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Director of Sport Report – June 8, 2016
Please click on- this link– for a Sports Report from the Director of Sport, Mr Gavin Webb. – –
Advertise in the Shamrock Magazine
Businesses can now advertise in St Patrick’s College’s popular school magazine, The Shamrock. Local businesses have already starting booking advertising space for the next edition of The Shamrock, due out in August/September. Reach out to our thousands of current school families and Old Collegians by promoting your business in the next edition at very affordable…
MENtal Brekky
We are delighted to announce that 2010 Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry will attend St Patrick’s College as keynote speaker at a special business breakfast in August. The inaugural MENtal Brekky has been organised by a group of passionate Old Collegians with the aim of raising funds for and awareness of the prevalence…
Headmaster’s Message – May 26, 2016
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends of St Patrick’s College, Earlier this week, the College received the exciting news that one of its past students, Jake Laidlaw, won the HIA Australian Apprentice of the Year Award. In acknowledging his success, the following description of Jake’s work ethic was given: Jake demonstrates exceptional leadership skills -“ judges…
Teaching and Learning Report – May 26, 2016
May 17 College Assembly As we move towards the end of Term Two, and the number of completed assessment tasks increases, there were several boys whose efforts and academic excellence were worthy of recognition. We started the assembly by acknowledging the outstanding work of number of Year 8 students, Nathan Delvescovo, Kyle Truscott, Josh Farrington,…
Senior School Report – May 26, 2016
Newman College Forum Dinner Newman College is one of the residential Colleges located on the grounds of the University of Melbourne. Last Friday night Year 12 students Cameron Adams and Glyn Kendal and I joined old boys James McKinnon, Will Briggs and David Adams at the Newman College Annual Forum Dinner. A great night was…
Middle School Report – May 26, 2016
We have passed the half way mark of Term Two and life in the Middle School continues to be extremely busy for both staff and students. As the boys are finishing their last assessments in their respective subjects, they should be now vigorously revising their work so that they can do their very best in…
Information Technology Update – May 26, 2016
The Importance of Teenage Sleep and the effect of Devices One of the most important issues we as parents deal with is the health of our children, and making sure they get enough sleep is always an important aim of all parents. Sleep is seen by many experts as one of the most important health…
Administration Report – May 26, 2016
Student Subject Changes for Semester 2 Students who wish to request a change of subject for Semester 2 will need to collect an application form from the student desk in the ERC. For general requests there is a yellow form. All mathematic change requests need to be completed on the blue form which also requires…
Boarding Report – May 26, 2016
There has been a series of articles written in the Australian Financial Review of late on the topic of boarding. I referenced one such in our last Crest edition and I do so again this evening -“ and in keeping with the comments of our housemaster team. On numerous occasions there have been discussions about…