Principal Message

Dear Parents, Carers and Families,

It is with great excitement that we begin our 2025 school year.

Today we welcome children in Years 1- 6 to St Brigid’s and we look forward to welcoming our Foundation students to school tomorrow. It was wonderful to see happy faces enter the school grounds this morning. Excitement filled the air at recess and lunchtime as the children explored the new play spaces. I wish all children a happy and productive year of learning.

A very warm welcome to our many new children who will commence at St Brigid’s this year. We are really looking forward to fostering connections with you.

This year, we welcome the following new staff members to St Brigid’s - Ms Jasmine McIlvena (Year 2/3) and Mr Callum Stevens (Year 4/5). We also look forward to welcoming Miss Emma Anticaglia back to St Brigid’s. Ms Tamara Wilson (STEM teacher) has accepted a teaching position in Ballarat and therefore a STEM teaching position has been advertised. Ms Victoria Rosewarne will teach STEM for the duration of February.

Saturday 1st February is the feast day of our patron saint, Saint Brigid. Saint Brigid was born around 451 AD in County Louth, Ireland. Brigid was renowned for her generosity and compassion to the poor and the sick, often giving them the food from her own table. Brigid, and some of her friends who also wished to devote their lives to Christ as nuns, chose the Beatitude ‘Blessed are the Merciful’ when they took their vows.

Brigid built a convent settlement and continued her work from that base, travelling about the district caring for the poor and converting many to the Church. She is renowned for her leadership and faithfulness to the Church.

We look forward to recognising St Brigid’s at our beginning of year Mass on Monday 3rd February at 9:30am - all welcome!

Take care and God bless,

Jayne Bosworth

'Inspire us to act justly and to reverence all God has made.'

Excerpt from St Brigid's Prayer