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Day One – Osaka – Kyoto
The eagle has landed! After departing Melbourne at 6.30 Monday evening, we touched down in Kansai Prefecture this morning at 9.00am. This was followed with our first experience of Japan’s train network, which had us in Osaka by lunchtime. After checking into our traditional guest house (a short stroll from the main Kyoto station) it…
Day Two – Osaka. Exploring Kyoto
O what a day. Already it seems like we’ve been here for much longer than a day, with the boys making the most of every minute. Today was a day of old Japan, in one of it’s oldest cities – temples, castles, winding streets and narrow stairs. We started with breakfast at the guest house,…
2016 BAS 1st XVIII Grand Final
St Patrick’s College 8.13 (61) d Ballarat Clarendon College 4.7 (31) Goal Kickers: Izaac Johnson 4, Max Scales 1, Jordan Cotter 1, Nick Stuhldreier 1, Jake McQueen Best Players: Izaac Johnson, Nick Stuhldreier, Jake McQueen, Will Garner, Jordan Cotter, Aiden Domic St Patrick’s College defeated Ballarat Clarendon College by 30 points on Wednesday, June 15…
Student Diary – Day One. James Duffy’s account of day one.
Day 1 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) Inevitably, I arrived safe, sound and sleepy on the runway of Osaka airport. The first thing that grabbed my attention was the predominance of English words appearing on signs all around my vehicle. Was it a conspiracy all along? Was Japan just one huge lie conjured…
Student Diary – Day Two. James strikes again, this time with an account of Kyoto’s shrines.
Day 2 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) I awoke at 7am to a strange beeping sound coming from the other side of the room. As I puzzled out my surroundings I realised that I was indeed laying on a futon in a ryokan in the eastern nation of Japan. After that properly set…
Student Diary – Day Three. James Duffy’s account of our day at Nara.
Day 3 (As written and experienced by James Duffy) My third day began again at 7am. Just like yesterday, I went to breakfast and ate toast with jam as well as oranges and orange juice. A slight deviation from my previous breakfast was the addition of two small pork sausages. Small though they were, it…
Day Three – Nara. Wild deer and a giant Buddha.
Day three saw us depart Kyoto for the countryside. Our first stop was the picturesque Fushimi Inari Shrine. This important Shinto shrine is famous for the thousands of torii gates that trail paths through the sacred mountain. The site is dedicated to the god of rice, whose messenger is the fox whose emblem could be…
VCAL to be introduced in 2017
St Patrick’s College will welcome a new era of hands-on learning when it introduces the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) to its curriculum offerings in 2017. The College has employed the 2014 VCAL Teacher of the Year Lyn Maniz to oversee the development and introduction of the program which will complement the school’s already…
Advertise now in the Shamrock
Bookings are closing soon to advertise in the next edition of St Patrick’s College’s Shamrock magazine, which will be published in August/September. Reach out to our thousands of current school families and Old Collegians by promoting your business in the next edition. The Shamrock is a glossy, full colour magazine, produced three times a year…
KRC Update – July 14, 2016
New Term Opening hours The KRC will be open from 8.00 am -“ 5.00 pm on Monday to Thursday and from 8.00 am -“ 4.00 pm on Fridays. KRC Team excursion On Monday June 20, the KRC Team went to Geelong to look at the newly refurbished Geelong Library. We had an extensive tour of…