St Pat's News

Principal: Olga Lyons

Deputy Principal: Peter Sanderson

Parish Priest: Fr. John Corrigan

Phone: 55681371

We Acknowledge the Gunditjmara people, the Traditional Owners of the land on which we are gathered today.

We respect and honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past, present and future. We acknowledge their stories, traditions and living cultures on this land and commit to building a brighter future together.

The Mackillop House (Green) is named after St. Mary MacKillop, also known as St. Mary of the Cross. She was declared Australia's first saint by the Catholic Church in 2010. She was born in Melbourne, on January 15, 1842, as the eldest of their eight children.

Her work as a governess brought her into contact with Father Woods, the parish priest in the south east of Victoria.

MacKillop accepted a job teaching the children of Portland, Victoria in 1862. Two years later, MacKillop opened her own boarding school called, Bay View House Seminary for Young Ladies, now known as Bayview College today and was joined by the rest of her family.

Father Woods, concerned about the lack of Catholic education in South Australia, invited MacKillop and her sisters to open a Catholic school in Penola. Together, they successfully opened the school in a stable and started teaching more than 50 children. At this time, MacKillop formally declared her dedication to God and the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

Aiden Dwyer is the leader of the Mackillop House. 

The Winnen House (Red) is named after the Winnen family who have been heavily involved in the life of St. Patrick's Primary School and the Parish, through their actions and deeds, for many years.  

Children with the Winnen surname began coming to St Patrick’s School in 1957. 

Henk Winnen has been involved with St Vincent de Paul in the parish and does a lot of work helping to get things ready for mass.

He has been a great example of service and of our school motto "Give Yourself To Goodness."  

Bethany Dyson is the leader of Winnen House.

The Samaritan House (Blue) is named in recognition of the century-long contribution of the Good Samaritan Sisters to Catholic Education at St. Patrick's Primary School and the community of Port Fairy in south-western Victoria.  The Good Samaritan Order was the first women's religious congregation to be founded in Australia. The Order was inspired by the Gospel story of The Good Samaritan.

Jonah Killen is the leader of Samaritan House. 

The Belfast Mission was built on the current site of the convent in 1849, with the Mission including a small church and school, which is now our school. Because of his role in establishing the Church’s presence in Port Fairy, we have named yellow house after Archbishop John Bede Polding. 

Hugh Allen is the leader of Polding House. 

Our 2021 Athletic Sports will be held at Brauerander Park in Warrnambool on Friday Feb 26th.  Buses will arrive at the venue after 10:00am.

No food will be provided at the venue - parents and children are to bring their food and drink supplies for the day.  A coffee van will be onsite for parents, grandparents and teacher. 

COVID-19 Regulations for the event.

• Each attendee is asked to do a symptom self-assessment prior to leaving home and not attend if they are unwell or have been instructed to isolate or quarantine.
• Attendees must maintain at least 1.5m physical distance between those from other groups at all times.
• To minimise movement, attendees must stay within their allocated spaces or seats where practical.
• Requirements for face covering, observe cough etiquette and personal hygiene measures
• Attendees will be required to sign in on entry using a QR Code or paper register.

The Moyne School Athletics will be held on Wednesday March 23rd.

Sporting Schools Program

The Sporting Schools program will this year run on Monday and Wednesday afternoons after school from 3.20pm - 4.30pm starting next week. This program runs for 7 weeks each term. Tom Sell, one of our Learning Support Officers, will be coordinating the program this year, along with our trainees.

The last sessions for Sporting Schools will be Monday March 22 and Wednesday March 24 for Term 1. 

Attendance forms are located on the Skoolbag App. Attendance slips must be filled out by 10am for each day your child is attending Sporting Schools. Any child without an attendance form will not be permitted to attend. 

Please use the Skoolbag App for each session your child is going to attend.

If you do not have the Skoolbag App, click on the link for instructions.

https://www.moqproducts.com.au/skoolbag/installation-instructions/

Year 5/6 students attended two tennis events on Tuesday 23rd February at Warrnambool Indoor Tennis Centre.  It was a fun and very successful day for St Pat's students.  All schools from the Moyne Schools network were in attendance with the exception of 1 school. Our boys' team, consisting of Hugh Allen, Max Dance, Harry Pollock, Oliver McCosh, Harrison Lu, Jonah Killen, Henry Grahek and Andrew Gapes, finished in first position in a modified tennis competition. Our girls' team, consisting of Jorja Lowe, Tilly Chisholm, Tessa Phillips, Grace Godde, Maeve Murphy, Chloe Dumesny, Holly McNeil and Bethany Dyson, finished in third position in their modified tennis competition.  

Eight competitors entered into the Moyne School's Singles Tennis Tournament.  Archie Hocking, Blake Robertson, Aidan Dwyer and Will Verhoef competed in the boys division and Emily Porter, Alice Macpherson, Ava Lehne and Lena Watty competed in the girls division. Many exciting matches were played and as the day progressed everyone's tennis improved which was great to see.  In the boys division, Archie, Blake and Aidan managed to make the quarter finals, with Will  missing out by just 2 games on a countback system.  Aidan and Blake played off in an all St Pat's semi, where Aidan went through to the final but was then defeated 4-1 by Cruz Perry of St Patrick's Koroit.  In the girls division,  Emily and Lena battled it out for a 3rd and 4th place overall finish, with Emily taking the chocolates in their head to head duel. All students throughout the day demonstrated great sportsmanship and competitiveness and were a pleasure to take to the competition.  The only time I had to have a stern word was when they fired up an energetic 'The wheels on the bus go round and round'. I've heard it too many times!  We're already looking forward to it again next year. A big thanks to Abby Lee for her assistance on the day.   

Congratulations to Aidan Dwyer who will now go through to the next level of the competition.