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Wellbeing

Founder's Day

Last Friday, we came together to celebrate our Founder, Edmund Rice. Core to the life of Blessed Edmund Rice was his faith, in which his vocation was firmly fixed on the role that Jesus played in showing us how to live. Several times a day, he would recite the phrase 'Live Jesus in our Hearts Forever', always ensuring that this was the focus. As a man of faith, he had a vision for a world that was inclusive of all. 

This manifested itself in his life through his compassionate spiritual engagement with others, particularly the poor and vulnerable. 

 

For us, the day manifested itself in both inclusivity and spirituality, but also in solidarity. We celebrated Mass together followed by sharing lunch on Breen Oval. 

 

Charlie Ackland
Charlie Ackland

It was here where we watched the annual running of the Waterford Mile, in which this year's edition was won by Charlie Ackland (Berg - Year 6) with runners up Cristian Lombardo (Year 8 - Berg) and Nathan Campbell (Year 11 - Hickey) in third place. 

Cristian Lombardo
Cristian Lombardo
Nathan Campbell
Nathan Campbell

 

Finally, we watched our annual Founder’s Day Performance orchestrated by our Founder’s Day Committee and our comedic stars on stage: Bailey Yeates, Tobias Lacey, Matthew Gainsford, Luke Ters, Dominic Taffa, Nicholas Lipari, Luca Chrisostomou and Alessandro Romeo. Well done to all.

The success of these days is due to the willingness, participation, and cooperation of so many people, most importantly our young men. And weren’t they fantastic across the day. My special thank you goes to Ms Ingrid Viney for all her hard work behind the scenes with the lunch organisation, Mr Chris Hughes managing our facility operations and to Mrs Doonan, Ms Duff, and Mr Freere for their organisation of the performance. And to all our passionate teaching and support staff, for their support across the day. 

 

We hope everyone had a fantastic day in celebration of the wonderful College community that we are all a part of.

Parent reminder: Year 10 School Vaccination Program – Tuesday 20 June

In Year 10, students are offered the meningococcal ACWY vaccine.  

 

Vaccination will only be provided at the College if online parent consent has been received. COVID-19 vaccinations are not part of the NSW Health Program. If you have not yet provided consent, please follow the steps below. 

 

How to provide consent: 

  • To complete online parent consent for your child’s school vaccinations, visit: https://nswhealth.service-now.com/school. 
  • Follow the steps to log in to your existing ServiceNSW account. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver’s licence. If you don’t have a ServiceNSW account, refer to ServiceNSW to create one.  
  • Update or confirm your personal details in ServiceNSW as required.   
  • Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your son/s. 

For the Consent Form you will need to:   

  1. Enter your son’s personal details,.  
  2. Ensure that you select St Patrick’s College, Strathfield from the drop-down menu options.
  3. Provide Medicare card details for you and your son. 
  4. Read the linked Parent Information Sheet and privacy statement.
  5. Provide consent.    

For further information regarding routine school vaccinations, please visit: www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination. 

 

Important note: Catch up Year 7 vaccinations from Term 1 for HPV and dTpa will also take place on this day.

 

Alex Sinadinos 

Acting Director of Wellbeing