KINDER ENROLMENTS FOR 2023 

If you have a child who is starting school next year, please ring the office to notify us and we will send home an enrolment pack. Enrolment applications are due by Monday 28 March 2022. Alternatively, you can download the enrolment package from our school website CLICK HERE

Appointment times for interviews in early Term 2 will be given upon submission of the application form and documentation. 

In addition, if you have other family members or friends looking to enrol their children please let them know, as we have vacancies in all classes except Year 1. 

Guided tours for new families will be held TOMORROW from 9:00am - 10:00am.

THANK YOU PARENT VOLUNTEERS

What a delight it was to welcome a group of parent volunteers on site last Friday for our Bullying NO way day - creating a kindness culture at St Brigid's. Thank you to Anna (Coordinator), Caterina, Chen, April, Cortney, Julie, Kylie, Renee, David and Andrew for organising and cooking a scrumptious sausage sizzle lunch.  

Thank you to Mrs Sammut, the SRC, staff, students and parents for a fabulous day last Friday to acknoweldge this National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence (NDA). Australia’s key bullying prevention initiative celebrates 12 years of action, connecting schools and communities to find workable solutions to prevent bullying.

The theme for 2022 was Kindness Culture. By building Kindness Culture together, we can promote inclusion, respect and community belonging for all students in schools across Australia.

 

More than 1,000 of the top international cyclists from 70+ nations will compete for a gold medal and the coveted rainbow jersey. It is one of the top five sporting events in the world and is watched by more than 300 million viewers around the globe.

Last week, a meeting was held to discuss the impacts this event will have on the school with the race circuit coming down Gipps Street. Most roads along the route will be closed from about 7:30am – 6:30pm a night, however,  it won’t be until closer to the event that we will know the exact times. The organisers believe that we will be able to access our school site via back roads. As you can imagine all the back roads are going to be congested and so drop off and pick up may take a considerable amount of time.

At this stage, I can envisage the car zone working with drop off and pick up in the usual spot and then doing a U-turn in Vickery and heading back along Vickery Street. Families who live close to school will be encouraged to ride or walk to school.

We have been advised that Friday 23 September – Sunday 25 September will be the busiest of event days, therefore, we have moved our Staff Development Day (pupil free) to Friday 23 September 2022 to avoid extra congestion for parents and students.

On a positive note, we will support the event during the day by decorating the school and enabling the students to watch and cheer on the peloton or individual riders as they cycle by St Brigid’s.

As information becomes available, I will communicate this to you for advanced planning.

The staff will be travelling to the Hermitage in Mittagong for our annual overnight retreat. This year, Mrs Beth Riolo will be facilitating the retreat looking at Environmental Spirituality and stewardship. Therefore, Friday 8 April  2022 will be a pupil free day. 

    

LEARNING CONTINUITY AND WELL BEING PLAN

Following staff consultation and discussion at the P&F meeting last night, the school leadership team will devise a learning continuity and well-being plan as COVID-19 restrictions ease.

Mindful that we are in the third year of varying degrees of COVID-19 restrictions we will take the next couple of weeks to teach the students some of the 'normal' school procedures using the PB4L Framework. This will ensure the students are set up for success. 

Below are some procedures and minor adjustments to routines so far

Morning Arrival at School	8:35am-8:50am	Students arrive via car zone, walking or riding and proceed directly to class.
Monday Assembly	2:20pm	Parents are invited to attend from 18 March 2022 in class groups. refer to the roster below. COVID smart procedures in place (see item below).
Afternoon Dismissal	2:55 - 3:10pm	Parents can enter the school via the gates in Chrysalis Park on Monday 7 March 2022 from 2:45pm. Car zone will commence at 2:55pm.
Uniform Shop	2:00 - 2:20pm	The uniform coordinator will open up the second hand uniform shop on Friday afternoons.
Parish Masses and morning tea for parents	Commencing Term 2	Refer to News from the REC

 

  

   
WEEKLY ASSEMBLIES IN THE SCHOOL HALL

TERM 1

WEEK	DAY / TIME	CLASS PARENTS
10	Monday 28 March	Yeare 2 and Year 3
11	Monday 4 April	Year 4 and Year 5

TERM 2

WEEK	DAY/TIME	CLASS PARENTS
1	Friday 29 April 2:20pm	Year 6 and Kinder
2	Friday 6 May 2:20pm	Year 1 and Year 2
3	Friday 13 May 2:20pm	Year 3 and Year 4
4	Friday 20 May 2:20pm	Year 5 and Year 6
5	Friday 27 May 2:20pm	Any parents (hopefully)

  

    

COVID SMART PROCEDURES FOR COMING ONTO SITE

      

  

RESPIRATORY ILLNESS PROCEDURES - GOOGLE FORM

Please continue to fill in the reporting google form if your child has even the mildest of respiratory symptoms; is a close household contact, or has tested Positive for COVID-19.
 
The information contained in this form gives me very good data about prevailing illness in the school which I can communicate to parents to help us all work together to ensure the health and safety of our community. 
 
This google form can be found on the St Brigid’s website, as a link in the Brigid Bulletin and by clicking the link in the COMPASS news-feed.

Students and staff who have undergone testing and have been directed to self-isolate can return to school when: they have received a negative test result, completed their 7 day isolation period AND are not displaying symptoms of illness.

Your support in ensuring the health and safety of the St Brigid’s Community during this global pandemic has been greatly appreciated. 

REPORTING FORM

Please complete it any day or time of the week, including weekends. The information will automatically come to Ms Uroda and Mrs Sammut.