the ‘pop stick’ approach to answering questions, and other aspects of learning. They all agreed that one thing they would like more opportunity for is giving their teachers feedback about the level of challenge in their learning.

Canteen 2021: We thank Mrs Hotson for her great work as our canteen manager. Mrs Hotson is stepping away from this role next year. So, in 2021 we will be looking for a new canteen manager. The role, which is a 7 hour day per week, will be advertised soon on Catholic Education website.

Blessings on a fun family weekend.