Lent a Time For Giving

St Patrick's Day

Throughout the year St Paul the Apostle students support many different charities. It is important for all children to understand the need for us to share or wealth with people of our world who are worse off than ourselves. We have many outreach programs running in our school and our wonderful Mini Vinnies Team work tirelessly to raise awareness of the many organisations that need our help.
One such organisation is CARITAS Australia. This amazing organisation raises awareness of social justice issues and equal rights for all people. During the period of Lent we encourage children to donate to this cause by adding small donations to the project compassion box, found on our prayer space.
Another way our the students support this cause was by wearing green and donating a gold coin. Throughout the week a St Patrick's colouring-in competition will also be on sale every recess and lunch for fifty cents. There are some great prizes for the winning entries. 
This week the children have organised a blog about St Patrick's day event. May God Bless you and we hope you enjoy the blog.
On Monday March 17 our school celebrated St Patrick's Day. We wore green clothing and brought in a gold coin donation, which went to CARITAS Australia. Some people entered a colouring in competition. Good luck for all the people who entered.
In class we also earned enough Do-good -dots to have an art afternoon. We stuck to the theme of St Patrick's Day and painted a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

Mrs Bell, Mrs Misek and Mrs Lambert all had a touch of the Irish on St Patrick's Day.

First we designed and cut out a pot.

Then we added colour for our rainbows.

Lastly we added glitter paint for the gold.