Newsletter June 4, 2024
- Weekly Prayer
- Congratulations
- Sovereign Winter Sports
- Welcome Tiahna
- Best Wishes Rachel
- Student Free Day – Friday 7th June
- Camp Australia Student Free Day OSHC - Friday 7th June
- No Hot Lunches this week - Friday 7th June
- Newsletter - No publication Week 9
- School Uniform
- St Brigid’s Parents & Friends Committee
- Assembly
- Enrolments for 2025 are open
- NCCD Parent information sheet
- Key Dates Term 2
- Preschool Story Time
- Inform & Empower
- Birthdays
- Gordon & Bungaree Parish News
- Community News & Events
- SZapp Mobile Application - St Brigid's communication in one place!
- Change of Details
World Environment Day, established by the United Nations, is celebrated annually on June 5th. It provides an opportunity to focus global attention on pressing environmental challenges and encourages individuals and communities to take proactive steps towards environmental conservation. World Environment Day aims to inspire positive change and foster a sense of responsibility towards our natural surroundings.
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.
Congratulations to our students who participated in the Sovereign Winter Sports throughout the last month. Sports included Soccer, AFL and Netball. Our students demonstrated collaboration, perseverance, resilience and teamwork. We are so proud of you!
A very big welcome to ACU pre-service teacher Tiahna Brown who will be joining us at St Brigid’s for her teaching placement for the next 15 days. Tiahna will complete her placement in Year 1/2R.
Best wishes to Year 1/2S teacher, Rachel Simmons who commences Long Service Leave this Wednesday 5th June for the remainder of Term 2.
Ms Adele Carey will be teaching in Year 1/2S for Rachel’s LSL block.
Within ReLATE, wellbeing is understood as an essential precondition for quality teaching and learning. Safe, predictable and supportive learning environments are created and maintained in classrooms where students are not just known, but deeply understood.
As we have a Student Free Day this Friday, there will be no hot lunches this week.
Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who were able to help with the hot lunches in Term 2:
| Date | Parent Helper | Parent Helper |
| Friday 7th June | Student Free Day | Student Free Day |
| Friday 14th June | Elise Jreige | Rhiannon Breguet |
| Friday 21st June | Natalie Byers | Jo Muldeary |
| Friday 28th June | Sian Winfield | Lauren Stancliffe |
There will be no publication of the school newsletter for Week 9 - Tuesday 11th June.
The next publication will be on Tuesday 18th June.
We have now made the transition to winter uniform. Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct winter uniform including bringing the St Brigid’s school bag to and from school daily.
Children are able to wear the correct sports uniform each Wednesday and on classroom nominated sports day as directed by your child’s classroom teacher.
The St Brigid’s winter uniform consists of the following:
A reminder to please label clothing, lunchboxes, containers, bags and water bottles!
Performing Arts will take place on Tuesday’s with Visual Arts and Physical Education taking place on Wednesday’s. Please ensure your child has an art smock (or old shirt etc) for Visual Arts.
Our next P&F meeting will take place on Thursday 27th June from 3.15pm - 4.00pm in our school Library. An active P&F committee allows families the opportunity to play a valuable part in providing social and fundraising activities. Please attend this meeting if you are interested in joining our P&F committee.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as all funds raised contribute to resources and materials to support your children in their holistic development.
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
| Week | Class |
| Week 3 -03/05/24 | Year 1/2R |
| Week 5 - 17/05/24 | Year 4/5A |
| Week 7 - 31/05/24 | Year 1/2S |
| Week 9 - 14/06/24 | Foundation |
With many enrolment forms already received for Foundation in 2025, if you are aware of anyone who is thinking about enrolling their child for 2025, please encourage them to do so as soon as possible, via the ‘enrol now’ tab on our website - https://www.sbballan.catholic.edu.au/.
This will assist us in our preliminary stages of planning for 2025.
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.
2024 Dates
Term 2:
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Friday 7th June |
ReLATE Staff Professional Learning Day - Student Free Day |
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Friday 14th June |
Assembly - Foundation |
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Wednesday 19th June |
Inform & Empower - Raising kids in a digital world 7pm Recreation Reserve Ballan |
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Thursday 27th June |
Parents & Friends meeting 3:15pm |
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Friday 28th June |
Last day of term 2 - 2.20pm finish |
Term 3:
| Monday 15th July |
First day of term 3 - 8:55am commence |
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Wednesday 31st July - Friday 2nd August |
Year 5/6 Angahook Camp |
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Monday 19th August - Friday 23rd August |
Book Week (more details to follow) |
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Thursday 22nd August |
Student Free Day |
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Thursday 29th August |
Fathers Day Stall |
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Friday 30th August |
Fathers Day Breakfast & Liturgy |
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Wednesday 4th September |
Year 5 SEED experience day |
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Friday 20th September |
Last day of term 3 - 2:20pm finish |
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/
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.
