Newsletter Term 3, 2024 Week 4

Principal's Update

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Term 3, Week 4!

We have so many talented children here at SBLM – wait until you see our whole school performance “Shine Bright Live Meaningful” on 28^th August – be sure you buy your tickets asap! On Thursday, 22^nd August we will have a full dress rehearsal therefore your children are to wear their “costumes” they have organised to wear at the Shine Bright Live Meaningful performance.  Thank you to any parents and carers who have contacted Samantha Beveridge to help with transporting our school stage over to Lake Munmorah High School.  Even if you don’t have a trailer, your assistance would be appreciated to lift the stage from any trailer etc.  Please email Samantha on Samantha.beveridge@dbb.catholic.edu.au if you are able to help.  More hands the easier the job!

Kindergarten visited BlackButt reserve for their first school excursion on Wednesday.  They braved a little drizzle and enjoyed seeing the animals and “patting reptiles”!!!!! Well done Kindergarten and thank you teachers and parents for your enthusiasm on the day!

We will be conducting some emergency drills in the next couple of weeks, a lock down on Monday, 19^th and an evacuation on Monday 26^th – these will just be drills and the children will be supported throughout these drills by their teachers and aides.

As previously advertised, we are moving from Cowan & lewis uniform supplier to Yeronga Uniform supplies.  Yeronga will be taking over the contract as of 3^rd September.  They will continue to sell existing uniforms for us out of the uniform shop at school.  This will be open on Friday, 6^th September from 8.15-9.15am (TBC).  An eftpos machine etc will be available.  I should be in a position to let you know what stock they will have on hand closer to the day, in the meantime you are still able to buy online from Cowan & Lewis as usual.

Our SBLM Public Speaking competition K-6 was amazing!  So many talented and confident speakers.  I was extremely impressed and the enjoyment of all the finalists was wonderful to see.  Well done to everyone!

Finals results:

Kindergarten

Equal 1^st – Stella & Atali

2^nd – Emersyn

3^rd – Austin

Year 1

1^st – Oliver

2^nd – Kassandra

3^rd – Archer

Year 2

1st: Charbel
2nd: Ambroze
3rd: Willow

Year 3

1^st – Josie

2^nd – Logan

3^rd – Jasmine

Year 4

1^st – Tiabella

2^nd – Isla

3^rd – Aston

Year 5

1^st – Sophie

2^nd – Adelynn

3^rd – Charlie

Year 6

1^st – Sage L

2^nd – Nate P

3^rd – Charlotte

Representing SBLM at the Cluster public speaking competition on 2^nd September at Mackillop, Warnervale will be Sage and Nate from year 6 – Good luck in your prepared and your impromptu speeches.

We have overcrowded buses!  I would like our school community to be aware that myself and Mr Murdoch at St Brigid’s are emailing, calling, counting etc to hopefully stop the overcrowding.  We have contacted Busways, Transport NSW, our local member and now I have been in contact with the legal and governance team at Catholic Schools Broken Bay. 

We are certainly trying but we still need you to do two things:

1. Apply for your free Opal card
2. Place any complaints in the link below
3. Continue to email myself so I can also pass your concerns to CSBB.

This is the Customer Feedback page at Transport NSW.  Customers can lodge their feedback/complaints/compliments and a case will be generated, triaged and assigned to the correct team(s).

http://www.transportnsw.info/feedback

I have been visiting our initialit classes in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 and witnessed so much positive learning in their literacy learning.  Children are learning phonemes, digraphs, trigraphs, sentence writing and reading – they are super engaged!  We also gather data to identify any gaps which we address with smaller Minilit intervention groups from K-2.

This week a small group of staff members have been trained in Macqlit, which will now provide literacy intervention groups in Years 3 and 4 to start with!  If your child is involved in these intervention groups, you will be notified.

Father’s Day stall helpers – If you are available to help please contact Victoria Price, our Parent Engagement Coordinator (Victoria.price@dbb.catholic.edu.au).  If you are a regular helper it would be great if you can contact Victoria to add your local expertise!  The stall is on Thursday, 29^th August from 8.20-10.20am (please arrive earlier to set up tables in the hall please).

Father’s Day BBQ helpers –  If you are available to help please contact Victoria Price, our Parent Engagement Coordinator (Victoria.price@dbb.catholic.edu.au).  Our Father’s day BBQ is on Friday, 30^th August! 

Our school community was involved in many NAIDOC Week activities in Week 1 – thank you Mr Spek and Mr Gainsford…

Congratulations to our athletes who competed at the CCC Athletics last Friday at Mingara.  A special congratulations to our Central Coast Representatives who will be competing at the Broken Bay Athletics carnival at Mingara on Thursday, 29^th August:

Congratulations and Good luck to:

Annabella F – 12yr 100m

Alexia G – 10yr 100m; Discus; Shot put

Kenzie M – 11yr shot put; discus

Aston R – 9 yr discus

Rain R – 11 yr 800m; 100m; 200m; long jump; shot put - Plus Rain R is the 11yr Age Divisional Champion!

Lara W – 8 yr 100m

Kingston W – 10 yr 100m; 200m

Kai W – 12 yr long jump

Upon looking at some data collected on what parent courses you would like SBLM to provide, we notice there has not been too much interest.  We have decided to put together some short sharp videos together focusing on literacy, numeracy, resilience etc.  We will then make these available to our parent community to view at your leisure when you have time!  When we make these available to you, I would really appreciate some feedback!

Staffing Updates

Mrs Herdman

Our Year 1 community have been informed of Mrs Moolman’s maternity leave coming up.  Mrs Moolman’s last day will be Friday, 13^th September.  We welcome Mrs Nicole Herdman in Mrs Moolman’s absence.  Mrs Herdman will be visiting the children next week on Tuesday at this stage.  We wish Mrs Moolman all the very best and thank her for being such an excellent member of our SBLM community.  We look forward to welcoming you back next year if possible.

Also, our Year 3 community have been informed of Ms Purdue’s long service leave in Term 4.  Ms Purdue will be on leave for the entire Term 4.  Mrs S (Mrs Suzanne Shiu – Haskins) will continue to teach Year 3Blue on a Friday (every Friday) and we welcome back Mrs Sandra Pazaridis to our SBLM community as the Year 3Blue teacher on Monday-Thursday!

Swimming

Our swimmers had a successful weekend at the Woy Woy Development Meet:

Kiarni
9 years 50m Freestyle 2nd - Did a qualifying time to Junior state for this event
9 years 50m Backstroke 5th
9 years 50m Butterfly 5th
9 years 50m Breaststroke 6th
9 years 100m Freestyle 4th

Rahnie
9 years 50m Freestyle 7th
9 years 50m Backstroke 6th
9 years 50m Butterfly 6th
9 years 50m Breaststroke 4th
9 years 100m Breaststroke 4th
9 years 100m Freestyle 5th

Logan Burke
9 years 50m Freestyle 2nd
9 years 50m Backstroke 2nd
9 Years 50m Breaststroke 1st
9 years 50m Breaststroke 1st

Kiarni & Sam McDermott will both be at Junior State Carnival in September.

Congratulations and good luck to you all!

Athletes Foot

On Friday we had some special visitors from @theathletesfoottuggerah who presented our school with a cheque as part of their School Rewards Program for 2024. Thank you to the families who visited The Athlete’s Foot at Tuggerah for your new school and sports shoes and mentioned St Brendan's. This money will go towards new sporting equipment for our students to enjoy!

Thank you to all the children, staff and parents who put a smile on my face when I received lovely cards, a yummy afternoon tea, cake and most of all so many lovely comments on Principals’ Day just gone!  I got such a surprise!  As I mentioned at assembly and to the SBLM staff, I love my role and I love being back at St Brendan’s after so many years but I can’t do it alone.  Our SBLM team includes staff, students and parents and I know we have a great team.  Thank you!

God Bless,

Charlene Reid

Principal

School Updates and Upcoming Events

Father's Day

Father’s Day celebrations are coming up.  We are celebrating our Father’s and significant men in our lives on Friday 30^th August with a 7am breakfast, 7.50 open classrooms and 9am mass.  A flyer with further information has been sent out for your RSVP.  Our Father’s Day stall will be held on Thursday, 29^th August.  Those children representing St Brendan’s at the Central Coast Athletics carnival on this day will be invited to buy items from the office on Friday, 30^th August.  Thank you to our volunteers who helped on the morning

Year 5 Father's Day Activities 

Term 3 PEC Walk n Chat

Awards

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