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Dear Parents, Carers and Friends,
The Acts of the Apostles is attributed to the authorship of St Luke so it is fitting that this week we also give thanks for the life of St Luke as we celebrate his feast day. Luke is a wonderful example of someone who carried out the mission with the greatest commitment and today we still benefit from the choices Luke made in this pursuit. Luke was originally a Greek Gentile from Antioch, a city known at the time for its high culture and learning. He was a well educated physician who enjoyed high social standing and the many material comforts that life can offer, so his decision to follow Jesus included giving up the many privileges of this life and sacrificing the comfortable lifestyle he enjoyed. Today he is the patron saint of physicians and surgeons.
We appreciate some features unique to Luke’s Gospel including a loving focus on Mary, the mother of Jesus; the Annunciation to Mary that she would be the mother of Jesus and the beautiful prayer of the Magnificat; the Presentation of Jesus to the Temple and then losing Jesus from the convoy leaving Jerusalem. Of particular note at this time of World Mission Month is Luke’s devotion to the poor and a tenderness for those who suffer. Luke took seriously the mission to go out in pairs and announce the Kingdom of God. This is evidenced by all the places he visited with St Paul and by remaining a faithful companion of Paul, the Apostle, in spreading out to accomplish the work Jesus had given them. He was a dedicated disciple of Jesus and models for us what it means to respond to the call to discipleship and minister to others, assuring them that God was present in their lives.
We are each called in our way to announce the Kingdom of God and exercise love towards others and especially, at this time in our year, to those who are vulnerable, poor and marginalised. Every act of reaching out to another, every act of kindness, every contribution to the common good and the flourishing of others is an expression of being a disciple like Luke.
During this World Mission Month, how will you choose to follow the example of St Luke and extend your love to others in our world and carry out the mission entrusted to you?
What this means for students and school staff
- If a student or staff member is unwell and has any COVID-19 symptoms, even the mildest of symptoms, they should stay home and test.
- Students and staff who are unwell with any cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms (whether they have tested positive or not) should not attend school until their symptoms are gone.
- To limit the possible spread of illness amongst the school community, students and staff displaying COVID-19 symptoms at school will continue to be sent home until their symptoms are gone (students and staff with persistent symptoms, e.g. hayfever, will continue to be able to attend with a letter from their medical practitioner).
Steps we can take to keep our school community safe
- The most important step we can all take is to stay home when we have cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms, and not return to school until the symptoms are gone.
- Please continue to notify the school if your child tests positive for COVID-19.
- We strongly encourage all students, staff and visitors to follow NSW Health guidance. We will continue with the COVID-smart measures that have been in place over the last few terms. This includes a combination of encouraging vaccination, supporting mask-wearing (with masks still required in some settings), rapid antigen testing, ventilation, hygiene and enhanced cleaning
ORDER YOUR ST BRIGID'S SCHOOL BAG NOW
The St Brigid's school bag has been a compulsory school item for the past 4 years and part of the school uniform requirements. A long transition period was afforded families, therefore, if you intend replacing your child's school bag for 2023, it must now be a St Brigid's school bag. The quality, size and ergonomic features of the bag make it a very good choice and investment that will last from Kinder - Year 6. The bag can be ordered on Qkr!
- 1st prize - $500 cash
- 2nd Prize - St George Dragons Family Pass to 6 home games and merchandise. Valued at $265
- 3rd Prize - Dinner voucher for Figtree Gourmet Kitchen. Valued at $200
| YEAR 5 | YEAR 6 | |
| St Brigid's Winner | Emerson E | Raen G |
| St Brigid's Highly Commended | Abby H | Eliza P |
| St Brigid's Highly Commended | Grace D | Rosie S |
This year we will celebrate the gift of our Grandparents, Godparents and Good friends with a Mass, light luncheon and open classrooms on Tuesday 22 November 2022 from 12noon.
We hope that you will be able to join us for this special celebration. Bishop Brian Mascord will be presiding at the Mass.
It wonderful to recognise the learning and leadership achievements of students in addition to the living of our school values. Please remember if you are motivated to achieve your milestones, keep your awards in a very safe place and then follow the school procedure.
THE AWARD STRUCTURE
- Step 1 - 5 Merit awards = First Assistant Principal Award +
- Step 2 - 5 Merit awards = Second Assistant Principal Award +
- Step 3 - 2 Merit awards = First Principal Award +
- Step 4 - 5 Merit awards = Third Assistant Principal Award +
- Step 5 - 5 Merit awards = Fourth Assistant Principal Award+
- Step 6 - 2 Merit awards = Second Principal Award+
- Final Step - 2 Merit Awards = St Brigid Medal
THE PROCEDURE
- When students achieve a milestone, they are required to submit the actual relevant merit awards to the school office for validation.
- The awards are verified by the Assistant Principal and/or Principal and signed, stamped, and dated
- The next milestone award is presented at the assembly on the Friday after all the documentation is presented.
- The Assistant Principal and Principal will sign and date the back of the awards when they are presented.
- The final awards of the year are presented at the final assembly in Week 9 (if it is a 10-week term) and Week 10 (if it is an 11- week term). No awards will be presented after this assembly.
LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH DINNER
Please continue to fill in the reporting google form if your child has even the mildest of respiratory symptoms 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.
Your support in ensuring the health and safety of the St Brigid’s Community during this global pandemic has been greatly appreciated.
Please complete it any day or time of the week, including weekends. The information will automatically come to Ms Uroda and Mrs Sammut.
2022 SAVE THE DATE
| 24 October 2022 | Kinder 2023 Playgroup 5 at 8:50am Playgroup 6 at 1:50pm |
| 26 October 2022 | Crazy sock day Mission Day and subway lunch |
| 28 October 2022 | World Teacher's Day |
| 2 November 2022 | Kinder 2023 Playgroup 7 at 8:50am Playgroup 8 at 1:50pm |
| 9 November 2022 | Kinder 2023 Transition 1 to school 8:50am for parents and child |
| 16 November 2022 | Kinder 2023 Transition 2 to school 8:50am for child only |
| 22 November 2022 | G'day Mass with the bishop followed by a light lunch |
| 1 December 2022 | Lumen Christi Parish Dinner |
| 9 December 2022 | Christmas Carols Concert and dinner 5:30pm start |
| 15 December 2022 | Year 6 Graduation Mass / luncheon / prize giving / ringing of bell |
| 16 December 2022 | Final awards assembly of 2022 |
| 16 December 2022 | Year 6 Graduation Excursion |
| 19 December 2022 | Christmas fun day and special food day - Wiseman Park |
| 20 December 2022 | Pupil free day - SDD |
KINDERGARTEN, YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2 MATHEMATICS IMPROVEMENT
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers have been enaging in some exciting new learning in the area of Mathematics. Mathematical Reasoning is when students justify, explain and prove how they solve problems in maths. It involves lots of talk and interaction, drawing and the use of objects and concrete materials to help solve problems. The teachers have started this new new learning and this will be put into practice in the classroom this term in small group instruction, whole class teaching and roving student teacher conferences. We expect that the students will love learning Mathematics with this new contemporary and research based approach to learning mathematics.
NUDE FOOD SUCCESS - TERM 4 WEEK 1 UPDATE. GET ON BOARD TO REDUCE SINGLE USE PACKAGING
We continue with our NUDE FOOD initiative this term. This means we are encouraging all students to bring plastic free lunch and snacks to school each day. 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 1 NUDE FOOD RESULTS
Our SRC Chairperson, Cameron has analysed the data from Week 1 and here are the results:
- Kindergarten - 77%
- Year 1 - 75%
- Year 2 - 43%
- Year 3 - 67%
- Year 4 - 48%
- Year 5 - 33%
- Year 6 - 43%
CONGRATULATIONS KINDERGARTEN! You will receive the St Brigid's Peace Lily. Best of luck to all classes for Week 2. Week 3,6,and 9 are the MAGIC rounds, 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.
RESPECT FOCUS WEEK 2 AND 3: It's NOT a Joke!
Each week, a new respect focus will be announced at the assembly and then this will be taught in classrooms everyday. Students learn what the respect focus is and is not and use scripts and role play to help them understand. I thank the Respectful Relationships Student Advisory group for leading this very important initiative and having a confident voice to speak up for respectful relationships.
It's NOT a Joke is:
- Owning up when you have said unkind or disrespectful words to someone
- Accepting that you have been disrespectful in your words or actions
- Understanding that when I am disrespectful, it is NEVER a joke
It's NOT a Joke is not:
- Saying unkind words to or about someone and when you get into trouble, saying ‘It was just a joke.’
- Saying “we were just having fun, I didn’t mean it.”
- Saying “everyone else was doing it too.”
Weekly Respect Focus - Term 4
- Week 2-3 - It's NOT a Joke!
- Week 4 - Consent
- Week 5 - Respect at the toilets
- Week 6 - Keep your hands, feet and objects to yourself
- Week 7 - Healthy Relationships
- Week 8 - Disagreeing Respectfully
- Week 9 - Saying Sorry
LIDS FOR KIDS UPDATE
At the end of Term 3, our Stewardship Leader, Raen presented to the school an update on how many lids for kids the community donated. Please see Raen's report below:
Thank you for your wonderful efforts in helping to make prosthetic limbs for people who need them. A gude thank you to Raen and her family who have taken on this intiative, sorting and donating the lids on our behalf. What an amazing missionary effort from the St Brigid's community. Please continue to bring in the lids, cleaning them first.
VINNIES VAN FOOD AND TOILETRIES DRIVE
In order to assist with the work of the Vinnies Van we are conducting a week long collection of designated food and toiletries items. Each class has been given a particular item to bring in. These items are listed as essentials for the van to continue to operate in the capacity that it does in assisting our brothers and sisters in need. Please ensure all items are left in your child/children’s classroom by Friday 4 November 2022. Ring pull cans are appreciated.
Week 4 Monday 31 October - Friday 4 November
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Class |
Item |
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Kinder |
Packs of Muesli Bars |
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Year 1 |
Toothpaste and toothbrushes |
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Year 2 |
Packets of noodles (not cups) |
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Year 3 |
Soap Bars |
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Year 4 |
Packs of Le Snacks |
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Year 5 |
6 pack of Longlife Flavoured Milks (popper size) |
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Year 6 |
6 pack of Poppers |
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Staff |
Deodorants (mens and womens) & Sanitary Pads /Tampons |
As a school community, we ‘kicked off’ Socktober for Mission Month with a prayerful liturgy led by Year 6, with the theme, “You will be my witnesses”. In this liturgy, we heard the message from Pope Francis,
Dear brothers and sisters!
These words were spoken by the Risen Jesus to his disciples just before his Ascension into heaven, as we learn from the Acts of the Apostles: “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth” (1:8).
It is a clear message that our responsibility, as children of God, is to respond to the need of others. In 2022, students and their families across Australia will raise funds to support families in Ethiopia facing malnutrition and food insecurity. Our fundraising will help sustain and enrich the lives of vulnerable children who are in need of our support.
The children have accepted a challenge to raise enough money to provide goats to the villages of Ethiopia. The goats provide essential nutrition for the children and extra milk can be made into cheese and butter or provided to local health clinics. Extra milk can be sold to other regions. Each goat costs $50 and each class will need to raise at least this amount to purchase a goat. The more money we raise, the more goats can be purchased.
How are we going to do this?WEDNESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2022 is World Children’s Mission Day and we are asking ALL students to come dressed in mufti with CRAZY SOCKS. A gold coin donation is expected for this privilege. On this day, the Year 6 leaders will be conducting a SOCKTOBER SHOOTOUT! Don't forget to order a
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Parish Mass - Thursday 9:30 AM |
Grade attending |
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27 October 2022 |
Year 4 |
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3 November 2022 |
Year 6 |
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10 November 2022 |
Kinder |
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17 November 2022 |
Year 5 |
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Tuesday 22 November |
GRANDPARENTS AND GOOD FRIENDS DAY MASS 12 PM |
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1 December 2022 |
Year 2 |
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8 December 2022 |
Year 1 |
ST BRIGID'S AWARDS
Term 3 - Week 9
Congratulations to the following students on receiving their awards in Term 3, week 9 and Term 4, Week 1 & 2.
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.
| CLASS | BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS | LEADER OF THE WEEK |
| Kindergarten | Kana B | Quinn S |
| Year 1 | Jaxson M | Hudson I |
| Year 2 | Maya I | Hannah J |
| Year 3 | Hunter M | Ireland C |
| Year 4 | Simon C | Bethany M |
| Year 5 | Sofia S | Hugo S |
| Year 6 | Cash S | Mason M |
Term 4 - Week 1
Today, students from Kinder to Year 6 received the Catholic Values Award of COMPASSION. We are moved by God’s grace to be accepting, empathetic and merciful by embracing the dignity of each person so that they are loved and valued.
| CLASS | COMPASSION | LEADER OF THE WEEK |
| Kindergarten | Sophia N | Emily Y |
| Year 1 | Gabby L | Andre C |
| Year 2 | Abbie B | Logan A |
| Year 3 | Raphael I | Ruby G |
| Year 4 | Neave M | Ali S |
| Year 5 | Eliza P | Lachlan E |
| Year 6 | Oliver E | Aleissa S |
Today, students from Kinder to Year 6 received the Strong Foundations Award. This award recognises those students co create a safe, supportive and friendly environment. They are active participants in their faith, learning and outreach
| CLASS | STRONG FOUNDATIONS | LEADER OF THE WEEK |
| Kindergarten | Della M | Ben F |
| Year 1 | Marta O'D | Levi C |
| Year 2 | Charlotte F | Mia McP |
| Year 3 | Kip M | Sachi B |
| Year 4 | Briella I | Harper L |
| Year 5 | Hugo S | Philippa L |
| Year 6 | Ash A | Vincent H |
Congratulations to the following students who have received an Assistant Principal's Award. Well done!
| CLASS | STUDENT |
| Year 1 | Sofia M |
| Year 1 | Aurora M |
| Year 1 | Liana D |
| Year 1 | Gisele M |
| Year 3 | Tom S |
| Year 3 | Raphael I |
| Year 4 | Simon C |
| Year 5 | Zachariah C |
| Year 6 | Audrey G |
CONGRATULATIONS
We would like to congratulate Grace D in Year 6 on her recent success at the recent MacKillop Athletic Trials. Grace competed in the U12-13 Open Primary Girls 800m in Sydney Olympic Park-Homebush. She performed outstandingly and finished in 4th place (narrowly missing a podium finish of .32 of a second over 800m). Well done Grace!
Happy Birthday to the following students.
We hope you have a great birthday!
| Kindergarten | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 | Year 5 | Year 6 |
| Emily Y | Evie W | Jude C | David M | Alexandria S | Rio M | Sophie JT |
| Max N | Ava Y | Vita K | Charlie E | |||
| Nivana-Rose I | Giselle M | Charlotte F | Paulo D | |||
| Ari O' | Hugh S | |||||
| Elliott G | Arielle N | |||||
| Ella D |
TERM 4 GENERAL MEETING
The Term 4 P&F General Meeting will be held on Thursday 17 November 2022 at 6:30pm in the St Brigid's Library.
Please send any agenda items to pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au by Friday 11 November 2022. All parents and carers are warmly invited to attend.
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
We are pleased to advise that the canteen will be open each Friday commencing today, 21 October 2022.
- Please order on Qkr! Orders will close at midday on Thursdays.
- Limited snacks and drinks will be available for sale over the counter.
- For the canteen to operate successfully, we need volunteers, please register here.
- Allergen notices have been provided on applicable items. This is a guide only and should not be relied upon.
Please email pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au if you have any questions.
P&F Executive Committee
We are still in need of a Canteen Coordinator, please email pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au if you are interested.
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Date |
1st Mower |
2nd Mower |
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22/10/2022 |
Anthony Petre |
Paul Brogan |
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5/11/2022 |
Matt Duggan |
n/a |
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19/11/2022 |
Fabrizio Curcio |
Jason Shoebridge |
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3/12/2022 |
John Harman |
Louise Macdonald |
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17/12/2022 |
Anthony Petre |
Darrell Mitchell |
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7/1/2023 |
Fabrizio Curcio |
Kevin Dent |
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21/1/2023 |
Mark Eckermann |
Thomas Mortlock |
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4/2/2022 |
Simon Young |
Paul Brogan |
CHRISTMAS CAROLS - CHRISTMAS HAM WHEEL FUNDRAISER
At the Christmas Carols evening on Friday 9 December 2022, the P&F will be selling tickets for the Christmas Ham Wheel.
We are seeking a volunteer/volunteers who love to get up in front of a crowd to run the raffle on the night. We are also in need of a small refrigerated trailer or van.
If you have any experience in organising a ham wheel raffle, know a good ham supplier, or are able to help out in any way, please email pandf@sbgdow.catholic.edu.au.
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ST BRIGID'S CHURCH MASS TIMES
| Saturday | 5:30 Vigil |
| Sunday | 9:00am |
| Thursday | 9:30am |
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