FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents and Carers,
Wet weather: What a blessing the rain is for our farming community! Rain on school days leads to inside ‘wet weather’ playtimes. I have the privilege of supervising students in two different places at recess and lunch on wet weather days. It is great to see our children playing games together in a screen-free environment. This week in one classroom children were playing a variety of games: Jenga, Uno, Lego, construction, drawing games and Bingo. There were smiles and laughter around the room as the children had fun together. If you haven’t taught your children a new card game or board game it might be a great family time opportunity on the weekend. The children in turn may then be able to teach their peers a new game on the next wet weather day.
ReGrow: Thank you for the 2L milk bottles that are being sent to school to support the repotting of 400 plants that our students are helping to grow. Several classes, with leadership from 56K took up the offer from the BVSC to be involved in the ReGrow program helping to grow, then donate/gift plants to members of the community who were impacted by the bushfires. In coming weeks the students will repot all the plants and continue to nurture their growth, then we will be making plans for the donating of these plants to help regrow parts of our Valley. Thank you to the BVSC for the initiative and to our St Pat’s classes who are supporting this project! Please keep sending in the clean 2L milk bottles.
Class Allocation 2021: In 2021 we will have 10 classes at St Patrick’s. The class structure will be:
Please read the St Patrick’s Class Allocation Policy to understand the process we undertake during Term 4 for student placement in classes for the following year.
A prayer for our week as Parents and Teachers:
“God, our Father, You see Your children growing up in an uncertain and confusing world.May Your ways be obvious to them in the manner in which we live our lives.
Amen.”
Blessings,
Jo