FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents and Carers,
We have had a fabulous week of connecting, reconnecting and of course learning this week. Our new students have quickly assimilated into the St Pat’s way and are enjoying their new class and school community.
We have especially enjoyed welcoming our Kinder students in KF. They have been on many adventures around the school to get to know more about St Pat’s and being St Pat’s kids. Yesterday their adventure led them to my office, around the school office and also to the senior building. They were on a number hunt and they saw and recorded many numbers large and small!
Mrs Stephanie Noack
Mrs Renee Lightly
Student Leaders 2021
Congratulations to our Year 6 student leaders 2021 who were inducted into their roles at Mass today.
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St Patrick’s School Leaders 2021 |
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School Captains - Maddison Woods & Lincoln Thompson School Vice Captains – Alexia Spitzer & Dougie Tomlinson |
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Penola House Captains – Ella Taylor & Oliver Malone Vice Captains – Isobel Nicholson & Bailey Abraham |
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Tenison House Captains – Kai Schrader & Ivy Smith Vice Captains – Jack Taylor & Braydan Sharman |
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MacKillop House Captains – Amelie Hergenhan & Levi O’Bryan Vice Captains – Clay Hoyland & Cooper Lee |
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Junior School Peer Mediation Leaders Caitlyn Healey & Tygerlily Chinnock |
Playground
Thank you to Mr Bateman for everything he does, and a special thanks for putting together the climbing frame igloo for the junior students. While the playground is unavailable we are looking at ways to engage the children in happy and fun play experiences. The igloo seems to be a hit!
Catalyst Last week our teaching and support staff attended the Catalyst professional learning day. The staff from the other 55 schools in the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn also attended this day that was managed via zoom and MSTeams.
Catalyst provides a professional learning program for all teachers. A program designed to transform lives through learning. The Catalyst program is informed by the Science of Learning and will help St Patrick’s and all 56 system schools to realise the system bold goals:
- Every student is a competent reader.
- High Impact Teaching Practice is visible in every classroom.
During the day teachers heard presentations from internationally renowned speakers:
Ollive Lovell – Cognitive Load Theory in Action.
Toni Ann Vroom – The Writing Revolution
Tom Sherrington – Rosenshine’s Principles for High Impact Teaching Practice
We are already on the way to some transformations, notably the implementation of the synthetic phonic program InitiaLit in Kinder to Year 2.
Blessings
Jo