Organisation

Specialists

At St Brigid’s all Foundation students will participate in several specialist subjects.  These take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Our Specialist days have changed for Term 3. 

Tuesday - Physical Education (PE) 

Wednesday - Visual Arts  and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Thursday - Performing Arts and Italian on a fortnightly rotation.

All Foundation students will continue to participate in our PMP (Perceptual Motor Program). From Term 3, this will be taking place on Mondays only.  The students can now wear their sports uniform for PMP.  We will be continuing to remove their shoes and socks.  We would appreciate it if you could practice this at home and please make sure their shoes and socks are clearly labelled.  

Please note: This means that ALL Foundation students need to wear their sports uniforms on MONDAY (PMP) & TUESDAY (for PE).

Library Day 

We will continue to visit the library on Mondays so please make sure your child has their library book to return and their library bag with them.

Take Home Reading

Students will continue with their take-home books and sight words that they will need to practice at home each night. Please continue to read with your child each night and fill in their reading journal, this is checked each day at school. Their days for changing readers and testing their M100W will remain the same for the whole year. Once we are confident your child has mastered the sounds covered in class they will begin to take home decodable sentences, where they will be required to use their phonics knowledge to blend sounds to read the words. These are to be changed each week at the same time as take home readers - please ensure you are swapping for a sheet the same colour as the one in your child’s folder. This is in place of the picture chats, however, if your child would still like a picture chat, please let us know. 

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday 15th July - Term 3 commences 

Tuesday 23rd July - Student Led Conferences - SCHOOL FINISHES AT 1:30PM FOR ALL STUDENTS

Wednesday 24th July - Student Led Conferences

Friday 26th July - Grandparents Day

Tuesday 30th July - 100 Days and Camp Experience

Friday 9th August - Foundation 100 day Assembly

Thursday 15th August - Assumption of Mary Mass (At School)

Monday 19th - Friday 23rd August - Book Week

Friday 23rd August - Book Week Parade and Family Movie Night

Thursday 29th August - Father’s Day Stall

Friday 30th August - Father’s Day Breakfast

Friday 13th September - Walking to Mass (11.30am St Brigid’s Church)

Monday 16th September - Celebration of Learning 

Thursday 19th September - Last Day for Students

Friday 20th September - Student Free Day