Dear Parents/Carers

St Brendan’s Inaugural Mother’s Night

I am looking forward to attending this wonderful event on our school social calendar. Thank you to those who have

indicated that they will be attending.

Thank you to Kellie Gemmell (Max – Yr 6 and Charlie – Yr 2) and her team of

helpers for working hard to bring this event together.

Please refer to the reminder later in this newsletter for the finer details of the

event.

Catholic Education Week – July 29 – August 4

Next week is Catholic Education Week, a time when we take stock and reflect upon the journey of Catholic Education in Queensland from its beginnings when the first Catholic School was established in 1845 by the first priest appointed in Brisbane, Father James Hanly. Fr Hanly employed Mary and Michael Bourke as the teachers of this first school. This school opened with 56 students and was located in a slab-walled, bark roofed building near there the Myer Centre now

stands on the corner of Elizabeth and Albert Streets in central Brisbane.

Catholic Education Week is an opportunity for all Catholic schools to celebrate

and promote their distinctive mission and ethos.

Catholic education strives to make a difference in the lives of those in our schools and in the wider community by challenging young people to live out the message of Jesus and to reach their full potential as compassionate,

contributing, life-giving members of society.

The theme for Catholic Education Week this year is ‘Discovering New Horizons’. This theme has been aligned with the official Year of the Youth theme for 2018 and is derived from a speech given by Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2016 where he called young people and the Church to ‘open new horizons for

spreading joy’.

We will gather as a whole school to celebrate this special week with a liturgy and an Open Morning commencing at 9am, on Friday August 3, in the courtyard. I look forward to seeing as many community members in attendance

as possible.

July 25 Fete Planning Meeting at

Salisbury Hotel 7.00pm 27 Pre-loved goods drop off

from 8.00-9.00am—POD; Mother’s Night 6.00pm

August 7 Combined P&F and Fete

Meeting 11 Pre-loved goods drop off f rom 7.00-9.00am at POD 15 EKKA Holiday 17 Athletics Carnival; Preloved

goods drop off from 8.00-9.00am at POD 18 Pre-loved goods drop off from 7.00-9.00am at POD 19 Pre-Fete Working Bee 9.00am-1.00pm 20 Multi-Draw Raffle Tickets due 22 Fete Planning Meeting— Salisbury Hotel 7.00pm 24 Pre-loved goods drop off from 7.00-9.00am at POD 25 Fete Set Up from 8.00am 26 St Brendan’s Community Bash 9.00am-3.00pm

17 Hawtree Street, Moorooka

Phone: 3275 2081 Fax: 3216 7873

pmoorooka@bne.catholic.edu.au

www.stbrendansmoorooka.qld.edu.au

PRINCIPAL

Nicole Cole

PARISH PRIEST

Fr Dan Redhead

25 July 2018

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REMINDER: BCE Mock Critical Incident on Wednesday August 1

As mentioned in last week’s newsletter – see below the information

for your reference:

To ensure our community of schools are as safe as possible, Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) schools and

offices will conduct a ‘’mock” critical incident exercise on Wednesday 1 August.

What will occur?

This “mock” exercise is being coordinated by our crisis management consultants in liaison with Queensland Police and other emergency services. The details are kept under-wraps, known only to a small number of

organisers.

Who will be involved?

Principals of the schools directly involved in the exercise have been advised. The exercise will also involve

many people from various areas of BCE.

Your school is not directly involved.

What you may hear.

While we will do our best to inform the community before, during and after that this is a “mock” exercise, it

may be viewed by some as an actual event.

Please do not be alarmed if you hear reports of an incident on that day involving Catholic schools.

St Brendan’s Community Bash

DON’T FORGET – The next Fete Planning meeting – tonight, 7pm at The Salisbury

Hotel – Toohey Rd, Salisbury

Our annual school fete, known as St Brendan’s Community Bash, is fast approaching and there are lots of things for us all to consider and remember. Over the coming weeks we will ask each child to bring in some donations to help make our day SUPER

special.

The first week of donations need to be:

Chocolate—family sized bars

The time has come to begin the collection of chocolate for our Lob-A-Choc stall. As in previous years, we will

run a competition to find the class who donates the most chocolate.

Details of this competition and the prize for winning will be announced on assembly next Monday and

published in the newsletter next week. Stay tuned!

Applications for the ride armbands will come home this week. The details are as follows:

Pre-paid Armbands (ie. Paid for before fete day) will be $30.00 – all rides as many times as you like all day!

Armband purchased on Fete Day will be $35.00—all rides as many times as you like all day! No Armband—all rides are $5.00 each on Fete Day

Please find attached with this newsletter the most recent list of our wonderful sponsors. Our Community

Bash cannot happen without the support of these companies and their generous donations.

2018 Athletics Carnival

The 2018 St Brendan’s School Athletics Carnival has been scheduled for Friday August 17, the Friday of Ekka Week. Please mark this date in your calendar. We look forward to seeing as many supporters as possible to attend this great day in the school calendar. Thank you to Mr Craig Kerwin – Principal at Moorooka State School for generously donating the use of their school oval for this event. Please watch out for further

information about this day in coming weeks.

I pray that you all have a terrific week. May God’s blessings be with you and your families today and always!

Take care and God bless always In Faith and Love

Nicole Cole

Principal

Religious Education

Friday August 3rd . Catholic Education Week – Liturgy at 9:20am. Invite your family! Stay for a cup of tea. Friday the 3rd we will gather for a community liturgy and morning to conclude celebrations for Catholic Education Week 2018. The theme for this year’s Catholic Education Week for celebrations is ‘‘Discovering New Horizons”. The theme for Catholic Education Week this year has been aligned with the official Year of Youth theme for

2018 and is derived from a speech given by Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2016 where he called and said:

“My friends, Jesus is the Lord of risk, he is the Lord of the eternal “more”. Jesus is not the Lord of comfort, security and

ease. Following Jesus demands a good dose of courage, a readiness to trade in the sofa for a pair of walking shoes and to set out on new and uncharted paths. To blaze trails that open up new horizons capable of spreading joy, born of

God’s love and wells up in your hearts with every act of mercy.”

Whole School Mass at St Pius X - Wednesday 8th of August. We will be gathering at St Pius X Church to celebrate the Feast of St Mary of the Cross (MacKillop), Australia’s first saint, on Wednesday the 8th of August. Please join us for this mass at 9:30am if you are able. While there, the children will have a sausage sizzle lunch and meet with the children of St Pius X for some fun. Have a great week all. Brendan

Kraile Dizon

Benjamin Embleton

Samuel Coad

Cohen Thompson

Victoria Coad

Uniform Shop Hours

Thursdays 7.45am — 8.30am

2.30pm — 3.15pm

JULY

25 Tedirah Foday-Musa Brendan Nurzynski

27 Mochi Noori

All old design winter Track Tops and Jackets are now 1/2 price

Jackets that were $33.00 are now $16.50

Track Tops that were $22.00 are now $11.00

…...This amazing offer won’t last long.

Book Club - Due 6th August

It’s Book Club time again!

Scholastic Book Club Issue 5 brochures will be sent home with the eldest child in the family this week. Parents can order directly online or send in paper orders with payment to the school office. Allow 1-2 weeks from the due date for delivery.

To order:

Fill in the order form in the brochure.

Pay by cash, cheque or credit card (by phone).

Put order form and payment/payment receipt in an envelope and submit to the school office.

OR

Order online using LOOP - Scholastic Book Clubs Linked Online Ordering & Payment platform for Parents.

Log-in to www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP and order by the close date.

Books will be delivered to your child’s school.

Don’t return paper order forms or payment receipt details to school for LOOP orders.

Monday 6th August

DON’T FORGET TO GET YOUR ORDERS IN!!!!!!

HOT DOG / CHIPS / DRINK TUCKSHOP

FRIDAY 27th JULY 2018

$5.00

St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School

Sponsors / Donors List

St Brendan’s Catholic Primary School Moorooka’s “Community Bash 2018” would like to acknowledge and

thank our wonderful and generous sponsors and donors. Please consider supporting these businesses if you

ever need the goods and services that they offer.

Brisbane Broncos RLFC, Fulcher Road Red

Hill

North Queensland Cowboys RFLC,

Kirwan, Townsville

Bathed In Beauty, Bracken Street

Moorooka

Botanicafe, Beaudesert Road, Moorooka Brisbane Families Magazine Collins Foods Limited

Franco’s Hair Styling Salon, Moorvale

Lane Moorooka

Officeworks (Customer Fulfillment

Centre) (on-line)

Ray White Real Estate, Moorooka Shop 1/398 Tarragindi Road

Moorooka

Shaplands Swim School, Anson Street

Moorooka

Soulfit Wellness Institute, Ainsworth

Street Salisbury

Sunny Queen Eggs, Carole Park

Sunnybank Hoyts Cinema, Sunnybank

Plaza Shopping Centre, Cnr Main Road &

McCullough St Sunnybank

Woolworths Annerley, Ipswich Road

Annerley

Stencil (online)

Tim O’Brien, Guitarist, Durack Cooper Reeves Accountants, Evans

Road, Salisbury

The Railway Workshops Museum,

North Street, North Ipswich

Lions @ Springwood Pannikin Street, Rochedale South

Jaycar Electronics, Ipswich Road

Woolloongabba

Deny Cinemas, Portside & Coorparoo

iFly Indoor Skydiving, Surfers Paradise Putt Putt Mini Golf, Victoria Park McDonalds Salisbury, Toohey Road

Salisbury

Graham Perrett, Federal Member for

Moreton

July 2018

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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2 3 4 5 6 7

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9 10 11 12 13

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15 16

First Day

Term 3

17

PE

Origami Club

18

ART

19

MUSIC/DRAMA

20

Fr Dan’s Visit—

Prep and Yr 1

21

22

23

Chess Club

24

PE

Origami Club

25

ART

Homework Club

[Fete Planning

Meeting at

Salisbury Hotel

7pm]

26

MUSIC/DRAMA

27

Treat Day @

Tuckshop

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

8.00-9.00am at

POD]

Mother’s Night

6.00pm

28

29

30

Chess Club

31

PE

Origami Club

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

2 3 4 5 6 7

8

9 10 11 12 13

14

15 16

First Day

Term 3

17

PE

Origami Club

18

ART

19

MUSIC/DRAMA

20

Fr Dan’s Visit—

Prep and Yr 1

21

22

23

Chess Club

24

PE

Origami Club

25

ART

Homework Club

[Fete Planning

Meeting at

Salisbury Hotel

7pm]

26

MUSIC/DRAMA

27

Treat Day @

Tuckshop

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

8.00-9.00am at

POD]

Mother’s Night

6.00pm

28

29

30

31

PE

Origami Club

August 2018

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1

ART

TUCKSHOP

Homework Club

2

MUSIC/DRAMA

3

4

5

6

Chess Club

7

PE

Origami Club

Combined Fete

& P& F Meeting

6.30pm

8

ART

Homework Club

9

MUSIC/DRAMA

10

Treat Day @

Tuckshop

11

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

7.00—9.00am at

POD]

12 13

Chess Club

14

PE

Origami Club

15

EKKA

HOLIDAY

16

MUSIC/DRAMA

17

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

7.00—9.00am at

POD]

ATHLETICS

CARNIVAL

18

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

7.00—9.00am at

POD]

19

Pre-Fete

Working Bee

9am—1pm

20

Chess Club

Raffle Tickets to

be returned.

21

PE

Origami Club

22

ART

Homework Club

[Fete Planning

Meeting at

Salisbury Hotel

7pm]

23

MUSIC/DRAMA

24

Treat Day @

Tuckshop

[Pre-loved goods

drop off for Fete

7.00—9.00am at

POD]

25

Fete Set-up

from

8.00am

26

27

Book Week

Performance

Chess Club

28

PE

Origami Club

29

ART

TUCKSHOP

Homework Club

30

MUSIC/DRAMA

31

Father’s Day

Stall

WELL BEING WEEK