St Pat’s News
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…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum It has been good to have the school back and functioning for the past two weeks with all Year Levels onsite. All students have plenty of assessments over this time, particularly Year 12s. Just one more week to tough it out before they will enjoy a…
Acting Principal’s Message
By Acting Principal, Mr Stephen Hill As we head towards the end of Term 2…. The end of Term 2 next Friday will see the conclusion of a period of time that can only be described as truly unique in the very long history of St Patrick’s. At this time, it is appropriate for us…
Director of Sports Report
Director of Sport, Ms Tina Benoit, provides an update on sporting activities at the College and provides an insight into how our students and Old Collegians are staying motivated whilst their sport has been impacted during the pandemic. Please click on the link below to view the Sports Report. Sports Report Term 2 Week 10
