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Faith, Justice and Formation

Justice Co-Curricular – We Need You!

As a Catholic school in the Edmund Rice tradition, St Patrick’s College is committed to walking with and for the marginalised in our world. This includes bringing awareness, taking action and engaging in advocacy to make change for a better world for all, as is our mandate. This is the ultimate goal of being offered a liberating education and St Patrick’s College has a long tradition of social justice and making change for the better.

 

To enable the College to work more fully on justice campaigns and to allow the opportunity for like-minded students with big hearts who care about the world to do good, we offer a suite of Co-curricular offerings:

  • Years 5 and 6 has Junior School Justice (JSJ)
  • Years 7 – 9 has the Faith in Action Team (FIAT)
  • Years 10 – 12 has the Social Justice Action Group (SJAG)

Each of these co-curricular activities involves meetings one afternoon a week for the duration of the year, with an ordinary year being Term 4 to Term 3 the following year. So now is the time to join up if you are keen to make a difference in the world.

 

JSJ is on Wednesday afternoons, FIAT is on Tuesday afternoons from 3:20 PM to 4:50 PM and SJAG is on Wednesday afternoons from 3:20 PM to 4:50 PM, enabling students to play sport on their respective afternoons and engage in justice on these days.

 

If your son would like to join, he can email me, and we ask that you register him on the TASS Parent Lounge as per all co-curricular sign-ups.

 

We need you! It’s time to work for others and not just for ourselves.

Parent SOL Thanks

We had our final meeting of Parent SOL for the year last night and so I want to give my vote of thanks to all those parents who have helped us throughout the year by delivering items and assisting the College’s Justice Partners in various ways. We need your help to keep things going and so I implore our parent body to model what it means to be a volunteer. We especially need parents in our community helping at P&F run events like barbeques on Saturdays, but we also need people being actively engaged in advocacy for justice issues to help make our world a better place. I can’t say it enough, but our SPC community is privileged and thus we have the responsibility to care for those who are not. Sometimes this means giving of your time.

 

To that end I want to thank the Year 12 parents/carers who were involved in Parent SOL activities, especially Claudia Elias who was there at the inception of this team and has guided it over the years. She has been the core contact person and someone who gives her time, positivity and heart without thinking. I thank her most sincerely but know she will continue to help out where possible.

 

Raja Touma, who will have three sons at the College next year, was also there from the start of the group, and will take over from where Claudia left off. She too has been a great support in everything. But it is important to remember that many hands make light work, thus we can’t leave everything to the few (others I haven’t named but you know who you are). More information about this will come out next year so keep an eye out.

 

Thank-you again!

 

Gillian Daley

Director of Identity