St Pat's News

All classes will be attending mass on Thursday August 15th at St Patrick’s Church for the Feast of the Assumption.

Wellbeing day

This Friday August 9th, we will be holding our “Let’s Get Moving Health and Wellbeing Day”.  This will involve all children working in their House groups and rotating over a range of activities during the day. Activities will include yoga, running/walking, dance and strength exercises. Students are asked to wear “active wear” and their runners and to bring a piece of fruit to be shared in a fruit salad.

The day will also include the launch of our student leaders’ book swap project. This project involves setting up some bookshelves where students and community members can donate a book and take another one in exchange. Our students are hoping to encourage everyone to put down their screens and do more reading. To facilitate this, students and parents are able to bring in a book that they no longer want and swap it for another one. This can then be done on an ongoing basis.

Hooptime

Well done to the students who competed in the Yr 3/4 Hooptime competition last Friday in Warrnambool. All the  teams participated with great spirit and sportsmanship and our boys' All star team was successful in winning their grand final. They will now proceed to the next level.

No Standing signs

In an effort to improve child safety in and around the school crossing, the Moyne Shire has erected a number of “No Standing” signs near the school crossing, which means no parking is permitted in the area between the signs. Please be mindful of this when dropping off and picking up your children so that you are not fined.

Head lice

There have been a number of reported cases of head lice in our school, so it may be timely to check your child’s hair and treat as necessary.

Kind regards,

Sue Paulka

Principal

Welcome back to Term 3. In F-2 we have been working on the numeracy learning cycle of subtraction. We have been learning that subtraction means taking away an amount from a number. In Foundation we read the book ‘Ten Happy Hens.’ On each page, the cheeky hens disappeared and we had to count back to work out how many were left. We have also had the opportunity to act out subtraction problems. We pretended to be frogs in a pond and some had to jump out, leaving less frogs in the pond. The students now know how to write a simple subtraction number sentence to match their concrete models. We have really enjoyed learning about subtraction in the F-2 area!

Last Friday 4 Year 3/4 teams were entered into the annual Hooptime competition.  Two mixed teams and a boys' and girls' team were entered. Pleasingly, all teams recorded wins on the day, some children scored their first ever goals and a number of children participated in a school representative sports team for the first time.  All students displayed excellent sportsmanship and represented St. Pat's very well.

Both the boys' and girls' team made the Grand Final for their respective divisions.  The girls were runners up in the final to SPK, whilst the boys were able to take out the title against Koroit & District Primary School and be Year 3/4 2019 Moyne District Hooptime Champions.  Thanks to all the wonderful parents who attended to support our students and thanks to Tom Sell for his preparations for the day.

Tommy Greene

Dear Parents,

We understand there are many times when you may need to provide cash to your child to pay for canteen, uniform, special food days. But cash isn’t the only option in today’s world; which is why we want to make it convenient for you to make payments.

In Term 3 we will be introducing CDFpay, which is a cash-free solution for our canteen, special food days & uniform store. This solution is an online payment platform offered by the Catholic Development Fund Melbourne (CDF).

We will be encouraging all parents to use this simple, cash-free platform in the future. For canteen and special food days we will only be accepting payment by this method but parents can still choose to pay via cash or EFTPOS for uniform, however to ensure the success and drive the full benefits of this program we encourage your participation.

The benefits of our school going cash-free with CDFpay are:

• Greater security: a safer option where you don’t have to be concerned about your child losing cash from their bags and pockets.

• Anytime, any device:  order and pay for lunches (while setting dietary needs & allergy requirements) from your mobile, tablet or computer at any time.

• Fast & easy payments: it allows credit card or bank transfer payments. Stored credit cards make the process of [ordering lunch] faster and easier than ever.

• Reduced administration: counting and handling cash is costly for the school, especially now that we do not have a NAB branch in town. CDFpay will help eliminate admin fees so we can better distribute funds for other activities.

The brochure on how to download the app, create an account, how to order and more can be found on our website in the Parent Information section, click on the link below, a copy was also emailed to all parents at the end of Term 2. We look forward to working with you as we implement CDFpay in our school community. 

If you have any questions, please contact the school office.

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

Saturday August 10 @ 6.30pm - Port Fairy

Sunday August 11 @ 10.30am - Koroit