Dear Families,

As we head into the final week of Term One, it is a good time to reflect on the many opportunities for learning and connecting that we have experienced at our school since February.  

For our students, these have included:

Explicit learning routines across all classrooms with an emphasis on explicit teaching of reading

Election of our student leaders: school captains, community captains and house captains

Buddy class activities

Enrolment of interested students in Children’s University

Welcoming Kinder students and families to our school

School Photos

NAPLAN testing and progress monitoring for all students in foundational reading skills

Year 3 -4 Kitchen Garden sessions

FOGO Truck visit

Accessing our School Support Team and support facilities

Our families have had the opportunity to support their child and share information with school about their child’s wellbeing and learning through:

Launching into Learning and pre-Kinder sessions

Regular sector assemblies including Values Certificates and Golden Ticket Draws

Year 3 – 6 Athletics Carnival and SPSSA Carnivals for our Brighton A and B teams

School Association Annual General Meeting and election of our Association Committee

Volunteer Induction sessions

Participating in Care Team Meetings

Contact with their child’s teacher and Sector Head

Receiving evidence of their child’s learning through work samples sent by the classroom teacher

Receiving Progress Reports

Thank you to all families for the support you’ve given school this term through check in conversations or by meeting with us to discuss concerns or share information to help us to better meet the needs of your child.  Together each of our everyday connections at school gives us the opportunity to make our school a positive learning environment.  We look forward to continuing to work with you to assist your child as the year progresses. 

Thanks also to our school staff for their huge input of energy, time and commitment to student wellbeing and learning across the term. 

Staffing change for Term Two:

We will farewell Ms Kathleen O’Meara from our school on the final day of this term.  Kathleen has taught Prep SO on Fridays this year and has had various teaching roles at our school over the last few years.  We congratulate Kathleen on gaining a new position for next term. 

Prep SO move back to their usual room

Thank you to families for your patience and understanding while repairs were being made to Prep SO’s classroom during this term.  With new flooring now completed, carpet laid and new heating in place, the class has now moved back to their original room – just in time for the colder weather.  

School Association Easter Raffle

Our Brighton families are always generous when it comes to fundraising at school and we so appreciate the donations of Easter Eggs that have come into school on our recent Free Dress Days.  Our School Association is working to make up our Easter Raffle Prize packs and are looking forward to drawing their Easter Raffle next week.   A reminder that all raffle books need to be returned to our school office by 9am on Wednesday 9^th April, the raffle will be drawn at 12pm on the same day.

Progress Reports

Students from Kinder to Year Six had their Term 1 Progress Reports sent home last week.  Please contact our School Office if you did not receive a copy of the report.

ANZAC DAY Service – Brighton Community

ANZAC Day again falls in the school holidays this year.  Our school will be represented at Brighton’s ANZAC SERVICE by student leaders.  The service will start at 11am on Friday 25^th April at the Remembrance Park, 1 Menin Drive, Brighton.

School Canteen

The operators of our school canteen Sam and Emily have decided to end their time with us.   They will be leaving on Friday 11th April.  The Canteen staff would like to thank the school community for supporting them over the last five years.

Brighton Primary School would like to thank Sam and Emily for the tireless work they have given to running our school canteen, ensuring there have been many happy tummies each day!

Our canteen will be operating next term under new management.  Next week we will send home an updated canteen menu and information about how to access QKR app.

End of Term 1

Term One will finish next Friday, 11 April.  We hope that families can enjoy some time together over the holiday break and during Easter and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 28 April.  

Working with you for a positive school community,

Sonya Plunkett-Smith

Principal

In 3-4 Iyer, we have been busy learning life cycles in Science and Australian symbols in HASS.

In Science, we have been learning about life cycles of plants and animals. We got an opportunity to visit the kitchen garden and Evin showed how a bean plant grows from seed to a full-grown plant. We also walked around and saw different plants in different stages of the life cycle. We got our learning back to the classroom and spent an afternoon drawing diagrams of life cycles of plants and animals.

In HASS, we have learnt about important Australian symbols such as the Australian flag, the Aboriginal flag, the Coat of Arms and why poppies are an important part of Australian heritage. We have also been learning Advance Australia Fair, our national anthem to create a sense of belonging and civics and citizenship towards everyone in Australia. We spent an afternoon re-creating the Australian symbols and writing quick notes about them to consolidate our understanding.

On March 21^st, 2025 (Friday), 3-4 Mika and 3-4 Iyer got together to celebrate Harmony Day. We discussed the importance of Harmony Day and why we celebrate it in Australia. We spoke about the importance of being inclusive and kind to everyone.

Miss Mika brought in a beautiful saree that belonged to her mum, and Mrs Iyer showed us how it’s traditionally worn. Students were fascinated to learn about this elegant, single-piece garment, worn by women in many South Asian countries like India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Then we did some amazing artwork organised by Miss Mika to showcase the relevance of Harmony Day to our classroom, accepting each other’s uniqueness.

To end our time together, we enjoyed some delicious Indian biscuits—childhood favourites of Mrs Iyer—which added a sweet touch to our shared celebration.

It was a beautiful way to honour our diversity, and we hope you enjoy these snapshots of our special day!

3-4 Iyer and 3-4 Mika

Class Teachers

Could all Leavers Hoodies and Polo Top orders please be sent to the school office with payment by Friday 11th April.  We need to get the orders into the company as soon as possible.

Thank you

Could all Validation Forms and Minor Major Excursion Forms, please be returned to the school office as soon as possible.

Thank you