TRASH FREE TUESDAY Term 2 Week 1 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 2 are:

Kinder - 27%
Year one - 42%
Year two - 56%
Year 3 - 43%
Year 4 - 67%
Year 5 - 71%
Year 6 - 79%

Well done Year 6, your efforts are most appreciated by our environment.

The 'TRASH FREE TUESDAY' Champions for Term 1 are Year 4 and 5 they will now enjoy a TRASH FREE PICNIC and extra play on Monday 3 May. They will eat their lunch at the oval together and sample some fresh produce from our school garden (lettuce, tomatoes, basil and capsicum) and then enjoy some extra play added to their lunch time. CONGRATULATIONS Year 4 and Year 5!

NAPLAN 2021

Equating Study

A reminder that on Thursday 6 May, Year 3 and Year 5 will sit the NAPLAN Equating test which is a paper based Numeracy test. Schools are randomly chosen to partcipate in the Equating study. This test is completed one week before the actual NAPLAN ONLINE test. No results will be reported on or sent home. For more information about the Equating study, please read the attached information.

The NAPLAN 2021 online assessments will take place on Tuesday 11 May: Writing, Wednesday 12 May: Reading and Conventions of Language and Thursday 13 May: Numeracy. Please ensure your child brings their iPad fully charged to school on these days and a working pair of ear phones. Teachers will provide opportunities for the students to practice NAPLAN style questions in the online format at school. If you would like to work with your child at home then you can access NAPLAN style questions using the public demonstration site by clicking on this link. 

NAPLAN Public Demonstration Site

Improving Writing at St Brigid's

We are creating a Writer's Community at St Brigid's where teachers are focussing on improving the way they teach writing in order to see greater growth in student learning. Teachers have been engaged in  collaborative inquiry processes throughout Term 1, which involved: analysing current and trend student learning data; gathering evidence of student learning and then spending a day learning together last Monday, working on new writing pedagogies and teaching strategies. So far the Year 1 and Year 2 teachers have engaged in a co-teaching cycle with myself as the Instructional Coach to implement some of these strategies. The students have been the beneficiaries of this work and we are starting to see some growth in student learning. Each teacher will have an opportunity to engage in a co-teaching cycle, where they co-plan, co-teach and co-evaluate their writing lesson with me. Check out some of the Year 1 and Year 2 writing samples. Well done writers!

Year 1 writing like authors, experimenting with statements, questions and exclamations.

Year 2 have been exploring how authors write compound sentences and experimenting with writing their own.

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Glorious St Joseph,

model of all who devote their lives to labour, obtain for me the grace to work, in the spirit of penance, in order thereby, to atone for my many sins;

to work conscientiously, setting devotion to duty in preference to my own whims;

to work with thankfulness and joy, deeming it an honour to employ and to develop, by my labour,
the gifts I have received from God;

to work with order, peace, moderation and patience,
without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties;

to work above all with a pure intention and with detachment from self,
having always before my eyes, the hour of death and the accounting
which I must then render of time ill spent, of talents wasted, of good omitted
and of vain complacency in success, which is so fatal to the work of God.

All for Jesus, all through Mary,
all in imitation of you, O Patriarch Joseph!
This shall be my motto in life and in death,

Amen.

 

EARTH DAY 2021

The theme for Earth Day 2021 is Restore Our Earth™, which focuses on natural processes, emerging green technologies, and innovative thinking that can restore the world’s ecosystems. In this way, the theme rejects the notion that mitigation or adaptation are the only ways to address climate change. It is up to each and every one of us to Restore Our Earth not just because we care about the natural world, but because we live on it. We all need a healthy Earth to support our jobs, livelihoods, health & survival, and happiness. A healthy planet is not an option — it is a necessity.

In his message for Earth Day 2021, Pope Francis has reminded everyone of the importance of working together to protect our planet.

"When it comes to safeguarding creation, there is no time to waste — humanity either must live up to its responsibility or continue on a path of self-destruction".

As the world continues to take measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Pope Francis highlighted that the crisis has shown us, “what happens when the world stops, pauses, even for a few months.”

He noted the pandemic’s impact on nature and on climate change, which shows us all that global nature needs our lives on this planet.

“It affects us all, albeit in multiple, diverse and unequivocal forms; and so it teaches us even more about what we need to do to create a just, equitable, environmentally safe planet,” the Holy Father pointed out.

Furthermore, “the Covid pandemic taught us this interdependence, this sharing of the planet,” Pope Francis said, adding that both global catastrophes - Covid-19 and the climate emergency - show us that we are running out of time.

“We have the means, it is time to act, we are at the limit,” he urged. (Vatican News 22 April 2021)

Video: Pope Francis Earth Day Message 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQho8C0XpQ

 

The Sacrament of Confirmation preparation continues for our Year 6 students. Please pray for our children:

Loving God,

Pour out your blessing

Upon our beloved children,

That during this time of Sacramental preparation

May they grow closer to you,

And come to know your special love for them.

May this time of preparation be a time of blessing

For our families and our community,

And unite us all in your great love.

Amen.

 

 

MAY the MONTH of MARY

It is appropriate that we celebrate Mother’s Day in May as we remember our Mother in Heaven, Mary.

Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. She was a willing servant. She trusted God and she obeyed his call.

Mary was young, poor and female. God looked upon the quality of her trust and obedience. He knew she would willingly serve God in one of the most important callings ever given to a human being. Just like Mary, God looks at our obedience and trust.  

Can we willingly accept God's plan?

 

And so we pray...

Loving God, we thank you for mothers – for all they mean or have meant, for the love they have shown and the care they have given.

We thank you for the qualities of mothers – their patience, their kindness, concern and understanding.

We thank you for the part they play in our lives, and we thank you for this day of saying ‘thank you’, this opportunity to say what we so often mean to say but so rarely do.

For mothers and motherhood, for children and families we bring you this day our grateful praise. 

Happy Mothers’ day

 

REFLECTIONS

Sunday 2 May 5th Sunday of Easter

All who live in me, and I in them, bear much fruit. This parable is a profound insight into the Christian life. We can claim to belong to the Christian family all we like. We can come to Mass every Sunday. But if the fruit we produce is bitter and poisonous, if we are unforgiving, unjust and uncaring, we cannot claim to be on the vine of Christ’s love. And if that’s the case we are in desperate need of the gentle hand of the vinedresser, who only wants to see us bring forth the yield we are capable of achieving.  God will not judge us by what we say or the public face of goodness we can turn on, we will be judged by our acts of love in and through our kindness and compassion. Excerpt from © Richard Leonard SJ

Sunday 9 May 6th Sunday of Easter

No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. The boundlessness of God’s love is seen in the fact that God loved us even before we were deserving of God’s love. In fact, it was God’s love that made us able both to receive and to give love in return. Love is of God; love is God. Divine love is constant and trustworthy. How easily we can think this thought or speak these words, yet how difficult, even impossible, it is to comprehend what it means. We can only really recognise love in its many concrete manifestations. Love is patient, kind and forbearing; it believes, it hopes, it endures. The love of God breaks down the barriers between Gentile and Jew, between slave and free, between the poor and the prosperous, between women and men, between the healthy and the ailing, between young and old. Excerpt from ©Dianne Bergant CSA

Considered an honour of the highest order, the Principal's Award celebrates outstanding achievement by a student in faith, learning and other contributions to school life. Congratulations to:

CLASS	STUDENT
Year 3	Daniel M
Year 4	Amelia E

 

 

Congratulations to the following students who have received an Assistant Principal's Award. Well done!

Congratulations to the following students on receiving their awards in Weeks 1 and 2.

Week 1 - Term 2

CLASS	FAITH AWARD	LEADER OF THE WEEK
Kindergarten	Jaxson M	Joshua M
Year 1	Sophie R-M	Abigail B
Year 2	Allaria D	Kip M
Year 3	Molly S	Zlata K
Year 4	Matthew C	Emerson E
Year 5	Georgia F	Abby H
Year 6	Quentin M	Starrsi D

 

 

 

Week 2 - Term 2

CLASS	JUSTICE AWARD		LEADER OF THE WEEK
Kindergarten	Ari O	Gabriela L	Elliott G
Year 1	Orlando S	Maya I	Isla R
Year 2	Ned L		Christian J
Year 3	Florence M		Ryan T
Year 4	Bailey C		Lucas T
Year 5	Andy P	Tully D	Mason M
Year 6	Natalia RT		Matthieu C

  

 

Happy Birthday to the following students.

We hope you have a great birthday!

Scholastic Book Club Issue #3 brochures were given out last week. Orders are to be placed through the LOOP online ordering system on the Scholastic website.

Orders are due by Friday 7 May 2021.

DIOCESAN CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL

RUGBY LEAGUE and LEAGUE TAG GALA DAY

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