Newsletter May 7, 2024

St Brigid's Primary School Ballan wishes to acknowledge respectfully the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, learn, play and gather.

We have been notified that we were successful in our application for a grant through the Ballan &  District Community Bank Branch’s Community grant program. We have been approved for a grant to the value of $30,000. The funds will go towards the installation of a shade sail over our playground. We are beyond grateful as we celebrate this wonderful news with our community. Also many thanks to our Parents and Friends who raised $3000 towards the shade sail project also.   

This year, students from Year 1-6 will be participating in the Inform & Empower Cyber Safety & Digital Wellbeing program. This means that our classes will be tuning in to live streamed incursions (with their teachers) every term that focus on healthy and safe digital habits. The incursion content is all written and delivered by qualified teachers who are endorsed by the eSafety Commissioner as a Trusted eSafety Provider.

These sessions aim to help children better navigate the online world and become more aware, clever, brave and kind. They will focus on topics including navigating unwanted contact, cyberbullying, help-seeking strategies, unsafe content, balancing screen time with "green time" and sharing personal information.

The following website will provide you with further information regarding Inform and Empower.

https://www.informandempower.com.au/

All of the timetabled events (to date) for the school year can be found on our school calendar which can be accessed through PAM and via this newsletter.

On Thursday 9th May, our P&F will be facilitating a Mother’s Day Stall. On this day, children are invited to bring $5 to school to purchase a gift for their mothers, grandmothers or special people in their lives.

A big thank you to Mickal Trinder and Hayley Plageman for organising and facilitating our Mother’s Day Stall. 

Assemblies have commenced this term. As we now have specialist classes on a Friday afternoon, we will need to move assembly to Friday mornings from 9:00am - 9:20am. 

Assembly Schedule Term 2

Hot lunches have resumed via the online ordering system - Spriggy Schools.

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who were able to help with the hot lunches in Term 2:

SZappp Mobile Application is a fantastic way for communicating and making information or resources available to our St Brigid's school community. 

Please follow the instructions in the below guide on how to install the SZappp and register an email account for communication.