What do we learn from Mary through the living of her life?

In a real and powerful way, Mary shows all of us what it means to live a life totally alive in Christ with an undivided will to participate in God’s purpose for her and for the world. Mary demonstrates a complete freedom and intention to place herself without reservation at the service of Christ and God’s kingdom. Her freedom to say ‘yes’ and respond to God’s call is unconditional and does not need to see the future outcome before trusting. Mary embraces God’s call and choice of her and needs nothing more to commit.

In the fullness of her faith and womanhood, Mary shows us that faith does not separate us from the world but makes us more open to and connected to it. With her ‘yes’ given in the mess of life’s circumstances, the midst of precariousness and unrecognised relationships or domestic life and poverty, she stands in solidarity with the poor and the victims of oppression, of gossip, of exclusion; with all those who, like her, have had to hold a dead child in their arms or flee their home for protection or asylum for their families.

This woman of Nazareth shines for those who always believe that God is in the mess and even in the darkness of suffering and death.

Mary shows us a glimpse of how the life of grace makes us more human and that in God’s presence we become completely ourselves, fully alive in body and soul. On this feast we celebrate her unique role as a true disciple of Jesus.

In Mary’s assumption, we stand on the promise that we can each make a difference in this world.

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.

SPOTLIGHT ON LEARNING PRESENTS KINDERGARTEN

CLASS PROFILE: KINDERGARTEN

• TEACHERS: Mrs Cuff
• SSOs: Mrs Toni Frino
• STUDENTS: A curious, energetic group of learners who inquire about the world and share a love of learning
• Year 6 REPORTERS: Audrey, Malachy and Flynn
• Year 6 CAMERA/VIDEO CREW: Samuel and Flynn

Learning in the classroom

  

  

Learning about the chicks with their Year 6 buddies

And that's a wrap for SPOTLIGHT on Learning 2022. I hope you enjoyed seeing the wonderful learning experiences your children have been engaged in throughout the course of the year. A big thank you to our Year 6 students and teachers for their leadership, flexibility and Hollywood skills.

ASSESSMENT TASK AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO SEE ON THE COMPASS PORTAL?

Today you will be able to see an assessment task that your child has completed on COMPASS. You will see a learning intention, success criteria and a grade next to each success criteria from the classroom teacher. The learning intention comes from the NSW syllabus and the success criteria outlines how students can be successful with the task. Teachers will assign either Working Towards, Working At or Working Beyond for each success criteria. Your child will show you their completed assessment task on either Seesaw (K-2) or Google Classroom (3-6). This is another way we would like to engage you in what your child has been learning. We encourage you to ask your child to show you the task they completed on Seesaw or on Google Classroom and have a conversation with them about their learning. Please follow the steps in the attached document to see your child's assessment on compass. Please note that if your child has been absent for an extended period of time due to illness or a family holiday, they may not have this assessment visible if it was completed during their absence.

NUDE FOOD SUCCESS - WEEK 4 UPDATE. GET ON BOARD TO REDUCE SINGLE USE PACKAGING

We have officially launched NUDE FOOD at St Brigid's. This means we are encouraging all students to bring plastic free lunch and snacks to school each day. Our SRC, Stewardship and Justice Leaders will be leading this initiative. The SRC members from each class will tally up the amount of nude food lunch boxes brought to school on a random day during the week. There will be incentives for the classes who bring the most bring nude food lunches to school and these are:

• Each week the class that has the most nude food will be announced on assembly and will be awarded with the St Brigid's Peace Lily for their classroom for the week.
• During Weeks 3,6,9 the students who bring Nude Food in will receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win a special NUDE FOOD lunch-box. What a COOL prize.
• The class that has brought Nude Food to school the most throughout Term 3 will receive a reward of extra play and sampling some fresh produce from our school garden.

WEEK 4 NUDE FOOD RESULTS 

Our SRC Chairperson, Cameron, Year 5 SRC Rep, Reed and Kindergarten SRC Rep, Leo J reported the Week 4 Nude Food results at the Friday assembly. Here they are:

• Kindergarten - 81%
• Year 1 - 70%
• Year 2 - 65%
• Year 3 - 75%
• Year 4 - 50%
• Year 5 - 63%
• Year 6 - 48%

CONGRATULATIONS KINDERGARTEN! You will receive the St Brigid's Peace Lily for Week 4. Best of luck to all classes for Week 5. During Week 5, there will be a bonus tally day. Students won't know which day the SRC members will be doing the tally, so remember to bring nude food to school everyday to be counted for your class. Week 6 is the MAGIC round, where all students who bring nude food to school will receive a raffle ticket to go into the draw to win an awesome nude food lunch box.

Please talk to your child/children about what nude food is and ask them to help prepare a nude food lunch-box. Some ideas are in the handout below. Our SRC will be showing the students examples of Nude Food lunch boxes. We thank you kindly for your support as we work together to care for our common home ... this beautiful planet.

  

   

     

RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS - STUDENT VOICE

Last term we continued our exploration of what a Safe and Respectful School looks like, sounds like and feels like. We consulted our students in the form of a survey to gather their thoughts and opinions on how safe and respected they felt at school. The teachers analysed this data last week and have come up with a plan for this term. All classes have started this term with defining what DISRESPECTFUL WORDS and BEHAVIOURS are and we will further explore the concept of respect as a non-negotiable during our Bullying No Way Day- Respect in Games. An outline of the plan for this term is as follows:

• A student consultation group to develop 'peer-to-peer relationships' expectations that will be explicitly taught to the whole school.
• A weekly focus of RESPECT to be announced by the Year 6 leaders at the assembly and this focus will then be taught through role play during the week and students who display this focus will be affirmed and awarded.
• Whole school exploration of CONSENT and understanding our own body boundary.

VINNIES VAN FOOD AND TOILETRIES DRIVE

Thank you so very much for your support of the Vinnies Van Drive. Kelly was over the moon with the quantity of supplies for local families in need.

LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH - HOLY COMMUNION

• Session 4       24/25  August SJV 6:00 pm

First Reconciliation will be available after each First Holy Communion session.

First Holy Communion Dates are Saturday 27 August & 3 September 2022.

If you require any further information or need to discuss any concerns please, contact Cathy on 4211 0506 email: cathy.zamroz@dow.org.au

Term 3 - Week 3

Today, students from Kinder to Year 6  received the Building Partnerships Award. This award recognises students from Kinder to Year 6 who work collaboratively with other students and their teachers to enhance their learning.

TERM 3 GENERAL MEETING

The Term 3 P&F General Meeting will be held on Thursday 25 of August 2022 at 6:30pm in the St Brigid's Library.

Please send any agenda items to pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au by Tuesday 23 August 2022. All parents and carers are warmly invited to attend.

I look forward to seeing you at the meeting next week. 

Lucy Kelly - President

  

YEAR BOOK COVER COMPETITION

The production of the Yearbook is under way. One main aspect of the Yearbook is the Yearbook Cover Competition. We hold this competition each year to allow the students to design their own Yearbook cover. There are prizes to be won: Front Cover Winner (Primary) and Back Cover (Infants) winner. We encourage all students to enter. (Note - Every entry will be printed in the internal cover also)

Criteria:

• Portrait A4 size
• The title 'St Brigid's Yearbook 2022'
• NAME and CLASS to be written on the BACK of the entry
• Bright bold vibrant colours.
• Make your entry eye catching.

This is a great after-school/weekend/holiday activity. All entries are to be handed to your child's classroom teacher by Friday 14th October 2022. Enter as many times as you like. Be as creative as you like. As it is to be printed, bright bold colours are encouraged.

We look forward to seeing some amazing artworks.

Staff will be judging all entries on Friday 14th October 2022.

Kind Regards,

Yearbook Team

      

  

VOLUNTEERING

We have a number of events coming up that require your help.  Please register using SignUp Zone. Thank you.

  

    

CANTEEN OPENING UPDATE and MENU

The canteen is hoping to open next Friday. Unfortunately we have had some delays that are out of our control. A notice will be sent out once Qkr! has been set up and to advise of cut off times.

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We are still in need of a Canteen Coordinator, please email  pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au if you are interested.

  

      

 FATHER’S DAY GIFT STALL

The Father’s Day Gift Stall will be held on Thursday 1 September 2022. All gifts are $7 and are available by preorder only on Qkr!. Orders close Friday 26 August 2022. NO CASH WILL BE ACCEPTED ON THE DAY.

 

  

  

  

UPCOMING LAWN MOWING 2022

STUDENT DISCO COMING IN TERM 4