Newsletter Term 2, 2024 Week 2

Principal's Update

Dear Parents and Carers, 

Welcome to Term 2 Week 2! 

I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday with your friends and family.   

Just a reminder there is a pupil free day on Monday, 20th May (Week 4).  Please contact OOSH if you need assistance on this day.  The staff will be continuing to work together focusing on the assessments and learning opportunities for your children. 

Thank you for sending your children to school for their school photos last week in their Winter uniforms.  Currently Winter uniforms are optional, however, from Tuesday 21st May Winter uniforms will be compulsory. 

Congratulations to our Spirit of St Brendan’s awards presented in Week 10 last term!  Well done boys and girls. These awards are presented once a term to children who consistently display our SBLM expectations and live out the Spirit of St Brendan. 

Thank you for your participation at the ANZAC ceremony during our recent school holidays at The Doyalson RSL club.  It was lovely to see your reverence and attendance. 

I would like to welcome our new families to St Brendan’s commencing this term. I am sure our students and parents will reach out to you and make you feel very welcome.

Scout and Ryder – Kindergarten; Audrina – Year 2 and Logan – Year 3.

Our Term 2 PAG (Parent Advisory Group) Meeting will be held in our Year 5 collaboration space on Tuesday, 4^th June at 5.30pm.  Before this meeting I am inviting any Year 6 parents to meet at 4.45pm to discuss Year 6 fundraising and Year 6 farewell 2024.  If you can come to the Year 6 meeting please RSVP (charlene.reid1@dbb.catholic.edu.au) and if you can’t make this meeting but would like to be involved in the Year 6 end of year events please also email me.

We have sent home a hard copy of Term 2 events for your fridge but please keep checking your Compass app for any amendments or additional events that may occur.

Our Years 4 and 5 students have been invited to attend St Brigid’s “High School Musical” on 26^th June.  Please RSVP on Compass for this free event.

Good luck to our CC cross country runners who were selected to run at the carnival today (Friday) at Tuggerah sports fields: Isla A, Jayda A, Leah B, Felix C, Jaxon D, Bear D, Ziggy E, Willow F, Alexia G, Levi G, Thiago H, Charlie H, Harper L, Kobe L, Sage L, Kenzie M, Samantha Mc, Alivia Mc, Sophie Mc, Charlotte Mc, Grace M, Oliver M, Bonnie P, Nate P, Logan P, Kai P, Isla P, Harry P, Aston R, Porter R, Isla R, Rain R, Zachary S, Rahnie S, Evannah S, Josie S, Oliver T, Archer T, Cruze T, Quinn V, Liam W, Lara W, Kingston W and Kai W.  

Well done and congratulations to Nate P, Jett O, Lachlan R and Alexia G who attended the Polding Rugby league trials in Tamworth last week.  Fantastic experience for you all.  Alexia has been selected to shadow for her team and will step into the team if needed.

Thank you to our mums who volunteered their time on Tuesday at our Mother’s Day stall.  I hope you all enjoy opening your special gifts that your children very eagerly shopped for in our hall on Tuesday.

Thank you to our dedicated dads who helped cook the BBQ yesterday at our Mother’s Day breakfast. Sorry, I know this photo does not depict all our wonderful chefs.  It was lovely the rain stayed away.  I hope you all enjoyed your breakfast and time spent at St Brendan’s with your family and friends. 

Healthy Harold is back at SBLM next week.  The Life Education van will be parked near The Cottage from Tuesday 14^th until Thursday 30^th May.  The “draft” timetable is as follows:

14^th – 2G

15^th – 5B, KR, KB

17^th – 6G, 4B

22^nd – 5R, 4G, KG

23^rd – 6R, 2R, 1G

24^th – 6B, 4R

29^th –3G, 2B, 1B

30^th – 3R, 3B, 1R

Sporting Success

Congratulations Ewan (year 6) on your latest achievements who recently made the following ice hockey teams:

- Goalie for the Astros

- Goalie for the Sonics

- Back-up goalie for the U13 Newcastle Northstars

- Ewan was also recently selected as a reserve goalie for the 2024 NSW State Team.

Congratulations to Jaegger who must love his surf club, The Lakes!  Well done on your achievements.

God Bless,

Charlene Reid

Principal

Collaborative Coaching

Last term, we had an overall focus on writing simple sentences with correct grammar and punctuation.  I shared with you data reflecting student growth in Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3.  Today I would like to share with you the data from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6. 

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Below are some writing samples from our littlest people in Kindergarten, learning to write their names and simple sentences.  Kindergarten have been learning specific phonemes (speech-sounds) and were asked to transcribe dictated sentences using the correct graphemes (letters):

Last term we also ensured we had consistency across all grades with our SBLM Proofreading and Editing Codes. This term we will continue to build teacher capacity in teaching writing and see our students flourish!

SUPERVISION

Last term and in the past two weeks, I have noticed a large number of students being dropped off on school grounds from as early as 7:30 am.  We do not have teacher duties at this time and your children are not being adequately supervised.  We understand that at times parents need to get to work or appointments early, however we need to ensure our precious children are being appropriately supervised and cared for.  Please ensure you contact the OSHC to organise supervision of your child if you do need to have them come to school earlier than 7:50 am, which is when our active morning supervision begins.

FIRST RESPONDERS DAY

We would like to acknowledge our First Responders and will be holding a First Responders Day on Wednesday, 12 June 2024.  We would like to have all of our children dress up as First Responders and will be organising something special for the parents who are First Responders in our school community. Please complete THIS FORM if you are a First Responder.

THANK YOU

We ended up having a significant group of fathers/dads join us to prepare for the Mother's Day Breakfast.  We can't thank you enough for volunteering your time (particularly early) to ensure we could thank all the mothers and significant women in our school community.

DOGS AT SCHOOL

Lately we’ve had occasions where parents have brought dogs to school. Whilst the dogs have been on leads and very well-behaved, it has been a directive of Catholic Schools Broken Bay that no dogs are to be on school property unless there is a risk assessment for them and they are therapy dogs. If you do bring a dog on site you will be asked to leave the premises. We hope you can appreciate that we are trying to keep everyone safe. There are signs at the front of the school to indicate no dogs on site.

Religious Education

St Brendan's Feast Day - 16th of May

School Updates

NCCD

Dear parents, guardians and carers

Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

- year of schooling
- category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
- level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

- formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
- consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
- develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. 

To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy). Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact either Charlene Reid, Jacqui Fletcher or one of our Learning Support Teachers (Lauren Betts, Belinda Brown or Allyse Cresta).

Awards

SBLM AWARDS

SBLM Focus - Weeks 1 & 2

Respect yourself, others and the environment.

SBLM Focus - Weeks 3 & 4

Learn from your mistakes.

Week 2

Community News

GO4FUN

Go4Fun is a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲, 10-week healthy lifestyle program open to all children between 7–13 years old to enjoy along with their families.

 Group activities and games

 Feel good about eating healthily

 Reduce screen time and make new friends

 Rewards and prizes for the kids

 Positive health changes for the whole family

Term 2 programs will take place at:

 Lake Haven Recreation Centre, Tuesdays 4–6pm, starting 30^th April (Aboriginal program for everyone run by Bungree Aboriginal Association)

 The Entrance Community Centre, Wednesdays 4–6pm, starting 1^st May- CANCELLED

 Gosford Olympic Pool, Thursdays 4–6pm, starting 2^nd May

 Go4Fun online

To find out more information or register, visit go4fun.com.au or call 1800 780 900. Places are limited, so get registering now!

Road Safety

Compass Calendar