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Father’s Day Mass and Breakfast tickets available
The Annual Father’s Day Mass and Breakfast is one of the many highlights on the annual St Patrick’s College Calendar and will be held in 2015 on Friday, September 4 from 7am. We invite all fathers, grandfathers and guardians of current students to attend this event and participate in a Mass in the College Chapel…
Mission Report – June 11, 2015
Schools are very structured communities. We have timetables, bells, routines and repeated cycles that let us know where we should be and what we should be doing. With around 1600 souls to co-ordinate on a daily basis this is not surprising and is most likely essential. However, the trap is that we can withdraw from…
2015 Night of Homelessness
St Patrick’s College Year 10 students have learned first-hand what it’s like to be homeless in Ballarat after participating in the College’s annual Night of Homelessness last Thursday night. Around 260 students arrived with their warmest winter clothers and were issued with a light blanket in the College’s canteen area before being told to try…
Open letter from Student leaders – May 29, 2015
To all members of the broader St Patrick’s College and Ballarat communities, and especially to the many victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. As a student body we are well aware of the events currently unfolding in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse being heard in Ballarat. The details revealed…
Mission Report, May 28, 2015
– Listening to the radio by chance I was fortunate to hear an expert in a particular South American language speak about the constructive relationship language and culture have on our view of the world. She made several observations that captured my imagination and raised questions. Firstly, where we would say -hi, how are you?-…
Rotary donation for Kokoda project
St Patrick’s College was today delighted to receive a $1000 donation from the Rotary Club of Ballarat South to help fund an upcoming service project students and staff will complete in Papua New Guinea. In the June-July school holidays, 16 students and three staff will embark upon a trip along the Kokoda Track. A key…
2015 National Sorry Day Assembly
As is its annual custom, St Patrick’s College today marked National Sorry Day with a full school assembly in the Br. W.T. O’Malley Sports Centre. In 2015, the College has 51 indigenous students enrolled, including 11 in Year 12. One of those Year 12 students, Christopher Saunders, presented this speech at the assembly. “Welcome and…
Headmaster’s Message – May 15, 2015
Dear Friends As you will be aware, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will conduct public hearings in Ballarat over the next three weeks. Over this time a number of victims/survivors will speak about their own individual stories of abuse in the Diocese of Ballarat involving Catholic clergy and religious associated…
Mission Report – May 15, 2015
Last week we celebrated Edmund Rice Day with Mass in the O’Malley Gym. With Fr James Kerr away in the Holy Land, Fr Justin Driscoll graciously stepped in to lead our celebration of the Eucharist. His homily was a gift to our community. This week I invite you to step aside from your busy routines,…
SPC v Marcellin – May 9, 2015
St Patrick’s College 45 d Marcellin College 34- (HT 19-10) Try Scorer/s: D Tippett (3), J Coward (3), C Saunders (1) Conversion/s: J Coward (4), M Kaponga In a little over twenty four months we have played Marcellin on seven separate occasions, contested two Grand Finals with both sides enjoying success on one occasion. The…