Newsletter August 20, 2024
- Weekly Prayer
- Book Week - Reading is Magic
- Arrival of the Message Stick
- Celebration of the Sacrament of Eucharist
- Student Free Day - Thursday 22nd August
- Father’s Day Stall
- Father’s Day Celebrations at St Brigid’s
- Parents & Friends Pie Drive - Delivery Thursday 29th August
- Cadbury Chocolate boxes
- St Brigid’s School Cookbook - P&F Fundraiser
- Save the Date - P & F School Disco - Friday 20th September
- School Fee payments
- Whole School Prayer/Assembly
- School Uniform
- Hot Lunches - Roster
- St Brigid’s Parents & Friends Committee
- Enrolments for 2025
- 3-Way Confrences
- Key Dates Term 3
- Preschool Story Time
- Birthdays
- Gordon & Bungaree Parish News
- Community News & Events
- SZapp Mobile Application - St Brigid's communication in one place!
- Change of Details
Author of Creation,
We praise You for this week as we gather to celebrate Book Week,
United with the courage and warmth of St Brigid we express our gratitude for our time together.
May we rejoice with Jesus in our hearts and an appreciation of Your continued work and love for our school community,
Please bless us as we enter our Book Week celebrations filled with hope, peace, joy and thanksgiving.
Amen
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.
Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators.
To launch book week, yesterday our children were invited to dress as their favourite book character. Our day commenced with our annual Book Week Parade followed by activities with our families.
A VERY big thank you to all of our very creative children, parents, grandparents and staff members!
To view the 2024 book of the year award winners, please click on the link below:
https://cbca.org.au/cbca-book-week
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Ballarat Diocese, five Message Sticks were gifted to carry the message to:
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12).
In Aboriginal culture, Message Sticks were passed between different clans and language groups to establish information and transmit messages. They were often used to invite neighbouring groups to corroborees, initiation ceremonies, right of entry to country and invitation to religious rituals.
These Message Sticks are being carried from school to school to remind us of the interconnectedness of all our school communities - from the Murray to the Sea. The message stick is displayed in our front office, together with an explanation of the symbols depicted in its art and on Monday 26th August at 2:30pm, families are invited to join us in the church for a short Liturgy to celebrate the arrival of a Message Stick that is travelling across our Diocese in honour of 150 years.
Reminder this Thursday 22nd August is a student free day. On this day staff will be participating in a Structured Literacy workshop. Camp Australia will be offering OSHC on this day.
A big thank you to all involved for organising and facilitating our Father’s Day Stall.
On Friday 30th August, we are excited to welcome fathers and special people in our lives to our Father’s Day Breakfast and Liturgy. We will commence our celebration with breakfast from 8:30am in the Gathering Space. As this breakfast is for fathers and special people only, children are required to be dropped off to school from 8:30am as per usual. Following breakfast, our Liturgy will commence at 9:15am at St Brigid’s church and will be attended by the whole school.
A big thank you to our Parents and Friends for organising the pie drive.
Delivery to St Brigid's will be on Thursday 29th August, 2024. If you are unable to collect orders on this day they can be sent home with your child or if requested, placed into the freezer for collection the following week.
We have 9 boxes of chocolates if anyone wishes to collect another box to sell from the office.
Could all monies be returned no later than Friday 6th September.
Thank you for your efforts with this fundraiser.
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 or collect a hard copy from the office:
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:
- Preheat oven to 180oC Line baking trays with non-stick paper.
- Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add salt and condensed milk and continue to beat mixture until light and fluffy.
- Add flour 1 cup at a time, mixing in between each cup
- Add the chocolate chips and mix in.
- Using wet hands, roll dough into golf ball sized balls. place onto baking tray.
- 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.
Monthly statements are being emailed and would appreciate all accounts being paid by 5th December, 2024. if you have any queries or need to know your balance please contact Tracey in the office.
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
| Week | Class |
| Week 3 - 02/08/24 | Year 1/2S |
| Week 5 - 16/08/24 | Year 5/6B |
| Week 7 - 30/08/24 | Father's Day Breakfast & Liturgy |
| Week 9 - 22/03/24 | Year 3/4 BW |
Assembly Schedule Term 4
| Week | Class |
| Week 1 - 11/10/24 | Year 1/2R |
| Week 3 - 25/10/24 | Year 4/5A |
| Week 5 - 08/11/24 | Foundation |
| Week 7 - 22/11/24 | Final Assembly |
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!
Volunteers:
If you are available to help out on a Friday between 11.30am-1.00pm please contact the school office (valid Working with Children Check is required).
The children really enjoy hot lunches and this can only happen with the help of volunteers!
Hot Lunches Roster Term 3
| Date | Parent Helper 1 | Parent Helper 2 | Parent Helper 3 |
|
Friday 23rd August |
Jo Muldeary |
Rhiannon Breguet | Nicole Le Feuvre |
|
Friday 30th August |
Jo Muldeary |
Nicole Le Feuvre | Elise Jreige |
|
Friday 6th Sept |
Nicole Le Feuvre |
Elise Jreige | |
| Friday 13th Sept |
Nicole Le Feuvre |
Rhiannon Breguet | Elise Jreige |
|
Friday 20th September Pie/Footy Colors Day |
Elise Jreige |
Natalie Byers |
Our next P&F meeting will take place on Thursday 5th September 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.
As we are now in the process of planning for 2025, please ensure that all Foundation 2025 enrolments are submitted as soon as possible via the ‘enrol now’ tab on our website -
https://www.sbballan.catholic.edu.au/.
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 are now open.
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 3:
|
Thursday 22nd August |
Student Free Day |
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Tuesday 27th August |
3-Way Conferences 2:30pm-6:00pm |
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Thursday 29th August |
Fathers Day Stall Pie Drive orders to be collected |
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Friday 30th August |
Fathers Day Breakfast & Liturgy |
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Tuesday 3rd September |
3-Way Conferences 2:30pm-6:00pm |
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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 School Disco - more details to follow |
August 2 - Eleanor Shanahan
August 2 - Isla Doyle
August 2 - Ruby Tatchell
August 5 - Sophie Barton
August 7 - Angus Muldeary
August 11 - Bonnie Mae Beattie
August 11 - Layton Steiner
August 15 - Oscar Conlan
August 16 - Archer Whitelaw
August 18 - Jacob Cabrie
August 25 - Charlotte Letcher
August 27 - Jaxon Elton-Bott
August 30 - Angelina Paolini
August 30 - Alice Yearwood
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.
