Dear Parents,

This week is our final week of Term 2 as we head into the July school holidays. What a term it has been with Remote Learning at the start of the term and then the transition back to face to face teaching. We are grateful that it has been an extremely smooth transition back to regular classroom learning and that the students have adapted so well to the changes we have faced. We pray that our community continues to remain healthy and COVID safe.

Our St Patrick’s promotional enrolment video is now up on our school website page. We will place it on our Facebook page shortly as well. Our school captains plus Lane (Kindergarten) and Eliza (Year 1) feature in our video. It gives a brief snapshot about some of the wonderful qualities of St Patrick’s School. Please direct any family, friends and community members to our website page if they wish to enrol a child for 2020.

Last week St Patrick’s School hosted the WR Principal’s meeting here in Gundagai with 12 regional Principal’s and 3 CE staff attending. The Principal’s were highly complimentary of our beautiful school facilities as well as the incredible view we have from our school grounds overlooking Gundagai. It was a most successful meeting. Many thanks to our School Captains (Asha, Sadie, Sam and Will) who welcomed the visitors and the Hospitality Hosts (Maggie, Will and Finlay) for their wonderful work in serving the food and assisting our caterer Ms Sharon Owers from The 3rd Bird Catering.

Thank you to parents for making the most of the opportunity to come along to our Parent/Teacher meetings throughout the week.  It was great to see so many parents engaged in this virtual process of ensuring school and home support the education of all our students. 

St Patrick's community extend our most sincere congratulations to Fr George on the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of his Ordination into the priesthood.  We are so grateful to have Fr George as part of our school and parish community and extend our grateful thanks to him, for all his hard work and commitment to our school and students. Congratulations Fr George. 

Term 3 will resume on Tuesday 21^st July for all our students. Staff members will resume on Monday 20^th July, joining the WR schools for a spirituality day with Fr Richard Leonard, via zoom.

Wishing everyone a wonderful restful holiday and an opportunity to recharge for Term 3.

Christine Baron

Principal

Another term has come to an end and what a term it has been! I think everyone is feeling rather weary and looking forward to the holidays.

End of Term Prayer

We thank you Lord, for this term.

For the challenges, the successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt.

Be with us as we spend our time with family and friends.

Give us strength and courage to do what is right: to be witnesses of our faith.

Help us to be a practical Christian these holidays,

to appreciate what others do for us,

to give time and effort to help others.

To be peacemakers in our family.

Keep us safe in our activities; give us good rest and good fun.

Bring us back refreshed and ready for a new term.

We thank you for our classmates, teachers, parents

And a community that cares for us.

May we always be conscious of you in our lives. Amen

Altar Servers for the holidays 

Saturday 4^th of July: Sadie and Lachy Eccleston

Saturday 11^th of July: William Gaskin and Ollie Gailey

Saturday 18^th of July: Jess McDonnell and Eliza Hargreaves

Thank you, Children and Parents, for your continued support for this special ministry.

I wish you all a very happy, relaxing and safe holiday.

Kate Howe REC

Gundagai Parish:

Parish dinner on July 18th (last Saturday of the holidays) after 5pm Mass to celebrate Fr George’s 10th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood.

If anyone would like to attend it is $20 pp  or $50 per family including dinner and gift contribution.  If anyone can not make it but would like to contribute please contact the Madeline Ryan at gundagai@cg.org.au.

This Friday sees the return of our ever popular Meat Raffle at Lotts Familly Hotel. 

The meat raffle roster for the next 3 Fridays will be: 

Friday 3rd July: John Morgan and Tim Ryan

Friday 10th July: John Morgan and Pete Gailey

Friday 17th July: Tom Gaskin and Brad Smith

If you are keen to jump on board and join this Friday night social get together please send the office an email confirming your interest or contact Lauren Gailey who will ensure your name is on the roster for future draws. 

We are very excited to have gymnastics beginning week 2 Monday 27 July for all students.  Ben Sharp from Little Champions” Wagga will conduct skill sessions in the school hall.

Students will need to wear their sports uniform every Monday up to and including week 6 Monday 24 August.

SPORTS DAY- Thursday

We will also continue to conduct our usual Thursday sport  each week.  Sports uniform will need to be worn.

MORTIMER SHIELD / TRENT BARRETT  Rugby League

Adam Perry from NRL has confirmed that Mortimer Shield will go ahead next term but due to COVID-19 this year’s day we will be purely about fun, being involved and getting active again. Below are some dates we have started working on for the different age groups.

- Week 6 of Term 3 – Under 12’s (Usually Mortimer Shield) Boys Tackle, Girls Tackle (New option for the day..) and Girls League Tag in Tumut A set date will be confirmed soon.

- Year 3 & 4 Tackle and League Tag days will be held in early Term 4 2020

Please note their will be specific COVID-19 protocols being adhered to for the days.

***If we have any parents wishing to help with coaching of these teams please contact Mrs Wilson***

Year 5/6 would like to thank Michelle & David Scott, Betty Somerville and Liz Ferguson for the donation of material, wool and knitting needles for their project.  Stay tuned for updates as the class progress with their project 

In Term 3 Year 5/6 will lead the Making Jesus Real MJR sessions every Friday afternoon. They will be responsible for delivering this program to their Peer Support Group.  Each group consists of 8 students from K-6  with two 5/6 leaders.

To prepare them for this leadership role they will be involved in a 2 day Leadership program in week 1 Thursday 23 and Friday 24 July.  This will be held down in the Learning Hub with Mrs Wilson and Mrs Baron

To help deliver this leadership program our school has access to the GRIP Leadership Online Portal.  This portal  is the doorway to world-class online leadership training for school students. It contains valuable content that students will love to engage with.

THERE ARE 3 SECTIONS TO THE PORTAL

We look forward to developing and nurturing our 5/6 students leadership skills and are excited that they have opportunitiers to grow as future leaders. 

Our Student of the Month for Week 9 was held a little different to our usual celebration of learning acknowledgement.  Congratulations to all our students throughout Term 2 learning.  Week 9 Student of the Month recipients were: 

Kindergarten: Maeve Ryan

Year 1: Eliza Graham

Year 2: Harry Peterson

Year 3: Nate Tozer

Year 4: Tahlira Rose

Year 5: Jess McDonnell

Year 6: Sarah Scott

Congratulations to all students. 

We are excited to confirm that our Little Learners Program will return in week 2 of Term 3 - Friday 31st of July from 9am-11am. Tash Smith our Classroom Support Assistant will again be running this program. 

If your child is starting school in 2021 and you are free on a Friday morning then please  come and join our 2 hour playgroup activities morning.  A program will be sent out shortly of each weeks theme. 

Parents will be allowed to attend but social distancing and Covid safety precautions will be put in place.  If you are unwell we would ask that you please not attend.  

Congratulations to our Week 8 and Week 9 Class Awards 

Week 8 - Friday 19th June 

Kindergarten/Year 1 -Indi Cole for incredible volume of quality writing 

Year 2 - Isabella Boswell for reading so well - Keep it up !

Year 3/4 - Ellie McDonnell for her effort and application to fractions 

Year 5/6 - Jezanna Winchester for her continued persistence to improve and publish creative pieces of writing 

Week 9 - Friday 26th June 

Kindergarten/Year 1 - Conor Cotterill for trying so hard to improve sentence structures 

Year 2 - Denver Blundell for trying very hard to do his learning tasks 

Year 3/4 - Garvita Joshi for her inititive and organisation of the colouring competition

Year 5/6 - Finlay Bock for his mature insight and collaboration on an iMovie promoting our school 

Congratulations to our Week 8 and Week 9 Wildcat Awards

Week 8 

RESPONSIBLE - Joseph Gailey, Taite Johnson x 2 and Indi Cole 

RESPECT - Tahlira Rose, Leila Gaskin, Conor Cotterill, Zoe Morgan, Corby Rose

SAFE - James Reardon 

Week 9 

RESPONSIBLE - Skye Somerville, Archie McDonnell, Harry Peterson, Andrew Cole, Tyler Manns, Essie Norden x2

We have had a few birthday celebrations since our last newsletter and we would like to extend those birthday wishes to all our students and hope you all had a wonderful day 

21st June - Eliza Graham

25th June - James Reardon 

26th June - Addison Fairall 

27th June - Maeve Ryan and;

3rd July - Emma Ferguson