Literacy

At St Brigid’s our students strive to be highly effective communicators who read with understanding, write with clarity and purpose and engage with others. These literacy skills are important because they enable our students to develop a love of learning, lead a dignified life and successfully contribute to the world around them by following the Catholic Ethos.

We support the development of literacy skills by providing targeted and individual opportunities for all our students at St Brigid’s to be literate across the curriculum, challenging them to grow and flourish.

Our literacy program operates under the beliefs and understandings that all students can achieve a high standard if they are given sufficient time and support with their learning. We believe that high expectations and early interventions are essential to successful learning outcomes. We aim to support our students to become confident and articulate speakers, attentive and active listeners, accomplished and critical readers and confident writers.

At St Brigid’s we take a personalised approach to student learning in all curriculum areas. We understand how vital literacy skills are to support all learning and use evidence-based methods to ensure all students succeed and thrive across all learning areas using literacy skills. We endeavour to develop a love and enjoyment of reading, writing and speaking and listening through engaging classroom activities and events.

Our English program uses ongoing assessment to personalise the learning for every student based on the Victorian Curriculum. We provide additional time and support with intervention programs and staff from Prep to Year 6 for students at risk.

Teachers work in teams to plan, monitor, track and develop student learning sequences to ensure that all students experience the success of learning.

Mathematics

At St Brigid’s, our students develop mathematical skills, knowledge and ideas that enable them to apply their understanding to solve a range of problems. Our Mathematics curriculum aims to develop our students’ capabilities of mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, modelling and problem-solving. Students develop their numeracy understanding through a range of hands on experiences where they explore and discover connections between number concepts and ideas. They are challenged to develop a more abstract understanding of numeracy as they become more fluent and established in their numerical understanding.

At St Brigid’s we incorporate challenging, open-ended tasks to encourage students to apply their knowledge and to develop their reasoning and problem solving skills. Our students are offered enrichment opportunities, through involvement in the Australian Mathematics Competition and Mathematics Association Victoria (MAV) Maths Talent Quest.

We offer additional numeracy support to our students through our Early Number and Algebra Program in the Junior Years, our Getting Ready in Numeracy (GRIN) program and through small group learning sprints with Learning support staff and classroom teachers.

Education in Faith

St.Brigid’s is a Christ centred community where students learn about the values and teachings of the Catholic faith through daily prayer, religious education lessons, whole school liturgies and masses.

Each class gathers together to pray each day with personal prayer, communal prayer and engaging religious based songs. Prayer time is a time for each student to engage in their own personal faith journey. Students lead our school in prayer during weekly assemblies and liturgies.

Religious Education lessons are taught throughout the school week using the Pedagogy of Encounter inquiry model and follows the Religious Education Curriculum Framework as outlined by the Melbourne Archdiocese. Students explore, interpret and reflect on the Life of Jesus and Scripture, God, Religion and Life, Church and Community, Morality and Justice. Students are encouraged to engage in discussions, pose questions, wonderings and make connections.

St.Brigids works with parents to support their child’s Sacramental faith journey. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered at Year 3, Sacrament of Eucharist in Year 4 and the Sacrament of Confirmation in Year 6. Preparation is part of the curriculum and parents are involved through attendance at Parent Child evenings.

Throughout the Gospel stories Jesus’ message was to reach out to those in need. Students have the opportunity to learn about social justice actions that occur in our local community and are also invited to be involved in school based initiatives each year at school. We endeavour to strengthen our ongoing connections with our parish community by attending weekday masses and supporting parish based initiatives organised by Parish groups.

Saint Brigid of Kildare is our patron saint and we celebrate her life at the beginning of each year on her Feast Day. Saint Brigid lived her life demonstrating courage, generosity, and kindliness. These are the values we encourage with our students.

Specialist Classes

Throughout their time at St Brigid’s, students are immersed in a rich specialist program of The Arts, Physical Education, Health, STEM and Indonesian language.

Indonesian Language
Our Leading Languages Program sees Indonesian vocabulary being used throughout all facets of school life, not just in the Indonesian lessons. Through the use of intentional gestures, students are able to make a connection with the Indonesian phrases and use them more readily. All of the phrases learnt are in the 100 most commonly used phrases within a primary school classroom to give greater context to student learning.

Physical Education
Physical Education classes allow students to experience a range of activities to improve their fundamental movement skills and then how to participate effectively in game situations through their use of teamwork and tactics. Students are also given the opportunity to participate in the annual swimming, athletics and cross country carnivals (all levels) as well as in the basketball HoopTime event (only Grades 3-6). Progression through the School Sport Victoria pathway is also a part of the sporting program.

Visual Arts
All students from P – 6 enjoy a weekly Art lesson. The Visual Arts program aims to foster confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment through student engagement with making artworks, viewing, discussing, interpreting and evaluating. Students are exposed to a variety of techniques, materials and processes as they progress through their schooling. The annual Art Fair showcases student artwork completed throughout the year.

Performing Arts
All students from Prep to Grade 6 take part in Performing Arts classes. Students are encouraged to express themselves through movement, improvisation, mime and speech activities. Participating in Performing Arts enables students to further develop self esteem, trust and cooperation skills as they work with others to practice and perform in a variety of settings.

Health and Wellbeing
Health and Wellbeing sessions are designed to empower students so they can learn how to take care of their physical, mental, social and emotional health. The relevant and age-appropriate topics explored allow students to gather information and put some real life skills into practice. Through the Health and Wellbeing program, students also partake in ‘Rumble’; an evidence-based social and emotional learning program incorporating hand-drumming, which focuses on social connection through teamwork and resilience building.

St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School

Learning brings hope

St. Brigid’s Catholic Primary School invites students to make sense of their world and their lives within a faith community that is faithful to the mission of Jesus. Our school embraces the contemporary world with a Catholic imagination, and a particular hope-filled view of the human person and all of creation.

At the very heart of our school is the desire for the full flourishing of each student, across religious, physical, cognitive, emotional and social domains. We honour the sacred dignity of each student, believing that everyone can experience success. Our school supports students to embrace a view of themselves and the world that leads to peace and social justice.

Our Vision

A Christ-centred community;

Learning from the past,

Challenging the present,

Creating the future.

Enrolments

We warmly invite you to contact our school if you are interested in enrolling your child at St Brigid’s Primary School Healesville. Whether it is a prep enrolment or transfer from another primary school, we would like the opportunity to discuss your child’s enrolment with you. School tours are available all year round to give you an opportunity to visit our school and meet many of our staff.

For more information about prep at St Brigid’s, see the website below:

St Brigid's Prep Website

Enrolment Pack

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Primary School Enrolment Application Form

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Consent to Transfer Information

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Enrolment Agreement

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Parent Code of Conduct

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Fees & Charges 2024

Upcoming School Tours

Tours are available on request any time. Please call the office to make a booking on 5962 4200

Gallery

Community

The Parents and Friends Committee

The P & F Committee is a group of parents and friends of St Brigid’s who work together to create fun events for the kids, fundraise for the school and assist however they can. The P & F are always eager for new members and have a range of roles to suit different individuals. Some of the events they organise are a colour run, Easter raffle, mango drive, sausage sizzles and more!

Parish

St Brigid’s Primary School and St Brigid’s Catholic Parish have a strong connection. Throughout students’ time at St Brigid’s they will visit the church for Mass, as well as participate in liturgies at school, often led by the Parish Priest. It is through the parish that students can receive the sacraments of Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. Symbiosis between the school and parish is also reflected through partnerships with the Parish Care Group. Working together, the school and care group provide support for families in our community.

For more information about the Catholic Parish of St Brigid’s, please follow the link below, or for any other enquiries feel free to email Fr Francis Denton via Healesville@cam.org.au.

St Brigid's Parish Website

Learning

Literacy

Mathematics

Education in Faith

Specialist Classes

Learning Diversity (NCCD)

All students with diverse learning needs have a right to access a full and engaging education on the same basis as their peers. At St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School, we seek to meet the needs of all learners, so that every student experiences success. Learning diversity in Catholic schools is enacted through an inclusive pedagogy and a commitment to uphold the rights of all to be:

welcomed
valued
acknowledged
actively engaged in education.

At St Brigid’s we endeavour to support all students by intervening as early as possible to meet the individual needs and abilities of each student so they can flourish. We have inclusive policies and practices to accurately identify the diverse learning needs of individuals, consider effective approaches of support, provide appropriate adjustments and monitor the progress of all learners. We seek to empower learners by celebrating difference and providing educational opportunities aimed at eliminating discrimination and focused on growth and progress for all. We utilize the NCCD (National Consistent Collection of Data) process to collect information and supports for any student with an imputed or diagnosed Disabilty in consultation through regular meetings with the parents/carers.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School is a Positive Behaviour for Learning School and is committed to providing a safe, respectful and disciplined learning environment for students and staff. At St Brigid’s students have opportunities to engage in quality learning experiences and acquire values supportive of their lifelong wellbeing. We consider behaviour management to be an opportunity for valuable social learning as well as a means of maximising the success of academic education programs.

Our Responsible Behaviour for Learning Plan outlines our system for facilitating positive behaviours, preventing problem behaviour and responding to unacceptable behaviours. Through our school plan, shared expectations for student behaviour are plain to everyone, assisting St Brigid’s to create and maintain a positive and productive learning and teaching environment, where ALL school community members have clear and consistent expectations and understandings of their role in the educational process.

Our school community has identified the following school rules to teach and promote our high standards of responsible behaviour:

Be Kind
Be Responsible
Be Respectful
Be Safe

Regulatory

MACS Statement

St Brigid’s is a school which operates with the consent of the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne and is operated and governed by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Ltd (MACS).

MACS governs and operates Catholic schools in the Archdiocese to continue the mission of Catholic education to proclaim the Good News and equip our young people with the knowledge, skills, and hope to live meaningful lives and enrich the world around them.

Because the good work of educating the young is a co-responsible task led by every member of the Catholic school community, School Advisory Councils have been established to provide a crucial point of connection between the wider school community and school leaders. This governance model was designed to ease the administrative burden on our schools and parishes, allow parish priests to focus on the mission of education in the parish, enable greater collaboration between schools and ensure greater consistency in school policies and procedures.

More information about MACS is available at www.macs.vic.edu.au

Annual Report

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2023 Annual Report To The School Community

Before & After School Care

Camp Australia – Guiding Children’s Growth

We are proud to partner with Camp Australia to provide our Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)
program.

Camp Australia programs are centred on child enrichment, while ensuring a reliable, engaging and
hassle-free OSHC service at our school. Their engaged educators foster a safe, inclusive
environment where children can relax, have fun and grow.

Your OSHC – OSHC that inspires

At Your OSHC by Camp Australia, every before school, after school and pupil free day program
is tailored to the likes and interests of each child in service. Camp Australia’s educators design
enriching experiences to inspire your children’s confidence, independence and imagination. In any
one week, they could be participating in science experiments, active play, creative expression and
more – they believe in learning through experience so that each child can grow.

St Brigid’s Primary has a great connection with Healesville Primary School across the road and Camp
Australia provides OSHC for both schools on the Healesville Primary grounds.

Our OSHC Coordinator will come to St Brigid’s entrance and escort your children to our amazing OSHC
service at Healesville Primary School.

Click here to find out more about Camp Australia’s program at your school, including hours of operation and fees.

To attend care, you must register your child. Registernow for free.

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Parent Info Leaflet 2023