St Pat's News

Congratulations to Sarah, Peter, Edmund (Foundation) and Basil Sheehan on the birth of their daughter and sister, Clover, this morning.

Our sympathy is extended to Jess, Heath, Ivy (Yr 1) and Ruby (Yr 1) Condon on the death of Jess’ father last week in Brisbane.

All classes will be attending mass tomorrow at 10.00am at St Patrick’s Church for the Feast of the Assumption.

First Eucharist

We keep the children from our parish in our prayers this week as they prepare for the sacrament of Eucharist, which they will receive for the first time this Sunday at the 10.30am mass.

Thank you to the families for their preparation of the children and to Peter Sanderson for his support and planning of the Eucharist mass. 

Health and Wellbeing day

We had a fun and relaxing Health and Wellbeing Day last Friday, despite the weather forcing some changes. Yoga, strength training, dance and games ensured children and staff were able to focus on strategies to assist their ongoing wellbeing. The launch of our student leaders’ book swap was very popular and we hope both children and adults will take advantage of this.  Thank you to Antonia Balmer and our student leaders for their organisation of the day.

Eisteddfod news

We received the exciting news last week that our school won the Aggregate Award for the Year 6 and under section of this year’s Warrnambool Eisteddfod. This is the first time St Patrick’s has won this award. Congratulations to all our Eisteddfod participants this year who contributed such brilliant performances.

Special congratulations to Maggie Carmichael, who won the overall individual Aggregate Award and Lila Killen, who placed third. A wonderful achievement for both students!

Thank you again to Karrinjeet Singh Mahil and Juliana Wakely who worked with the children on their performances.

Professional Development day

A reminder that next Monday, August 19th is a pupil free day. Staff will be working on developing our writing curriculum essential learnings.

Kind regards,

Sue Paulka

Principal

Last Friday all our students and staff downed their pencils, pens and books to participate in a health and wellbeing day. This day is an annual event on our school calendar. The focus for the day was for all children and staff to participate in activities which encourage physical and mental wellbeing. The students and staff rotated through activities which included Zumba dancing, core strength activities, mindful reading and colouring and yoga. Thank you to Donella Mulraney for guiding us through our yoga poses and meditation. 

The students were treated to large platters of fruit to boost their energy levels. Thank you to our parent helpers for cutting up and preparing the food platters.

The culminating event of the day was the student leaders’ launch of their book swap. As part of our student leaders’ project, the students designed two book cases where pre loved books can be donated or swapped for another. The bookshelves are prominently displayed in the school corridor making ‘book swapping’ very accessible for all students and adults. 

In the F-2 classes our current Religion unit is called “Food for All”. 

We have been learning about celebrations and have recently made the connection between how we celebrate at home or school and how the Church celebrates. We have focused on one celebration - the Sacrament of Eucharist as some children at our school will be celebrating their Eucharist this weekend. 

The Eucharist (which is a re-enactment of the last supper) is a special celebration of God’s family.  We have been learning the song, "Do this in Memory of Me" by John Burland and last week we looked at the foods that Jesus may have eaten in his time. 

The children were able to taste some of these foods and we had a shared lunch with all the F-2 students. The Year 2s re-enacted the story of the Last Supper.  It was a lovely way to celebrate our unit of work together. 

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 17 @ 6.30pm - Koroit

Sunday August 18 @ 10.30am - Port Fairy