St Bede’s Primary School - Braidwood eNewsletter

Date	Event	Start Time	Location
1 - 30 May	Catholic School enrolment period
27 May - 3 June	National Reconciliation Week
30 May	Athletics Carnival	10am	Rec ground
31 May	Sacrament of Reconciliation	5 pm	St Bede's Church
17 June	School Photos
23-26 June	Parent + Teacher interviews	TBA	School
30 June	Reports on Compass
3 July	End of Term for Students

2025 Term Dates

Term 2 – Tuesday 29 April – Thursday 3 July
Term 3 – Tuesday 22 July – Thursday 25 September
Term 4 – Tuesday 14 October – Thursday 18 December

Upcoming RE dates for you diary

Reconciliation - Saturday 31 May @ 5 pm - St Bede's Church

St Bede’s Parish Mass

This term, St Bede’s School will continue to attend weekly Parish Mass. Weekday Mass is held every Thursday at 10:15 am in the St Bede’s Church. Each week two classes will attend – see roster below. Students will assist in Mass with the readings and offertory. Families are welcome to attend!

Week 5 – Year 3 & 4

Week 6 – Kinder & Year 5/6

Week 7 – Year 1 & 2

Week 8 – Year 3 & 4

Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly

On Sunday 1^st June, 11am-1pm, the Archdiocese is celebrating the World Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka
It will be followed by light refreshments and an event in the Haydon Hall.

The Archbishop has offered to pray over families as part of the celebration and give a short input. Children’s activities will be available.

Register for the FREE event here: http://www.bit.ly/MFR2025

School fees for Term 2 are now overdue for payment. Any families who haven't yet paid their school fees are asked to do so promptly or contact the office to put an arrangement in place.

Any families who are struggling to pay their fees are asked to contact the office to put arrangements in place.

Please note that 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.

Library days for Term 2 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!!!!!!

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 matter.

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.

Date
Monday 2 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted
Monday 16 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted
Monday 30 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted

Please see our updated menu below:

Canteen_Menu_Pricelist_8_May_2025.pdf

All students should now be in full winter uniform.

At St Bede's we are very proud of our students uniform, it is what identifies us within the community of Braidwood, and it is important that the uniform is worn correctly. This includes all students wearing ties, black shoes, hats or navy/black beanies, long sleeved shirts, blue trousers or tunic. Students wearing the winter tunic should be wearing navy blue tights. Winter jackets need to be navy blue. There should be no variation on the school's uniform - the uniform policy can be downloaded via the attached link or copies of the uniform policy can be found in the school office.

St Bede's Uniform policy

Also a reminder that all uniform items should have your child's name, this make it easier to return lost items to the correct owner.

Kinder	Ambrose	Hudson	August
Year 1	Zita	Chase M
Year 2	Charlie	Heidi
Year 3
Year 4	Willow	Indi	Rafe
Year 5/6	James	Isla

Kinder

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6