5th April   2019

Dear Parents and Carers

Last week’s gospel tells the parable of the Prodigal Son. It is a story that can connect with so many facets of our lives. When we are estranged from family and friends or when we move away from our faith. Like the prodigal son there are times when our faith is not as strong as it could be and we stray away from God. Like the father in the story God is always there to welcome us with open arms.

Many thanks to Mr De Villiers and the staff for the well run Athletics Carnival last week. We are grateful for the many parents helpers that assisted and made the day run so smoothly. We used Narrabeen Athletics Centre this year and the feedback is that it is an excellent venue that we will continue to use in the future.

The age champions were announced this morning at assembly the results are as follows:

8 Years girls champion: Lucinda Hughes

8 years boys champion: Tom Polin

9 years girls age champion: Eloise Bailey

9 years boys age champion: Jack Whitson 

10 years girls age champion: Poppy O'Brien

10 Years boys age champion: Pasquale Barbalace

11 years girls age champion: Kate Whitson

11 year boys age champion: Sebastian O'Brien

12 years girls age champion: Sabine Lozina

12 Years boys age champion: Christian Camus

The overall house placings are as follows,

1st place - Blue 298 points

2nd place - Green 282 points

3rd place - Gold 260 points

4th place - Red 229 points

The Team Spirit Award went to the Gold Colour House.

CROSS COUNTRY EVENT

Our Cross Country event was held this week as well!! It was a beautiful day and the children ran or walked the race at their own pace. The top four students in each age range will attend the eastern region event early next term. Thank you again to Mr De Villiers, staff and parents for making this such a safe and fun event for the chidren.

DANCE FEVER

Last night 144 students from Years 3-4 attended the Homebush Sports Centre with our 10 volunteer staff. We were so proud of the children’s enthusiasm, sportsmanship and hard work. A special thank you to Mrs Kelly for her organisation of the event and to Elsie Walker in Year Six who led our practices in the leadup to the event last night.

BIG BLUE AWARDS

Congratulations to our Big Blue Awards recipients this week. Thank you to Claudia Portalie from McGrath Mosman for sponsoring this event. The awards are given twice a term to children who display our school values of FAITH, GENEROSITY and LOVE.

Here are the names who won the Award this morning:

Kinder: Molly McLagen & Denzil Wilkinson
Year 1: Vivienne Beaupre & Whitney Cichon 
Year 2: Emma Madden & Amelia Roy
Year 3: EmilieBeasley-O'Neill & Elisabeth Zeman 
Year 4: Harry Polin & George Dover
Year 5: Emily  Agar  & Lucy  Rudd
Year  6:  Mia  Jolic  & Tiernan  Cargill

School Counselling Service

This term we have been happy to welcome Shannon Hughes to our school community. Shannon is our new school-based counsellor through CatholicCare Sydney, and will be at our school on Thursdays. School counselling provides counselling and other supports to students and their families, where there may be stress, significant underachieving, relationship or behavioural difficulties, mental health issues or other factors impacting on a student’s learning. It is a short term counselling service, however if there are issues affecting the student that require longer term support, or do not impact on the student’s learning, recommendations for alternative relevant external support for students and their families can be provided. School based counselling provides individual counselling, parent support, group based activities, and liaises with our school’s executive to identify how to best support students at Sacred Heart .

If you have any questions regarding this new service available to our school community, or would like to discuss a possible referral to Shannon, please feel free to speak with me.

Regards

Julie Caldwell