Welcome Back !

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to the 2025 school year! We hope you had an amazing holiday and spent time with family and friends, relaxing and enjoying each other's company! We are very much looking forward to seeing our students and hearing about their wonderful holiday escapades. I have already spoken to so many children and it sounds like everyone had a wonderful holiday whether it was at home or at different holiday destinations!

How wonderful it was to see all our parents - old and new - catching up and introducing each other to the new families. We extend a warm welcome to our new Foundation Families and to the McAllen, Soto and Tameirao Martins Da Silva families who are joining us.

Our children came to school on Wednesday looking very refreshed, excited and eager to catch up with each other and reestablish friendships. I have to say a big thank you to our parents - the children have come back looking so proud in their uniforms, they look absolutely amazing!

It was lovely to see our Foundation students come in so settled and ready to start their learning journey.

We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with you all to give our children the opportunity to flourish academically, spiritually and personally.

Reminder for the Start of Term Communication

Any communication regarding your child's academic or wellbeing must be made via your child's classroom teacher. This enables strong relationships between the teacher, child and parent to be built. I am very happy and encourage both parents and staff to cc me into all communications. My email address is - principal@sbmord.catholic.edu.au. This helps us to support each other to ensure a positive outcome can be achieved. If you receive a phone call from the school it is really important to listen to the message left so that when you return the call we can put you through to the staff member who made the call.

Specialist Timetable

Please see the attached specialist timetable for Term 1. Please note that we now have specialists over four days.

Tuesday - ART, PE and STEM with Performing Arts

Wednesday - ART, PE and STEM

Thursday - LOTE

Friday - Performing Arts

Uniform

We begin Term 1 wearing our summer uniform only including a school hat. School hats are required by Monday. If a student does not have a school hat they will be required to play under the verandahs until they bring their hat.

A reminder that PSW is our Uniform Supplier. Orders can be made online or their shop at 1 Age Street, Cheltenham is open Monday to Saturday.

Hair/Nails/Jewellery

Please remember no extreme hairstyles eg mohawks, razor cuts. Hair below the shoulder must be put up in a ponytail. Only clear nail polish is acceptable at school. Sleepers or small studs are the only acceptable earrings and if your child wants to wear a necklace it can only be a chain with a cross on it.

Sunscreen

Due to allergies and Child Safe Standards schools cannot supply or apply sunscreen to students. Please remember to put your preferred sunscreen into your child's bag. Their teachers will give their students time to apply their sunscreen before recess and lunch.

Lunchtime Clubs

Our lunchtime clubs will be back up and running in Week 3.

Monday - Library Club

Tuesday - Art Club

Wednesday - ICT Club

Thursday - Games Club

Friday - Drawing Club

Our Tuesday morning Running Club will commence on Tuesday 6 February. Running Club starts at 8:15am to 8:30am on the track in the grassed area. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.

Tuckshop

Our tuckshop will not be open tomorrow (Friday). They will reopen on Friday 7th February. CDF pay now have an app that you have been asked to set up on your phone (see details below). With this new app it is now the parents responsibility to cancel lunch orders if your child is absent for any reason. The orders can be cancelled up to 9.am on Friday morning. We cannot hold over orders for the following week anymore.

Unfortunately, Sushi orders cannot be cancelled, but you are welcome to come to school and collect them.

CDFpay powered by Flexi Schools - New App

The new CDFpay mobile app and website is now available for online canteen ordering, events and fundraising at our school.

If you haven’t already, please register for a new CDFpay account today:

Download the CDFpay mobile app on the Apple or Google store, then click ‘Sign up now’.

Important: You will not be able to use your existing CDFpay credentials to log in to the new CDFpay mobile app. You will need to follow these steps to create a new CDFpay account (you can use the same email address if desired).

All families are asked to register for a new CDFpay account before the start of Term 1 2025.
Enter and confirm your email address, then click ‘Sign up’.
Check your email inbox and follow the prompts to complete your account registration (check junk/spam if lost).

After you have registered and entered your child’s details and you will then be able to order and pay in seconds.

If you are having any difficulty with the new App or you have any questions, Flexi Schools have asked that you contact them directly. Click here for link to lodge a support request. View CDFpay powered by Flexischools Help & Support for detailed FAQs or chat to the Flexischools Digital Assistant. If you cannot find what you are looking for, please complete the online Contact Form and Flexischools will get back to you directly.

Social and Fundraising

At this stage we only have 2 parents who have offered to be classroom reps. Many thanks to Clare for Foundation and Giselle for Year 1. If you are interested in becoming a class reps please see your classroom teacher or come and see me to get an understanding of what is involved. We need 2 parents per year level. A bit thank you to Hayley Olson and Lisa Blumeris who have volunteered to take on liaison role working with me and the class reps this year.

Feast of St Brigid and Beginning of Year Mass

We are loolking forward to Mass tomorrow where we will celebrate the Feast of St Brigid and our Beginning of School Year Mass. Mass will begin at 11.30am at St Brigid's Church. Children will walk up to Mass and Parents are welcome to meet us there.

Condolences

We send our thoughts and prayers to the Castaldo family on the passing of Emma's Dad and Nic and John's Grandfather, John Cook who sadly passed away over the holidays.

Baby News

It is with great excitement that we announce that Charlotte Tracey (5/6F) is expecting a sibling for Addie.

And in more baby news Zoe Finster (1F) is also expecting a sibling for Cleo and Maisie.

Family Fun Afternoon

We hope you can join us from 2:00pm on Friday 14 February.

Enrolments 2026 - NOW OPEN

Enrolments for 2026 are now open. If you have a child joining St Brigid’s next year, please come to the office and pick up an enrolment pack. Enrolments for Foundation 2026 close on Wednesday 30th April. We have a number of Principal Tours over the coming weeks. Bookings can be made via the St Brigid's Website. If you have family or friends with children starting school in 2026 please encourage them to come along and join us on a tour of our wonderful school.

Yours in partnership.

Wendy Sullivan

Principal

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