Dear Families Caritas—Walk for Water What a truly amazing community St Brigid’s is! We are very happy to announce that we raised $2,084.15 for our Caritas Walk for Water Appeal. An outstanding result. Please see page 3 for a full report on the Walk for Water Challenge. Thank you to everyone who was involved and a big thank you to Mrs Wendt and Mrs Mertens for organising the challenge this year. HOLY WEEK & EASTER MASS TIMES: Holy Thursday 18

th April

7.30pm Mass of Lord’s Supper at St Brigid’s (Note: no morning Mass) Prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. 10pm Night Prayer Good Friday 19

th April

10.30am Way of the Cross at Beeson Reserve (near Edithvale Station) 3pm Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion at St Brigid’s Holy Saturday 20th April 9am: Morning Prayer with RCIA at St Louis’ 6.30pm Easter Vigil at St Louis’ Easter Sunday 21

st April

8.00am Mass at St Brigid’s 9.30am Mass at St Louis’ 11am Mass at St Brigid’s

Easter Raffle Our Easter Raffle will be drawn at 12:30pm tomorrow. All tickets need to be handed into the office by 9:00am tomorrow. Save the Date— Grandparents Day—7 May We are looking forward to welcoming our Grandparents and Special Friends to St Brigid’s on Tuesday 7th of May. This year we will be running a modified program for Grandparents Day due to the building works at school. 2020 Foundation Enrolment St Brigid’s Families are now welcome to collect an Enrolment Form for Foundation 2020. Forms are available from the School Office or are available to download on the school website. We ask that current families return their enrolment forms to us at their earliest opportunity but no later than Friday 17 May, 2019 as vacancies will be offered to new families. Please make sure you attach copies of Baptism and Birth Certificates and Immunisation History Statement from the Australian Immunisation Register. Enrolments to families currently not at St Brigid’s will open on Tuesday 23 April and Enrolment Tours will commence that week. Applications close on Friday 17 May with interviews for all families to be held in the following weeks. Tuckshop Just a reminder that there will be no tuckshop tomorrow as the children will be dismissed at 1:30pm due to end of Term. Tuckshop will also not be open on the first Friday of Term 2 due to it being a short week. Lunch orders and over the counter sales will resume on Friday 4 May.

St Brigid’s Primary School

Mordialloc Truth Conquers All

Thursday 4 April 2019 NEWSLETTER Edition 10 Week 10 Term 1

Tel: 9580 4518 Email: principal@sbmord.catholic.edu.au or officeadmin@sbmord.catholic.edu.au Web: www.sbmord.catholic.edu.au

PARISH INFORMATION Tel: 9580 1018 or http://brigloui.cam.org.au MASS TIMETABLE: Monday Aspendale 9:15am Tuesday Aspendale 9:15am Wednesday Mordialloc 10:00am Thursday Aspendale 9:15am Friday Mordialloc 11:30am Saturday Aspendale 6.00pm Sunday Mordialloc 8:00am, Aspendale 9:30am, Mordialloc 11:00am

TERM DATES TERM 1—30 JANUARY TO 5 APRIL (1.30pm Finish)

TERM 2—TUESDAY 23 APRIL T O 28 JUNE (1.30pm Finish) TERM 3—15 JULY TO 20 SEPTEMBER (1.30pm Finish)

TERM 4—7 OCTOBER TO 18 DECEMBER (1.00pm Finish)

Page 1 –2: Principal News and Dates to Remember Page 3: Cartitas Walk for Water Page 4-5: St Brigid’s News and Events Page 6-7: Community News and Events

END OF TERM 1—TOMORROW –1:30PM

5/6 Sport Gala Day

Dates to Remember

TERM DATES & CLOSURE DAYS 2019 TERM 1 Tuesday 29 January to Friday 5 April – Students finish at 1:30pm TERM 2 Tuesday 23 April to Friday 28 June – Students finish at 1:30pm TERM 3 Monday 15 July to Friday 20 September – Students finish at 1:30pm TERM 4 Monday 7 October to Wednesday 18 December – Students finish at 1:00pm Staff Finish Thursday 19 December

05/04/2019 Easter Raffle—12:30pm NO TUCKSHOP TODAY End of Term 1—Students finish at 1:30pm

22/04/2019 EASTER MONDAY

23/04/2019 Term 2 Begins –8:45am Running Club & Cross Country Training—8:15am 2020 Enrolments Open 5/6 Incursion—Stephen Mushin

24/04/2019 Cross Country Training-8:15am Year 4 Eucharist Reflection Day at St Louis 9:30am—2020 Enrolment Tour

25/04/2019 ANZAC DAY

26/04/2019 NO TUCKSHOP TODAY Assembly—2:30pm TBC

27/04/2019 Yr 4 Eucharist Journey Mass—6pm St Louis Church

28/04/2019 Yr 4 Eucharist Journey Mass—8am—St Brigid’s 9:30am—St Louis 11.00am - St Brigid’s

29/04/2019 Running Club & Cross Country Training—8:15am Gateways 2020 Enrolment Tour—9:30am

05/05/2019 Sacrament of Reconciliation 12:30pm St Brigid’s Church

07/05/2019 Grandparents/Special Friends Day

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAYS Tuesday 12 March Friday 7 June Monday 26 August Monday 4 November Friday 6 December

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS Thursday 25 April Anzac Day Monday 10 June Queens Birthday Tuesday 5 November Melbourne Cup Day

Winter Uniform Winter Uniform can be worn from day one next term however on warmer days in the first two weeks the summer uniform can still be worn. No mixing and matching of summer and winter uniforms please. All students will be required to be wearing their Winter Uniform by Monday 6 May. Sandpit Toys - donations We are looking for donations of sandpit toys for our students to use while at play. If you have any old toys suitable for use in the sandpit that you would like to donate, please feel free to send these in via the school office. Many thanks for your support. Term Break A reminder that Term 1 ends tomorrow at 1:30pm and Term 2 commences on Tuesday 23rd April at 8:45am.

Thank you To our wonderful staff (teaching and non-teaching) for all of their tireless work in providing for our students learning needs. To our volunteers who support all of our classes with various activities from classroom help, cross country, excursions, helping with swimming or listening to our students read. To our students for all of your hard work and determined efforts to grow in knowledge and skill. To Ronnie and Betty (our beautiful Story Dog) for giving up your time to help our students read. We all love seeing you at our school. A big thank you to all—bring on Term 2!! I would like to you all a restful and relaxing holiday and a Happy and Holy Easter. See you all when we return on Tuesday 23rd of April when classes commence at 8:45am. Kind regards Wendy Sullivan Acting Principal

A HUGE THANK YOU RYAN AND OUR GOOD

FRIENDS AT BAKER’S DELIGHT MORDIALLOC WHO ARE GIVING A FREE

LOAF OF BREAD EVERY DAY FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL TO OUR LUCKY FAMILIES

IN 5/6CH

Please note that if you lose your card it cannot

be replaced.

During Lent, St. Brigid’s Primary School has focused on teaching students about Caritas and in particular, the global water projects provided by the monies collected during Lent to fund Project Compassion. We have all learnt about a young girl, called Thandolwayo, and seen the difficulties she faced in collecting water for her family before she started school every day. Learning to work in solidarity with these marginalised communities the students participated in the Walk for Water House Challenge on Thursday 28th March. During the Lenten season students have.....

learned easy ways to save water at home taught others learned about challenges faced by people around the world in relation to water shortages learned what solidarity means and looks like gathered sponsorship donations relayed buckets of water in Houses set fundraising goals completed an individual reflection experienced positive feelings by helping the earth and others

In addition, they completed these three parts to this challenge.

1. See how many laps each house completed with their buckets of water 2. How much water was in the buckets at the end of the relay 3. Counted and collected the money each house raised

Amount of laps completed

1st – Blue with 431 laps 2nd – Gold with 415 laps 3rd – Red with 372 laps

Thank you to everyone in our community for supporting us with

this challenge.

Amount of water remaining in buckets

1st – Gold had 12.75 litres 2nd – Blue had 11.25 litres 3rd – Red had no water (spilled 3 buckets)

Amount of money raised - $2,084.15

1st – Red $735.45 2nd – Blue $714.50 3rd – Gold $634.20

Walk For Water House Challenge

WOW KINGSTON 2019

Kingston City Council is inviting local schools to participate in the WOW Kingston (Walk/Wheel Once a Week) program for Term 2. WOW Kingston is a 6 week program that encourages primary school students to travel to school by more active modes and decrease car dependency. It also

improves road safety awareness and traffic conditions around the school.

Each school will nominate a day of the week on which to promote active travel and students will record their participation on a special class wall calendar throughout Term 2. At the conclusion of 6

weeks, the class that has walked and cycled the most will be presented with Council’s special Golden Boot Award to recognise their outstanding participation.

St Brigid’s walk to school day is going to be:

Wednesday’s for Week 2,3,4,5,6,7

Each classroom teacher will tally how many children walk/scoot/ride to school on each Wednesday and at the end of the 6 weeks we will tally each classrooms score to find out which class will win

the “Golden Boot” Award.

More information to follow.

Safe Routes to School

Hi again, Public Relations team here. We’re here to tell you about tip #2 on road safety. Do you remember the childhood chant your parents taught you to help you cross the road? Well St. Brigid’s are here to bring it back. S.L.L.T. Which means Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Always do this before you cross the road to ensure that you get to your destination safely. Remember to also take a step back from the curb so you are not too close to the road.

Kind regards Milla, Lulu, Emma, Mitchell, Alessia and Lucinda.

St Brigid’s News and Events

St Brigid’s News and Events

Three weeks ago the Liturgy and Social Justice Leaders went with the St Louis Faith and Social Justice Leaders to St Patricks Cathedral. We went to the Cathedral to celebrate Catholic Education Week Mass. There were about 300 schools attending Mass which meant that it was very crowded at the Cathedral! After the Mass all of the schools went down to the park and had a picnic. We watched a concert with music played by two secondary schools. Overall, we really enjoyed the experience and had a super fun time. Hannah F

Our Liturgy & Social Justice Leaders Thomas W, Anika B, Zoe V, Hannah F & Hamish M

MESSAGE FROM MIM - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

REMINDER

Daylight savings will come to an end on Sunday 7th

April

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back 1 hour and en-

joy that extra hour of sleep!!!

Community News and Events

Community News and Events