St. Bridget’s Primary School

36 Sweyn Street

Greythorn. 3104 Phone: 9857 6394

www.sbgreythorn.catholic.edu.au

Dear Parents,

Last week at our Whole School Mass our Year 6 students were presented with their badges for their Leadership

roles for 2019. I congratulate our Year 6 students who have been nominated to the following leadership roles

and I wish them every success in leading our school. This year the role of School Captain also includes the duties

of the Liturgy and Social Justice Captain and the role of the House Captains also includes the duties of the Green

Force Captain.

School Captains: Angelka Miltiadou and Daniel Spillane

Shorten House Captain: Kaitlin Furlong

Pietzsch House Captain: Sienna Pittorino

O’Shea House Captain: Nicholas Lee

On Sunday last week we celebrated our first Whole School Family Mass for the year. Thank you to those families

who were able to attend. Our School Choir sang beautifully conducted by our new Performing Arts Teacher Jon

Bode. Also, we were very blessed to have Jon and his wife Rebecca perform a duet of ‘The Prayer’. We look

forward to our next Whole School Family Mass on 17 March which is also our Family Fun Day and we hope to

see as many families there as possible.

Early this week we had new soft fall mulch delivered for our playground and 2 new shade sails have been

installed to replace the old sails which were beyond repair. The remaining 2 shade sails will be replaced in due

course.

Newsletter No. 3 – 18 February 2019

Today, the students in our Senior Learning Community (SLC) participated in the Reading Program with some of

the volunteers from the Balwyn North Rotary Club. All students in the SLC have an opportunity to read one on

one with a volunteer and discuss some key points about their novel. This program began last year and will occur

each Tuesday of this year. This is a great initiative in building stronger Parish and community partnerships and I

would like to thank the volunteers for their time and contribution towards our students’ learning.

During our Maths block today all students across our school participated in a chess lesson organised by

Northern Star Chess. Northern Star Chess conduct our chess club on Wednesdays and Sundays and facilitate the

chess tournaments that we attend and host. The aim of this chess program during maths is to help improve

mathematical skills such as pattern recognition and problem solving skills. For these sessions students are

allocated into groups based on their individual skills and knowledge of chess and these sessions will occur each

Tuesday during Term 1.

Also today, our Junior Learning Communities (JLC M & JLC WM) participated in their first Chinese lesson for the

year. Our Chinese lessons occur each week by linking directly with Shanghai and is followed up with a weekly

lesson with their classroom teacher. This program is currently offered to our Junior students including our Prep

students and is in addition to the Italian lessons conducted by Signora Michieli where Science content is taught.

Warm regards

Robyn Thomson

Principal

DATES TO REMEMBER FEBRUARY

Monday, 18 February Meet and Greet 2.00 pm – 8.00 pm in the Library

Tuesday, 19 February Meet and Greet 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Wednesday, 20 February Whole School Mass, 11.30 am Friday, 22 February Interschool Sports Sunday, 24 February St. Bridget’s Cup Chess Tournament in school hall Wednesday, 27 February Whole School Mass, 11.30 am MARCH Friday, 1 March Interschool Sports Saturday, 2 March Cake Stall, Greythorn shops, 9.00 am Tuesday, 5 March Chess Tournament Wednesday, 6 March Whole School Mass, 11.30 am Wednesday, 6 March P&P Meeting, 7.30 pm Friday, 8 March Interschool Sport Monday, 11 March Labour Day (Public Holiday) Wednesday, 13 March Prep Dinner, 7.30pm in the Library Wednesday, 13 March - Tuesday, 19 March Scholastic Book Fair Friday, 15 March St. Patrick’s Mass (Year 6 students) Sunday, 17 March Whole School Family Mass, 10.00 am and Family Sunday/Fun Day, 11.00 am Monday, 18 March Youth Leadership Conference, Year 6 Wednesday, 20 March Whole School Mass, 11.30 am Wednesday, 20 March District Tennis Trials, 4.00 pm, Sacred Heart P.S. Wednesday, 27 March Whole School Mass, 11.30 am Thursday, 28 March Twilight School Sports, 5.30 pm Friday, 29 March Twilight School Sports (Back up Day), 5.30 pm Friday, 29 March Interschool Sports APRIL Wednesday, 3 April Whole School Mass, 11.30 am Friday, 5 April Interschool Sports Friday, 5 April End of Term 1, 1.00 pm UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop will be open on the 2019 dates listed below between 8:45am to 9:15am. For

alternative arrangements, please contact Chrispine on 0403 073 085 or acrispyn@yahoo.co.uk

Friday 1 March Friday 5 April Friday 3 May Friday 14 June Friday 19 July

Friday 2 August Friday 6 September Friday 11 October Friday 8 November Friday 6 December

SACRAMENTS AND WORKSHOPS AND RETREAT

Monday, 29 April – First Eucharist Workshop, 7.00 pm Sunday, 19 May - Sacrament of First Eucharist, 10.00 am

Monday, 24 June - Confirmation Workshop, 7.00 pm Monday, 22 July - Confirmation Retreat Day Thursday, 25 July – Sacrament of Confirmation, 6.30 pm

FAMILY MASSES Sunday, 17 March – Whole School Family Mass 10.00 am and Family Sunday/Fun Day, 11.00 am

CAMP

Year 4/5/6 – Camp Alexander Tuesday, 30 July – 2 August

Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Camp Experience –

Healesville Sanctuary – 14 November

What has been happening in JLC M In our Inquiry unit we have been learning about social skills and how these skills can help when working with others.

These skills are: 1. Look at the person who is talking to you 2. Ask questions to help you understand 3. Listen without interrupting 4. Share ideas and resources 5. Listen with your body 6. Speak clearly and calmly

We have also been learning about Habits of Mind

Some of these are: Persisting - This means to not give up when you’re stuck on something

Thinking Flexibly - This means to understand that there is more than one way to solve a problem.

Taking responsible risks - This means to try new things and don’t worry about making mistakes

We have also been learning about multiple intelligences. This is about how we prefer to learn.

Garcia

I am bodily-kinaesthetic

I like ball games and running

Anna

I am Naturalistic

I like gardening and watching animals

Jason

I am logical-mathematical I like designing experiments and playing board games

Nikki I am Naturalistic

I like collecting things, exploring nature, watching animals and gardening

Jenson

I am Naturalistic

I like discovering stuff, collecting things, exploring nature, watching animals and gardening

Celeste

I am visual-spatial I like drawing, art and making new things

Ava

I am Naturalistic

I like collecting things, exploring nature, watching animals and gardening Mackenzie

I am musical-rhythmic

I like singing, listening to music and remembering songs

Leo

I am visual-spatial I like creating stuff and drawing and designing robots

Aiden

I am musical-rhythmic

I like musical instruments and I like to tap to a beat

Anna

We have also been learning about how unique we all are. Unique means there is only one of something. Every person in the world is unique even identical twins.

We looked at our fingerprints because they are unique. Noone has the same fingerprints.

We are looking forward to learning more about how we can help ourselves to be the best that we can be.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP VICTORIA

BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE Parent Handbooks are now available at the school office for you to take home.

Welcome to Youth Leadership Victoria (our new Co-ordinators for Before and After School Care).

Before School Care 2 hour session commences at 6.45 am until 8.45 am and After School Care

3 hour session commences at 3.30 pm until 6.30 pm. Rebates to be applied.

Families are encouraged to enrol in the case of an emergency or on a casual basis.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have enrolled to attend Before or After School Care and

need to cancel, please advise YLV by email or phone contact, thankyou.

If you would like any further information concerning the program please contact De on 0417231301.

PLEASE NOTE: YOUTH LEADERSHIP VICTORIA

Youth Leadership Victoria is in Room 7 Classroom