St Bernadette's Primary School Dundas Valley

One of my roles at St Bernadette’s is to work with small groups of students to improve their understanding of different Key Learning Areas. When I am working with these students, I talk to them about how their brain is a muscle and if we give it a workout, it will grow big and strong. We ‘workout’ our brain by doing hard thinking and challenging ourselves with our learning. It is good when the work is hard as we need to be thinking hard to help our brains grow. 

When your children come home and seem down about some part of their learning being challenging, have a look at one of the sentences below that might encourage them in their learning. Sometimes we even need to think this way ourselves as adults!

This term our Year 2 Religion Learning Cycle is called “Who is Jesus?” It has focused on how we can influence the lives of others in the way of Jesus through learning about his miracles, therefore allowing for a closer personal relationship with God. We hope you enjoy reading some of the tasks we have been doing in class.

Monday 19th April will be a Staff Development Day and no children will be at school. 

Students will commence Term 2 on Tuesday 20th April 2021.

For the remainder of this term we ask that parents continue to drop students off and pick them up via the front gates. The back gate will remain closed until further notice.

Thank you for your continued support and patience. 

If all goes well we will resume assemblies and other activities where parents can attend onsite in Term 2.

We understand at times it is difficult for families to know when your child needs to stay home when they complain of feeling unwell. We ask that if your child displays any symptoms such as coughing, sore throat, sneezing, runny nose etc that they are kept home. To return to school they will require a clearance certificate from the doctor or a negative covid test. We thank you in advanced for your cooperation.

Our school calendar has now been synced to the SkoolBag App. You are able to access the school calendar for important term dates and add these to the calendar in your phone.

How to do this:

- Select 'events' icon on the bottom of the home page. This will then bring up the calendar and the current month will be displayed.

- Under the chosen day you will see all of the events we have scheduled for that day. 

- To add these events to your calendar select 'notices' and 'add to calendar'. - You can choose to add all the important dates to your calendar that are relevant to you.

The calendar is also visible on our school website. 

We will hold our next assembly for this term tomorrow under the COLA. Once again it will be attended by students only but we hope that we will be able to hold an open Assembly soon. Thanks for your ongoing understanding and support.

We are now beginning the enrolment process for 2022. If you have a child who you wish to enrol please download the enrolment form from our website or just pop into our office to pick one up. Last year we were overwhelmed with applications so please don't wait until the last minute and miss out on a place. 

We were blessed with perfect running conditions this Tuesday, where we successfully ran our Annual Cross Country. The day went off without incident due to the excellent parent help that we received, ensuring that the track was well supervised and our children were kept safe at all times. Many thanks to all of the parents who gave their time to help, it is through your support that these events can run so successfully.

We had some excellent performances on the day, with a large squad of children to be announced in the coming days. Those children will represent St Bernadette’s at the Diocesan Cross Country on 4 May, Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek. We look forward to further successes then!

We were represented by Ian B, Alex C & Isla M at the Diocesan Swimming Carnival on Tuesday, 9 May. It is a fantastic achievement for the children to participate at such a high level of competition; we are very proud of you all. 

Ian B was successful in qualifying for the NSWCPS Swimming Trials on Monday 22nd March at Sydney Olympic Park. He was also Once again the 11 Year Boys Age Champion! Congratulations Ian on this outstanding achievement!