St Pat’s News
Junior School Report
By Mr Gavin Webb, Director of the Junior School Academic Assembly The College’s Academic Assembly (Chris Nolan awards) had been postponed to Tuesday, August 17. Obviously due to COVID restrictions we were unable to hold this assembly in its normal format on that date. It was decided to change the format, so we were still…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum Unfortunately, we were unable to hold our Academic Assembly in our normal way this semester. However, we did present our young men with various academic awards this week: Chris Nolan Certificates for Academic Achievement, Unit Three (Year 12) Awards to students who were leading at the…
KRC Update
by Director of Library and Information Services, Ms Leonie Darken The library has been a hive of activity recently. Notably, we have had Year 8 classes in, utilizing the larger tabletops and stationery supplies as they create board games. This has been part of their assessment task related to the Humanities topic of Geography. The…
Careers Update
Please read the Weekly Career News each week to ensure you keep up to date with upcoming career events and key dates. Please click on the following link to view the current Weekly Careers News. Weekly Careers News 19 August 2021 Mr Anthony Meehan Careers and Transition Manager
SPC Soccer match report: SPC 1st XI d SPC 2nd XI – August 18, 2021
St Patrick’s Senior’s 4 defeated St Patrick’s Reserves 0 GOALS: Ben Nash 2, Ajay Thapa, Jack Sheehan BEST Jack Sheehan, Connor Gaffney, Bailey DeLivera, Jaz Singh, Noah Maggi, Will Cairns, Ben Nash BEST RESERVES Luke Ozols, Gabe Thompson-Newbury, Declan Mong After moving Ajay to the back row for the photo shoot, the game kicked off…
Boarding Bulletin Board
* Following on from the process of selecting a College Captain and College House Captains, the process of selecting the 2022 Captain of Boarding has begun. Year 11 boarding students have been invited to submit an application letter to the Director of Boarding, indicating why they would like the position and what they may bring…
Performing Arts Report
by Ms Monique Allen, Head of Co-Curricular Performance The 80th Annual Purton Oratory Competition Next Thursday, August 26 the annual Purton Oratory Competition will take place in the KRC. Although normally held in the Spring Boardroom this year the wonderful team in the KRC have agreed to host the event which will place us right…
Middle School Report
by Mr Michael Busscher, Director of the Middle School If all sense of routine has gone out the door at the moment at home, you’re not alone. There’s no question: coronavirus (COVID-19) has resulted in huge changes to our daily life. These changes might mean that usual routines such as school and work look dramatically…
Mission Report
by Director of Mission, Mr Geoff Brodie English writer, philosopher, and lay theologian, G.K. Chesterton wrote about the ideal of the universal man. The universal man lives and thinks with an openness to the world, who finds nothing so small that it fails to give him pleasure, who finds nothing so great that he may not think…
Return of BAS Sport – August 16, 2021
St Patrick’s College is excited to be involved in the return of competitive BAS Sport which is resuming this week after the latest COVID lockdown. However, we are mindful that we ask all in our community to comply with the following stricter conditions which have been put in place to enable competition to resume in…