Principal's Report
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming our newest and youngest students to St. Patrick’s—our Prep students! It has been wonderful to see their excitement as they begin their school journey, making new friends and getting to know their teachers. We are so proud of how well they have settled in and embraced their new routines. A big thank you to our Prep teachers and LSO support staff for creating such a warm and welcoming environment for them.
Whole School Mass
To mark the beginning of the school year, we came together as a community for our Whole School Mass. This was a beautiful way to start the year in faith, unity, and reflection. Thank you to Father Joseph our Assistant Parish Priest, Mrs Ady our Religious Education Leader, our staff, and students for their participation in this special event. It was heartwarming to see everyone gathered in prayer, setting a positive tone for the year ahead.
Parent / Teacher Exchange (Year 1 - Year 6)
Please find the link HERE to book a Term 1 Parent–Teacher interview (Year 1 - Year 6)
Interviews will be held on Monday 16 February and Wednesday 18 February, between 3:30pm and 6:00pm.
Parents are invited to book a 10-minute meeting per child with their child’s teacher.
All interviews will take place in the school hall on both days.
Swimming Carnival Results
Congratulations to all of our Year 3 - Year 6 Students who competed in the annual house Swimming Carnival on Wednesday this week. Tara House was the overall winner in a very tightly contested event. Special thanks to Mr Edwards our P.E. Coordinator/Teacher for all of his work in preparing this amazing event for our community. A huge thanks also to all of our staff for their support of the event as well.
Congratulations to Skye and Harvey who were the age champions for Year 6.
Whole School Asembly
This Friday we will be holding our second assembly of the year at 2:50pm in the school hall. We will also be presenting the Prep - Year 5 leadership badges at this assembly. All are welcome to attend.
Kaboom Sports
What an exciting day it was last Friday with the Kaboom Kids Sports morning. All students (and Staff) had a lot of fun with the morning starting off with a dance off between staff and students!
Sibling - Prep 2027 Enrolments and Open Days
Sibling Prep enrolments for 2027 are now open and are accessible from our school website or from the office. Our 'Open Days' are scheduled for Tuesday 3rd March, Tuesday 10th March and Wednesday 1st April or by appointment. As per our enrolment policy, current families will have priority enrolment, followed by baptised catholics in our boundries and then baptised catholics outside our boundries, if we have availablity, we can then accept other enrolments. We are currently expecting to have 3 Prep classes for 2027 of around 23-24 students per class. Sibling enrolment interviews will occur during Term 1. This will enable us to determine how many places we will have avaliable for new families.
The school is currently maintaining 21 classes across 7 year levels - Prep to Year 6 (Maximum amount of classes available).
We have 3 classes per year level - Prep to Year 6 (average class size of 22 per class). This gives us a total enrolment of 462 for the start of the 2026 year. Next year we are expecting to continue to have 21 classes P - Yr 6 (3 classes per year level) with an average class size of between 23-24 students across the school. We will continue to limit class sizes to 24 per class for the forseeable future.
Taekwondo, Music and Chess Clubs
Please note that Taekwondo, Out of Hours Music lessons and Chess Clubs will be continuing at St. Patrick's in 2026. Please see the fliers in our community information pages for booking information.
Save the Date!
The St. Patrick's Day Festival is scheduled for Friday 20th March - More details to follow.
Student Casual Clothes Day
The P&F will also be holding a casual clothes day on Friday 20th February for all students. Students participating in this event will need to bring in a $2 gold coin donation on the day. The gold coin donations will be used by the P & F to fund future events.
God Bless,
Pat Berlingeri
Principal