FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL'S DESK
SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING PRESENTS YEAR 5
CLASS PROFILE
Year 5 consists of 23 amazing students who love to learn and have fun while doing it. They have loved the step up to Stage 3 this year and the challenges this has brought. Thank you to all the students and teachers/SSOs for preparing their learning for Spotlight on Learning. Thank you to our 4 students who were interviewed, Reed, Rosie, Anthony and Bailey. And a HUGE thank you to our Year 6 leaders for once again stepping up and leading the interview process.
TEACHERS: Julie Mewett and Louise Richardson
SSOs: Yvonne Tasker and Amanda McAlary
STUDENTS:
Year 6 REPORTERS: Iva, Raen, Tully
Year 6 CAMERA/VIDEO CREW: Xavier, Mason
Stay tuned for SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING in the next Brigid Bulletin edition in Term 2 Week 3, where we will showcase YEAR 2.
| Class | Term | Week |
| Year 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Year 6 | 2 | 6 |
| Year 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Year 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Kindergarten | 3 | 6 |
BULLYING NO WAY DAY!
Friday 18 March 2022 was National Day Against Bullying and at St Brigid's we certainly celebrated a KINDNESS CULTURE! On this day the students engaged in a number of fun and engaging activities that promoted kindness, tolerance, resilence and above all RESPECT for one another. There was a sea of BLUE to show our collective support of a kindness culture and anti-bullying, everyone enjoyed a sausage sizzle for lunch and the students created class kindness chains with messages of kindness for each other, people in need and our world. Together our kindness chains measured 61.92m. What an amazing effort! A big thanks to our P and F and parent volunteers who worked on the BBQ making the yummy sausage sizzle.
NAPLAN ONLINE 2022
NAPLAN is a national literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit in May each year. It is the only national assessment all Australian students do. Students in Year 3 and Year 5 will sit the NAPLAN starting on Tuesday 10 May. Year 3 will do a paper based writing assessment and Year 5 will complete an online writing assessment. The following schedule of assessments are being planned:
| Tuesday 10 May 2022 | Year 3, Year 5 Writing Assessment |
| Wednesday 11 May 2022 | Year 3, Year 5, Reading and Conventions of Language Assessments |
| Thursday 12 May 2022 | Year 3, Year 5 Numeracy Assessment |
| Friday 13 May 2022 | Catch up Tests |
A public demonstration site is available for students to use at home, to practice using the online platform. It can be accessed here. The students will have ample opportunities in class to feel at ease and comfortable with the assessment and to practice using the online platform.
https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site
For more information on NAPLAN ONLINE 2022, please refer to the following parent information flyer.
DIGITAL LESSONS FOR ISOLATING STUDENTS
- Digital tasks will be available to access from Term 1, Week 3
- Digital tasks can be accessed using the student’s Seesaw accounts (Years 1-2) or Google Classroom accounts (Years 3-6)
- Seesaw Home Learning Codes will be provided to students once the Responsible Use of Technology Agreement has been signed and returned to school
- Google Classroom codes will be emailed to parents or shared with students
- There will be a minimum of 4 digital tasks to complete
- Digital tasks will be in line with the class teaching and learning program
- Students are also expected to access their EPIC Home Reading accounts with reading material assigned to each student
- Teachers will provide feedback on the digital tasks submitted by students
If you would like to access more digital learning tasks please go to the Department of Education learning site here: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/learning-from-home/learning-at-home/20
If you need any support with these tasks or require any further information, please contact the office and we will do our best to support you.
LIDS FOR KIDS UPDATE from our Stewardship Leader, Raen
A big thank you to all the families who have contributed to Lids For Kids! So far we have collected over 6,000 lids which is a great effort but let's keep going and push our limits!
Remember to only bring in milk, soft drink and water bottle lids that are washed. It would also be great if you could remove the foam seals from the milk lids as we have to take those out. We will do a final count of the lids at the end of the term and the class with the most lids will win a fun reward! We will be continuing this in Term 2 so keep collecting in the school holidays. Thanks everyone!
