Newsletter Term 3 Week 2 (Wednesday 27th July 2022)

Grandparent's Day

Thank you to all of the wonderful Grandparent's who attended our liturgy last Tuesday. We enjoyed celebrating the significant place you hold in the hearts of our students and our school community. The warm sunshine provided the perfect opportunity for shared lunches in our gardens and a stroll through the Book Fair display.  It was energising and exciting for all to have our school community back face to face, celebrating together!

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Our Gospel Reflection

Family life helps us learn about the values of solidarity and the common good. As a family, we strive to respect the rights of each family member and make decisions that promote the common good of the family. Talk about what it would be like if the family ordered a pizza and then divided it unevenly, with some members getting as many pieces as they wanted while others got only a half slice. Talk about how you work to make sure that everyone in the family has his or her fair share.

Talk about how your family is also a member of the human family, called to share the goods of creation fairly and justly. In this Sunday's Gospel, Jesus challenges us to remember that the goods of the world are intended to be shared by all. Read aloud Luke 12:13-21. Talk about the parable of the rich fool and ask family members to describe what they think he did wrong. Emphasise that although the man in the story doesn't seem bad, Jesus points out that this man's flaw was that he was thinking only about himself and his own comfort and security. Emphasise that when we fail to think about the needs of others, we call that a sin of omission.

Remind your children that each time we go to Mass, we ask forgiveness for what we have done and for what we have failed to do. We call this prayer the Confiteor. End this time together by praying the Confiteor:-

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do;
through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault;
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

From Our Principal

What an absolute cracker of a day that we were blessed with to celebrate Grandparent's Day and to acknowledge the wonderful gift that grandparents play in our lives. It was just so good to see so many families in our school grounds taking advantage of spending valuable time with each other. We enjoyed a beautiful liturgy and then following that, families were able to browse through the Bookfair and enjoy a shared lunch. I just cannot express how much I love this day in the Church's liturgical year, when we honour the grandparents of Jesus, Saints Joachim and Anne. We celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day, and Grandparent's Day is right up there in importance as we acknowledge and pay tribute to these special people.  This was a lovely way to celebrate and reconnect with our St Brigid's community.

Not long to go now before the St Brigid's Wakakirri Troupe make the trip to Brisbane to take part in this nationwide competition. This is the 3rd year that our school, under the co-ordination of Mrs Kennedy, has entered and this will be the first time that the Troupe is able to make it to the stage in Brisbane. Our dancers and stage hands will head up to Brisbane on Wednesday 10th August and we wish them all the very best. There will be an opportunity for our school community to view their performance prior to "going live" on stage in 2 weeks time.

Take care and have a wonderful week,

Tony

Assumption of Mary

On Monday 15th August we will be celebrating the feast of the Assumption of Mary with a whole school mass commencing at 12 noon in Our Lady of Sorrows Church. All families and friends are most welcome to join with us on this day as we acknowledge the special person of Mary and how she was taken up into heaven, body and soul.

2022 Athletics Carnival

Though the weather did not work in our favour, we were still able to hold a modified Athletics Carnival utilising the grounds of our school and the Kyogle High School. In between showers, students were able to take part in the field events and the 100m and 200m races. Many thanks to Annette Smith, Todd Smith, Krystal-Lee Hyde and Fiona Pratt for your valuable assistance in timing our running events. A big vote of thanks to Mrs Love for all of her work in co-ordinating the Carnival through the very difficult weather conditions.

At this stage we still have a couple of the younger students to complete their field events before we can finalise these results.

Congratulations to the following students who were presented with their medals yesterday as the champions and runners-up for their respective age groups:-

8yrs Girls -  Peyhton Batemen                          Runner Up - Ella Garred

8yrs Boys -  Landan Faulks                                Runner Up - Chance Flanagan

9yrs Girls -  Alaska Argall                                   Runner Up -  Olivia Alvos

9yrs Boys -  Wyatt Brown                                   Runner Up - Tyler McPherson

10yrs Girls - Hannah Kennelly                        Runner Up - Tahnesha Walker

10yrs Boys -  Normy Presbury                            Runner Up - Beau Dever

11yrs Girls -  Lila Standfield                               Runner Up - Tess Cannington

11yrs Boys -    Carter Dowd                                    Runner Up -  Brett Argall

12yrs Girls -   Evanna Howes                                Runner Up -  Lilly Hudson

12yrs Boys -   Murray Doman                           Runner Up - Braythe Bateman

We wish all competitors travelling across to St John's College, Woodlawn on Thursday all the very best for a safe and enjoyable day of athletics. Our squad will be accompanied by Mrs Love and Mrs Esslemont. We look forward to hearing of their efforts when they return.

BOOK WEEK PARADE - 26TH AUGUST

The CBCA 2022 Book Week theme is "Dreaming with eyes open...".

Our school will finalise the week long celebration of Book Week with a Parade on:

Friday 26th August at 12.20pm 

Parents and friends are welcome to attend.

SCHOOL PHOTOS - NEW DATE

School Photos are now scheduled for Friday 16th September. 

If anyone requires a replacement photo form or sibling photo form, please collect from the office. 

COVID Update

As always, we appreciate your support when it comes to your child/ren being unwell in that you keep them home until they are well enough to return. If you or someone in your family tests positive for COVID, students are still able to attend school. It is recommended that they wear a mask whilst at school.

We are maintaining our COVID safe practices here at school by ensuring that we:
* Stay home if unwell or showing any symptoms & not returning until we are fully recovered
* Rapid antigen test when exhibiting symptoms & for close contacts who are able to be at school
* Practice good hygiene including regular hand washing & sanitising before eating & entering classrooms.

RATs are available on request and can be sent home with your child/ren as needed. If you require RATs, please email the school (kyogp@lism.catholic.edu.au). We appreciate your support in helping us to keep our school community safe and well over the coming weeks. 

Tell Them From Me

In the coming weeks, we will be inviting students, teachers, teacher assistants, and parents to provide feedback on their experience of our school using an online survey. The surveys are an important part of our whole school evaluation and planning process.

We would like to invite you to complete the Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Partners in Learning survey. As we value the role of parents and carers within our school community we would greatly appreciate your feedback. The information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership to further improve student learning and wellbeing here at St Brigid's Primary School.

The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Please look out in further newsletters for information on how to access and complete the parent survey.

Positive Behaviour 4 Learning

Focus for Week 2:  We wait quietly in the undercover area and are settled when the second bell goes so that we are ready for our learning. 

2023 Enrolments

Enrolments for any class for 2023 are currently being finalised. Please, if you know of anyone intending to join the St Brigid's community for 2023, ask them to get their enrolment applications in now! 

Our staffing allocation will be based on our enrolments at Census. This occurs at the beginning of August. Please do not hesitate to contact our Principal, Mr Hunter, if you have any questions or would like to inquire about enrolling here at St Brigid's for 2023 or even sooner.

ICAS Competitions - Closing Soon

Each year over a million students sit the ICAS assessments. The questions in the ICAS competitions help students to connect information from content strands of the curriculum to their existing knowledge and to real-life situations.  These assessments are optional. Payments are online only and you will need to enter the code below, which links to our school.  If you have any questions please contact Mrs Jan Condon.

Subjects Offered: - Year 2 to Year 6  (Digital Technologies, Spelling Bee, Science, English, Mathematics)    Cost = $19.25 each

Year 3 to Year 6  (Writing)    Cost = $23.65 each

Parent Payment Code:  EYG369

Payments Due: 31st July 

Assessments begin:  Early August (dates to be finalised and placed on our calendar) 

Australian Maths Competition Preparation

Registrations have now closed

Assessment Date - Thursday, 4th August, 2022

For those students who have nominated to participate in the Australian Maths Competition, the following will assist in your preparation:

• Problemo Student is a free problem-solving platform that allows students to test their skill in Mathematics and informatics. It’s packed with problems covering a range of topics and year levels. They can jump in anytime and try one question or work their way through a series based on a topic.
• AMT competition student practice portal. This is the same place students go on the day of the competition. We’ve added practice questions here so students can familiarise themselves with the online platform before the AMC.
• AMT’s online shop holds a range of AMC resources that are great for student practice. Download individual past papers for free, or buy AMC compilation books sorted by topic and full solutions for past competitions.   

Happy Birthday to You

Wishing the following children all the very best for their special day this week and over the holiday period:-

27 July - Braith Roberts / Noah Schneider

28 July - Brett Argall

29 July - Tyler McPherson

31 July - Caius Dowd

1 August - Eloise Stephenson

Student Awards

Congratulations to the following students who have shown tremendous effort and were presented with awards at last week's  assembly:

Kindergarten:- George Marychurch, Braythe Roberts

Year 1:- Harrison Goebel, Louise Calvey

Year 2:- Lola Lindsay, Kobe Dever, Fletcher Cameron-Keed, Eedie Batson

Year 3:- Alaska Argall, Harry Nugent 

Year 4:- Wentworth Bennett, Tahnesha Walker

Year 5:- Rachel Ellis, Noah Rixon, Georgia Pratt

Year 6:- Ryan McDonald, Myah Gordon, Stage 3 Footy Team

Principal Awards - Jarrod Rixon, Fred Fowler, Murray Doman, Ruby Witchard

Upcoming Dates

JULY

Thursday 28th - Zone Athletics Carnival

AUGUST

Monday 1st - Staff Development Day (Pupil Free Day)

Tuesday 2nd - Parent Forum Meeting at 3:30pm 

Thursday 4th - Australian Maths Competition

Friday 5th - NAIDOC Celebrations

Monday 8th - Feast of St Mary of the Cross

Tuesday 9th - 100 Days of Kindergarten Celebration

Monday 15th - Feast of the Assumption of Mary (Whole School Mass at 12 noon)

Friday 25th - Book Week Parade 12.20pm

SEPTEMBER

Friday 16th - School Photos