St Pat's News

Term 2 - May 5 (Public Holiday/May Races)

Term 2 - Friday May 6 (Writing PD)

Term 2 - Tuesday June 14 (Report Writing)

Term 3 - Friday August 5 (School Wide Positive Behaviour PD)

Term 4 - Monday November 21 (Report Writing)

Assembly and House Groups will return in Term 2. 

Parents are welcome to attend assemblies on weeks 4 (1/2CC); 6 (1/2O) and 8 (1/2D).  Assemblies begin at 2:40pm in the hall.

House Groups are timetabled for Fridays in weeks 1,3,5,7.

The Victorian Government has announced some important changes to COVID Safe measures for schools that will apply from the start of Term 2.

From 11:59 pm Friday 22 April, face masks, while recommended, are not required in any school setting. This means students in grades 3 to 6, staff and visitors in primary schools are no longer required to wear face masks. Any student or staff member who wishes to wear a mask may do so, including those who are medically at risk.

Students who have tested positive for COVID-19, and have completed their 7-day isolation period, now do not need to undertake rapid antigen test (RAT) screening for 12 weeks after their release from isolation. This was previously 8 weeks.

Students who are household contacts of a COVID-19 case are not required to quarantine. They may return to school as long as they undertake a Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) 5 times during their 7-day period. They are required to notify the school that they are a household contact.

Students aged 8 years and above who are household contacts are required to wear face masks when indoors at school unless they have a valid exemption.

If a student household contact returns a positive RAT result, they must isolate for 7 days and inform the school.

Parents, carers and other adult visitors (not performing paid work or working in close proximity to students) are no longer required to show evidence of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

The testing recommendations will remain the same this Term for students and staff (test at home twice a week). 

Parents and carers will be notified of positive cases in their child/children’s classroom.  

Thank you for your ongoing support in keeping our school safe and open.

We now invite all CURRENT families to visit our school website, to complete the enrolment form for any 2023 Foundation children.

Enrolments for all other families will open on Monday 16th May, 2022.

Plenty of progress was made during the holiday break.  Window and door frames were installed, the bricking was completed, the adjoining corridor and toilet block roof received a new roof, the courtyard at the back of the library was concreted and the electrical cables were laid for the new control panel.  As well, new NBN fibro optic cables were installed. 

JUST A FEW THINGS!

The NAPLAN testing period for 2022 will be Tuesday 10th May to Friday 20th May. Students in Years 3 and 5 will take part in tests on Writing, Reading, Conventions of Language (spelling and punctuation) and Numeracy. This year all tests apart from Year 3 Writing, will be conducted online. St Patrick’s School has been preparing for this transition to online testing since October last year. 

Some parents of students in Years 3 and 5 will be contacted during week 1 of next term regarding any adjustments that may need to be made to assist their child’s participation in NAPLAN.

In the meantime, you are invited to use the following link to visit the NAPLAN Public Demonstration Site where you can view a sample test for each of the learning areas covered. You can work through these with your child to help with their familiarisation to the test format. This will also be used at school prior to the NAPLAN testing period.

During the holidays a team from High Performance Electrical replaced over 200 Flourescent globes with high efficiency LED globes throughout the school and hall.  This will significantly reduce our energy use. 

Next Wednesday the 4th May, Year 3-6 children will be competing in our annual school cross country at Russell Clarke Reserve.

Children finishing in the top 8 positions in each age group will qualify to compete in the 2022 Moyne Schools' Cross Country the following week on Friday 13th May at the same venue.

The event will begin at 1.40pm.  We would love to see as many parents and grandparents to help support our runners as possible.

Saturday April 30 - Working Bee @ 9am - 12pm

Monday May 2 - STEM Gals at Deakin

Monday May 2 - Sporting Schools Commences @ 3.20pm - 4.30pm.

Tuesday May 3 - Confirmation Parent Night @ 6pm

Wednesday May 4 - Mother's Day Breakfast @ 8.00am

Wednesday 4th May 2pm  - St. Pats Cross Country Year 3-6

Thursday May 5 - Warrnambool Cup Day - Public Holiday

Friday May 6 - Pupil Free Day - Staff PD

Friday May 6 - Warrnambool & District Athletics @ Brauerander

Tuesday May 10- Friday 20 - NAPLAN

Tuesday May 10 - P & F Meeting @ 7pm

Thursday May 12 - GRIP Student Leaders Conference

Friday 13th May - Moyne Schools Cross Country

Wednesday May 18 - Parent Information Meeting

Friday May 20 - Assembly led by 1/2CC at 2.40pm

Tuesday May 24 - 2023 Enrolment Discovery Tour @ 9am

Friday 27th May - Winter Sports (Year 5-6)

Monday May 30 - Friday July 3 - Dental Van visit - Days to be confirmed

Monday May 30- Friday June 3 - Eisteddfod Week

Friday June 3 - Assembly led by 1/2O @ 2.40pm

Monday June 6 - STEM Gals at Deakin

Monday June 6 - Confirmation @ 7pm

Tuesday June 7 - SAC Meeting @ 7.30pm

Tuesday June 14 - Pupil Free Day for Report Writing

Wednesday June 15 - Sporting Schools Last Session for Term 2

Friday June 17 - Assembly led by 1/2D @ 2.40pm

Friday June 24 - Last day of term @ 2.20pm

Friday June 24 - Reports live on PAM

Monday July 11 - Term 3 Commences

Port Fairy St Patrick's & Koroit Infant Jesus Mass Times

Saturday Vigil Mass - 6.30pm at Koroit

Sunday Mass - 9am @ Port Fairy