St Brigid's News and Events

Wellbeing News

Congratulations to our Semester Two Wellbeing Representatives.

Go Girl - A Tech Conference for Young Girls

The Year 5 and 6 girls were very fortunate to have an opportunity to attend the 2022 Go For IT  Conference at Deakin University in Burwood last Thursday. The day is a one-day event with a focus on  inspiring students with fantastic role models who showcase the technology of the future.  Alice and Aisha have provided their insights below. 

Year 6 - Alice G: My favourite thing was the tradeshow. We went around and looked at different STEM stuff like 3D printing, showbags and there was a robot that followed people around. We participated in lectures about what people do in their career, STEM-wise. One of the ladies, Louisa, is a mechanical engineer and she talked about how she created a train.

Year 5 - Aisha: The good thing about it was the aim of it - for more women to be in the STEM area. I liked the lectures, I think they were interesting. Louisa and Serena are engineers and they spoke to us about their jobs, the positives and the negatives. There were a lot of great role models there. I liked the other activity where we had to highlight our strengths.

A big congratulations to Maria H who won the door prize of a new Apple Watch.

Literacy News

St Brigid's Book Fair

Thank you to all our students and families who attended and purchased books from our Book Fair.  We had over $3000.00 in sales.  From those sales we received $890.00 in commission which has been spent on new books for our Library.  A huge thank you to Glenn Stewart for organising and running this year's Book Fair.

Book Week Parade

What fun we had this morning at our annual Book Week Parade.  It was wonderful to see everyone dressed up and how creative our staff and students are.

Book Week Competition - Ends Today

Entries for our competition can be sent to cyass@sbmord.catholic.edu.au

Winners will be announced on Monday and be in next week’s newsletter.

There will be a prize for F-2, 3/4 and 5/6.

Do you love to write stories? - Kingston City Council Story Lines Writing Competition

Let’s celebrate your ideas by joining in and entering this year's 2022 Story Lines Writing Competition.

If you live, go to school or play in the City of Kingston you are eligible to enter the competition to win fabulous prizes and have your story published in this year’s Story Lines publication.

The age categories are 5-7 years, 8-10 years, 11-13 years and 14-16 years. There will be 3 prizes awarded per age group.

Entries open Monday 11 July and Close Sunday 18 September.

Go to the City of Kingston Library Website  to get an entry form and to read the term and conditions.

Please note: Winners are published on the library website, in the Short Story dispensers as well as into a Story Lines book.

Winners will be announced via their website and our Socials (Facebook and Instagram) from 4pm Friday 21 October.

News from 3/4

Students in Year 3/4 have recently focused in Maths on the ‘Measurement and Geometry’ topic of 3D objects. They had particular fun making their 3D objects using toothpicks and clay. Students had to identify how many faces, edges and vertices their 3D object had.

Father's Day Stall

We are looking forward to our Father's Day Stall on Thursday.  We have some great gifts to buy for Dad.  Prices are between $1.00 and $5.00.

We ask that you send a maximum of $10 for your child to spend.  

We will hold a quick stall on Friday morning for any child who missed out attending Thursday or who may want to swap a gift.  Thank you to our Year 1/2 Mum's for organising the Father's Day Stall.

Father's Day Breakfast

Foundation to Year 4 Disco - NEW DATE - FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER

Tickets now on Sale - Click here for the link to CDFpay.  If you have already purchased your tickets you don't need to do anything!  

Junior Rockers

Junior Rocker's Music School is at your school now. Our mission is to help young primary school students begin their musical journey and have fun while doing it. At Junior Rockers we believe a great music program offers an engaging contemporary repertoire that students recognise and relate to, while also building their technical musical abilities. Our passionate teachers guide students through technical exercises that build their ability on the instrument and instruct them on music theory to create an understanding of the foundations of music.

For more information or to apply for next term please call us on 1300 467 625, drop us an email info@juniorrockers.com or go to our website www.juniorrockers.com.au"

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