Dear Sacred Heart families,

Lockdown 2021 - Week 3

You may have heard the advice from NSWHealth that the lockdown has been extended for another four weeks. While this is difficult for us all, we might have to look at it optimistically and hope that this achieves the desired result so we can go back to some normality at the end of it.

Some things to remember over the next few weeks:

• Relationships with family are the most important priority at the moment - don't make school work a battleground
• School work can be modified at home … reading (anything!), maths (board games?) and writing (get kids to email their teachers, Mrs Caldwell, their grandparents and let us know how lockdown is for them)
• Teachers are great at catching kids up - we’ve done it before, we can do it again
• Teachers will be working from home so email communication is best for contact
• There is  a very reduced staffing level at school so any requests may take a little longer than usual

Update from Sydney Catholic Schools - Recorded K-2 session

Tony Farley, our Executive Director, held a Q and A session last Friday evening. It was aimed at Kinder to Year 2 parents and had some good tips and explanations about supporting Kinder to Year 2 with home learning. The recording is worth having a look at. It will set many parents minds at rest as to what can help support  them at this time from Sydney Catholic Schools perspective. Please use this link to find the recorded conversation Facebook page.

Our Zoom assembly on Monday featured prayers for all the beautiful grandparents out there who love and support their grandchildren. Thank you to the grandparents who also participated in the Zoom. I hope you can join us for our Friday Zoom.

In Heartfelt you will find an invitation from Mary Lozina, our Family Educator to the Alpha series. It will be a Zoom meeting first off. I highly recommend it to anyone interested.

Enjoy your week

Regards

Julie Caldwell