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Old Boys in the News – June 2020
Our Old Boys have been busy, including: Congratulations to Jonathan Davey (SPC 1997-2002) who has been appointed as the new Ballarat City senior soccer coach and will lead the club when it takes the field in the newly-formed National Premier League three competition. To read more, click here Great to hear Old Collegian Chris…
Engagements, Marriages and Births – June 2020
Our Old Collegians have been celebrating some exciting news, including: BIRTHS Congratulations to Kane Tolliday (SPC 1997-2002) and Rochelle on the safe but early arrival of Remi Violent on June 14. Congratulations to Old Collegian Stephen Coghlan (SPC 1999-2004) and wife Casey (current staff) on the safe arrival of Hugh Benjamin on May…
2020 St Patrick’s College Downball tournament begins
The 2020 Student Council has arranged a College-wide downball tournament for the final week of term 2, with students from all year levels striving to claim the title of downball champion. Lunch-time matches kicked off today in year level groups after students last week registered their interest to compete. Rules Matches are first to 8…
Hidden gem unveiled in Sir Bernard Heinze Theatre
For decades, the area known as the Sir Bernard Heinze Theatre, or the old boarder’s cinema, has occupied a central area of St Patrick’s College. It featured a stage, a projectionist room, some rudimentary sound and lighting facilities and dark, heavy curtains draped its east-facing windows. While in recent years it was used for drama…
Innovation of College events through COVID-19 crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic threw many of the College’s best laid plans into disarray towards the end of Term 1. A series of major events had to be cancelled at a moment’s notice, creating much disappointment in the community. There are have been far too many events cancelled or postponed, to list them all but they…
A reflection on how the College handled the COVID-19 crisis
The word ‘unique’ is, at times, used far too freely to describe a situation or event. However, the period of time since the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic can indeed be described as ‘unique’. Clearly, every student, his family, the entire College staff and all areas of the school’s operations were affected by this…
Wellbeing Report
By Mrs Elizabeth Ryan, Deputy Principal Canteen Moving into Term 3 the amended canteen arrangements where students have the opportunity to pre-order lunch items via the Ultimate Schools online ordering system and also purchase a limited range of pre-packaged items in a cashless setting at recess and lunchtime will continue into Term 3. The Canteen…
Year 7 ICT students create digital artwork
Our Year 7 ICT students have been busy creating a myriad of digital artwork, including a range of colour images and pixels.The students were introduced to the ‘Picture elements’ or ‘Pixels’ in ICT this term and gained an understanding of the image resolution, bitmaps, pixelated images, and how the quality of images is affected by…
Cancelled themed casual clothes day
Students at St Patrick’s College are today wearing casual clothes with boys encouraged to dress up in the theme of something which has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While many have come in their favourite sporting kits others have been very creative in dressing around the cancelled theme. College captain Will Rothe looked…
Teaching and Learning Report
By Director of Teaching and Learning, Mrs Julia Petrov Review and reflection of the remote learning One universal truth about remote learning is that it has been a unique experience for all involved. Every student’s home circumstance has presented a different learning environment with various distractions and temptations not found in a traditional classroom. A…