Learning & Events

Learning and Teaching updates!

The first three weeks of this term have seen great routines and expectations continue with ease. Children have reengaged with their learning with such enthusiasm and joy. 

Preps have really enjoyed their Discovery time exploring emotions and creating faces from loose parts! The Junior students are using a variety of efficient strategies in subtraction and proudly showing their work to students and staff across the school. 

Our Middle students are busy working on 3D models of their cities at the moment, collaborating with one another, problem solving and using mathematical language in their everyday conversations. 

In the Seniors they have written some amazing pieces of work from a writing stimulus and the work has been descriptive, thought-provoking and exciting to read! Well done to the students and staff on their amazing learning journey. 

Teachers have been meeting in relation to the new child safety standards, completing professional development in NCCD and analyzing NAPLAN Data. Together we learn and grow each day.  

Our Year 3-6 students have created a whole school project group where we are potentially working towards having a school market in December. Stay tuned for more exciting details to come next week! We would love donations of any toilet paper rolls, or old socks to be brought into the school foyer, there will be a box that says Donations.

- Petrina

Sustainability News - Greater Western Water 

Throughout our Term 3 Sustainability specialist lessons, students at St. Brigid’s explored the importance of water in our lives and all the capacities in which we use it on a daily basis. We also focussed on how it makes us feel and why it is important for us to conserve and look after it. We all experienced an engaging visit from Greater Western Water educator Shannon (and Sammy the Snake) who inspired us further with our investigations. 

As part of our water focus, our creative students also spent time crafting posters about their own connection to water and its importance to them and their families by depicting their own “Water Story.” We then entered these into Greater Western Water’s, National Water Week Poster Competition. 

On Tuesday night, 5 of our students were invited to attend a special award ceremony as finalists in this competition. We wish to congratulate these 5 students on their amazing accomplishments. 

• Darcy Elliott - Foundation 1st Prize Winner $100 voucher
• Aurelia Franklin -Foundation 2nd Prize Winner $50 Voucher
• Sadie Toey - Foundation 3rd Prize Winner $30 Voucher
• Mia Durand - Year 1/2 3rd Prize WInner $30 Voucher
• Elsie Spurling - Yr 3/4 3rd Prize Winner $30 Voucher

A big congratulations to Darcy Elliott who was also awarded the Victorian State Prize for his artwork and snaffled an additional $100 Dymocks Voucher. An amazing achievement considering the thousands of posters being judged at this level. 

Not only did we have these individual successes but each and every one of our St. Brigid’s students efforts combined, to have us awarded the Greater Western Water Nationals Water Week Poster Competition’s School Prize of $500 to help undertake a Water or Sustainability project of our choice. We would like to thank Greater Western Water and Southern Rural Water for recognising the creative talents of all our students collectively in this way. We are very excited to brainstorm an idea for this over the coming weeks and then put our project plans into action.