Newsletter 10 - 27th June 2024
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Principal Report
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Term Dates
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Calendar of Events
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Prep News - Mrs Jak
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Year 1 News - Mrs Meech & Mrs Bruni
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Staff News
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Midford Uniform Shop
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Reminder - Mid-Year Parent-Teacher Meetings
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Student of the Week & House Raffle Winners
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School Wide Positive Behaviour Award
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Principal Award
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Mini Vinnies Fundraiser - Can for Casual Clothes
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2025 Kinder Enrolments - Closed
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Latrobe Federal Band - Annual Winter Concert
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St Patrick’s Catholic Church
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2024 Sacramental Calendar
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Kinectic - Bus Safety
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AFL Tasmania - School Holiday Clinics
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School Holiday Tennis Camp
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2024 Tasmanian Chess Championships
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Allergy Aware School
Winter Uniforms
The cold weather has certainly set in, with the recent winter mornings being below 0 degrees with heavy frosts. Many students are coming to school in jumpers or jackets that are not part of the winter uniform or have no jacket or jumper at all. The Midford shop at Devonport stocks a long sleeve PE shirt, rugby jumpers, as well as our soft shell jackets and school jumper. Uniforms can also be ordered online and delivered to your home address. Please ensure your child has the correct winter uniform each day and is warm enough for the cold days.
We also have a lot of jackets and jumpers in our lost property bin. Many of these are without names. Please check our lost property for any missing jackets and jumpers. Please name your child’s/ uniform pieces so if they are misplaced they are easily identified.
What We Do In Our School
Mrs Catherine Dunn - Instructional Leader Religious Education (ILRE)
Instructional Leader in Religious Education (ILRE), Mrs Catherine Dunn, provides in school formation support for teachers in Catholic belief and practice. Catherine works with teachers to build knowledge in Religious Education. Teachers explore what it means to be human through a combination of religion, ethics, and personal development opportunities. They bring faith and culture together in a way that is meaningful and practical to students. They develop a range of skills to promote imagination, creativity, and the ability to take on responsibilities, to love the world and cherish justice and compassion. Catherine works towards teachers being strong in understanding in Christian traditions and the theological background of units of work; exploring the scriptures to encompass in their teaching and the delivery of Religious Education curriculum. Catherine also models highly effective religion teaching practice in each classroom.
Mrs Megan Meech - Literacy Practice Leader
Literacy Practice Leader, Mrs Megan Meech, manages our English programs and supports teachers to engage resources for effective student learning in reading, writing, grammar and spelling. Megan manages the Multilit suite of programs and the home reading program. In addition, she supports teachers in their planning, pedagogy and practice in English to ensure the students build essential skills to become literate. Megan oversees assessment practices in our English programs necessary to evaluate your child’s literacy skills.
Mrs Megan Meech & Ms Jane Stuart - Instructional Leader Teacher Practice (ILTP)
Megan also works as Instructional Leader Teacher Practice (ILTP) for our Insight Project. She works alongside Deputy Principal Mr Kurt Atkins and ILTP Ms Jane Stuart to deliver the Catholic Education System initiative, which was designed for optimal and sustained student learning and achievement. The Insight Project is founded on a knowledge rich curriculum, the Science of Learning and high impact teaching practice. Megan, Kurt and Jane work with teachers to improve teacher - student instructional skills and implement daily explicit teaching in active face to face interactive lessons. Lessons are purposeful, explicit and structured according to Rosenshine’s 10 Principles of Instruction, containing numerous frequent reviews and assessments. Increase in knowledge and ability is the ultimate goal. Lessons focus on students’ acquisition of knowledge, with the goal of permanent memory imprint and accurate long term recall. The aim is to achieve surface to deep transfer and the retrievability of knowledge.
Have a great week
Carmen Aylott
Principal
2024
Term 1 - Wednesday 7th February - Thursday 11th April
Term 2 - Monday 29th April - Friday 5th July
Term 3 - Tuesday 23rd July - Friday 27th September
Term 4 - Tuesday 15th October - Wednesday 18th December
*Student Free Days Friday 12th April, Monday 22nd July, Monday 14th October.
(Easter Break - Good Friday 29th March, Easter Monday 1st April, Easter Tuesday 2nd April. Return to school Wednesday 3rd April.)
2025
Term 1 - Friday 7th February - Thursday 10th April
Term 2 - Monday 28th April - Friday 4th July
Term 3 - Tuesday 22nd July - Friday 26th September
Term 4 - Tuesday 14th October - Thursday 18th December
*Student Free Days Friday 11th April, Monday 21st July, Monday 13th October.
(Easter - Good Friday 18th April, Easter Monday 21st April, Easter Tuesday 22nd April)
Wednesday 26th | School Assembly - All Welcome 2.15pm |
Friday 28th | Mid-Year Reports Open 3.30pm |
July
Monday 1st |
Year 6 SBSC Taster Day - 9.30am - 2.00pm Parent-Teacher Bookings - Close 9.00am |
Tuesday 2nd | Parent-Teacher Interviews 3.10pm -5.30pm |
Wednesday 3rd |
School Assembly - All Welcome 2.15pm Parent-Teacher Interviews 3.10pm -5.30pm |
Friday 5th |
Last Day - Term 2 (Students & Staff) Can for Casual Clothes Day - Mini Vinnies Fundraiser |
Monday 22nd | Student Free Day |
Tuesday 23rd | Students Return - Term 3 |
Wednesday 24th | School Assembly - All Welcome 2.15pm |
Friday 26th | Kinder Enrolment Interviews Start |
Saturday 27th | St Patrick's Soccer Canteen Duty |
2024 Board Meetings
Term 1 |
Tuesday 27th February - Annual General Meeting 6.00pm Tuesday 9th April - 6.00pm |
Term 2 |
Tuesday 21st May 6.00pm |
Term 3 |
Tuesday 13th August - 6.00pm |
Term 4 |
Tuesday 5th November - 6.00pm Tuesday 3rd December - 6.00pm |
On Wednesday the 29th of May, Prep students engaged in a wonderfully rich learning experience with Uncle Hank. We welcomed Uncle Hank by saying ' Ya pulingina' (hello, welcome) from the palawa-kani Tasmanian Aboriginal language.
Uncle Hank is a prominent member of the Aboriginal community and is deeply involved in Aboriginal education and promoting ongoing Aboriginal culture in Tasmania. Uncle Hank helped to share Aboriginal history and culture by teaching students about bush tucker and bush medicine. As you can see by the delightful photos, Prep enjoyed this experience. Thank you, Uncle Hank.
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Ms Locket will finish her final week of her practicum teaching in the Year 2 class this week. We would like to thank Ms Locket for her commitment to the year 2 class particularly during this time while Ms Zeleznik has been recovering from her accident and we wish her all the very best finalising her teaching degree. Ms Locket will return to teaching the Year 4 class Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays from Term 3.
Ms McBain who has been teaching the Year 4 class this term and Drama will be leaving us to take up a full time teaching position next term. We wish her all the best and thank her for everything during her time at St Patrick's
Ms Riordan was away on Wednesday, Thursday, and again tomorrow Mrs O'Neill taught the class today and Mrs Hayes will teach the Year 3 class tomorrow. Mrs Bellis who has been teaching the Year 5 class on a Friday is not available this Friday or next due to family commitments, Mrs O'Neill will teach the Year 5 class on both these days.
Congratulations to the following students who have received Student of the Week.
Prep
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Cohen for always helping his peers with technology use.
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Jakk for valuing opportunities that allow him to improve his mathematical skills and understanding.
Congratulations to our House Raffle winners this week:
Dooley - Amelia
Martyn - Brantley
Byrne - Leon
Due to the high number of kindergarten enrolments we have already received, we have made the decision to close the enrolments early and will not be taking any more enrolment applications for 2025.
Kinder interviews will commence on Friday 26th July. Families will be notified in the coming weeks of their interview dates/times.
Mersey Leven Catholic Parish
Mersey Leven Catholic Parish is a Catholic community made up of many people who seek together to live and share the joy of the Gospel.
Parish Office: 90 Stewart St Devonport
Wednesday - Friday 9am - 2pm
Phone: 036424 2783
Email: merseyleven@aohtas.org.au
See the Parish website for more information