This year, Catholic Mission have asked us to support their work in Ghana. They have identified the month of October as “Socktober”, building on the Pope’s recent initiative: “Sport at the Service of Humanity”. Our Mini Vinnies group will be running a Mission Day on Tuesday 22nd October. On this day we are asking that each student bring a gold coin donation to go towards the work of Catholic Mission. Each class will be invited to participate in some soccer activities in which they will be using “sockballs” made from recycled materials, similar to what the children in Ghana would use. You can read about the work of Catholic Mission via this link.
Families are most welcome to make a donation to Catholic Mission on top of the gold coin on Mission Day by placing your donation in an envelope marked Catholic mission and leaving it at the school office.
Thursday Oct 10 NO CANTEEN
Friday Oct 11 NO CANTEEN
Thursday Oct 17 Wendy Kelly, Georgina Dumesny, Caitlin Down
Friday Oct 18 Jenny McNeil, Fiona Godde, Jo MacKenzie
Thursday Oct 24 Mia Wolff, Kate Dempsey, Lashae Harman
Friday Oct 25 Lucy Lehne, Rhea Thomas
Library Reshelving- For the week of:
Monday Oct 7 Jess Lambert
Monday Oct 14 Jo Matthews
Monday Oct 21
Sickbay Linen
Friday Sept 13 Mia Wolff
Friday Sept 20 Ilona Carson
Friday Oct 11 Karen Bowes
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 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.
The office is open from 8.30am - 4.00pm each day.
There is no supervision for students before 8.40am. Teachers use the time prior to the doors opening for setting up for the day, therefore they are not available to supervise students. Students who arrive at school prior to 8.40am need to wait at the side door near the hall until the doors are opened.
The bell for the start of the day rings at 8.55am, any student arriving after this time needs to be signed in using the iPad at the office.
The bell for the end of the day rings at 3.20pm. If for any reason you are going to be later than 3.30pm to collect your child/children, please contact the school office.
Once again our students have been provided with some exceptional music tuition in their preparation for their performance with the Spring Music Festival. During the school holidays our students, and students from the Consolidated School, were treated to professional singing lessons as they learnt and rehearsed their parts of the Spring Music Festival’s opening gala event - ‘In the Beginning’. Their gifted voice instructor was Dermot Tutty. Dermot is a respected voice teacher, choral conductor, stage director and composer. As a young boy, Dermot was a gifted soloist with the National Boys Choir of Australia. He performed several principal treble roles with The Australian Opera Company and the Victoria State Opera. Dermot teaches singing at Melbourne Grammar School, and works as a choral conductor and voice teacher at The King David School and the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. Dermot runs a highly successful private voice studio. His students have won national and international competitions, including the Herald Sun Aria Competition and the Meistersinger Vocal Competition in Graz, Austria. He has tutored numerous treble soloists for roles with Opera Australia and Victorian Opera. Specialising in classical voice, Dermot has also taught international rock stars and musical theatre performers. Our students feel very privileged to have a man as talented as Dermot working with them.
There will be NO CANTEEN this Thursday and Friday. Canteen will resume next Thursday, October 17.
CDFpay
All canteen order are to be done using CDFpay from now on. Most families have signed up for an account, if you haven't already done so please see details below on how to make an account.
Lunch Containers
When ordering your child's lunch online, you still need to send a container to school for the order to be put in. St Pat's is a rubbish free school and therefore all orders need to be in a reusable container.
Please also ensure that all lunch bags or containers are clearly marked with your child's class and name.
We are collecting used toothpaste tubes/caps, toothbrushes, outer packaging of toothbrushes and toothpaste and dental floss containers for recycling. Please send along any of these used items and place them in the collection box under the tv in the main corridor.
Thank you to the families who have already signed up for CDFpay, we are transitioning to a cashless canteen. We are aiming to have all lunch orders paid via CDFpay by the end of Term 3. You will no longer need to write out your child's order as they will be printed on stickers which will then be placed on your child's lunch bag/container. Please ensure that the lunch bag/container is clearly labelled with your child's name.
Please see below for more information on how to make CDFpay account, an email was sent out at the end of last term and there is also a flyer on the school website in the Parent Information section or click on the link below.
Our next pupil free day for this year is:
November 18 - Report Writing Day
Sporting Schools is on Wednesdays and Thursdays for 7 weeks of each term.
The final Sporting Schools session will be tomorrow Thursday September 12.
Sporting School's commencement day for Term 4 is Wednesday October 16.
Attendance is done through our Skoolbag App. Attendance forms must be filled in by 10am on the day of attendance.
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