DIOCESAN PROJECT COMPASSION LAUNCH

On Tuesday, we opened our Church and school to the Diocese as we hosted the 2019 Project Compassion Launch. Principals and students converged on St Brigid’s from 41 Catholic Schools. We welcomed Bishop Brian Mascord as our presider, Mr Peter Turner, Director of Schools, Mrs. Monica Ward-McCann, the Caritas Director for the Diocese of Wollongong, members of the Catholic Education Leadership team and staff from the Catholic Education Office. Mr David Macdonald, St Brigid's P and F President represented our parent community and signed the Commitment Covenant.

It was a magnificent celebration which was very capably organised and lead by Mrs Arthur-Worsop, Ms Harris, Ms Sparks and our absolutely brilliant Year 6 leaders.

I’d especially like to thank the hospitality team (Ms Harris, Mrs Green, Kerry Sweeney, Mrs Tasker, Mrs Paton and Mrs Frino) who fed the very ravenous students after the liturgy. The margherita pizza was an absolute hit with the students!

We also welcomed back to St Brigid's two ex-students who provided liturgical music during the liturgy. Thanks to Patrick Sirianni on the trumpet and Thomas Carolan on the cello.

Each year the Project Compassion appeal invites us to focus on particular communities and the people who need our support and prayers. During 2019, the Project Compassion Campaign will work to build a hope-filled future for our sisters and brothers in Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Australia, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Let us now reflect on the challenges faced by these communities and how we can contribute to empowering others by supporting the work of Caritas Australia.

Through Project Compassion we are asked to acknowledge that we are all members of the one human family, all equally worthy of love, mercy and respect.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK CELEBRATION

What a magnificent celebration we had last Friday to celebrate Catholic Schools Week. We welcomed new and existing families into our wonderful learning spaces, where the students confidently took parents on guided learning walks. Year 5G led our community in a prayerful Liturgy of the Word in the Parish Church and then our BYO picnic lunch in the school grounds enabled us to enjoy each other’s company whilst slurping an icey, licking a delicious ice cream or sipping on a Wendy’s milkshake.

Thank you to the many parents, grandparents and carers who helped us celebrate the best that Catholic Education has to offer at St Brigid’s. Learning spaces will be open again on Thursday 11 April 2019 following our Lenten Liturgy at 2.00pm

ENROLMENT PERIOD NOW OPEN FOR 2020

Enrolments are now being accepted for our 2020 Kindergarten class. If you have a child to enrol or know of someone who does, kindly pass this information on to him or her. Please call into the school office for an enrolment pack. We are currently scheduling interviews for early next term.

Prioity in enrolment is given in the following order:

2.2.1 Children of practising Catholic families who are involved in the life of the Parish to which the school belongs 


2.2.2 Siblings of students already enrolled in the school may be given priority for enrolment. 


2.2.3 Children of Catholic families residing within the Parish to which the school belongs. 


2.2.4 Children of Catholic families residing in other Parishes. 


2.2.5 Children of Orthodox or other Christian families. 


CATHEDRAL CAR PARKING

If you can volunteer for an hour or 2 please add your name to the Google doc. The link is below.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MNIdEBargkwccQzeQjoMmJ-wDjTuoynjbRG9fu_u-bk/edit#gid=1863000764