Thursday 7 December 2017

Week 9, Term 4, 2017


St Patrick’s Community Christmas Carols


The gentle strains of ‘Silent night, Holy night’ fill the air and our hearts. The Christmas season is upon us!
At 6pm on Wednesday the 13th of December the St.Patrick’s community will gather to recount the story of Jesus’ birth and sing along to some new and traditional Christmas carols. All children are expected to participate as this is a whole school celebration. Please notify jhawkins@spmurrumbeena.catholic.edu.au if your child is unable to attend.

 At St Patrick’s we have a tradition of donating gifts at Christmas to charitable organisations. This year we are supporting a local Melbourne group, the Holy Spirit of Freedom community, which works with the homeless and street kids in the CBD of Melbourne.
Suggestions of gifts that will best meet the needs of this group at Christmas time: Small Christmas cake, 2 packets of Tim Tams, 2 Packets of diabetic lollies, Small bottles of shampoo and conditioner, Small boxes of chocolates, Men’s deodorant, Ladies deodorant
Men’s socks, Tinned ham, Fruit mince pies, Sports socks, Ladies handkerchiefs, Men’s handkerchiefs, Tin of biscuits, Packet of lollies
The gifts do not need to be wrapped, however, if you wish to wrap your gift could you please label what is inside. Please bring the gifts on the night of the Carols and place them under the Christmas tree.
The children are asked to arrive and be seated with their class by 5.45pm to ensure our Carols night can begin promptly at 6pm. All audience members are reminded to BYO a chair or blanket and enjoy the event in comfort. Everyone is encouraged to wear a touch of Christmas to create a truly Christmassy atmosphere!
In support of the children, please bring family and friends along to attend this wonderful occasion to celebrate the birth of Christ.

Staff News for 2018

We will sadly be farewelling Brigid Little and Cathy Landsdowne at the end of this year. Congratulations to Brigid on her appointment as Project Officer for the Disaster and Resilience Education Network. After ten years here, Cathy is taking on a new teaching position at St Patrick's in Mentone. We congratulate them both on their new roles and thank them for their service to our school. As a result, there will be some changes to the nominated class teachers for our children for 2018. I wish to thank our teaching team for their flexibility and willingness to accomodate our children's needs with the changes.

Special thanks to the very experienced team of Marg O' Dwyer and Kerryn Oliver who will take over Brigid's Year 6 class for 2018. The planned 6L class will now be known as 6O. Marg and Kerryn will continue to work closely with Matt Hale and 6H for 2018.

We will be appointing a new full time teacher to 3L and will inform the children and parents as soon as the appointment is made.

Here are the revised class teachers for 2018:

6H Matt Hale
6O Marg O'Dwyer, Kerryn Oliver
5M Lisa Maraschiello
5 J Paul Jones
4W Fiona Walsh, Bern Gallagher
4V Wendy Verstoep, Bec Maddocks
4P Clare Petrovich, Maria Lucas
3O Nicole O'Halloran
3L New teacher to be appointed
2T Paige Tomlins
2M Ange Mason, Bern Gallagher
1M Anne Mullan, Jacinta Minter
1W Kim Whitfield
Prep C Helen Curry, Maria Blair-Smith
Prep Y Angela Yates, Katherine Hadaway

We will also be farewelling Jill Hannan who has been teaching in a part time role at St Patrick's for seven years, Gayle Butler a dedicated Learning Support Officer (LSO) for 11 years who is retiring and Lisa Younger who joined us this year in the LSO role and is returning to Sydney. We thank these staff members for their dedication and commitment to our school community and wish them all well in the future.

Our specialist teaching program PE ( Michelle Barclay), Music (Marg O'Dwyer), Library (Bernadette Wood) and Italian (Veronica Sciulli) will continue in 2018 with the addition of E-learning (Bec Maddocks) as a specialist subject to further support the requirements of the Victorian Digital Curriculum.



Report of the Youth Leadership Graduation Night on 28th November 2017

Congratulations to all the students who graduated from the Advanced Presentation Skills Youth Leadership Course on Tuesday 28th November.   All students impressed their teachers and families with a very high standard of Prepared Speeches, Off the Cuff Speeches and evaluations.  Students who delivered Audio Visual presentations handled them in a very mature manner with excellent timing of their slides.

45 students were awarded their certificates of completion. Trophies were awarded to:


5M
5J

Best Speech

Maggie Anderson

Nikolas Popovic
Best Off the Cuff Speaker

Christian Saito

Emily Tippett

Best Evaluator

Jessica Newman

Damian Middleton

Most Improved

Mackenzie Pickering

Daniela Pino

Special thanks to the Masters of Ceremonies, Matt Rosas and Ainsley Joy for their fine efforts. The Off the Cuff Presenters, Jessica Newman and Lana Cannatello were well prepared with excellent questions and superb control of their respective audiences.

Thank you to all the students who participated in the Entertainment Segments including two dance pieces from 5M “Stronger”and “What makes you Beautiful,” joke tellers and we also learnt the 15 Happiest Facts in the World!

A very big thank you to Miss Maraschiello and Mr Jones who encouraged and supported the students work and helped make the evening a success – The Principal, Ms Hawkins and two parents (Mr Tesoriero and Mr Brooks) also responded to “Off the Cuff” questions.  Thank you for participating.  Thank you to Mrs Wood and Miss Karen not only for attending but for helping on the judging panel.  The standard of work seems to be getting better each year, making it very difficult to select the recipients for the trophies.

The team efforts of the students and teachers alike were much appreciated. I have enjoyed witnessing an incredible level of camaraderie and support between all the students, as I did with the grade six students.  I believe your support and positive comments to each other aided in the increase in confidence and improvement in the standard of work and I certainly hope the school can maintain this culture for many years to come.

Thank you all for your dedication in becoming confident, vibrant and at times humorous young presenters.  I’d like to finish by saying how impressed I was with the enthusiasm of all the students.  Not only was the work standard incredibly high, but your manners and level of maturity was very evident.  Well done grade five !

Sandra de Geest


ST PATRICK'S COMMUNITY NOTICES

The 2018 St Pats Dads Golf Day has been booked.

Next year our talent will be on display at the Flinders Golf Club in Flinders. Great course, lunch spot ideal and guaranteed cold beer. What could go wrong!!

The day will consist of a similar agenda to this year that included 4 ball Ambrose, lunch, bus to the course and back, prizes and drinks. 2 full size buses have been booked to accommodate 80 spots that have been booked. First in will secure the positions.

Date: Friday 23rd March 2018
Course: Flinders Golf Course
Cost: $160
If you would like to be part of the fun please send an email to Andrew Pickering apickering@ebosgroup.com.au to book your spot.

IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES:

Mon 11th December     Music Concerts by Prep Y, 1M, 3O & 3W @ 2.05pm
                                                                    by Prep C, 1W & 3L @ 2.50pm
Wed 13th December     Carols Night 6-7 pm

Thu 14th December     Music Melodies Concert 9-11 am
Mon18th December     Year 6 Graduation
Wed 20th December     Last day for 2017.  End of the Year Mass @ 9 am, Assembly @ 12 pm
Children dismissed @1pm

School resumes in 2018 as follows:
Tues  30th January        Staff return
Wed   31st January        Students year 1 -6 return
Thurs 1st February       Preps commence














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