Dear Parents and Carers

Our Community Council met this week. One priority was to finalise our new 'Financial support for families of students representing St Patrick's' process. Thank you to the families that have inquired about support. We are pleased to have our school process finalised and the in-kind financial support of the Community Council for our families. Please see the document at the end of the newsletter. A separate skoolbag message will be sent, and give you access to this document (paper copies will be available from the school office). 

We also discussed pastoral care and wellbeing at St Pat's. We looked at current programs and practice and discussed other ideas for consideration. If you have some ideas we would appreciate your input via the simple 2 question survey in Skoolbag forms. Thank you.

Staffing at St Pat's You may be wondering how the teacher shortage that has been reported for some time is impacting on our school. In short, it is. In a little more detail, we now have only one available and active relief teacher for each day, and several who are sometimes or sporadically available. Mrs Sheahan, Mrs Grant, Mrs Ferris (on her leadership days) and I sometimes take classes for a specialist lesson or part of a day; sometimes we have to split the class and provide learning for them in another classroom. The dedication of our teachers is such that those working part time are working to support our school on some of their non-work days, this is a short term solution. We are working on longer term solutions.

Things you can do to help:

* thank our teachers for their great work (email / phone / in person / letter from you or your child)

* let teacher friends know that we are regularly looking for relief staff (and all they need to do apply to Catholic Education Canberra and Goulburn to be on our list);

* spread the word about our wonderful school and why teachers may like to join our team;

* enrol in a teacher education program and join the profession; (yes, this could be you!)

* pray for our community - our current and future teachers.

St Pat's supporting others in need At the time of the bushfires we were blessed to receive kindness through tangible goods and intangible thoughts and prayers from schools near and far. One school in the Lismore Diocese sent learning journals for our students. At the time of the recent Lismore floods our school and Community Council reached out to a school in Lismore to offer support and prayers. We sent cards, letters, bookmarks and a small Lego set for each student (thanks to the help of Good360) at St Joseph's Coraki and St Joseph's Woodburn (total school populations close to our school population). Our Community Council sent $500 to the P&F to support an activity / resource to help recover from the floods. Here are some photos of the joy being received.

 

Blessings

Jo

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING

Tuesday June 21st 2.15-4.30pm

Families are invited to visit their child's classroom to share and celebrate the wonderful learning that is happening at St. Pat's. Families are welcome to join us in the COLA for a whole school assembly before visiting classrooms at 2.15pm.

Classrooms are open for families to visit until 4.30pm.

Student Semester 1 Reports

Each student report this semester will comprise subject grades and a General Comment written by the classroom teacher. Kindergarten reports do not have the A-E grading scale.

The General Comment will focus on our St. Pat's 3 school pillars;

Look after each other   Look into thinking  Look ahead to the future

There will be opportunity for parents/carers to discuss their child's school report during Week 10. Please email your child's teacher to organise a time for a phone or face to face interview during Week 10.

YR 2/3 POETRY

Yr 2/3Y have been learning about adverbs. Clancy, Anh and Liam came to visit Mrs Scott Pegum and myself and said "an adverb describes the verb and usually end in 'ly. These students have created a poem using an adverbs;

'Happily' by Anh

Happily, I play with friends

Happily, I go to sleep

Happily, I am friends with Jenson

Happily, I eat cake

But most happily of all

I ride my bike

'Carefully' by Clancy

Carefully, the swan lands on the water

Carefully, I swim through the waves

Carefully, the duck flies

Carefully, I ice the cake

But most carefully of all

I walk on the cattle grid

'Loudly' by Liam

Loudly, my cat meows

Loudly, people talk

Loudly, I yell

Loudly, my brother yells at 3am

But most loudly of all

My Dad snores!!!

TERM 3 DANCE CONCERT; SAVE THE DATE

SEPTEMBER 1ST 2022

Next term our students will have an opportunity to work with the very talented Aleeta to develop a dance for each class and present to families on September 1st at 6.00pm. In the past our Dance Concert has been developed around a theme: Australia, Disney Movies, the 90s and beyond. We have asked students to contribute their ideas for a theme for our 2022 Dance Concert. We are looking forward to choosing a creative theme initiated by a student.

Religious Education

Classes have been attending Chapel Mass on a Friday at 9:15am in the Church. The following classes have upcoming Masses:

Week 9 4/5Y

Sacramental Program

We look forward to celebrating First Reconciliation next week.

Family Session & Liturgy - 22nd June at 6pm St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Bega. 

If you have any questions, please email emma.grant@cg.catholic.edu.au 

Music in the Classrooms 

Friday senior sing-a-long session with Mr Forbes. They all enjoyed singing our camp song ‘She’ll be coming ‘round the mountains when she comes’. 

Supporting Students 

The fundraising committee are asking for volunteers for the disco,

please phone Tam on 0429 599 941 to help out. Thanks.

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As we launch the Compass app for parents here are a few information sheets to help parents.

Parent Portal Information

Parent Portal Visual Guide 

Financial support of families representing St Patrick's