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Dear Parents
Principal, Shamrock and St Patrick’s Awards
Congratulations to the following students who will receive their Principal, Shamrock or St Patrick’s Awards at our End of term Assembly. If you believe your child should be receiving one of these awards, and their name is not on the list, please contact the office by Friday 15 September.
Principal Awards: Bridgette Blacker, Hudson Tanevski, Mila Treneska, Rixon Vanderburg, Leah Dragarski, Gabriel Hill, Caitlin Lock, Rory Meizer, Amelie Mineeff, Bella-Rose Burns, Ellirah Gavin, Imogen Aquilina, Delilah Calleja, Kora Gebauer, Lucas Peoples, Simona Stojcevski, Vivianne Theodosiadis.
Shamrock Awards: Evie Agius, Lara D’Angola, Jackson Harb, Marko Milenkovic, Annika Cieplucha, Dean Dragarski.
St Patrick’s Awards: Leena Carolan, Kimora Markovski, Tiarna Di Ciaccio, Christian Naumovski.
Please join us for our end of Term Assembly on Friday 22 September. If you would like to collect your child immediately after the assembly concludes, please complete the following form to assist with dismissal by Thursday 22 September.
Summer Uniforms
Students may continue to have the option to wear either Summer or Winter Uniforms this term, however, we ask that all students return to school in Term 4 in their Summer Uniform.
In the explicit teaching lessons, the expected behaviours taught will be:
Please:
1.Use good manners – Excuse me, please, thank you, may I.
2.Wait quietly and patiently until attended to.
3.Remain in the student foyer
4.Return ice-packs when you have finished with them
Examples of behaviours that negatively impact on Respectful, Responsible and Safe
engagement with staff in the Administration Building to be taught include:
1.Using bad manners
2.Interrupting/being impatient
3.Leaving the Student Foyer
4.Not returning your ice-pack
Our PB4L/SEL focus for Week 10 will be: Calling Out and Calling In Disrespect
In the explicit teaching lessons, the expected behaviours taught will be:
You are being disrespectful with the words you are using.
That’s not the way we talk here at our school.
You are being disrespectful in what you are doing.
That’s not the way we behave here at our school.
You are excluding him/her from your game.
That’s not the way we treat people here at our school.
You are being unsafe in the way you’re playing.
We keep our hands, feet, and objects to ourselves here at our school.
You are not respecting other people’s property/boundaries.
We ask for permission here at our school.
You are treating him/her differently.
We treat each other equally here at our school.
We would very much appreciate your discussing these weekly focuses with your children and reviewing the expected and non-acceptable behaviours in our endeavour to see that St Patrick’s is a more respectful, responsible, and safe learning community for all.
PB4L Data
It is with pride that I inform you that over the last two weeks 45 students were given
Citizenship, Merit, Library or Uniform Awards or Playground Affirmation Awards whilst there were only 2 incidents of Inappropriate behaviour recorded.
Mr Gavan Hoctor - Assistant Principal
In very exciting news, one of our Year 3 students, Audrey Woods, recently received the sacrament of First Holy Communion at St John Vianney’s Catholic Parish in Fairy Meadow. A number of staff members were able to join in the celebration with Audrey and her family as she received theEucharist for the first time. Congratulations on your First Holy Communion Audrey!
A gentle reminder that enrolment forms for eligible First Holy Communion candidates will be given out at Mass at Holy Family Windang on Saturday September 16 at 5pm, and at St Patrick’s Catholic Parish Mass on Sunday September 17 at 9am. The parent information session will then be held on Thursday September 21 at 7pm in the Parish Office.
If you have any enquiries about the First Holy Communion program, please contact the Parish Office.
Spiritual Reflection -Season of Creation
Let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Amos 5: 24
These words from the prophet Amos call to us as we begin the Season of Creation, a time when Christians around the world, from across denominations, commit the month of September as a season to celebrate God’s beautiful Earth and renew our shared commitment to preserving and restoring that beauty.
The season begins on 1 September, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, and ends on 4 October, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi.
This year we come together for this season at a time of extreme temperatures, where we have witnessed flooding and blazing fires across the Northern Hemisphere and the month of July has been marked as the world's hottest month on record. These extreme records have coincided with Antarctic sea ice dropping to a record winter low, a record that has scientists deeply concerned and has led António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, to state that we are seeing the era of global warming ending and the era of global boiling arrive. For us in Australia, it is highly likely that we too may experience another black summer bushfire season which is both confronting and frightening.
As we hold the deep grief and lament of witnessing these climate ‘milestones’ we know our collective calls for urgent action are more important than ever. In his Message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 2023, Pope Francis reminds us that, We can and we must prevent the worst from happening. Truly, much can be done provided we come together like so many streams, brooks and rivulets, merging finally in a mighty river to irrigate the life of our marvellous planet and our human family for generations to come. So let us join hands and take bold steps to Let Justice and Peace Flow throughout our world. During this Season of Creation we are invited to join the river of justice and peace on behalf of all Creation and to converge our individual identities in this greater movement for justice, just like tributaries come together to form a mighty river. As the people of God, we must work together on behalf of all Creation, as part of that mighty river of peace and justice creating hope instead of
despair. May we be people of action and of prayer…
Excerpt from 2023 Season of Creation Prayer
Open our hearts to receive the living waters of God’s justice and peace, and to share it with our suffering brothers and sisters, all creatures around us, and all creation.
Bless us to walk together with all people of good will so that the many streams of the living waters of God’s justice and peace may become a mighty river all over the Earth.
In the name of the One who came to proclaim good news to all creation, Jesus Christ.
Amen
Kind regards,
Mr Sam Mattas
Religious Education Coordinator
