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Issue 35

10 November 2016

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This Week

From the Principal


World Teachers' Day


Teaching & Learning

Term 4 Exam Timetable


Identity

Paddies' Van and Tutoring Roster 15-19 November


Students

Student Wellbeing


Sport

Inside Scoop in Sport


Sport Support Group Meeting


Culture

Week 35 in Culture


Community

Save the Date


Tuckshop Roster November


Uniform Shop


This Week

From the Principal

On Monday morning, the staff and students of the College had the opportunity to farewell and thank our Year 12 students and their parents and families for the final time as a whole College assembly. At the beginning of the assembly, Mr Tim Kenny started with the St Patrick’s Breastplate prayer. In his prayer, St Patrick recognises that Christ surrounds us and is everything that we think and do. In my address to the departing students, I took the opportunity to thank them for what they have done for our College throughout their years with us but particularly in...

On Monday morning, the staff and students of the College had the opportunity to farewell and thank our Year 12 students and their parents and families for the final time as a whole College assembly. At the beginning of the assembly, Mr Tim Kenny started with the St Patrick’s Breastplate prayer. In his prayer, St Patrick recognises that Christ surrounds us and is everything that we think and do. In my address to the departing students, I took the opportunity to thank them for what they have done for our College throughout their years with us but particularly in their final year of student leadership. There was much to say about their great efforts particularly those of Zachary Harmer, Richard Cook and Liam Jacobsen as their elected student leaders.

In my address, I also reminded the young men of the St Patrick’s prayer and our calling to be “Christ-like” people. To me the meaning of being Christ-like is best described in the following passage …

We are called to be Christ’s hands, words and presence in our world today. We are to be Him; feeding the hungry. Those who are hungry for bread, for understandingfor love. We are to be Christ filling the hunger of those who need to be wanted,those who need to be somebody to somebody. We are called to be His touch and smilethat calms fears and fills the loneliness of being unwanted and unloved. Ourwords will be His words, encouraging, guiding, supporting, building up, notbreaking down. Our ears will be His, listening to those who need to unburdenthemselves. Our hands and smile and words will welcome, support and heal and in doing so, Christ will welcome, support and heal.

It is in our words and actions that we can be Christ-like to others and how we will see our God in them. As a Catholic community, we will always endeavour to ensure that these words and actions become reality in how we do things. We may not always be perfect at it, but we will always try to be authentic to the call.

Monday's assembly and farewell tunnel was a wonderful way for us to thank the senior group. I am sure that the many parents and families that were able to attend were very proud of their son’s achievements over the years at the College and were impressed by the way our student body farewelled them from the College.

Last Friday evening, we held our Celebration of Excellence Evening. It was wonderful to see so many young men attend and receive awards. I would particularly like to thank the many staff members who were responsible for the planning and presentation of the evening. I am sure that all who attended were impressed by the standards of our musicians and choral performances. I have no doubt that such performances will only further improve into the future. There are two significant dimensions to this evening. Firstly, our students who have worked hard and achieved strong academic results receive recognition for their efforts. This recognition aligns success in studies alongside other events such as co-curricular achievements. Teaching and Learning has always been the core business of schools and such an event, attended by all of the staff and senior students along with the award recipients reinforces this point. Secondly, it allows us to continue to enhance the understanding that doing well in studies is very much a part of the culture of our student body. Unfortunately, I was disappointed to see so many parents and students leave the venue straight after their son received an award. We have planned (and will continue to plan) this evening to be over as close to two hours as possible. A significant number of the students from the younger grades were taken from the event and this prevented them from recognising the efforts of their fellow students and also the finale of the evening highlighting our senior students. In future, it would be our aim to ensure that all students remain a part of the evening until its conclusion.

The final two weeks of the term could be quiet stressing for our students. In all year levels they will have assessment items due and exams to undertake. I am sure that all parents know what works for their son in regard to planning and preparation for these weeks without them becoming too stressed. Certainly, in regard to young men, organisation and practice (study) is a significant key to success during these weeks. How each young man gets organised and well drilled is usually an individual thing. However, I am sure that as their parents, you would be well aware if they actually have the skills to be able to do this or “talk up a big game” but cannot deliver on what is said. I would encourage all parents to start the conversations with their sons around how and what they have planned to be ready for their exams. In some cases, I am sure your assistance might need to be a little more energetic than others. At the end of the semester we all want each young man to have tried to the best of his abilities and the results on his report to be a true indication of his abilities at this point in time.

It is our usual practice to run our exam block right to the end of the term as we believe that this best allows us to maximise teaching and learning time. Usually, towards the end of each term I receive a number of requests from families to withdraw their sons early from the College. In many of these instances there is a request for their son to complete his assessment earlier than the rest of the student body. It has always been the position of the College that students remain at school until the very end wherever possible. I do understand that on some occasions that there may be family circumstances that do not allow this. However, I would request that families that wish to withdraw their son early so that they can begin their holiday break early to please reconsider this practice as it can inadvertently give the young men a feeling that their schooling may not be as important. This can cause them greater stresses as they move into the older grades. It is not possible for a student to complete any exams before the rest of their cohort for our assessment security reasons. This means that any students who miss exams in the finals days will not have the final assessment piece as a part of their report and will receive a grade based on the work that they have done to that point in time. The assessment can be completed during the staff week if the student has returned or recovered from illness if it is possible for the teacher to mark it within the report deadline times.

Please keep Mr Murray Schultz and Mr John Zappala in your thoughts and prayers. Murray has just undergone a serious knee operation and is recovering well at this stage. John is undergoing open heart by- pass surgery today. This was a sudden discovery and operation and John will be absent from the College for the remainder of the year.

I hope that everyone enjoys a calm and rewarding final two weeks of the academic calendar.

God Bless

Mr Chris Mayes - College Principal

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World Teachers' Day

World Teachers’ Day is usually recognised in Queensland towards the end of October and this year it was Friday 28 October. It is now widely accepted thanks to John Hattie’s meta-analyses that teachers have the greatest ‘in school’ impact on student achievement. He has also recently written a paper highlighting his concern that within-school variance is of greater significance than between-school variance. In other words, a student’s progress is significantly impacted upon by the quality of the teaching. I have only been at St Patrick’s College a short time, but I have already been witness to the...

World Teachers’ Day is usually recognised in Queensland towards the end of October and this year it was Friday 28 October. It is now widely accepted thanks to John Hattie’s meta-analyses that teachers have the greatest ‘in school’ impact on student achievement. He has also recently written a paper highlighting his concern that within-school variance is of greater significance than between-school variance. In other words, a student’s progress is significantly impacted upon by the quality of the teaching. I have only been at St Patrick’s College a short time, but I have already been witness to the tireless work of our teaching staff. They are one of the most giving and hard working group of people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Our boys are extremely fortunate to have this calibre of professionals sharing their educational journey.

Watching and listening to our Year 12 students yesterday at their final assembly, it was obvious they agreed. So many boys have written notes of gratitude to their teachers or publically acknowledged the influence their teachers have had. The level of emotion and number of hugs of goodbye were clear indicators that the relationship between our staff and students is extremely positive. I’m sure I speak on behalf of all the teachers here when I say we always farewell our students with pride, and a touch of sadness. As the Year 12 students have now experienced, it is not easy to say goodbye. Good teachers do not see their role as a ‘job’; it is a vocation and a noble profession and they are truly invested in the working relationships with their students. Every year teachers must say goodbye to a cohort; it is never easy but at the same time it is lovely to know that another group of young men will be leaving our gates equipped to contribute positively to society. I extend my congratulations to all the teachers here at St Patrick’s for the incredible work they do. We are a truly blessed community.

Ms Elizabeth Gaber - Dean of Administration and Business Intelligence

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Teaching & Learning

Term 4 Exam Timetable

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Identity

Paddies' Van and Tutoring Roster 15-19 November

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Students

Student Wellbeing

This week, I would like to share an article written by Michael Grose, which focuses on earning the right and not assuming a sense of entitlement is a life lesson that as parents, teachers and coaches we must instil in children.

Earning the Right: by Michael Grose

I hope you enjoy.

Fight the good fight

Darren Kearney – Dean of Students


This week, I would like to share an article written by Michael Grose, which focuses on earning the right and not assuming a sense of entitlement is a life lesson that as parents, teachers and coaches we must instil in children.

Earning the Right: by Michael Grose

I hope you enjoy.

Fight the good fight

Darren Kearney – Dean of Students


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Sport

Inside Scoop in Sport

During Assembly this week I spoke to the students about maintaining ‘balance’ in their life with specific reference to participating in the various College activities on offer. Mr Ryan Schultz, who is the Sports Development & Performance Coordinator is currently working with a number of students to ensure their academic and sport workload at the College is sustainable. Students and parents are invited to contact Mr Schultz to discuss sport participation in 2017.

Sign On Process

Sign on for 2017 Cricket (Years 5-12) & Volleyball (Years 7-12) is currently underway. As we have communicated to parents, there is a...

During Assembly this week I spoke to the students about maintaining ‘balance’ in their life with specific reference to participating in the various College activities on offer. Mr Ryan Schultz, who is the Sports Development & Performance Coordinator is currently working with a number of students to ensure their academic and sport workload at the College is sustainable. Students and parents are invited to contact Mr Schultz to discuss sport participation in 2017.

Sign On Process

Sign on for 2017 Cricket (Years 5-12) & Volleyball (Years 7-12) is currently underway. As we have communicated to parents, there is a new sign on process. Parents are required to visit the Parent Portal to complete the sign on process for their son’s elected sport.

  • Log onto the parent link on the St Patrick’s College website SPC Connect Parent
  • Log onto the Parent Portal
  • Select Parent Lounge
  • Select Tours & Excursions
  • You will see a list of all sports sign on, tours and excursions that your son has been invited to participate in. An example of this is below.
  • Click on the link, where you can read further information and choose to accept or decline.
Swimming

Swimming has begun and students will sign on via their attendance during squad training sessions. Any students who currently attend swim squad sessions outside of the College should email Ms Kelsey Duke kduke@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

During the sign on process students and parents are reminded of the commitment to participate.

Further information regarding training times etc. will be emailed to all students and parents once the sign on process has been completed.

Our St Patrick’s College Swimming squad is in full swing. Training times can be accessed via Connect and the APP. A reminder for swimmers invited to attend the swim camp in January to act on the instructions to confirm their place.

Contacts for Term 1 2017 Sport

Swimming Ms Kelsey Duke kduke@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

Cricket Mr Ryan Schultz rschultz@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

Volleyball Mr Matt Grinlaubs matt.grinlaubs@gmail.com & Mr Tim Hoysted thoysted@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

Outstanding Student Achievements

Recently at the Brisbane North Junior Cricket Association cap presentation a number of our students where recognised for their selection in various representative teams for the upcoming Sate wide cricket carnivals. Good luck!

U/12 Development – Riley Doyle, Harrison Clench, Braden Volker, Charles Moore.

U/13 Championship – Ethan Bartley

U/13 Development – Matthew Lockhart, Ben Buechler.

U/15 Championship – Jet Liebke, Harrison Tonks.

And former old boy, Hamish Thompson is coaching the U/14 Development team.

Mr Doug Locke - Head of Sport

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Sport Support Group Meeting

The Sport Support Group AGM will take place on Monday, 14 November, at 6:30 pm, in the Morven Board Room.

All positions will be called vacant.

Any nominations may be sent to the Secretary, Br Chris Pritchard or nominated on the night.

The November Monthly Meeting will take place after the AGM.

Brother Chris

The Sport Support Group AGM will take place on Monday, 14 November, at 6:30 pm, in the Morven Board Room.

All positions will be called vacant.

Any nominations may be sent to the Secretary, Br Chris Pritchard or nominated on the night.

The November Monthly Meeting will take place after the AGM.

Brother Chris

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Culture

Week 35 in Culture

This week in Culture we have information from Co-curricular Music, Chess People and Advanced Life Family Portrait fundraiser.

Found after Showcase

Have you lost your glasses? We found a pair in the Christian Brothers Canteen after Showcase last week. Please contact Carmel Moir in the Cultural Office on 3361 3042 to arrange collection.

MusicJunior Theory Club

This term, we will be launching the Junior Theory Club. These study sessions are for students in Years 5-8 who would like to extend themselves by learning more about music theory. The session will be on a...

This week in Culture we have information from Co-curricular Music, Chess People and Advanced Life Family Portrait fundraiser.

Found after Showcase

Have you lost your glasses? We found a pair in the Christian Brothers Canteen after Showcase last week. Please contact Carmel Moir in the Cultural Office on 3361 3042 to arrange collection.


Music

Junior Theory Club

This term, we will be launching the Junior Theory Club. These study sessions are for students in Years 5-8 who would like to extend themselves by learning more about music theory. The session will be on a Thursday during junior lunchtime in the music rooms. If you would like more information about these sessions, or would like to put your son’s name down, please email kjensen@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

Senior Theory Club

Please remember that the Senior Theory Club will continue to run on a Friday during senior lunchtime.

Mrs Kelly Jensen - Program Leader - Music


Chess

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Cultural Support Group News - Reminder - Advanced Life Studios

A reminder that Advanced Life Studios family portrait sittings will take place in the Waterford Building on Saturday 19 November 2016. There are only a few available times slots left to take advantage of this great offer. The sitting fee is $20.00 and all proceeds raised will support the cultural activities of the College.

Mr Geoff Samuels - Head of Culture

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Community

Save the Date

St Patrick’s College Dinner Dance - Saturday 18 March, 2017

Over the Christmas holidays take the opportunity to dust off the legwarmers and tease up your hair in preparation to celebrate the best of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

Join us as we Flashback to the Ultimate Old School at the St Patrick’s College Dinner Dance on Saturday 18 March, 2017. It’s guaranteed to be the social highlight of the St Patrick’s College calendar and is a great night for parents to spend time with one another. Hope you can join us. More details to follow...

St Patrick’s College Dinner Dance - Saturday 18 March, 2017

Over the Christmas holidays take the opportunity to dust off the legwarmers and tease up your hair in preparation to celebrate the best of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

Join us as we Flashback to the Ultimate Old School at the St Patrick’s College Dinner Dance on Saturday 18 March, 2017. It’s guaranteed to be the social highlight of the St Patrick’s College calendar and is a great night for parents to spend time with one another. Hope you can join us. More details to follow in the New Year.

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Tuckshop Roster November

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Uniform Shop

2016 EXTENDED TRADING HOURS21 to 25 NOVEMBER : 9:00AM-3:30PM 28 NOVEMBER to 1 DECEMBER : 9:00AM-3:30PM. Term time trading hours:

Tues 12-4pm, Wed 10am-2pm, Thurs 7.30-11.30am

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are needed for January, if you can assist please contact the Uniform shop.


uniformshop@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

(P) 3631 9055

2016 EXTENDED TRADING HOURS

  • 21 to 25 NOVEMBER : 9:00AM-3:30PM
  • 28 NOVEMBER to 1 DECEMBER : 9:00AM-3:30PM.

Term time trading hours:

Tues 12-4pm, Wed 10am-2pm, Thurs 7.30-11.30am

VOLUNTEERS

Volunteers are needed for January, if you can assist please contact the Uniform shop.

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uniformshop@stpatricks.qld.edu.au

(P) 3631 9055

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