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Book Week at St Brigid’s will be celebrated from Monday 14th - Friday 18th September (the last week of term).

On Tuesday 15th September all students are encouraged to dress as their favourite book character, whether we are at home or school. We will also be doing an art activity to explore some of the CBCA shortlisted books for 2020.

Click here for the link to send a photo of yourself in your Book Week costume so that we can show everyone in the newsletter.

National Science Week & STEM at St Brigid’s.

A few weeks ago all students at St Brigid’s took part in National Science Week where students were given activities to participate in. These activities either had a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) focus or went with the theme of National Science Week - Deep Blue: Innovation for the future and our oceans. The aim of these activities was to give students an appreciation of the elements of Science but to also encourage their creative and critical thinking skills. They were encouraged to complete experiments using items in the house or to design and test a prototype in response to a provocation.

We were delighted with the engagement of our students in the Science Week activities, with some even involving brothers, sisters and parents in their activities.

The Foundation and Year 1/2 students were given a variety of science experiments they could complete at home. These activities ranged from inserting pencils into a snap lock bag of water without spilling any or creating a rain jar at home.

The Year 3/4‘s were asked to design and create a Tippy Tap as a way for people in third world countries to access running water when washing their hands. They had to create a design and then build a prototype to test out at home.

The Year 5/6 ‘s were given a range of activities from which they got to choose. These activities included creating a parachute to drop an egg from a height without letting it crack or creating the tallest tower possible using spaghetti and baby marshmallows.

Thank you to the staff and families at St Brigid’s for embracing these challenges and providing the opportunity for all to be involved in National Science Week while Remote Learning.

Click here for Seb A and click here for Samuel A Science Week Challenge activities.

FOUNDATION

1/2

Here are some of the great learning the year 1/2's have been doing.

Writing Poems
Making fairy bread with fractions
Creating their kindness flower
Learning about Social Justice

Congratultions to Jack W (1/2CD) Jack, who is one of our Year 2 students participated in the MS Readathon. He read in excess of 30 books and raised over $550!

Performing Arts - 'Our School's Got Talent'

In Performing Arts this week Students were asked to share their talent. Some ideas were playing an instrument, singing a song, telling a story and many more. We have a very talented group of students at st Brigid's Primary School.

Thank you everyone for sharing your talents!

Click here for Lily and Tahlia

Mrs Hampton

Visual Arts

The 5/6 students have been creating new bank notes. Banksy, the famous anonymous street artist from the UK created banknotes in 2004 with Princess Diana on the front. The students were asked to design their own money this week.

Mrs Kimball

PE

3 weeks into the St Brigid’s Virtual Race Around Australia!

The Graham Family are in front! Keep up the great work to all families participating! Remember you need to do is calculate the number of minutes your family has exercised from Wednesday to Wednesday and send Miss Richards an email with the total number of minutes exercise (on Wednesday) and she will put you on the map! Really good to see some families participating! Keep up the great work!

5/6 Fitness Challenge results

Students in years 5 & 6 worked on one fitness related activity/skill for a week. It could be related to strength, flexibility or cardio.

They had to pre test themself on Monday - for example how many push ups can you do in a row. Practice the skills each day of the week. Then post test themself on Friday - How many push ups can I do in a row now.

Here are some of the students' amazing results! Very proud of everyone.

Student Name	Excercise	Pre	Post
Verity W	Plank	1:09minutes	2:03minutes
Lauren	Sit ups	10	16
Rhiannan	Mountain climbers	10	50
Matt O	Push ups	20	26
Lily B	V sit	19 second	53 seconds
Talia B	Plank	3 minutes	6.30minutes
Billy T	Plank	6 seconds	26 Seconds
Amelia W	Push ups	21	30
Archie H	Star jumps	63 in 60 seconds	71 in 60 seconds
Miss Richards	Push ups	20	40

Our Year 3 & 4 students also work on fitness but and did a variety of fitness related activities for example spell you name activity where each letter of the alphabet had a particular activity. Check out Kaya doing her spell your name activity

Kaya B's Spell your name Activity

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Miss Richards

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