SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated a birthday Week 9 and 10 of Term 2 through to Weeks 1 and 2 of Term 3
| Kinder | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Theodore M | Ariel S E | Leo J | Amelia P | Hannah J | Ireland C | Lidia C |
| Taj W | Xander L | Ayesha O | Maggie M | Maya I | Lachlan C | Praise M |
| Landan T | Quinn S | Sofia M | Sparsha V | Hunter M | ||
| Thawng M | Georgina H | Jaxson M | ||||
| Sofia M | Violet D | Remi D |
NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE
Catholic School Parents Australia's Free Family Engagement Resources
Catholic School Parents Australia has developed free resources to strengthen the home-school partnership. The new video workshops help guide primary and secondary parents, principals, and school staff to take a holistic approach to their children’s well-being and educational experience.
The resources also include guides for local facilitators to run through the video workshops in collaborative sessions with principals, staff and families. Insights from experts like Andrew Fuller, John Hattie and Donna Cross inform the workshop’s research-backed strategies.
The resources can be found on the Gearing Up for Parent Engagement website.
Premier's Reading Challenge
The challenge aims to encourage a love of learning for leisure and pleasure in student's. It is not a competition - however, there are rewards of certificates and medals for participants - but a challenge to each student to read, read more and to read more widely.
Between Monday 26 February and Friday 23 August 2024 students in Year 3-6 are encouraged to read and record what they have read at the link below. Student's in K-2 will participate and have their entries uploaded in class. Countless research links the time spent reading quality literature to improved results in school - this is a way to support improvement in your child's literacy, knowledge and vocabulary skills.
Each child is able to borrow books from the school library, which count towards the Challenge, when they bring their library bag to school every Friday.
Teachers will be able to provide log in details in Years 3-6 next week.
PARENTS & FRIENDS NEWS
P&F NEWS
TERM 3 P&F GENERAL MEETING - Tuesday 6 August 2024
The Term 3 P&F Meeting will be held on Tuesday 6th August at 6:30pm in the School Hall - nibbles provided.
If you have anything to discuss please email pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au by Friday the 2nd of August.
Come along and see what it’s all about - everyone is welcome to attend. We love to see new parents join us!
DISCO - Friday 9 August 2024
Get those dancing shoes ready! The whole school disco will be held on Friday 9 August 2024 in the School Hall from 5:30pm-7:30pm.
Tickets and hot food are to be purchased on Qkr! by Wednesday the 7th of August.
Parent volunteers and cupcake donations are required to ensure this fun night for our children can go ahead, please register here.
FATHER’S DAY CELEBRATION - Thursday 29 August 2024
To celebrate all of our wonderful dads and father figures in our lives the P&F are hosting a Breakfast and Gift Stall.
8:00am Breakfast
8:40am Open Classrooms
11:30am Father’s Day Stall - students will be able to select their favourite gift/s to take home ready to celebrate on Father’s Day.
Breakfast and Father’s Day Stall Gift is to be pre-purchased and is available on Qkr now! Orders closing Sunday 25 August 2024.
We need your help!
Volunteers are needed to support the P&F with setting up and running the Breakfast and Gift Stall. There are a variety of roles with each one outlined on the VOLUNTEER SIGN UP SHEET which explains the tasks and shows estimated times. If you can help out in any small way please register below by Sunday 25th August.
All volunteers will receive an email leading up to the event with more details to help make this as easy as possible. You will have P&F support throughout the whole event.
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Weekend |
Mower #1 |
Mower #2 |
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17/8/2024 |
David H | Adam F |
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07/09/2024 |
Shane G | Thomas M |
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28/09/2024 |
Zac B | Nathan McB |
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19/10/2024 |
Fabrizio C | Jason S |
Upcoming for Term 3 - Get the diary’s out
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Term 3 General Meeting |
Tuesday 6 August 2024 |
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Father’s Day Breakfast & Stall |
Thursday 29 August 2024 |
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Yearbook Orders Will OPEN |
End of Term |
PARISH NEWS
St Brigid's Parish Mass Times
| Saturday | 5:30pm Vigil |
| Sunday | 9:00am |
| Thursday | 9:30am |
Lumen Christi Parish Bulletin
Lumen Christi Website
