16th August 2088

Dear Parents and Carers

We are often proud of our students at Sacred Heart but it was an extra special moment last Friday evening as 30 of our Year Six students joined the St Vincent de Paul Winter Sleepout and slept overnight in our school hall. They asked perceptive questions and listened to our speaker from Cana Farm who spoke about how we can preserve the dignity of a homeless person and the simple things we can do to help. The students and their families and our wider community raised over $10 000 for St Vincent de Paul. Many thanks to Mr Brierley for this new initiative in our school. It showed how mature our Year Six children can be.

This week we have celebrated Science Week. Last Week it began with a visit to the Planetarium set up in the hall. Fizzics came to complete their final experiments with the children and we had a visit from Doctor Alana Wylie who spoke to the children about the latest advances in science and helped them launch class rockets in the playground. Dr Wylie runs before school investigation clubs and we would like to see if there would be interest in the community to have Dr Wylie run one at Sacred Heart.

You are all invited to Father Phil’s Golden Jubilee school mass. On Friday the 23rd August he will celebrate 50 years since he was ordained. You are invited to our special mass on the 23rd August (next Friday at 9.15am) There will be morning tea in the playground for students visitors and children. We have special guests: Bishop Terry, Mr Tony Duncan and Marist students and Mr Vince Campbell as well. The children have contributed to a wonderful whole school present for Father Phil. We would like to make this a very special occasion for Father Phil who has given 50 years of service to the Catholic Church and over 12 years of service to this community. You are also invited to contribute to the parish/school gift for Father Phil. If you would like to donate to the parish gift please put your donation, in cash, in an envelope and send to the school office or take it to the parish office.

Below please find an expression of interest form for two additional extra curricular activities that we hope to introduce to Sacred Heart. One is the Young Investigators group that would run on Wednesday mornings before school for an hour and the second is Spanish Language lessons which would be held after school on a day to be determined. If you think that you would like to take up one of these opportunities please fill in the expression of interest forms linked here. 

Young Investigators group: Expression of Interest  

Spanish Language Lessons: Expression of Interest

Congratulations to our athletes at the Eastern Region Athletics they did very well. Thank you to Miss Maclarn and Mr DeVilliers for supporting them. As well as Toby Roper Marshall and Cassidy Thomson who have been playing in the basketball Nationals  this week.  See Sports News article in this newsletter for the full scoop. 

NEXT WEEK 

Tuesday morning is our Book Character Parade and the theme is Reading is my Superpower. Thank you to all the children who submitted posters for the Book Week competition.  Our visiting author is Lesley Gibbs who has written a number of children’s books including Scary Night and Fizz the police dog series.

Regards

Julie Caldwell