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

QKR!

Please take time during the break to visit your QKR! app, ensure that your children's profiles are correctly set up and that their year group has been amended from last year.  We will shortly be selling the Mothers Day tickets and Cana gifts.

Yeronga Winter Clothing Pool Pop-Up Shop

A friendly reminder to pop down to the senior undercroft this Tuesday, 9th April from 8 - 9.30am for your child's winter uniform stock-up. Use the weekend to look at your exisiting sizes - Winter is Coming! 

Today the years 3 -6 students were lucky enough to have Mark Gerrard visit them with a focus on how we can play inclusive, non-competitive games on the playground, he also told them a little bit about himself and his experiences playing rugby union for Australia. Each year group were able to participate in separate workshops.

Mark also handed out the Athletics Carnival Age Champion Awards.

Mark engaged with the students with his personable approach on life lessons, incorporating this with his coaching and playing professional rugby. Mark's focus today for today was on teamwork.   Thank you Mark for putting your time and thought into making this a very memorable morning for our students.

Parents of Kinder to Year 2 students are invited to attend their child’s Dancefever lesson next Wednesday, April 10th. This is the perfect opportunity for you to witness the skills your children have acquired throughout the term. 

The Dancefever Timetable will be as follows:

8.40am - 9.20am       Kindy

9:20am - 10.00am     Year 1

10:00am - 10:40am   Year 2

The children are thoroughly enjoying the program and have learnt wonderful new dance skills as well as social skills which they would love to share with you. We are sure you will be impressed!

Term 1, Week 10

The next part of the Easter Triduum is Good Friday.  Why is Good Friday called “good?” 

The first theory is That Good Friday  led to the Resurrection of Jesus and his victory over death and sin, the very pinnacle of Easter celebrations.”

The second theory is Good Friday derives from God or “God’s Friday.” 

The third theory is that “good” used to be another word for “holy.”  This makes sense.  Good Friday is a holy day; a day that makes us reflect on the love that Jesus Christ had for us all when he suffered in the worst way possible for the our salvation and the gift of eternal life.

SHM  Lenten Journey

This week’s challenges were:

Faith:              Go to reconciliation on Saturday at 10am at SHM

Generosity:    Give up your time to help someone.

Courage:         Have the courage to be honest with God in everything you do.

Next week we commence week 5.

It’s not too late! Download this Lenten app.  This is a great way to install daily prayer and reflection into your day.

ALTAR SERVING TRAINING NEWS:

There is one more session on Tuesday 7^th May (after the school holidays).

If you would like your child to be placed on a weekend Mass roster, please email mary.lozina@syd.catholic.edu.au.  They have the options of:

Saturday night 6.15 pm

Sunday morning 11am

Sunday night 6pm

Altar serving is usually a monthly commitment and of course, they must have attended the sessions.

For those of you who missed out on the information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4-GowLEEY&t=174s

Gift of bread thoughts……

“I love doing GOB because it gives me an opportunity to do something for the  others whilst being a part of a bigger chain of wonderful people, that feed others by utilising the bread that would have otherwise been wasted. 

I love our chit-chats whilst packing the bread and I enjoy the fact that I get to involve my kids,  Sai and Gobind too. Thursday evenings are my children’s favourite!! They love the little treats that Mrs. Lozina offer them:) “ 

Sisi Bedi, Sai yr 2, Gobind kindie in 2020

SPaR……….Stop,Pray,Reflect…

VINNIES NIGHT PATROL SNACKS AND SWEETS

Thank you to James Harrison, son of Mrs Harrison, Year One, who baked brownies and muffins for Vinnies Night Patrol.  The Monday night team were so happy to be taking out freshly baked treats for the homeless.  Much appreciated! 

Baked goods will be picked up from the school office on the first Monday of the month.  The next pick up will be Monday 6^th May.

HELP OUT IN VINNIES SOUP KITCHEN

If anyone is interested in helping to make soup at Vinnies (or other little jobs) please email Mary Lozina.  It’s a short trip to Lewisham and the hours are 10am to 1pm.  You may like to do a monthly or fortnightly visit with a friend.  It is in giving that we receive.

PARISH NEWS……

YOUTH MASS ON  7^TH APRIL AT 6PM

Join us for youth Mass on Sunday.  There will be pizza and soda after Mass, which is always a treat!

Benedict Book Club:

Join them on 1^st May at 7.30pm at the Warringah Bowling Club. Please email dorney.mark@gmail.com   timothycjames@gmail.com  or leonard.lozina@gmail.com for details. 

Parish bulletin link:

http://www.shnparish.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=55

May God guide you gently through the week as he holds you in the palm of his hand.

Mary Lozina

Family Educator

Earlier this week the Year 2 classrooms had a very busy morning, as a culmination our ‘Families, Past & Present’  history unit the students were encouraged to select an area of interest to research and present their chosen topic to parents and fellow students during an Expo. During the expo our parents and students were asked how the subject they studied has changed over time. 

If you did not make it to the expo, you more than likely had a couple of newly learned quiz questions coming your way during pickup!

As part of the Year 1 study of objects in the sky, students designed and created their own communication satellites.  The atmosphere in this classroom of engineers was buzzing.

Students in Years 3 and 5 participate in the annual NAPLAN tests in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy. The assessment provides parents and schools with an understanding of how individual students are performing at the time of the tests.

In 2019, your child will sit NAPLAN paper tests. However, children in other schools across Australia will sit the NAPLAN online tests this year. Federal, state and territory education ministers have agreed that all schools will move online by 2020. State and territory education authorities will determine when their schools move online.

NAPLAN paper tests will take place between 14 - 16 May, 2019.

NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process - it does not replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance.

All students in Years 3 and 5 are expected to participate in the annual NAPLAN assessment. Students with disability may qualify for adjustments that reflect the support normally provided for classroom assessments. You should first discuss the use of any disability adjustments for your child with your child’s teacher.

A formal exemption may be granted for a student with disability that severely limits their capacity to participate in the assessment, or for a student who has recently arrived in Australia and has a non-English speaking background.

Your school principal can give you more information on special provisions or the process required to gain a formal exemption.

Please visit the Sacred Heart School website Calendar, your Compass App, or this click on the Menu Bar in this newsletter to view the interactive School Calendar.

QKR! Guides on Setting Up Profile and Clothing Pool

QKR - Setting yourself up.pdf

QKR - SHM Clothing Pool.pdf

Parents Information Handbook

Parent Handbook 2019

Compass Guide

We encourage you to update your iPhone app update 5.0.8 Compass app in order for you to continue to get the latest features and improvements being released with each update,  the need to configure auto-updates in the iOS App and Google Play stores will ensure users have the most recent version of the Compass School Manager App. 

How do I check my device has the latest app version? Currently, the iPhone version is 5.0.9 (release Sept, 2019). Steps to check: Tap on App Store > Tap on Compass School Manager > Tap on Update (if update is not an option and it has Open, then the app is up-to-date). See here the iPhone troubleshooting guide

Guide on how your payments for school fees is now via Compass!

Giving Permission to Events now via Compass! 

COMPASS ATTENDANCE INSTRUCTIONS.pdf

Permission Form for Class Lists to Parents Communications 

Class list permission 2019.pdf

Enrolment Forms 2020

Enrolment Forms  

2019 School Fees

2019 School Fees

Application for Extended Leave
Extended Leave Application, 10 days and over during school term