St Patrick’s Primary School

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have been enjoying the rain this week and remembering what we can do during wet weather play! Board games, drawing, puzzles and reading have been part of the indoor games. In the COLA the juniors have been skipping, developing their handball skills and playing LEGO.

We are so proud of Michael for taking up the Sudsy Challenge in support of raising funds and awareness of homelessness! If you want to support Michael and the work of Orange Sky Laundry you can do so here https://www.thesudsychallenge.com/fundraisers/michaelkoolis/four-au?ref=ch_3JnBEwKik8sCSDlV01saOxJZ

World Teachers' Day

Next week on Friday 29^th October we celebrate World Teacher’s Day. Beyond the teaching team, at St Pat’s we are going to celebrate a whole staff day on that date. We want to honour everyone who works at St Pat’s for their contribution to the life and growth of our school. I would like to ask you to consider finding a way to thank you child’s teacher and any other member of the staff who works with your child for their great work this year. You may consider an email, a card or a letter from you and your child.

Thank you Deanna

For many years a member of our parish, Deanna, has come to school each week and dedicated time to listening to our students read. Covid times have been tough with no volunteers in school, and the children have missed Deanna and her reading support and encouragement. Many blessings on your move to Yass, Deanna!

Happy School

A recent article in Happy School was Eight Steps to Happiness. The full description is at the end of this newsletter, in brief the 8 steps listed are:

1. Practise random acts of kindness

2. Be mindful

3. Find your strengths and solutions

4. Practise gratitude

5. Learn to forgive

6. Create social networks

7. Write your own eulogy

8. Reflect, review, renew

Enjoy creating and recreating happiness for you and your family this weekend and into the future!

Next Week

Next week we celebrate Grandparents Day in a different way. More about our plans for remote celebrations are in Mrs Grant's news.

Next Friday we once again WEAR RED on our DAY FOR DANIEL. Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day. Held annually on the last Friday of October, Day for Daniel honours the memory of Daniel Morcombe.

Blessings for a happy family weekend

Soft Plastic Collection Bags

To help facilitate soft plastic recycling at home, Bega Valley Shire Council is providing every child attending school in the Shire with a reusable soft plastic collection bag. The purpose of these bags is to encourage the collection and transport of household soft plastic waste to be dropped back to participating supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths) where REDcycle bins are located.

Soft plastics are things like bread bags, biscuit packets and frozen vegetable bags. If you’re unsure if it’s recyclable check the packaging for the Australian Recycling Label store drop-off symbol, or the REDcycle logo. If it’s on the packaging, then bag it and recycle it.

The distribution of these bags aligns with a competition Council is running where 5 schools across the Bega Valley have the chance to win a REPLAS seat made from recycled soft plastics! To enter the competition entrants must take a photo of a funny or unique way that they use their soft plastic collection bag and enter by 15/11/21 (check out Bega Valley Shire Council’s Facebook page or website for more details). Winners will be selected to nominate a school of their choice to receive one of the seats.

So lets help support the circular economy and win a REPLAS seat for our school!

More information about recycling soft plastics can be found at https://www.redcycle.net.au/