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Senior School
Term 3 Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews
by Director of Administration, Mr Tom Ferguson As previously advised, the Parent/Student/Teacher interviews for Term 3 will be taking place on Tuesday, August 18. Given the current challenges in meeting face-to-face these interviews will be online or via phone calls only. Throughout the day, teaching sessions will be shortened to 20 minutes with a view…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum At the time of writing we find ourselves back in remote learning. Remote teaching and learning pose many challenges and difficulties. Staying physically and mentally healthy are two of them. Effective teaching and learning under these conditions are also challenges for all of us. There will be many…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum Students have returned for Semester 2, are enjoying each other’s company and are working well. It is good to see. Our Year 11’s have just been working through their subject choices, which were due today. They will have needed to make their best choices according to…
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…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum On Tuesday we look forward to the return of the rest of our Year 10 students, and I am sure they will be looking forward to seeing their classmates again and working in a more effective way with their teachers. I commend the boys for the…
July Scholarship Program Now Open and Enrolment for 2022 in Year 7
Scholarships at St Patrick’s College The next Scholarship Testing date will be held on July 10, 2020 for 2021 Year 7, 10 and 11 students. Registrations are now open and can be made at this link: http://scholarships.acer.edu.au/intro/1956 Testing date: Friday July 10 at 9am. Attendees to gather in front reception. Closing date for registrations: June 30, 2020 To encourage…
Teaching and Learning Report
by Director of Teaching and Learning, Mrs Julia Petrov Save the Date! We now have some finite dates we can all work towards. Much planning has gone into preparing the staged return of our students. Stage One return – Tuesday, May 26 Unit 1 & 3 VCE, VET and all VCAL face to face classes…
Senior School Report
by Director of the Senior School, Mr Hamish McCrum On Tuesday we look forward to the return of our VCE and VCAL students (including those Year 10’s who will be attending for their VCE classes). Most students and staff I have spoken to are looking forward to the return to face-to-face teaching. Teaching and learning…
May 12 – College update on COVID-19
Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers of St Patrick’s College, RE: Return to on-site learning The last few weeks of flexible and remote learning have been challenging for everyone in education. It has been a difficult period as we have all adjusted to new ways of learning and teaching. We are now grateful to hear some…
Senior School Report
by Hamish McCrum, Director of Senior School Last week we lost a very good man in Gerard Sullivan His contributions in various conversations were always insightful and thought provoking. He was passionate about education and was always striving to find ways in which teaching could be made more effective. These things were good enough. But…