St Bede’s Primary School - Braidwood eNewsletter

Please return the Meet and Greet BBQ note by TOMORROW to assist with numbers for catering. Notes were sent home on Monday with your eldest child - please check their bags! If you are unable to find the note please download and print a copy from here These notes can then be returned to school via your child.

As we have been experiencing cooler weather, it has been decided to commence the phasing in of the winter uniform from Monday March 31, Week 9. The students will have an option to wear either their summer uniform or their winterunifom-not a combination of both!

Date	Event	Start Time	Location
20 March	Kinder & Yr 5/6 - Parish Mass	10:15 am	St Bede's Church
21 March	School Fees due for payment
26 March	Book Club due
27 March	Year 2 - Parish Mass	10:15 am	St Bede's Church
27 March	Meet & Greet BBQ	5:30pm-7:30pm	Services Clubs
28 March	Cross Country Carnival	10 am	Rec Ground
3 April	Yrs 3 & 4 - Parish Mass	10:15 am	St Bede's Church
3 April	Try it @ Trinity Day - Year 6 students only	10 am - 2 pm	Gouburn
4 April	Working Bee and Movie night	2 pm - 5 pm	school
4 April	Movie Night & BBQ	TBA	School Hall
7 April	Easter Liturgy - Palm Sunday - Yr 2	9 am	school
8 April	Easter Liturgy - Washing of the Feet - Yr 1 & Last Supper - Yr 3	9 am	school
9 April	Easter Liturgy - Garden of Gethsemane - Yr 4	9 am	School
10 April	Easter Liturgy - Stations of the Cross - Yr 5/6	9 am	School
10 April	Easter Hat parade	11:45 am	Wallace street
10 April (Thursday)	End of Term for Students
17 April	Holy Thursday
18 April	Good Friday
20 April	Easter Sunday
25 April	Anzac Day March - more info to come	TBA	meet @ St Bede's church
28 April	Enrolment period starts
29 April	Students return
30 April	Easter liturgy - Resurrection - Kinder	9 am	School
1 May	ANZAC day Liturgy	TBA	TBA
2 May	NR Cross Country	TBA	Braidwood show ground
9 May	Mothers Day Breakfast + Stall	8:15am	School

Thursday 11 April, we will be having our annual Easter Hat Parade.

The children will be walking down Wallace Street at 11:40 am with their hats on.

Children are encouraged to decorate their hat at home and to be creative. The design can be as simple or as elaborate as they wish. Please see the photo gallery below for some ideas.

Parents and Carers are invited to line Wallace Street to cheer the children on as they walk past.

St Bede's School is hosting the Northern Region Cross Country Carnival on Friday 2 May. We are looking for parents and carers to voluteer to help in the canteen. This is a great opportinuty for parents to get into the community spirit, meet parents from other schools and for our Community Council to raise some funds, which in turn comes back to the school.

If your child is completing on the day it would be great if parents can volunteer some time either before or after their child's race. Please contact the office if you are able to assist.

Parents and Carers - are all warmly welcome to attend the upcoming Easter liturgies, Easter Hat parade and Class Parish Masses.

2025 Term Dates

Term 1 - Tuesday 4 February - Thursday 10 April 2025
Term 2 – Tuesday 29 April – Thursday 3 July
Term 3 – Tuesday 22 July – Thursday 25 September
Term 4 – Tuesday 14 October – Thursday 18 December

Unwell Students (Cough, runny nose, fever,vomiting,diarrhoea etc.) If your child is unwell please keep them at home. If your child has vomited the night before, please keep them at home, even if you think they are okay. The NSW Health guidelines suggest that students who have vomited and or diarrhoea should be kept at home for 48 hours to help prevent the spread of illness through the school. Please see the guideline from NSW Health regarding vomiting.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Factsheets/viral-gastroenteritis.pdf

We appreciate your co-operation in this matters.

School fees have been sent out to families via email and through Compass - fees are due for payment before Friday 21 March 2025.

The preferred method of payment for fees is through BPAY as it is cost effective. The BPAY reference details are in the top right and bottom left on the invoice.

Any families who are struggling to pay the fees before the due are to contact the school office to put an arrangement in place.

Parish Mass

St Bede’s School will attend weekly Parish Mass on a rotating roster. Weekday Mass is held every Thursday at 10:15 am at St Bede’s Church.

Families are welcome to join us.

Term 1 Parish Mass Roster:

Week 7 – Kinder & Year 5/6
Week 8 – Year 2
Week 9 – Year 3 & 4

St Bede’s Parish - ‘Call to Connect’ Prayer Group

‘Call to Connect’ prayer group warmly invites all interested people from the parish and school community to join us for Lenten Prayer gathering and coffee. The Lenten Prayer gathering will be held on Friday 28 March at 10 am in the St Bede’s Church. Simple morning tea will be served at 10 am, with prayer starting at 10:15 am. The morning includes a short talk, reading from scripture followed by prayer and reflection, discussion points and lighting of candles for your intentions. For more information, contact the St Bede’s Parish.

Children's Mass

St Bede's Parish will be holding a Children's Mass on Saturday 29 March @ 5 pm, followed by a BBQ.

The Parish are looking for children to volunteer for altar serving, readings, offertory and music. There will be further details closer to the day. If you have any questions please contact Ann Tracey on 0405 680 337 or Shaye Cooper at the school.

The school holds all of the students school Departure agreements for 2025 in the office. These were completed by parents at the beginning of the year. These agreements are referred to if your child is unsure of how they are getting home.

With this in mind we ask parents that if there is a change to the way your child will be going home either, a one-off change or permanent, please notify the school office, either by phone or email before 2:30 pm. After this time it becomes increasing difficult to ensure that your child receives the message. If there is any confusion about your child's departure arrangement of an afternoon, then as a duty of care your child will remain at school and parents will be contacted to collect their child.

From the School Counsellor

Important information about how to access School Counselling.

Please feel free to touch base with any questions or concerns relating to the counselling service.

How to make an appointment.

If your child/ren were seen by the school counsellor in previous years and you would like them to receive support in 2025, we require you to complete a new counselling registration form. The link can be found below. New referrals and requests can be made via the same link.

Parent consent for counselling continues to be required for all primary school students and will be sought and provided via email. Where parents are separated, we require the written consent of both parents. Once the referral has been received, I will contact parents on a Wednesday to further discuss the referral and determine whether school counselling can meet your child’s needs or if an external referral may be more appropriate.

Referrals can be submitted here

https://mccg.my.site.com/housing/s/school-referral-form

I am at St. Bede’s on Wednesdays each week.

Faith Costigan – Student and Family Counsellor.

Library days for Term 1 are:

Wednesdays - Kinder, Years 2, 3, 4
Thursdays - Years 1 & 5/6

Please remember to bring your library bag and any books to be returned on these days!!!!!!

St Bede's is a Nut Free school

St Bede's is a nut free school - This mean that students should not bring anything containing nuts to school, this includes Nutella, Peanut Butter and any other nut butters as we have several students who are highly allergic to these items.

The sharing of any food, lollies or confectionery is not encouraged.

At St Bede's canteen is run every 2nd Monday. The running of canteen is dependant on volunteers - we require at least 2 parent volunteers per canteen.

Please see the roster below - if you are able to help please contact Brenda, Trish or the office to have your name added.

If canteen is cancelled your child will need to bring their own lunch, as per a non canteen day.

Please consider volunteering for Canteen in 2025

If you have any questions about what is required to help on canteen please contact Brenda on 0438 275 032 or Trish on 0412 889507 or 02 48422027.

Please note that any parents volunteering for canteen must have a current Working With Children Check (WWCC). WWCC can be applied for through Service NSW (link) applying for a WWCC. Once you have received the clearance please send a copy of the email + your date of birth to the office as the clearances are checked.

31 March

Helpers wanted

Canteen_Menu_Pricelist_18_Feb_25.pdf

Kinder	Chloe	Claire	Hudson
Year 1	Rudy	Ava
Year 2	Holly	Leo	Klay
Year 3	Casey	John	Elna & Phoebe
Year 4	TBA
Year 5/6	Ava	Sam M	Cara & Isla

Kinder

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6