St Brigid’s Primary School

Mordialloc Truth Conquers All

Thursday 1 March 2018 NEWSLETTER Edition 5 Week 5 Term 1

Tel: 9580 4518 Email: principal@sbmord.catholic.edu.au or officeadmin@sbmord.catholic.edu.au Web: www.sbmord.catholic.edu.au

PARISH INFORMATION Tel: 9580 1018 or http://brigloui.cam.org.au MASS TIMETABLE: Monday Aspendale 9:15am Tuesday Aspendale 9:15am Wednesday Mordialloc 10:00am Thursday Aspendale 9:15am Friday Mordialloc 11:30am Saturday Aspendale 6.00pm Sunday Mordialloc 8:00am, Aspendale 9:30am, Mordialloc 11:00am

TERM DATES TERM 1—1 FEBRUARY TO 29 MARCH (1.30pm Finish)

TERM 2—16 APRIL T O 29 JUNE (1.30pm Finish) TERM 3—16 JULY TO 21 SEPTEMBER (1.30pm Finish)

TERM 4—8 OCTOBER TO 19 DECEMBER (1.00pm Finish)

Pages 1 –2: Principal News and Dates to Remember Page 3: Parent’s Group News Page 4-6: St Brigid’s News and Events Pages 7-9: Community News and Events

STUDENT FREE DAY 09/03/2018 ASSEMBLY—2.30PM TOMORROW

your involvement, reflections and feedback in our endeavor to provide you with faith development as adults living the faith. 3/4 Level and Year 4 Eucharist Commitment Mass This Sunday 4th March the 3/4 Students celebrate their combined Level and Eucharist Commitment Mass. It is an expectation that students/parents attend all components in the preparation of a Sacrament. Attendance at our Level Masses in an expectation too. The parents and students in Year 4 have been involved, supportive and positive in this, the early stages of the Sacrament and we are appreciative of their commitment to their child’s faith journey. All families are asked to bring a plate to share with the parish for morning tea. I wish to thank the Parent Reps in this level in advance, as I know that they have already organised and coordinated the bringing and serving of morning tea after this Sunday Mass to families and parishioners. Year 1 to 4 Swimming Program—19 to 28 March Our swimming program will take place over the last two weeks of term at the Toby Haenan Swim Centre—10 Ashley Park Drive, Chelsea Heights. All information has been sent to families via Caremonkey. Swimming is a compulsory part of our Sport Program. House Cross Country— Monday 5 March We are looking forward to our House Cross Country to be held next Monday 5 March. Our Year 3 to 6 students will compete at the George Woods and Jack Grute Reserve commencing at 9.30am. Our Prep to Year 2 students will have their event held on the Grass oval here at school from 11.30am onwards. All students will be competing for house points on the day and for the Year 4 to 6 students a stop watch will be running as we will be selecting our interschool Cross Country Squad from the results on the day. We encourage parents to help us on the day as spotters along the route and to help with finish line marshalling for both events. Looking forward to your help and support on the day. All going well we will be able to announce the House results on the day and then within a week announce the Cross Country Squad for 2018. Prep Information Night It was great to meet with our Prep families on Tuesday evening and work together to share information

Dear Families, Prep Mass The Prep Combined Parish Picnic was held at Braeside Park last week on Sunday 25th February. It was very successful and well attended by our Prep families along with families from some other levels and our parishioners. The students were very attentive to the mass outdoors and their singing was a delight. To our Prep teacher Mrs Suzie Ripp and those from our combined parish a huge thanks for organising our precious students after only 4 weeks of school. A great effort! Thanks also to Gab Peters for her organisation of games on the day, your effort was much appreciated. The feedback from families has been very positive and we shall share this with the Faith Development Team at our next meeting in relation to next year. Eucharist Parent Faith Evening Last night we held our Eucharist Parent Night for the combined parishes of St Louis de Montfort and St Brigid’s. Many thanks to all the staff at the combined schools for their support and facilitating the evening. To the Faith Development Team- Fr Andrew, Fr Justel, Phillip Hills, Tom Lindeman, Wendy Sullivan and Sarah McDermott, I thank you on behalf of our school community for the dedication and effort put into planning such an informative, reflective faith night. Lastly to all the Year 4 parents for continuing to support and model the faith with your child/children as the first educators of their faith. We appreciate

about all of the exciting learning opportunities in Prep this year. Thanks to Suzie Ripp and other staff who attended the evening. Special thanks to Enza and Jenny who shared a session about parent involvement at St Brigid's too. District Swimming Team Our last Swimming training will be tomorrow morning at 7.15am at Don Tatnell Pool – breakfast will follow back at school from 8.10am onwards. We wish the team well at the District Swimming Carnival on Wednesday 7th March at the Noble Park Aquatic Centre. Bring an Egg for the Easter Raffle—Casual Dress Day All children are invited to come to school in casual dress on Friday 16 March and bring along an easter egg donation for our annual Easter Egg Raffle. Donations of baskets and Easter goods would be greatly appreciated. Fees All families should have received their fee letters delivered through the Eldest child and their statement via email this week. We ask that all families take the time to read through the St Brigid’s Fee Payment Options form. We do ask that all families complete this form and return it to the office at your earliest convenience however if you are wishing to set up a direct debit—Monthly and fortnightly instalments will commence in March. Please be aware when completing the form Monthly and Fortnightly instalments do not include levy and camp fees, this needs to be completed according to your child’s year level. If automatic payment option is chosen the Levies and Camp fees will be deducted at the due dates. Privacy Collection Notice This was sent home via Caremonkey to all families this

week – please read and acknowledge this document via the Caremonkey response process.

Camp Sports and Excursion Fund Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply. $125.00 per year is paid for eligible primary school students. Payments are made directly to the school and are tied to the student. If you haven’t previously applied or received funding please speak to the Office. Kind regards Michael Russo Principal

A HUGE THANK YOU RYAN AND OUR GOOD

FRIENDS AT BAKER’S DELIGHT MORDIALLOC WHO ARE GIVING A FREE LOAF OF BREAD EVERY DAY FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH TO OUR LUCKY

FAMILIES IN PREP RH.

Please note that if you lose your card it cannot be

replaced.

02/03/2018 Swimming Training 7.15am 3/4ZP to Nixon House 9.00am Assembly—2.30pm Brigid Hall

03/03/2018 Yr 4 Commitment Mass St Louis 6pm

04/03/2018 Yr 4 Eucharist Commitment Mass 8am & 11am St Brigid’s, 9.30am St Louis 3/4 Family Mass 11am St Brigid’s

05/03/2018 House Cross Country

06/03/2018 8.15am Running Club Prep to 2 Uniform Shop—2.45pm

07/03/2018 District Swimming—Noble Park Aquatic Centre

09/03/2018 SCHOOL CLOSURE STAFF PD DAY

12/03/2018 LABOUR DAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

13/03/2018 8.15am—Running Club Prep to 2

14/03/2018 7.50am Cross County Training

15/03/2018 7pm Year 4 Family Eucharist Night

16/03/2018 Casual Clothes Day—Bring an Easter Egg St Patricks Day Assembly—2.30pm

Dates to Remember

Parents Group News

The parent representative group (PRG) have already been working behind the scenes to get some dates set for 2018 events. This group of parents simply coordinates the parent reps in an informal way. Our PRG group of 4 has grown to 7 this month which is great news. We would welcome interest from other parents if you would like to get involved in this group or join as a class rep. It is not too late. Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to be parent reps for 2018. Your support is greatly appreciated. As we have done in recent years, we have allotted each level responsibility for coordinating 1 or 2 specific events over the year. The reps will be rallying their levels to help fill rosters and communicating details to the school community in the lead up to these events. We've started 2018 by setting dates for parent dinners at all levels during term 1 to continue to promote the oppor-tunity for parents to get together. We encourage you to get the Skoolbag app and to also join the parents Facebook page as they are well used communication channels. Looking forward to a great year in 2018. Parent Coordinating Group: Sarah Nicholls, Enza Longstaff, Leah Hale, Jenny Waldron, Karolina Batinic, Jess Elliot, and Shannon Maguire- Gerente The friendly parent reps for each class are .. (Spots still available if you want to put up your hand—see Tracey)

Prep RH Shannon Maguire-Gerente Karolina Batinic

1/2 MF Shannon Maguire-Gerente

1/2YW Margeaux Hawkins Jen De Jong Ally McCormick

1/2MD Shanyn McLeond Susan McQuillan

3/4YC Lina Mollica

3/4ZP Lina Mollica Larissa Hutchison

3/4KF Felicity Stainthorpe

3/4AH Amanda Simon Sophie Angus

5/6RM Shanyn McLeod Emma Bracchi

5/6BL Gabriella Quadara-Green

5/6AC Emma Bracchi

PARENTS

PLEAD NOTE

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ARTSMART

CLASS ON

THURSDAY

29 march

St Brigid’s News and Events

A huge thank you to all the parents and students who attended

our eSafety night on Monday night. The response was amazing

and we should be very proud of ourselves as a communi-

ty. Internet safety is such an important part of our lives and the

lives of our children, and it was great to see so many members of

our St Brigid’s community gathered together with a common goal

- keeping our children safe online. Please find below the link to

Brett Lee's website, Internet Safe Education.

https://www.internetsafeeducation.com/

Suzie Ripp

St Brigid’s News and Events

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING HOURS

MONDAY 6 MARCH AT 2.45PM MONDAY 27 MRACH AT 2.45PM

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OPEN DAY FOR TOURS AND ENROLMENT PACK – WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2018

Bookings for tours are essential (between 9am – 10.45am)

Book on www.stbedes.catholic.edu.au

OPENING DATE FOR YEAR 7 2020 – WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2018

CLOSING DATE FOR YEAR 7 2020 – FRIDAY 3 AUGUST

Grade 1 Winery Tour.

Saturday April 21st.

Please fill in the sheet by

your classroom door

by Friday this week to

confirm a spot on the bus!

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