7th June 2019

Dear Parents and Carers

Congratulations to our Year 6 students on receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation - last Sunday at St Mary’s Cathedral. The archbishop spoke about Confirmation as a contract with God to be the best person you possibly can be. Through Confirmation we all have access to the gifts of the Spirit: right judgement, wisdom, understanding, counsel, courage, knowledge, reverence, and wonder & awe of the Lord.  It is up to us to use those gifts well each day. 

This week I attended the Marist College North Shore Feast Day Mass. Sacred Heart is originally a Marist school and we can see the alignment in our values as a school, and the mission of Marist. Marist College is a “ place where hard work and excellent achievement are valued,  where the individual is genuinely loved and prized, a places where a strong family spirit is evident, a place characterised by a lack of pretense but rather by simplicity and calm determination.” The young men at Marist are a credit to their school.

Earlier today you were sent logins for parent teacher interviews. Can you ensure that you book an appointment as soon as possible. Teachers would like to complete all interviews by the end of the term to update you about your child’s progress so far this year and to set goals for the rest of the year.

The School Photographer has provided us with an absentee list of students who missed out on photos and a Portrait Catch-ups morning has been booked for Friday, 21 June.  The Photographer will start photos at 9am, if your child missed the original date, please contact the office for further support. 

This year we have been working on Writing as a goal for teacher professional development and student growth. Students and teachers have been very successful in their efforts and we have recorded growth for most children. Our students are all saying that they believe  that their writing has improved this year. To celebrate the work that we have been doing we would like to hold a writing workshop for parents to show you how we are working to improve writing and we would like to open our classrooms for you to see samples of the children’s work and the “Bump it up” strategy in use.

Julie Caldwell