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St Brigid's Primary School Ballan
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98 Inglis Street
Ballan VIC 3342
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E: administration@sbballan.catholic.edu.au
P: 03 5368 1015
W: https://www.sbballan.catholic.edu.au/

St Brigid's Primary School Ballan

98 Inglis Street
Ballan VIC 3342

Phone: 03 5368 1015
Email: administration@sbballan.catholic.edu.au

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Upcoming Events

20 Jun
School Disco

All day

23 Jun
Whole School Assembly

All day

4 Jul
Last Day Term 2

All day

5 Jul
School Holidays

05 Jul 2025 - 20 Jul 2025

Forms and Documents

  • St Brigid’s Volunteers Policy and Procedure
  • Complaints and Grievances Policy
  • Volunteer Responsibility Agreement Form

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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

Weekly Prayer

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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.

Amen.

 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.

School Disco - Friday 20th June, 2025

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Sacred Heart Feast Day - Thursday 26th June 10:30am

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School Uniform

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.

2026 Enrolments

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/

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Hot Lunches

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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.

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Whole School Prayer/Assembly

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

St Brigid’s Parents & Friends Committee

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.

School Counsellor/Pastoral Care

Suzanne Beaver will again be at St Brigids every Tuesday this year. 

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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.

NCCD Parent Information Sheet

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Preschool Story Time at St Brigid’s

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Key Dates to Remember

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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

Rocketeers Holiday Program – Bookings Now Open!

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Birthdays

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June 1 - Hamish Fodor
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

Gordon & Bungaree Parish News

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1st Sunday 2nd Sunday 3rd Sunday 4th Sunday 5th Sunday

Vigil Mass

Sat 6:30pm

Dunnstown Springbank Dunnstown Clarkes Hill Springbank

Sun 9:00am

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Sun 10:30am

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Gordon Parish Newsletter

Community News & Events

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SIMON Everywhere App & PAM accounts

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.

PAM Login

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Step 2:

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.

Change of Details

Notification Form

It is imperative that our records are kept up to date for contact, census and funding purposes. If you have a change of address, phone number, email address, occupation or similar, please notify the school office as soon as possible. This form provides a quick and easy way to let us know.

Thank you for your submission. It has been received successfully.

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