[email protected]hp://web.spgww.catholic.edu.au/ Term 4 — Week 6 14TH NOVEMBER 2017 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Thursday 16th November Kinder Orientaon Day Friday 17th November NRL Backyard League Years 3, 4, 5, & 6 9.00am - 11.00am Colour Fun Run 11.45am EnviroMentors Workshops Thursday 23rd November Friday 24th November Monday 27th November Tuesday 28th November Wednesday 29th November Friday 1st December Year 6 Orientaon Day at Marian Catholic College Monday 11th December Whole School End of Year Assembly @12.00pm Tuesday 12th December Year 6 Graduaon Mass @ 7.00pm Principal’s Message Thank you to all our families who came along to support the Parish Fete. It was wonderful to see so many of our teachers, students and their families in aendance. Thanks also to the many parents who baked for the cake stall and to Mrs Maree Puntoriero who co-ordinated our army of helpers and bakers for this. An outstanding and delicious number of cakes and slices were received. It is on occasions such as this that our community spirit is built. Your support and aendance are very much appreciated. CONGRATULATIONS Mr Michael Morrell has be appointed the Co-Assistant Principal of St Patrick's Primary School for the next 3 Years. His Co-Assistant will be Mr Daniel Tuohey (currently Principal of St Peter's, Coleambally). This Co-Assistant Principal role is a new iniave for our Diocese and St Patrick's has been chosen as a pilot school. This iniave is being funded and supported by the Catholic Schools Office. We are heralded as being a lighthouse school for this programme. We are very excited by this new way forward and congratulate both Mr Morrell and Mr Tuohey on taking up this challenge. CLASS LISTS 2018 Teachers and students are very busy at the moment assessing the Semester's work and wring Semester 2 reports. We will also be working on Class Lists for 2018 shortly. Please be aware that teachers work very hard to try and make sure that your child is in the best possible group for their learning for the next year. We have not yet completed the teams of teachers for 2018 but we hope to have this completed in the coming weeks. Reports will be emailed home to you on 11th December. ALAN BOWYER RETIREMENT Next week (November 24th ) sees the rerement Mass and Dinner for Mr Alan Bowyer. Mr Bowyer has been the Director for Catholic Educaon in the Wagga Wagga Diocese for many years.
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Thank you to all our families who came along to support the Parish Fete. It was wonderful to see so many of our teachers, students and their families in attendance. Thanks also to the many parents who baked for the cake stall and to Mrs Maree Puntoriero who co-ordinated our army of helpers and bakers for this. An outstanding and delicious number
of cakes and slices were received. It is on occasions such as this that our community spirit is built. Your support and attendance are very much appreciated. CONGRATULATIONS Mr Michael Morrell has be appointed the Co-Assistant Principal of St Patrick's Primary School for the next 3 Years. His Co-Assistant will be Mr Daniel Tuohey (currently Principal of St Peter's, Coleambally). This Co-Assistant Principal role is a new initiative for our Diocese and St Patrick's has been chosen as a pilot school. This initiative is being funded and supported by the Catholic Schools Office. We are heralded as being a lighthouse school for this programme. We are very excited by this new way forward and congratulate both Mr Morrell and Mr Tuohey on taking up this challenge. CLASS LISTS 2018 Teachers and students are very busy at the moment assessing the Semester's work and writing Semester 2 reports. We will also be working on Class Lists for 2018 shortly. Please be aware that teachers work very hard to try and make sure that your child is in the best possible group for their learning for the next year. We have not yet completed the teams of teachers for 2018 but we hope to have this completed in the coming weeks. Reports will be emailed home to you on 11th December. ALAN BOWYER RETIREMENT Next week (November 24th ) sees the retirement Mass and Dinner for Mr Alan Bowyer. Mr Bowyer has been the Director for Catholic Education in the Wagga Wagga Diocese for many years.
Mr Morrell and Mrs Campbell will represent our school at this occasion at the Cathedral in Wagga. Mr Bowyer has made a significant contribution to Catholic Education, as a teacher a Principal and as Director, over many years and we thank him, as a school, for all his work and dedication. We wish him
and his wife Helen, a very restful retirement. Thanks also go to all parents who have been so generous with our fundraising over the past couple of weeks. Socktober, Little Paths, Minnie Vinnies Christmas appeal and our upcoming Colour Fun Run raise money for much needed causes. This year our school community have given very generously to all these appeals. The recipients of your generosity are very grateful. Have a great week. Sandra Campbell Principal
Newsletter Advertising 2018 If there are any families/businesses who have an association with the school who would like to advertise in our school newsletter in 2018, please contact Donna Cavanagh by email [email protected] or phone 696428 88. Cost for 12 months of advertising is $550 including GST. The newsletter is distributed to 306 families each fortnight for the entire school year. It’s a great way to promote your busi-ness. This is a tax deduction.
Preparations have begun with our current Year 5 students as we work towards electing our School Leaders for 2018. Mrs Campbell met with Year 5 this morning to talk about the roles and responsibilities or our School Leaders, Social Justice Leaders and House Captains. Any Year 5 student who is interested in nominating themselves for one of these positions will receive an application form today to take home with them. Each student will nominate their preferred leadership area, complete the student profile by highlighting their strengths in leadership by referring to the selection criteria at the bottom of the forms.
Please see below the full School Leadership Timeline.
St Patrick’s have booked for 5 days of 4 x 1-hr workshops with the EnviroMentors. EnviroMentors has been the country’s leading mobile incursion-based environmental education program, reaching every corner of NSW with sustainability workshops since 1994. EnviroMentors focuses on motivating communities to participate in simple and practical ways to improve their local environment. St Patrick’s values stewardship and this is reflected in the school’s Vision and Mission. The EnviroMentors educators will focus on litter reduction, bin contamination, promotion of organic recycling, waste reduction, resource conservation, water conservation and sustainability to name a few. We are very pleased to give our students this opportunity to learn about and engage in these important environmental issues.
The EnviroMentors Educators will visit our school on Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th, Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th November.
CPS Basketball Challenge
Sandra and I would like to wish all our basketball teams the best of luck as they travel to Goulburn this weekend to represent our school in the Catholic Primary School’s Basketball challenge. A big thank you to Anita Forlico, Kylie Pastro, Ang Ellis, Deb Della Franca, Annette Waide, Lee, Wayne and Mitch Salvestro, Scott Connor, Kate Beltrame and Sarah Dunbar for their commitment to organising and coaching their respective teams. St Patrick’s has a history of success and a long rivalry with the other big Catholic schools in our diocese and we hope that they do us proud by playing well and showing excellent sportsmanship! Lastly, we are very grateful for the long hours Maryanne Dodd has put in behind the scenes to make this event possible.
Catholic Mission 2017 – Crazy Sock Day A huge thank you to all the children at St Patrick’s who helped raise $355.90 for Catholic Mission.
St Vincent De Paul Christmas Appeal Our classrooms are starting to fill up with food and other non-perishable items for our Christmas appeal hampers. Thank you to all our parents who have sent in the food item on the token that what sent home with your child. St Vincent De Paul is always overwhelmed with our generosity and assure us that these hampers will go to families in our community who are most in need. Years 4-6 continue to bring in donations that will also be used to support these families.
JOIN THE FAMILY MATHS CHALLENGE! Have a go at the activities in our school newsletter each fortnight as a family. This is a great way to connect with your child’s school experiences and promote Mathematics in real world contexts.
Have fun!
Lesley Harpur
Targeted Mathematics Teacher (TMT)
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