News of the Week
Dear Parents and Friends,
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, since our last newsletter we have had so many incursions and events. Come along with us on our journey of fun and what we have been up to in the last 2 weeks. Enjoy.
Italian Day
Last week on Friday 23rd October our school students enjoyed a fun and exciting Italian Day. The day started off with a parade on our basketball courts, everyone showing off their Italian or their own cultural outfits. The day continued with our own version of the Amazing Race. Seven groups had to complete activities, figure out the clues and gain points to win. The winning team was Group 2.
What was your favourite activity ? and What did you like about it?
Grace - the water one where you have to carry it to the other side. (Venice) I loved working with my friends.
Allegra - I liked making the leaning tower and getting my hands messy.
Alek - Making the columns out of cups (Rome). I enjoyed winning and having fun with my peers
Jack - Making the ice cream
Emerson - My favourite was Rome. I liked being in charge of the group and helping the juniors
Cultural Day
On Monday we celebrated all the different cultures of St Brigid’s. Every class did different activities that told their favourite food and what's important to their culture. I asked different children what their favourite activity was on Cultural Day. Here are their answers:-
Jess: My favourite activity was doing the name jars, where we wrote our all our values
Matthew: My favourite activity was the flag because I liked learning about different countries
Pip: My favourite activity was the name jar because It was about me and not about something I learned.
Penelope: My favourite activity was the favourite food because It was fun
Bollywood
On Monday 26th October we had a special visit from professional Bollywood dancers, they taught us how to dance and even had a few people come up to show their amazing moves.
What was your favorite dance move?
Juliet - Eva's funny crab walk with star hands.
Che - the sunrise hand gesture and shrug while shuffling our feet
Maddie - pointing our fingers while shuffling
Lucas - I liked doing moves with your hands above your head and moving your head like a chicken.
Jacob - shaking hand movement that I made and did on stage
What was your favorite part of Bollywood dancing?
Amaru - I enjoyed learning a new culture and dance.
Harper M - I enjoyed interacting with the Bollywood dancers.
Declan - I liked learning a new dance and doing the sunrise.
Louis - I liked the horse riding dance move.
Year 1 Faith Night
The Year Ones had a faith night last Wednesday. The night was about baptism. They had a baby doll and did the sign of the cross with water on the doll and also on their mums and dads and did four work sheets on baptism and had to write down the answers.
What did you enjoy?
Cleo: I enjoyed doing the worksheets because it was fun .
Xavier: Also the worksheets.
Year 2 Faith Night
The Year Two faith night was last Wednesday and they talked about the seven sacraments like Confirmation, Eucharist and Baptism.
What did you do?
Samuel: “We did activities like word searches.”
Was it fun and what did you like the best?
Samuel: “I liked the word searches.”
Year 1/2 Mass
The Year 1/2‘s had their level Mass last Sunday. The Year 1/2's sang a few songs and some of them got to read in front of the church.
What was your favourite bit and why?
Sadie: “My favourite bit was when we went to the altar and ate food afterwards and it was my favourite bit because we got to go up and read information about religion.”
Interschool Volleyball
Two weeks ago some Year 5/6's went to interschool sports district volleyball and had a great time including one win and two losses. Everyone tried their hardest even if they didn't win. A big thank you to Jodie Gaffey for supporting our team.
What was your favorite part about volleyball?
Eva: Being able to go and compete against other schools was a great experience for everyone.
What place did your team come?
Our team came third out of 5
Good Luck
Good Luck to Harry (Year 4) who is representing St Brigid's in the state 1500m race today at 5.00pm. We are all very excited to hear how he went!
Thank you for reading the Week 4 newsletter. We hoped you learned more about the activities we do at school.
Thanks to Elodie, Roisin, Poppy, Sienna, Lachie, Violet, Gus, Kit and Jean for making this newsletter.