Newsletter

A reminder to all families to continue to check the school calendar on our website for dates and events that are coming along during the term.

Our Term Dates for 2026 are listed below. Please be aware that our Pupil Free Days linked to staff Professional Development are subject to change. Parents will be notified with as much notice as possible, should changes need to be made.

TERM 1: Monday 2 February - Thursday 2 April

TERM 2: Monday 20 April - Friday 3 July

TERM 3: Monday 20 July - Friday 25 September

TERM 4: Monday 12 October - Friday 11 December

Thank you to our P&F Committee and all who assisted with the organisation of our Dance on the Green event! This was a wonderful way to start the school year together and there was a great buzz on the night.

As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we have two positions remaining on both our Catholic School Advisory Council and Parents & Friends Committee. If you are interested in joining one of these two key parent groups for 2026, or would like more information, please contact me directly. Being involved in either of these groups presents a wonderful opportunity to work in partnership with the school leadership team in the best interest of our students.

We look forward to St Brigid’s Day, taking place Friday 6 March. Please see Ms Campbell’s section of this newsletter for further information.

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) testing window across Australia begins on Wednesday 11 March, concluding on Monday 23 March. NAPLAN helps teachers understand how students are progressing in essential skills like reading, writing, spelling, and numeracy. It provides schools with valuable information to support student learning and guide future teaching. Most importantly, NAPLAN is just one of many tools we use to ensure every child is on track and receiving the support they need.

Our Year Three and Year Five students will sit NAPLAN assessments during this period, on the following dates:

Testing is planned to occur prior to recess and catch-up tests will be scheduled within the testing window, as required. Information regarding these assessments has been sent home today. We will review our NAPLAN data as a staff when it is available to determine areas of strength and opportunities for growth. I thank Ms Dee Campbell for coordinating the NAPLAN testing, as well as our Year 3 and Year 5 teachers for administering the assessments. If you have any questions regarding the upcoming assessments, please reach out to your child’s teacher.

I am excited to announce that we have revised our Behaviour Management Procedures. Our revised procedures provide clarity for students, staff and parents, promote positive behaviour choices and reflect our Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) agreed practices. Linked to our Behaviour Mangement Procedures are a number of new reward systems, including the introduction of faction tokens. Further information can be found at:

St Brigid's Student Behaviour Procedure.pdf

At St Brigid’s Primary School, all staff, parents, and visitors are expected to adhere to our school Code of Conduct. The Code is outlined below:

Conduct Statements

• You act safely and competently.
• You give priority to students’ safety and well-being in all your behaviour and decision making.
• You act in accordance with the values of the Gospel as defined in the Code of Ethical Conduct.
• You conduct yourself in accordance with laws, agreements, policies and standards relevant to your relationship with the school community.
• You respect the dignity, culture, values and beliefs of each member of the school community.
• You treat personal information about members of the school community as private and confidential.
• You give impartial, honest and accurate information about the education, safety and well-being of students.
• You support all members of the school community in making informed decisions about students.
• You promote and preserve the trust and privilege inherent in your relationship with all members of the school community.
• You maintain and build on the community’s trust and confidence in Catholic schools and the Church.
• You act reflectively and ethically.
• You allow students to have a voice in their education, safety and well-being.
• Should any member of the school community have concerns about someone not adhering to the Code of Conduct, please make a time to see me.

Our CEWA Child Safe Framework help us to make decisions surrounding child safety in the school using nine elements.

These nine elements include:

• Support and Healing: Responding to those who have been injured or hurt through abuse and harm and to assist them to heal.
• Voice of the Child: Recognises each child and young person’s right to be heard and to have a voice in all that happens to them.
• Culture: All members of the school community share responsibility for, and actively promote an environment that prioritises the best interests of children and young people.
• Governance and Leadership: School leaders understand, create and promote environments that are safe, supportive and engaging. They make their decisions based on the best interests of students.
• Policy and Procedures: Structures and processes that are accessible, consistent and transparent. Policies must be understood, implemented and actioned everyday.
• Human Resource Practices: These practices assist our schools and care centres to identify the most suitable people to work with our students and to provide appropriate training.
• Risk Management: Proactively identifying and limiting potential risks.
• Investigation and Reporting: The development and implementation of processes that are transparent, fair and clearly understood by the school community.
• Quality Assurance: Systematic, continual improvement is evident through ongoing evaluation and assessment.

The Health Care Card Discount Scheme provides an automatic fee concession for the holders of eligible means tested family concession cards. This discount applies from Kindergarten to Year Six. Please ensure the school is provided with a copy of your current Health Care Card.

I remind parents and caregivers of our upcoming Public Holiday on Monday 2 March and Pupil Free Day on Tuesday 3 March.

Our staff will be engaged in a day of Professional Development on Tuesday, following the Labour Day Public Holiday. Enjoy the extra-long weekend!

NAPLAN for Years 3 & 5 students will commence in Week 6 and finish in Week 7. The dates of our scheduled assessments are on the Parent Calendar. An information brochure from SCSA is going home to parents today.

Wednesday 11th March – Writing

Thursday 12th March – Reading

Monday 16th March – Language Conventions

Tuesday 17th March - Numeracy

Next week (Friday 6th March) we will host our annual St Brigid’s Feast Day. Previously this day has been held in Term 3, however, this year we have moved it to be closer to St Brigid’s actual feast day (February 1) when the weather is better!

Please note this is a FREE DRESS DAY. No gold coin donation – spend your gold coins at the fete!

St Brigid’s Mass (6th March)

The day will start with a Mass for St Brigid (9am in the Hall) - all parents, caregivers and other family are invited to join us.

St Brigid’s Mission Fete (6th March)

On this day we also hold our fete, all proceeds of which go to supporting local, state, interstate and international charities. We ask children to come to the fete with mostly coins to spend, spend, spend! Please make sure your child(ren) comes with NO MORE than $20 to spend on the day.

Thank you to all the parents who were able to attend the Parent Information Night at the Church on Tuesday night. Parents were required to sign in, so if you did not sign in, please let the parish know.

There is a fee payable to the PARISH of $50 per child. All children must be registered with the parish. I have sent a list of children who have returned their Expression of Interest forms to me, however, you still need to register with the Parish.

Going forward, I have created a group for each of the sacraments to send information to the appropriate parents, so you will only receive information regarding the sacrament your child is receiving.

Next weekend are the Commitment Masses for ALL Sacraments. Parents must take their child to ONE of the masses. If you are unable to attend on that weekend, you will need to make other arrangements directly through the Parish (9274 1495 or midland@perthcatholic.org.au).

WOW Week is Here!

Our very first WOW Week (Week of Wellbeing) is upon us, and we are so excited to share this special week with our students!

The purpose of WOW Week is to intentionally focus on student wellbeing. Nurturing positive relationships, building resilience, encouraging healthy habits, and creating opportunities for joy and connection within our school community. Throughout the week, students will participate in activities designed to strengthen their emotional wellbeing and sense of belonging.

We will begin with Work It Wednesday, followed by Thankful Thursday, where students will take part in activities focused on building positive habits, resilience and wellbeing.

We will finish the week celebrating St Brigid’s Day on Friday.

Uniform Reminder:

• Students are to wear their usual school uniform on Wednesday and Thursday.
• Students may wear free dress on Friday for our St Brigid’s Day celebrations.

We are looking forward to a wonderful week of connection, positivity and wellbeing across our school community!

Kid Speak Perth offer thorough screening services to Kindergarten students. Their experienced speech pathologists can assess students’ speech, language, early literacy skills and more.

Why Speech Therapy?

Speech Therapy plays a significant role in school settings by supporting students in areas that impact their communication, learning, and overall classroom engagement. Speech-language pathologists help students develop essential skills such as expressive and receptive language, articulation, social communication, and literacy.

Our Kindergarten students will undergo Speech Screening on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th March.

Lil’ Peeps OT for Kids, provides Occupational Therapy Screening services to

children at a number of schools. Occupational Therapists registered with the

Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency conduct this screening.

Occupational Therapy can play a significant role in school settings and work to support students in areas that impact on their engagement in the classroom from physical development, attention and focus to handwriting and self-regulation. If students are not supported in their development of these foundational skills, long term impacts may then be seen on a child's learning throughout their school career.

Our Pre-Primary students will undergo OT Screening on Tuesday 10th March.

We’re excited to tell you about something new happening at our school — Containers for Change!

Special bins have been placed in student's eating areas. These bins are for collecting 10 cent containers.

If you have a water bottle, can or carton with the 10c symbol on it, you can place it in the Containers for Change bin instead of the normal bin.

Every container we collect helps in two important ways:

It helps the environment by recycling.

And it raises money for our school.

The money we raise will go towards sustainability projects like improving our gardens, supporting our worm farm, and helping us become a more environmentally friendly school.

Speaking of sustainability, Year 1W and 5B have recently started up our school’s worm farm to help work towards our sustainability goals. We will be collecting food scraps from Crunch and Sip in the Early Years for now. Buckets have been provided with labels explaining what the worms can and can’t eat.

Once our garden beds are set up, we will be using the worm tea to help fertilise and enrich the soil.

Remember:

Only put containers with the 10c symbol into the bin.

Make sure they are empty.

If you’re not sure, ask a teacher.

Let’s work together to recycle, reduce waste, and make a positive difference for our school and our planet.

Thank you and happy recycling!

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God bless,

Miss Natalie Pin

Assistant Principal

Hello my name is Kylie and I have been the Canteen Manager at St Brigid's Primary School for over 12 years.

I am looking for any mums, dad, grandparents or careers who can spare some time to help out in the canteen. If you can't help for the entire day, that's not a problem, we would be grateful for anytime you can offer. The busiest time in the canteen is between 11.15am to 12.30pm. I find that the children love seeing there loved ones in the canteen it always bring a bit of fun into there day.

As a little "thank you" for your help, the canteen will provide you with lunch, a cold drink and bottomless cups of tea/coffee. Any additional information please feel free to come and see me in the canteen, I am happy to have a chat with you.

Kind Regards, Mrs Kylie Dickenson

https://www.quickcliq.com.au/

GREAT NEWS! You can now order multiple lunches for your children through the QuickCliq account.

All lunch orders MUST now be done online, we do not accept cash orders over the counter. You are also able cancel your order before the cut off time of 9.00am by going online and following these instructions:

Log into your QuickCliq account -> click Active/Cancel order -> Scroll to the right -> click Cancel against the order.

RECESS AND ICE-CREAMS ARE STILL AVAILABLE OVER THE COUNTER!

Uniform Shop Opening Hours

Please Note: Term 1 is summer uniform. Could you please ensure that all uniforms are named as we are unable to return uniform to your child without names.

• Monday's - 8.00am - 10.00am
• Wednesday's - 1.30pm - 3.30pm
• To access the Online Order Form
• Please email completed form to uniform@stbrigidsms.wa.edu.au or form can be handed in at the School Office.

BUSINESS IN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Did you know that within the St Brigid’s Primary School community there are many family-owned business’s?

Here are a few of them.

If you would like to add your business to this forum, drop your business card into the Administration office and it will be included in the next newsletter.