St Bede’s Primary School - Braidwood eNewsletter

Date	Event	Start Time	Location
4 April	Working Bee	3 pm - 5 pm	School
4 April	Movie Night & BBQ	3:30 pm	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 - assembly in lieu of Friday	2:45 pm	school
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	10:30 am	@ 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	9 am	School
2 May	NR Cross Country	9:30am	Braidwood show ground
9 May	Mothers Day Breakfast + Stall	8:15am	School
10 May	Children's Mass - St Bede's Parish	5pm	St Bede's Church
30 May	Athletics Carnival	10am	Rec ground

Tomorrow afternoon is the Working Bee, Movie Night and BBQ. Please refer to the Compass News item that was sent out on Friday 28 March , for information.

Any time that can be spared for the working Bee is greatly appreciated!

Thursday 10 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.

ANZAC Day – SAVE THE DATE!

ANZAC Day is commemorated on Friday 25th April, which falls in the school holidays. We invite our students to join us for the ANZAC Day March. We meet at 10:30am outside St Bede’s Church. Students are asked to wear full winter school uniform.

St Bede's School is hosting the Northern Region Cross Country Carnival on Friday 2 May. We are looking for parents and carers to volunteer to help in the canteen. This is a great opportunity 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 and Easter Hat parade.

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

St Bede's Children's Mass - Thank you

Last Saturday, the St Bede's Parish held their first Children's Mass. It was a wonderful evening with 25 students attending - it was a great success! We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the families who brought their children to Mass. We would also like to acknowledge that the Mass was made possible by the support of the following people:

Fr Sijo for celebrating Mass
Felix Schlaegar for mentoring the Altar Servers - thank you Ben V and Beni F for volunteering!
Helen Hart for her music
Shaye Cooper and Sarah Paciorek for their valuable advice
Bronnie Schlaeger and Ann Tracey for their initiative and organisation of the Mass
the Children who for volunteered to be Altar Servers, Readers and Offertory.

We are hoping to hold another Children's Mass for on the Mother's Day weekend (Saturday 10 May). We will be keen to hear from children who would like to volunteer to be part of this Mass. Save the date, more information to come next term.

Thank you,

St Bede's Parish

School fees are now overdue for payment.

Reminder emails were sent out on Tuesday afternoon, if you received one of these emails, we would appreciate a prompt response and payment.

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 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!!!!!!

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.

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.

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.

We have a family who are wanting to rent a 3 bedroom house in the Braidwood area.

Please contact Shannon on 0405 631 080 if you are able to help.

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.

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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 5 May	Helpers Wanted	Helpers Wanted
Monday 19 May	Helpers Wanted	Helpers Wanted
Monday 2 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted
Monday 16 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted
Monday 30 June	Kristie W	Helpers Wanted

Canteen_Menu_Pricelist_18_Feb_25.pdf

Kinder	Beau	August	Fraser
Year 1	Zita	Venice	Nevaeh
Year 2	Rupert	Elliot
Year 3	Evie	Tess	Lili
Year 4	Jack & Toby J	Joshua & Rafe	Matilda
Year 5/6	Will	Teddy	Tyrone

Kinder

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6