Newsletter July 30, 2024

A warm welcome to new students Zoey Simpson (Year 1/2R), Millicent Ruthen (Year 1/2S) and families to St Brigid’s.

St Brigid's Parents and Friends are again organising our Pie Drive fundraiser. Orders can be made via the Spriggy Schools App and need to be placed prior to Friday 16th August. Delivery to St Brigid's will be on Thursday 29th August, 2024.

Hard copies of order forms are available from the school office if required. 

A big thank you to our Parents and Friends for organising this pie drive.

To order please go to Spriggy Schools using the Events Tab.

Our P&F are in the process of creating a St Brigid's School Cookbook. Please click on the following  link to submit your recipe: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DCDNJBT

Handy tips when submitting your recipe: 

• Please use standard metric measurements for ingredients (cup, teaspoon, tablespoon, millilitres, grams)
• Temperatures to be given in Celsius (not Fahrenheit)
• Please list the method/directions with numbered instructions

Sample recipe below:

Condensed Milk Chock-chip Cookies

Serves: approx. 60 // Prep time 20 Minutes // Cooking time 12 minutes

Ingredients

• 500 g butter
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 5 cups self-raising flour
• a pinch of salt
• 3 x 250g bags chocolate chips (any mix of milk, white and dark)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180oC Line baking trays with non-stick paper.
2. Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add salt and condensed milk and continue to beat mixture until light and fluffy.
3. Add flour 1 cup at a time, mixing in between each cup
4. Add the chocolate chips and mix in.
5. Using wet hands, roll dough into golf ball sized balls. place onto baking tray.
6. Bake for approximately 12 minutes or until lightly golden.

This recipe makes a lot of cookies so you may need to bake in batches!

You are welcome (and encouraged) to submit more than one recipe for consideration! This will help us if we receive duplicate recipe submissions.

3-Way Conferences will take place this term on Tuesday 27th August from 2:30pm - 6:00pm and Tuesday 3rd September from 2:30pm - 6:00pm. 3-Way Conferences will be 10 minutes in duration. Given the nature of these meetings, it is expected that all students attend the conferences with their parents. Families can book a suitable time through PAM/SIMON Everywhere. Bookings will be made available within the coming weeks.

Whole school prayer/Assembly will again take place in Term 3 from 9:00am - 9:20am. The timetable is as follows:

Assembly Schedule Term 3

Our next P&F meeting will take place on Thursday 15th August 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.

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.

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.