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Middle School Report
by Mr Michael Busscher, Director of the Middle School “No act of kindness is ever wasted.” Aesop In 2021 it is expected that the Middle School Community Service Program will be recommenced as part of the Middle School timetable. Community service is when you work for free to the benefit of your community rather than yourself….
2020 St Patrick’s College Fashions on the Field
Throughout periods of home learning in 2020 students have been encouraged to wear items of College clothing while in class. This prompted an idea from our Student Council to try and bring together a vast array of SPC-themed clothing from throughout the years in one place. As such, and for no other reason than to…
August 26 – Letter to parents
Dear Parents, The end of Term Three typically sees Senior School students studying VCE Units 3/4 subjects having to complete a larger than usual number of School Assessed Coursework (SAC) tasks as Unit 4 work comes to an end and preparation for the end of year exams begins. The extended period of time in remote…
Indigenous Education Program: Reconciliation Action Plan
St Patrick’s College is excited to begin its process of developing a new Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), that will be created through extensive collaboration between the whole College community, our broader Ballarat community and local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples. Members of the Wathaurong Nation, who are the traditional owners of the grounds upon…
KRC Update
by Director of Library and Information Services, Ms Leonie Darken The KRC and Remote Learning Take 2: We continue to provide “all things resources” during the second round of the COVID-19 remote learning. Boys in Years 7-9 were fortunate to have the opportunity to borrow fiction titles during their WIRED sessions before leaving for remote…
Boarding Bulletin Board
As we enter the second full week of remote learning, our Boarders continue to take everything in their stride and adapt to the ever-changing situation within our Communities. We have been fortunate to be able to continue to offer activities in and around the College, keeping our Boarders active, happy, and trying out new things….
Acting Principal’s Message
By Acting Principal, Mr Stephen Hill What we are learning from remote learning While remote learning has forced all of us to adapt to many new challenges, it has also provided the environment for us to explore new and creative solutions to previous practices that we possibly considered fixed or unchangeable. Our current Years 9,…
Junior School Report
By Mr Gavin Webb, Director of the Junior School Remote Learning 2.0 The positive feedback from boys, parents and staff in regard to settling back into remote learning certainly has been reassuring. Many lessons were learnt by all from earlier in the year, especially in terms of navigating our way in and around MS Teams….
Middle School Report
by Mr Michael Busscher, Director of the Middle School Online classroom attendance and classwork completion It seems an import time in the Term when I remind boys and their families that their journey into the Senior School is assisted by their subject results and our online classroom attendance, as this information is used to assess…
Mission Report
by Director of Mission, Mr Geoff Brodie Education is a mysterious and wonderful thing. Mysterious because it concerns the combination of all the elements creating the future of a unique human person: one’s history and hopes, one’s participation in the gifts of our shared human nature, and the emerging wisdom fulfilling the capacity for freedom…
