From the Assistant Principal's Desk
TRASH FREE TUESDAY WEEK 9 WINNERS
Natalia reporting from the SRC News desk. Here are the results for Week 9:
Kindergarten - 82%
Year 1 - 71%
Year 2 - 87%
Year 3 - 73%
Year 4 - 57%
Year 5 - 40%
Year 6 - 63%
Congratulations Year 2, you are the Trash Free Tuesday Winners for Week 9. Enjoy the St Brigid's Peace Lily.
Next term we will tally up all the classes who had won the most TRASH FREE TUESDAYS and then announce the TERM 2 WASTE WARRIORS. This class will be rewarded with extra play and a taste tester of all the fresh produce in our school garden.
HEALTHY HAROLD VISITS ST BRIGID'S
On 23 July 2021 the Life Education Van along with Healthy Harold will be visting our school to teach students about healthy and safe choices. The programs offered are engaging and educational and include the following topics:
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2
- how to build friendships and care for others
- safe and unsafe sitauations and the warning signs
- benefits of physical activity and what our body needs to be healthy
- explore how positive relationships benefit health and wellbeing
Year 3 and Year 4
- responsible and respectful behaviour when using communication technology
- strategies to deal with bullying and cyberbullying
- explore the role of bystanders
- strategies for managing stressful situations
- medicine as drugs and the consequence of the misuse of them
Year 5 and Year 6
- understand how to respect others and ourselves
- strategies to respond to unsafe or disrespectful situations online and offline
- myths and facts surrounding the use of legal and illegal drugs
- physical, social & legal consequences of drug use
Students can purchase merchandise from the Healthy Harold shop by visiting their website or by filling in the attached form and sending the correct money to school before 23 July.
TALENT SHOW - POSTPONED TO 16 JULY 2021
Talent Show Details
- There will be two audience sessions where 2 parents/carers per student entered in the Talent Show are invited to watch the Talent Show.
- Parents of Year 2 and Year 3 entrants are invited to watch the show at 11:30am on Friday 16 JULY. Kindergarten, Year 2 and Year 3 students will watch the show at this time too.
- Parents of Year 4, 5 and 6 entrants are invited to watch the show at 1:30pm on Friday 16 JULY. Year 1, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 students will watch the show at this time too.
- Parents are required to sign in using the QR code provided at the hall entrance
- Please retain your tickets for your session. Any unused tickets need to be returned to school to be redistributed
AUTHOR VISIT AT ST BRIGID'S
Yesterday we welcomed author and Eden's mum, Mrs Nicole Subotic to share her journey as an author of her wonderful book, 'Raising Fletcher' with Stage 3 students and their teachers. Mrs Subotic brought in artefacts that inspired her to write her story about her son Fletcher and shared her struggles and successes as an author and the process it took to write a novel over 13 years. The students were thrilled to read excerpts from Mrs Subotic's Writer's Notebook. Here is a comment from our school captain, Edwina:
"Yesterday we had an author, Nicole Subotic come to St Brigid’s to talk to Years 5 and 6. She gave a little inspirational talk about her book; 'Raising Fletcher the boy with the golden smile'. She showed us pictures, her guided writing journal and told us how she was inspired to write the book. She answered many questions and we even got some photos with her. We greatly appreciated it and can't wait to see her again! We hope that it inspired you to write your own story."
STUDENTS AS AUTHORS: USING OUR WRITER'S NOTEBOOKS
Some of our Stage 3 students shared a particular entry that they were proud of from their Writer's Notebook with me. It was inspiring to see the students excited about their writing, knowing the purpose of their writing and having an audience for their writing. I also shared a story I had started writing with them and they gave me excellent ideas for the next chapter. We certainly have some budding authors here at St Brigid's.
