From the Assistant Principal's Desk
TRASH FREE TUESDAY Term 2 Week 5 and 6 Winners
Reporting from the St Brigid's SRC news desk is SRC Chair person Natalia:
'Congratulations to all our students on their efforts in bringing in 'trash free' lunch boxes on Tuesday, the results for Week 5 are:
Kindergarten - 60%
Year 1 - 38%
Year 2 - 95%
Year 3 - 71%
Year 4 - 72%
Year 5 - 46%
Year 6 - 50%
The results were very close for Week 6:
Kindergarten - 78 %
Year 3 - 80 %
Congratulations to Year 2, you are the Week 5 winners!
Congratulations to Year 3, you are our Week 6 winners!
Positive Behaviours for Learning (PB4L)
Students at St Brigid's are awarded tokens for safe, respectful and responsible bahaviour whilst on the playground during recess and lunch and at dismissal time. We have passed the halfway mark of Term 2, so our Year 6 Senior Leaders have counted the current tokens that each house have earned so far this term. Here are the results :
- Evans (Blue House) - 54
- MacKillop (Red House) - 66
- Samaritan (Gold House) - 72
Keep up the great listening, respectful and safe play and responsible behaviour students. In Week 9, we will tally the tokens again and the winning House for Term 2 will be announced and they students of this House will be able to negotiate a reward with me.
HOW TO HEKP YOUR CHILD BUILD RESILIENCE
This term we have a whole school focus on social and emotional learning and building skills such as:
- resilience
- problem solving
- empathy
- kindness
- healthy relationships
We are teaching the above skills within our English programs and through the PB4L framework. As partners in your child's learning, you can help your child build resilience so that they can confidently face challenges and persist when life doesn't go to plan. Being resilient is an important life skill to help your child grow and develop a healthy mind set. Here are some tips:
- help your child to accept when they have made a mistake and to learn from that mistake
- teach them that they cannot control the outcome of everything
- support your child to express their views and to listen to the views of others
- help them understand that persistence is a wonderful quality and not to give up as soon as it gets difficult
- help them make achievable goals and break down large tasks into small steps
- don't jump in and solve their problems for them, encourage them to work through their problems assuring them you are there for support
- encourage your child to take learning risks and that it is ok to make mistakes because that is how we learn
- keep the lines of communication open with your child and talk to them about their friendships and relationships
For more information, please see the following website:
TALENT SHOW - 25 JUNE 2021
The Year 6 Leadership Team are pleased to announce the upcoming 2021 Talent Show. This will be a non-competitive showcase of the amazing talent at St Brigid's. Registrations have opened for events and we have an inspiring line up of talent to look forward to.
- Entries are open for group or solo performances for Year 2-6 students
- Each entry must be a maximum of 2 minutes
- Talent Show will be held on Friday June 25 at 11:30am
- Audience: whole school and parents/carers
Year 6 will provide more details at the Friday assembly and in the coming weeks. Start rehearsing boys and girls, we can't wait to see the talent at St Brigid's.
IMPROVING WRITING PEDAGOGY AT ST BRIGID'S
The teachers have continued to learn new pedagogies to improve their writing practice this term. During Week 6, Stage 2 and Stage 3 teachers have engaged in a professional learning day where they learnt about the connections between reading and writing and the Writer's Workshop model. They will start to implement this model in their classrooms. Please enjoy some photos of the students' writing samples and the teachers working collaboratively to improve their practice.
Year 1 applying their understanding of prepositional phrases and use of sentence types.
