Newsletter 74- October 28th 2022

We remember in prayer:

Those whose lives have been disrupted

Those who are feeling vulnerable and weak

Those who are facing both long-term and short-term needs

Those who are homeless 

We pray also for all those who are meeting needs at this time:

Volunteers and community workers

Those working to people 

Those working to clear roadways and homes that have been damaged

Police officers, emergency personnel, medical and social welfare responders

We make all our prayers in the name of Jesus, who reached out always to those most in need.

 AMEN.

Imagine that every child has a cup that needs to be filled – with affection, love, security, and attention.  Some seem to have a full cup most of the time, or know good ways to get a refill.  But most children get a little nervous when their cups get near empty…… How can I help my child fill up their cup?  (Please see the picture attached above). As we enter Term 4 and shift towards the end of the school year for 2022, people's emotional cup is slowly emptying. This is a gentle reminder to continue to be kind and compassionate towards others and yourself. 

Assembly:

It is fantastic to once again have our Friday school assemblies happening. Assembly starts at 2:50pm every Friday afternoon in the hall. All family and community members are welcome. 

Assembly roster for term 4:

Week 4  - Senior M

Week 5- Middle B

Week 6 - Foundation

Week 7 - Junior R

Week 8 - Senior M

Week 9 - Middle B

Week 10 - Middle H

Week 11 - Buddy & Foundation

Professional Development:

At St Patrick’s Primary School we are committed to the Professional Development of our team.  At various times staff members will be working off-site or online which may result in classroom teachers being out of the classroom.

Term 4 Week 5:

2/11/22         Ms M Comitti, Miss L Comitti, Mrs Harney 8-10am  The Writing Revolution

4/11/22        Ms M Comitti      8-10am              The Writing Revolution

End of year celebration - Save the date

Wednesday 14th December, 2022.  

Our next community celebration where we can come together will be to celebrate our end of year and Grade 6 Graduation.  It will be an evening to celebrate learning, strive for personal excellence and celebrate our achievements. It will also be a chance to say goodbye to our grade 6 students and families that will be leaving at the end of 2022.  

Students will begin working on a classroom Christmas presentation that they will perform on the night.  We hope you can join us in celebrating a terrific year of learning and teaching and growing together as a community of learners.

More details to come. 

Written by: Lulu, Grace, Isabelle and Torah

Maths: On Tuesday, students in grade 5 and 6 completed their Pat M tests. Every student did incredibly well and improved so much since our last Pat tests in April. Some students also completed the year above them for Pat Maths as an extension. By Grace

Reading: In 5/6M we have been reading a novel called “Trash” which is based on three boys in the Philippines living in a town called “Behala”. They are boys that pick up trash for a living and solve problems. We also had our Pat R tests which we all received fantastic results. By Lulu

Writing: We wrote a descriptive paragraph or more about our personal “Special Place”. Some of us managed to put these paragraphs in a book which we may read to the foundation class. By Lulu

Inquiry: Our main topic in inquiry lately has been Individuality and how we as people can be individuals. We also discussed and shared what we thought the creation story meant to us.  ByLulu and Isabelle

Spelling: During Spelling we’ve been learning about prepositions, at the beginning of the lesson we had no idea what they were until Ms Comitti told us we use them everyday in our Writing. By Isabelle 

Religion: An upcoming event is 'Socktober', socktober is a day where you bring a gold coin donation. Our grade sixes will be hosting some events for the day, the activities are played using socks. To play you will need a coin, if you don't have any you can still play, but we would really appreciate it if you bought a donation to help raise money for Ethiopia. 

By Torah

Science: In science we have been studying  energy. We learnt about the different types of energy, some are kinetic, heat and light energy. By Lulu and Grace

Sacraments: If there are any families that would like their child to celebrate the Sacrament of Eucharist this year and I have not made contact with could you please contact me as soon as possible.

Happy Diwali to our Hindi faith families. 

Diwali, also known as Festival of Lights, is one of the most celebrated Hindu festivals, commemorating the victory of good over evil. Diwali means ‘row of lamps/lights’ and refers to the rows of lamps celebrants place around their homes or on top of temples.

St Vinnies Winter Food appeal 

Please find following an email we received from Stawell’s St Vincent de Paul Conference regarding our recent non-perishable food donation: 

“The Stawell conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society thanks all the school families who have been able to donate groceries towards helping those in need in our community.  Your kindness helps us to help approx. 200 families in need each year.  When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully everyone is blessed.  Thankyou for blessing us.”

Mary-Rita Thomas  Stawell St Vincent de Paul Conference 

Fundraising: Every Friday our Social Justice group will be selling Zooper Doopers for $1.00 each.

October is World Mission Month, a month dedicated to the life-giving work of missionaries around the world.  This year Catholic Mission is raising money for local communities in Ethiopia to help provide life-changing opportunities to those most in need.  

If you would like more information or wish to make a donation please visit:

https://www.catholicmission.org.au/worldmissionmonth

October is World Mission Month 

What is mission month?

Here in Australia, October marks World Mission Month, a celebration of the global work of the Church and the dedication of missionaries, both religious and lay, as they reach out and support children and communities in need around the world.

Catholic mission strives to empower school communities by celebrating and engaging with mission through a Head, Heart and Hands model (pictured above):  

Head - our knowledge

Heart - deep reflective thinking 

Hands - ability of us as individuals and community to be a positive difference in the world. 

Monday October 31st - Socktober activities for Catholic Mission Ethiopia fundraiser. 

We are celebrating Catholic Mission with a Socktober event which our Grade 5/6 are busy organising.  Why socktober?  In reality many children around the world are not as fortunate as us to have balls to play with.  Socktober weaves the value of sports games but also reminding students that we have the power to change injustice and imbalance in the world. 

Activities will take place in the 4th session on Monday. Students are encouraged to wear colourful or crazy socks to promote Socktober. 

If possible students are asked to bring along some coins to participate in the activities.   Games range from “sock cricket”, “sock puppets”, “sockthrow’, “foxy socks”, “sock dodge”, “sock catch” and lots more. 

All money raised will go towards Catholic Mission Ethiopia appeal. 

As always we thank our St Patrick’s community for your support. 

Maryanne Comitti  Religious Education Leader

Marley Carlsen-For the sensational work you’re doing with your writing. I am very proud of all your hard work Marley!

Max Lasslett-For the incredible amounts of effort you’re putting into all learning areas! Keep up the wonderful work Max.

Jayson Daniel-For the wonderful reading you have been doing.  Your fluency has improved so much. Keep up the hard work!

Mason Whitfield-For the excellent learning choices you have been making.  You have been working hard and have also been a great helper.  I am so proud of you! 

Willow Boylan-For the excellent understanding you are showing when working with 3 digit numbers. Well done Willow!

Lenny Field-For displaying excellent problem solving skills when working with different Mathematical situations! Very impressive Lenny, well done!

Harper Bibby-For the fantastic writing you have been doing with your OREO paragraphs. Keep it up!

Archie MacPherson-For the great efforts you have been putting into improving your joined handwriting skills. Well done

Kobe Power-For the wonderful persuasive writing you have been using in your persuasive text. You have been engaged and focused throughout. You have shown the attributes of a great learner.

Emily Nutting-For the great emotive language you have used in your OREO paragraphs. You continue to grow and improve in all that you do. Keep up the wonderful effort!

Archer Crouch -For the positive mindset you have been bringing to the classroom and for input into all classroom discussions. You are a superstar

Maya Sanderson- For your growing confidence in sharing your learning and the hard work you have been putting into your writing

Edward Redford-For your great result in your recent Pat Maths assessment. Keep working hard!

Azariah Ciavatta-For your great result in your recent Pat Maths assessment. Great work Azariah!

Congratulations to these students who are having their birthday this week:

Jayde Lowe

Texas Davenport

Jack Wadge

Zach Ford