St Brigid's College Horsham

We offer our prayerful support to the Hateley family on the recent passing of Avenal Hateley, Great Pop of Ella Maree (year 7).  Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Brodie Hawker - for taking on a leadership role in the Product Design Technology-Wood class.

Rapid Antigen Test Survey

Our  school has been identified as one of the schools invited to take part in this survey seeking feedback on the RAT program.

Each of the surveys are entirely voluntary and anonymous.

Your assistance is requested in completing this survey

Rapid Antigen Testing in Schools Survey - Parent Survey

AD HOC BUS TRAVEL Students wishing to travel on country buses on an ad hoc basis e.g. for football or netball training, need to complete an ad hoc bus application each year. Applications may be approved if there is room on the bus involved. Please collect an application from your school office and complete. They can be returned to your school or to : buses@horsham-college.vic.edu.au  Please include your email on the form so you can be contacted regarding outcome. 

Horsham College Bus Co-ordinator

The conveyance allowance assists families with the cost of transporting their children to and from school.

·    To be eligible, students must live in regional and rural Victoria and live more than 4.8km from their nearest appropriate government or non-government school.

·     An allowance may be payable if students are conveyed to school by private car, private bus (usually school chartered) or public transport.

·      Private car reimbursement is calculated on a one-way travel distance between the student’s place of residence and the school bus stop.

·       Those eligible families who have already completed a claim form do not need to re-register for the Semester Two payment, unless they have an additional child now attending this school in 2022.

·       Application forms are available by contacting the school.

·       Completed Claim forms must be submitted to the school by 18 March 2022.

·       Detailed information on the conveyance allowance and criteria for student eligibility is available from the Government website: https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/conveyance-allowance/policy

SWIMMING | Congratulations to Year 9 student, Jack Lanyon who qualified for the 14-15 year old 200m Medley Relay at the Long Course Country Champs in Mildura in January for Nationals. Jack is currently 0.51 of a second off his individual time for the 50m Backstroke at Nationals to be held in Adelaide in April over the Easter weekend. He also has 5 times for the State Championships (coming up on the March Labour Day Weekend) for 50m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke, 50m Butterfly, 100m Backstroke and 100m Butterfly. Well done Jack, we are all incredibly proud and look forward to hearing how you go at the State Championships! 

OPPORTUNITY | Students from Year 7 to 12 are invited and encouraged to participate in the Australian Geography Competition that will take place towards the end of Term 1. The 2022 Geography Competition will be delivered online and participating students will have 35 minutes to answer multiple-choice and cloze questions based on the Geography content of the Australian Curriculum. The questions will test both your geographical knowledge and skills. All participating students will receive certificates and results, and prizes will be awarded to the highest-scoring students. For further information, visit https://geographycompetition.org.au/If you would like to participate, please email Mrs Dooling (mdooling@stbc.vic.edu.au) no later than Friday 25th February.

OPPORTUNITY | All Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 students are invited to take up the opportunity to participate in the Australian History Competition during Term 2. This year, the National Champions in each year level will be awarded a $250 cash prize! If you would like to participate, the school will need to register your participation by Monday 28th February. Please email Mrs. Dooling (mdooling@stbc.vic.edu.au) if you would like to participate and check out the this website for more information : https://australianhistorycompetition.org.au/

This year all students from Years 7 to 12 will participate in our new Pastoral Care Program. Each year level will have one period a week devoted to the program. The program will be based on the Positive Education Enhanced Curriculum (PEEC) designed by the Institute of Positive Education at Geelong Grammar. Below is some background to the program, taken from their website.

Positive Education brings together the science of Positive Psychology with best practice teaching to encourage and support individuals, schools and communities to flourish. We refer to flourishing as a combination of ‘feeling good and doing good’. Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.

Through teaching these valuable life skills, Geelong Grammar School provides its students with an increased capacity to learn effectively, as well as offering them a strong foundation on which they can build a successful life.

The Institute of Positive Education is a ground-breaking initiative by Geelong Grammar, dedicated to improving student and staff wellbeing. The Institute has the dual purpose of nurturing Positive Education at the School and assisting the growth of Positive Education throughout Australia and the world.

For more information about the Institute and its upcoming training courses for teachers, parents and the wider community, visit the Institute of Positive Education website.

ATHLETICS | Congratulations to our Year 7 student, Isla Hiscock who competed at the WCR Region Athletics in Ballarat over the weekend. Isla impressively won 1st in the 200m, 1st in 200m Hurdles, 2nd in the 400m and 2nd in Long Jump. Well done! Isla will now progress to the LAVIC State Championships to be held in March at Albert Park.