Dear Parents and Carers,

The final week of Term 4 has arrived! The 2022 school year has certainly been an improvement on the past two school years in terms of extra curricula events and parent and community engagement opportunities. It’s hard to believe that only 10 months ago we began our school year under strict Level 4 COVID restrictions where we not only restricted visitors and family members, wore masks, and followed strict hygiene regulations once again, but we also had to monitor and record student attendance and use this data to report COVID numbers daily to our community as well as ask every student and staff member to adhere to RATS tests every second day, as an added extra to our daily school routine. It has certainly been so refreshing to see these regulations slowly relax and Public Health Orders lift as the year has progressed. Term 4 was certainly the most celebrated term as we once again opened our doors to families and community events with opportunities to celebrate once again as a whole school community.

We have experienced a blended version of remote and on-site learning across the school year. Thankfully remote learning times were short lived, and we were able to manage remote situations in class groups rather than moving the whole school to a remote learning platform. Principals and school leadership teams were given more autonomy in being able to make decisions based on their individual context in regard to what could and couldn’t take place as the school year progressed. Sport mostly went ahead in normal formats this year and while there were a few activities that required online formats, overall, these events were relatively few and far between this year. COVID has certainly enabled us to move quickly to manage on-site and remote situations in a more flexible way.

So as we finish off another school year we look forward to new adventures in 2023. Thank you to all who have contributed to the success of the 2022 school year. We are very grateful to our families that have continue to support us through some challenging times across the school year and once again admire you for the resilience and strength that has been shown to overcome whatever obstacles we have encountered along the way.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday and every blessing for 2023.

With thanks

Christine Baron

Principal

St Patrick, Pray for Us.