Newsletter June 10th, 2025
- Weekly Prayer
- School Disco - Friday 20th June, 2025
- Sacred Heart Feast Day - Thursday 26th June 10:30am
- School Uniform
- 2026 Enrolments
- Hot Lunches
- Whole School Prayer/Assembly
- St Brigid’s Parents & Friends Committee
- School Counsellor/Pastoral Care
- NCCD Parent Information Sheet
- Preschool Story Time at St Brigid’s
- Key Dates to Remember
- Rocketeers Holiday Program – Bookings Now Open!
- Birthdays
- Gordon & Bungaree Parish News
- Community News & Events
- SIMON Everywhere App & PAM accounts
- Change of Details
Last Sunday, 8th June, was the Feast of Pentecost.
Pentecost (Greek for 50th day) is celebrated by Christians 50 days after Easter, and marks the day that the Holy Spirit became known to the apostles while they were cowering and hiding behind locked doors following Jesus’ resurrection. After receiving the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit, the apostles immediately went out and preached Jesus’ message to everyone—even those who could not understand.
The Christian celebration of Pentecost originates from a Jewish feast that concluded the 50 days of Passover and celebrated the end of the barley harvest, plus the beginning of the wheat harvest.
Invitation to prayer….
Scripture:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God's spirit hovered over the water.”
Genesis 1:1-2
Reflection:
In this text we see one of the first images encountered in the Bible is this beautiful picture of the Spirit of God moving over the surface of the waters at the dawn of creation. Everything that follows in the scriptures is set in the context of the goodness of creation and our call to care for our common home. This call is especially urgent today, in the light of the climate emergency. Let’s pray that God’s nurturing spirit will challenge and strengthen us to make profound changes in our lifestyles. Changes that will prevent further damage to our environment and restore creation for the common good.
To ponder…
What changes can we make to better care for the gift of creation?
Prayer:
Come Holy Spirit,
blow away division and despair.
Light your flame of courage and hope in us
and warm our hearts with wisdom and love.
Be our Helper, as we seek your ways of justice.
Be our Comforter, as we share your peace with our wounded world.
Be our Advocate, as we call for the fullness of life for all.
St Brigid's Primary School Ballan wishes to acknowledge respectfully the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, learn, play and gather.
We have now made the transition to winter uniform. Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct winter uniform daily.
Children are required to continue to wear the correct sports uniform each Tuesday and Wednesday. Given the nature of Physical Education lessons, on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s children can wear either correct sports shorts/skorts or track pants.
To assist with preliminary stages of planning for 2026, a friendly reminder to current families to please submit enrolment forms for siblings entering Foundation in 2026 via the ‘enrol now’ tab on our website - https://www.sbballan.catholic.edu.au/
Hot lunches will take place each Friday via the online ordering system - Spriggy Schools on SZapp.
Volunteers
We have re-introduce a roster looking for volunteers to help prepare and serve lunches on each Friday. Ideally 2 helpers are required.
If you are available to help out on a Friday between 11.30am-1.00pm please contact the school office with your dates (valid Working with Children Check is required).
The children really enjoy hot lunches and this can only happen with the help of volunteers!
Term 2 Roster:
| Date | Helper 1 | Helper 2 | Helper 3 |
| 13 June 2025 | Verity Mc Lucas | Rhiannon Breguet | Elise Jreige |
| 20 June 2025 | Elise Jreige | Jo Muldeary | Brooke Simpson |
| 27 June 2025 | Rhiannon Breguet | Nicole Le Feuvre | |
| 4 July 2025 | Elise Jreige | Sarah Pandur | Brooke Simpson |
Please find below an updated menu.
Whole School Prayer/ Assembly will continue to take place on a fortnightly basis at St Brigid’s Church on Monday afternoons from 2:30pm.
Term 2 dates:
Monday 23rd June, 2025 @ 2:30pm - Foundation A facilitating
Term 3 dates:
Monday 11th August, 2025 @2:30pm - Year 5/6B facilitating
Monday 25th August, 2025 @2:30pm - Foundation A facilitating
Monday 8th September, 2025 @2:30pm - Year 3/4BW facilitating
Term 4 dates:
Monday 13th October, 2025 @2:30pm - Year 4/5S facilitating
Monday 27th October, 2025 @2:30pm - Foundation C facilitating
Monday 10th November, 2025@ 2:30pm - Year 2/3M facilitating
Monday 24th November, 2025 @ 2:30pm - Year 1S facilitating
Our next P&F meeting will take place on Monday 4th August from 3.15pm - 4.00pm in our school Library. An active P&F committee allows families the opportunity to play a valuable part in providing social and fundraising activities. Please attend this meeting if you are interested in joining our P&F committee. Any help would be greatly appreciated as all funds raised contribute to resources and materials to support your children in their holistic development.
Suzanne Beaver will again be at St Brigids every Tuesday this year.
Suzanne is available for individual sessions with children. Common issues addressed are managing strong emotions, self esteem, friendship issues, anxiety, and family challenges such as illness, grief and separation.
Suzanne is also available for individual sessions with parents. Topics can include a range of parenting challenges, i.e. managing strong emotions, school reluctance, helping your child form strong friendships, and helping your child to navigate family separation.
Suzanne can also assist you in finding the right external support for your child and family.
This is a great service provided right here at school. Please don't hesitate to contact Suzanne with any concerns you might have. Contact Suzanne by phone on a Tuesday or by email any day sbeaver@sbballan.catholic.edu.au.
You can also access the service through the office or your classroom teacher.
All of the timetabled events (to date) for the school year can be found on our school calendar which can be accessed through PAM and via this newsletter.
2025, Term 2
| Friday 20th June |
School Disco - 6:00pm-8:00pm Ballan Mechanics Hall |
| Monday 23rd June |
Whole School Assembly/Prayer 2:30pm Foundation C Facilitating |
| Friday 4th July |
Last day Term 2 - 2:20pm finish |
2025, Term 3
| Monday 21st July |
First day Term 3 |
| Thursday 24th July |
Save the date - Christmas in July Event |
| Wed 30th July Frii 1st August |
Year 4/5/6 Camp |
| Monday 4th August |
Parents & Friends meeting - 3:15pm |
| Monday 11th August |
LFBF Day 3 Whole School Prayer/Assembly - 2:30pm |
| Mon 18th August Fri 22nd August |
Book Week & Parade details to follow |
| Wednesday 20th August |
SAC Meeting - 4:30pm |
| Monday 25th August |
Whole School Prayer/Assembly - 2:30pm |
| Monday 1st September |
Parents & Friends meeting - 3:15pm |
| Thursday 4th September |
Father's Day Stall |
| Friday 5th September |
Father's Day Breakfast & Liturgy |
| Monday 8th September |
Whole School Prayer/Assembly - 2:30pm |
| Friday 19th September |
Footy Colours Day Last day of Term 3 - 2:20pm finish |
June 3 - Madeline Cabrie
June 4 - Amelia Plageman
June 7 - Maya Breguet
June 10 - Kai Robinson
June 12 - Georgia Le Feuvre
June 12 - Hattie Papashalis
June 13 - Lili Rawlings
June 15 - Makayla Abela
June 15 - TJ Hodge
June 20 - Jimmy Eastwood-Silk
June 23 - Maeve Lakey
June 24 - Sylvia Wells
June 27 - Maxwell Hussain
Welcome to St Brigid's Primary School's Parent Access Module or PAM.
PAM is the home of your school related, student information and will be used for medical profiles, excursion/camp permissions, parent teacher interviews, absences, text notifications and daily messages.
Please follow the instructions below to set up your account.
Step 1:
You will need to set your own access password. To set your password click on the link below. This will take you to the PAM login page. Click on the 'Forgot Password?' link and follow the prompts.
Download the SIMON Everywhere app to access PAM on your preferred
device/s. Search 'SIMON everywhere' in the app store and download. Once
downloaded, click on the 3 lines in the top left corner, click on 'add school',
select 'St Brigid’s Primary School' then enter the login details that you set up
for PAM in Step 1.
Step 3:
Please complete the medical profile for each of your child/ren and upload any action plan if applicable. Please Note: It is the parents/guardians' responsibility to update their child/ren's profiles, to inform the school of any changes. This profile will be the main school medical reference for camps and excursions.
If you are experiencing any difficulty with the setup process, please contact the office.