Newsletter Term 3, 2024 Week 10

Principal's Update

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Term 3, Week 10 and happy holidays to you and your children.  On behalf of the staff I would like to thank you all for a great term and we look forward to seeing you next term.

We wish Ms Purdue (Year 3B) well during her Term 4 long service leave and Mr Chandler (Year 5R) during his Term 4 paternity leave.  Year 3B will taught by Mrs Pazaridis (Mon-Thurs) and Mrs Shiu-Haskins (Fri) and Year 5R will be taught by both Miss Lees (Mon-Tues) and Miss Zappala (Wed-Fri).

We have some more wonderful news:

Ms Zietsch is having a baby; Mrs Evans is having a baby and Mrs Lewis is having a baby! Congratulations to our Mr Lobb whose wife has just had a baby boy!  Congratulations to Mrs Moolman who had her baby girl!

Congratulations to our Spirit of St Brendan’s recipients who received their awards last Friday at our assembly.

Thank you for your support at the disco on Tuesday evening at The Doylo!  I hope you all had a fabulous time and congratulations on our raffle winners.

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Thank you to our Year 6 parents who organised such great prizes for our Year 6 2024 Fundraiser Raffle and for the Year 6 boys who volunteered their time to sell tickets.  Here are some our winners who collected their prizes at the draw on Wednesday.

Congratulations to our prize-winners:

Taronga Zoo – Hudson 1B

Jack and Jill Bench Seat – Nate 1R

Ninja pac voucher – Isla/Arran 4B

Young Living Oils voucher – Rachel 2G

Spring Loaded 2 vouchers – Charlie 4G

I Play voucher – Marcus 6B

Bunnings voucher – Tyson 1B

Rugby hamper – Josie 3R

Rugby hamper – Edan 4B

Boys hamper – Felix 4R

Girls hamper – Tiabella 4R

Spring Loaded 2 vouchers – Ava KB

Bunnings voucher – Thiago 3G

I play voucher – Piper 5B

Fun lab voucher – Natasha 4G

Spring Loaded 2 vouchers – Olivia 6R

I would like to share with you an original poem written by Adelynn (Year 5).  Adelynn’s messages about change within her poem are very insightful!  Well done Adelynn, I hope you continue sharing your great talents in literacy.

Free Verse Poem about Change

Change… not the way the wind moves directions

Not the way cows move from the pasture to the field.

Not the way the rain pours down.

The change that makes the ocean sway.

The change that makes you feel that special way.

The change you feel when you lose someone you love is like there’s a missing piece of the puzzle.

That deep connection you had is lost, it’s … change.

Change, it can be scary but it can be wonderful like a bud blooming into a flower.

Change, it … makes you feel

Change can be extremely hard it may have giant obstacles to overcome but you can always get over them no matter what… if you believe.

Here is our SBLM Debating team – Poppy, Charli, Evannah, Sophie and Willow!  Congratulations to each of these girls who have grown in their skills to work as a team competing against mainly Year 6 students from other Catholic schools on the Central Coast.  They have come within one point of victory at times and this week, their perseverance paid off and they won their last debate of the year!  Well done girls!

Congratulations to Nate P in year 6 who attended the Diocesan Public Speaking Competition last Tuesday evening.  Nate was among the 12 children out of 1000 children who competed in Public speaking competitions.  Great effort Nate and well done returning to school the very next day after a very late evening!

Congratulations to Alexis, Aston, Kingston and Rain who are pictured here wearing their Broken Bay representative athletics badges!  Congratulations also to Alexis and Rain for your New Records and Rain for her Age Divisional Champion award.

Our end of term reward was today – well done children on a great term.  Looking forward to another positive term after the holidays.

GARDEN DAY – Saturday 12^th October… BYO wheelbarrow if you have one, shovel if you have one and gloves.. hats, water bottle etc… 9am onwards – come for a short time or a longer time!  There is a form that has been sent on Compass for your RSVP.  This day will go ahead weather permitting!  I will put a message on Compass the day of if we need to postpone due to weather.

Here are some more great news sporting stories in our community:

Matilda competed at the Trevor Mcdonald Memorial Meet at Vincentia on the weekend and her results were.

3rd 200 freestyle 

3rd 100 freestyle 

3rd 100 breaststroke

3rd 100 backstroke

5th 50 butterfly 

Matilda has also composed her own song and is found on spotify!  Very talented!

Last weekend, Xavier and William competed in a NSW State Ninja Competition - UNAA (Ultimate Ninja Athlete Association). The course featured a challenging 15 obstacles that tested their strength and determination. Both boys performed exceptionally well, with William securing an impressive third place, earning him a spot to compete at Nationals in November and Xavier just missed out on qualifying for Nationals by mere seconds. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and achievements!

Congratulations to Charlotte who was awarded Player’s Player in her AFL team!  Well done!

Some dates for your diary in Term 4:

REMINDER: Children return to school on Tuesday 15^th October.

October:

23^rd – Year 1 excursion

30^th - Year 6 Market day - fundraiser

31^st – 1 Nov Year 5 Camp Toukley

17^th -Kindergarten, 2025 transitions start Week 1, Thursday (5 Thursdays) 

November:

6^th – Year 3 excursion

8^th - Groovin the Green

December:

3^rd – Christmas Carols

9^th - Reports go home

9^th - Year 6 mass 5.15pm

10^th - Year 6 Farewell 5-9pm The Doyo

12^th - Thanksgiving Mass/Spirit of St Brendan’s/End of Year Awards

13^th - End of Term reward – Colour run (TBC)

17^th Year 6 beach fun day – Toowoon bay

18^th - Children’s last day

God Bless,

Charlene Reid

Principal

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