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Dear Parents and Carers

Week Four of school brings us very close to one of the pivotal events in the Church’s calendar - Lent. Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent - it is traditionally a time when Catholics take time to reflect on their actions in this world and their relationship to God. With some restrictions easing I would like to take the opportunity to let you know that we have a 7.45am Friday mass each week that is a community mass for busy people. Mass is generally finished by 8.15am. We would love you to join us at this early morning mass. Students in Years 5 and 6 may attend by themselves (teachers will attend the mass and walk them back to school) and students in Kinder through to Year 4 can attend with parents.

Our Heartfelt morning coffee will begin next week. It starts after drop off (8.30am) at the parish kitchen (outside the parish hall). Come along and have a chat with Mary Lozina, our family educator and members of the school leadership team as well as other parents. A great chance to reconnect.

A new supply of RAT tests has arrived and will come home today with your eldest child. We understand they are to be used at your discretion and we believe they are the last ones that will be delivered to the school. We have had word today that cohorting will finish next week which means the classes can mingle again on the playground and our Kinder can spend time with their buddies which they will all be very excited by. Rules around masks and visitors on site are also changing. Our SCS briefing is on Thursday so if there are any confirmed changes regarding visitors and masks I will send a note out. Our Covid cases remain low compared to many other schools so thank you again for assistance.

Bookings for our goal setting meetings are open and we hope you will take advantage of these zoom meetings. The teachers have gone to enormous amounts of extra work to set these meetings up with goals and benchmarks. I do hope that it is a positive and beneficial meeting for each student in the school. Our Term 2 meetings will be a mix of in person interviews and zoom for those who find them more convenient.

We seem to have just gotten the year started and we are preparing for our Open Day for prospective students in 2023. Our Open Day usually aligns with Catholic Schools Week so this year it will be held on Friday the 18th of March at 9.30am. Please let friends and family know that it is coming up. Sydney Catholic Schools is preparing a new online enrolment portal that will be ready after our Open Day so if you are enrolling a sibling it might be good to wait until that is ready to go.  We will advise further on this soon.

The K-2 Reading Session was held this morning with quite a number of attendees. This session is a very helpful one for parents of early readers and for parents wanting to volunteer in the classroom. Please watch this space for our other sessions. Each session will be uploaded to a school YouTube channel at a later date for our parents to access. 

Yesterday you will have received notice from our Sports Club regarding the introduction of the Max Doohan Award for good sportsmanship. We shared the news with the students this morning. Many parents have indicated that they are really pleased that this award has been initiated at Sacred Heart.  I have included the information regarding this award again in the newsletter today. Thank you to Tim O’Connor the Sports Club President for the work he has done in ensuring that this award becomes an important part of the culture of our sporting community. Thank you to the Sports Club for their support of the award and donation to Max’s charity. Fiona and Julian, Max’s parents are very grateful to the Sports Club for honouring Max’s memory in this way.

This term will end with our Staff Development Day on the Eucharist. School will finish for the term on Thursday the 7th April. Our second Staff Development Day for the year will be held on Tuesday the 26th April. Term 2 will commence for students on Wednesday the 27th April.

Regards

Julie Caldwell

School Covid Update

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Dear Parents,

Please see some important dates approaching in our Liturgical calendar:

Tuesday 1st March: Shrove Tuesday

Wednesday 2nd March: Ash Wednesday- there will be a live streamed Mass @ 12pm for Years Three to Six- Year Five students will attend.

Zoom link: https://scscatholic.zoom.us/j/98459089469

Password: school

Week Ten- Holy Week Liturgies

Monday 4th April @ 8.50am - Year 2 Holy Week  Liturgy

Tuesday 5th April @ 8.50am - Years K & 1 Holy Week Liturgy

Wednesday 6th April @ 8.50am - Years 5 & 6 Holy Week Liturgy

Thursday 7th April 8.50am - Year 3 Holy Week Liturgy

Friday 8th April: Staff Development Day

Thank you for your continued support of our Religious Education initiatives.

Kristen Jackson

Religious Education Coordinator

Dear Parents and Carers,

On behalf of the Sacred Heart Sports Club Committee I am pleased to announce the launch of the “Max Doohan Good Sport Award”.

Max attended Sacred Heart Mosman from 2012 to 2018 before going on to Marist Catholic College North Shore from Year 7. Max sadly passed away in early 2021 and is greatly missed by the Sacred Heart community.

The Max Doohan Good Sport Award will reward and recognise those players who consistently demonstrate a positive attitude to training and playing. To those who co-operate with coaches and managers and show good grace in the way they interact with team mates and the opposition.

Max was the epitome of a great team mate. Someone who put the interests of the team first, always. Max adored being part of a team with his Sacred Heart mates. This continued after primary school as he relished the chance to play socially and catch up with friends who had gone their separate ways at different schools. Max always gave it his absolute all. Soccer, rugby 7s, AFL, basketball, swimming and his great love, cricket – he did them all recognising the need to keep fit and healthy.

The Max Doohan Good Sports Award will be presented to one person from each year group at the end of each season for Basketball, Netball and Football.

Nominations will be called for from team coaches/managers with final recipients to be decided by the respective Sports Club Committee Co-ordinators with input from the external coaches.

The winners will be presented their awards at Assembly.

The Sacred Heart Sports Club have made a donation to Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in memory of Max. In consultation with Max’s parents, Fiona and Julian, we are thrilled that we are able to honour Max’s life with this award.   

Finally a quick update on our Sports:

Football -  Registrations are now open for Sacred Heart Football closing 25^th February 2022. Playing football for Sacred Heart is focused on community spirit and inclusiveness- no experience necessary! Sacred Heart football has a long history of helping our school community experience the joy of football by making it simple, fun and rewarding. We partner with XLR8 to provide our volunteer coaches with professional coaching plans and on the ground support during training. Our first training session for the year will be Thursday 31 March 2022 with games commencing Saturday 2 April 2022. To register click the link: Register

Netball - We are just completing registrations for the 2022 netball season which starts at the beginning of April. So far we have had over 68 players register for the netball competition and are hoping to have at least 8 teams in the competition. Grading for netball juniors began on Thursday 17^th February. Jacqui Donohoe (head netball coach) has been assisting Andre De-Villiers provide netball tuition in Physical Education classes at school.

Basketball – We had 202 registrations for Comp 1 which commenced on the 5^th of Feb and will finish on the 2^nd of April with finals for those who make it on the 9^th of April. There are not as many divisions this year for some age groups and we recognise a few teams are not in the correct division and finding weekend games a little challenging. New 3 x 3 playing format seems to be a hit with the Yr 1's with lots of positive feedback from parents.

Tim O’Connor

President

Sacred Heart Mosman Sports Club

Last Wednesday 30 energetic Kindys showed off their soccer skills at the 'Come Try Football' afternoon. We had a great mix of girls and boys ready to take their turn at the HUGE inflatable target set up in the playground. A big thankyou to Mr D for helping facilitate the session with our coaching partner XLR8. Registrations for SHM Football close this Friday 25 February.  To register for the 2022 season please see the link below:

School photos will be taken on Friday 11th March.  Further details will be available soon.

Please see the online flyer.  Parents are able to order at any time, however sibling orders are only available until 7am on the morning of photography. 

COMPASS: