Dear Parents and Carers,

Celebrating learning Thank you to all parents and carers who were able to attend learning conferences this week, and to those who have booked to attend the Celebration of Learning and Bookweek parade next Wednesday. The joy of my days is in celebrating learning and growth with our students. Every morning at assembly we are acknowledging and honouring students for their St Pat's kids attributes for learning and behaviour. Sometimes students are acknowledged for attributes across the 3 school pillars of 'Looking into thinking,' 'Looking after each other,' and 'Looking ahead to the future.'

 

This week, now that our next data set has been collected, the new gold and silver stickers for progress and achievement have been presented. These have been very well received by all recipients - more from Mrs Sheahan in her news.

Orange Sky Laundry - Sudsy Challenge Wearing the same clothes for 3 days straight has advantages and disadvantages. One advantage, no staring into the wardrobe wondering what to wear to work. One disadvantage, wearing unwashed clothes. But, the huge advantage of participating in the Sudsy challenge has been raising awareness and money in support of people living rough. Thank you for your support. On day 2, Rivarni in Kinder asked me, "Mrs Scott-Pegum is it comfortable wearing those clothes again today?" and then we had a good chat about it. 

Chooks Under the great care of Ms Grainger and a troop of St Pat's kids our school chooks are thriving. The eggs go to the school canteen for the cooking and baking. One of the Year 1 students recently wondered why one of our broody chooks couldn't grow a chick with her persistence of sitting on the nest. We had a 'general' conversation regarding not having a rooster at St Pat's and left the greater detail for later! Thanks Belle and Sofia for feeding the chooks this week.

 

Uniform At St Pat's we have some protocols for student hair at school. One protocol is for all children, boys and girls, who have hair shoulder length or longer, to wear it tied back in a pony tail, pig tails or a bun. This is mostly related to hygiene including reducing likelihood of transmission of lice. Thank you for helping your child follow this rule.

School jumpers This year we have proudly seen so many children represent the school, region and diocese in many events. Some of these children have a representative hoodie jumper. We have noticed some children wearing their sport jumper all week. Our uniform jumper is to be worn with the day uniform and the representative sport jumpers/hoodies can be worn on sport day. Thank you for helping your child to follow that rule. 

Fogo

At St Pat's we are working to educate our students in waste processes and sorting as part of our plan for sustatinability. You may not be aware that the Environmental Protection Agency have made some changes to what goes in our fogo bins. There have been items removed from the list for details click herehttps://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/your-environment/recycling-and-reuse/household-recycling-overview/fogo-information-for-households

For what goes into the bin here is the summary

Blessings

Jo.