Dear Parents and Friends,

Welcome to this week's newsletter where we are going to tell you about the Year 1/2 camp activity night, Bullying No Way, the Book Fair, the police visiting the Foundation students, the Bendigo Bank and the Feast of the Assumption. We will remind you about the Book Week dress up on Friday and the Family Movie night. Hope you all enjoy this week's newsletter.

Bullying No Way

Bullying No Way was a day organised to help us think about who keeps us safe and who our trusted adults are.

The Bullying No Way was fun because we got to go into our grandparents day group and watched a video about growing connections, then we wrote about who our trusted adult is.

Matilda What information did you take from the video: Don't bully people

Did you like the activities in your family group: Yes because I was with my friends

Matt What information did you take from the video:Tell a trusted adult if you are getting bullied

Did you like the activities in your family group: Yes because I was with my friends.

Josh P What information did you take from the video: If you’re being bullied tell somebody

Did you like the activities in your family group: Yes because it was fun:

Year 1/2 Camp night

Last Thursday the Year 1/2 students stayed at school until 6.00pm for their camping experience night.

What was your favourite part of the night?

Tahlia: Where we ate dinner all together.

Isabel: Playing the games and eating dinner.

Harvey: Eating chicken nuggets.

Cathryn: I liked the pretzel activity and I enjoyed the parachute.

How was the overall experience?

Tahlia: It was exciting and new.

Isabel: Great and exciting.

Harvey: Fun and new.

Cathryn: Good. The kids were happy and the weather was good to do the scavenger hunt.

How did you feel during the activities?

Tahlia: I felt really excited and happy.

Isabel: It felt new and fun to play.

Harvey: I felt joyful and excited.

How long did it take to set it up:

Cathryn: Not long, about 20 minutes.

Book Fair

Thank you to all parents who bought books that helped raise money for us to purchase new books for the library. We are all very thankful and appreciative. A big thank you to Glenn who set up everything for the Book Fair. With the commission, we were able to purchase approximately 80 books for the library. The books ranged from picture story books to senior fiction.

Book Week

Reminder that the Book Week book parade is this week. Have you got your costume ready?? The teachers have their costumes ready to go.

The Book Week parade starts at 9am in the hall. Parents and friends are welcome to attend

Book Week Parade - Friday 23 August - 9:00am - Come Dressed as your Favorite Book Character

Book Week Family Movie Night

Friday 23 August at 6:00pm - Paddington

Friday night (23rd August) our Family Movie night is on. We were going to watch Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day movie, but lucky for us Mrs Marziano watched the movie and it was not appropriate for young children. We will instead now watch Paddington Bear (or as Mrs Sullivan's granddaughter says “Paddlington” )

Hope to see lots of parents and children there!

Police Visit with Foundation

Last week, the Police paid a visit to the Foundation students. We asked them about the experience and here is what they said.

How was the visit?

Theo: It was very fun and good.

What was your favourite part:?

Theo: My favourite was when the siren went in the police car.

Did you like the policeman?

Heidi: Yes because he was nice and cool.

What did you do?

Micheal: We heard the siren on the police car and we also went to the back of the car where the robbers go when arrested.

Bendigo Bank

Rob and Anna from Bendigo Bank came to visit our school on Friday. The Bendigo Bank is a community bank which supports the local community by giving up to 80% of profits back to the community. They did a tour of the school and hopefully they may help us purchase some new library furniture through their sponsorship and grants funding.

See the link below to see how Bendigo Bank supports our local communities

Feast of The Assumption

On Thursday 15th August we celebrated the Feast of the Assumption with Mass in our hall. On this feast day we celebrate Mary going to heaven to be with Jesus. It was lovely to see parents and parishoners joining us to celebrate. A big thank you to Father Ignatius for leading the Mass.

Running Club

Laps run = 130

Km run = 6.5km

total km = 512.8km

We are on the Hume Fwy/National Hwy in New South Wales in Gundagai.

MCubed Excursion

On Tuesday 20th August, four Year 5 students from St Brigid's attended the 'M Cubed' Conference at St Bede's Bentleigh East Campus. The theme was Sustainability and our students were given a challenge to 'design and prototype a solution for your local area that meets a sustainability goal'. After brainstorming, the group decided to design and create a prototype of a microbat box to provide shelter for local microbats in our area. As well as spending the day designing and creating, our students heard from a number of inspirational speakers and engineers. We were particularly proud of our students for courageously presenting their work in front of the whole conference at the end of the day!

Gemma 'I enjoyed working and seeing other people from other schools. I enjoyed making something with my friends. I enjoyed learning about sustainability'.

Ethan R 'I enjoyed making our project and making it with my friends. I also liked going and learning about sustainability.'

Christina 'I loved how we had to think and build something sustainable. It was really fun constructing our idea'.

Josh P 'I enjoyed making and planning our project for microbats. I learned a lot about microbats and loved presenting. I wish I could do this next year!

We hope you enjoyed our newsletter.

Liturgy and Community Team - Havana, Ethan, Harry, Finn and Declan

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