Important Days: Important days like Independence Day, Children’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Republic Day, etc. are also celebrated in the school in due manner.
Festivals: A festival is a tool to bring life to a state of excitement and enthusiasm. That is the significance and importance of festivals. In school we celebrate Eid, Diwali, Onam, Kannada Rajyotsava, Pongal, and Christmas with great pomp and show and are some of the Red Letter days in the calendar of the school.
The children depict the festivals with great enthusiasm. The significance of each festival is presented through a skit or a song. These special assemblies rekindled the spirit of brotherhood, compassion and harmony.
Special Assemblies: Our students are provided a platform, to discover their potential and experience life through special assemblies. The topics are based on subjects, cultures, morality, religion, famous personalities, sports and other important /current issues.
Keeping in mind the various interests of the children, each child is assigned a role which he/she executes to perfection.
Some of the special assemblies are World Environment Day, Yoga Day, History Day, Hindi Day, National Mathematics Day, Computer Science Day, National Sports Day, a Health Talk, Reading Day and many more.
The students and teachers of St. Patrick’s Academy Bengaluru celebrated the Teachers’ day – virtually - on 5th September 2020. While wishing their teachers, the students reflected the thoughts of Dr.S.Radhakrishna. They presented video recorded performances of their talents with the wishes and messages of the day. The Teachers thanked Co-ordinators and Brothers for arranging a virtual celebration of the day with games and inspiring words. The messages from our Principal, Rev. Bro. Paul; Manager, Rev. Bro.Christopher, Vice Principal, Rev. Bro.John Kennedy, ignited the passionate minds of our teachers.
St. Patrick’s Academy, Bengaluru, celebrated 74th Independence Day on 15th August 2020 by observing all Covid protocols. Rev. Bro. George Xavier, Deputy Congregational Leader of the Brothers of St. Patrick, hoisted the national flag and an inspiring speech was delivered by the Manager, Rev.Bro. Christopher Dawes. Brothers from the Novitiate community, NCC cadets, teaching & non-teaching staff were present at the school to commemorate the day. Our Principal and the management team addressed the students and teachers through online and enlightened the young minds. The students exhibited their talents through videos and audios during the occasion.
During this pandemic - Covid -19 - we, at St. Patrick’s Academy, Bengaluru, continued our mission of education through online medium for the academic year 2020-21. The management took the challenge of getting all the teachers trained in time and began our online classes as per the guidelines from the Council and Govt. of Karnataka. The students are well prepared and enthused with the idea of online classes. Our teachers are putting lot of efforts and making the class more meaningful and interesting. Online classes enable our teachers to reach out to the students more efficiently and effectively through chat groups, video meetings, document sharing, etc. during this pandemic. The students also find it easier to communicate in this mode.