Dear Parents and Carers,

Looking at the beautiful photos from the Mothers Day Breakfast makes me so happy to see our community, onsite, and back together again. Thank you to Mr Brierley who led the school in my absence over the last few weeks. I am always grateful that I have such a very capable, strong leader as our Assistant Principal. As a school we are truly blessed to have Mr Brierley in this role.

We have a number of opportunities to get together over the next few weeks. I hope you will take advantage of a few. They are detailed below:

National Family Week  - is an Australian Celebration that focuses on the importance of families and their place in helping build community and safe and stable society. At Sacred Heart we also celebrate the Holy Family of Jesus. Our celebrations next week include:

Family Zoom Trivia Evening - Tuesday 17th May 6.30pm Venue: Your Loungeroom

Join us once again for some family fun from the comfort of your loungeroom. Don't forget to order the pizza, get your dancing shoes out and set up your computer and TV and get the paper and pen ready for our Family Trivia Night - hint (all the questions will be about famous or infamous families!!) The link will be sent out later this week. Yes, extended family can join. This event is run by our teachers who are keen Trivia buffs.

Family Movie Afternoon - Friday 20th May at  4pm- Venue:Cremorne Orpheum

Come and sing along with the magical Disney movie - Encanto. Our P and F have chosen a much loved movie that showcases a family for our get together with  families and they hope you have some relaxed fun.Tickets are available on QKR. There is a limited number so please buy these asap.

Family Masses will begin again next week. 

Sacred Heart Church

One of the much loved features of our community are our Sunday Family Masses. These have been on hold for quite a while now and we are so excited to see them return. We usually invite one grade to a mass per year for a mass, but Father has generously invited one grade per term to celebrate their Sunday mass together and have morning tea and a cuppa afterwards. Please see the schedule below for dates your grade is invited to attend. Of course you can attend any other grades mass as well.

Term Two

Year Six Grade Mass- Sunday 22nd May 9am

Year Five Grade Mass- Sunday 29th May 9am

Year Four Grade Mass- Sunday 5th June 9am

Year Three Grade Mass- Sunday 19th June 9am

Sunday 26th June 9am-11am - 100 Years of Sacred Heart Marist Mass & Morning Tea

Term Three

Year Two- Sunday 7th August

Year One- Sunday 14th August

Kindergarten- Sunday 21st August

School Disco - Saturday 28th May ( 2 sessions)

Venue : School Hall

Details are in the flyer below and the tickets will go on sale on QKR shortly. The children will be very excited as the P and F have engaged Milo from Dance fever to run the disco for them.

I found a good resource recently that I thought would be good to share. I felt it explained why so many shops and businesses now have signs that ask patrons and customers to treat their staff with respect. With the uncertainty of the last few years we seem to be quick to move to anger and frustration and sometimes we can see this in our children. Karen Young explains the way that sometimes children's anger is actually a response to anxiety. A worthwhile read for parents. Anxiety

Have a wonderful week. 

Regards

Julie Caldwell

It is an important time of year for our Year Six students who are preparing to make their Sacrament of Confirmation. Here are the upcoming dates for the Year Six Sacramental program:

Year Six Confirmation Retreat Day- Tuesday, May 17th 

Confirmation Creed Masses- Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May 

Sacrament of Confirmation Ceremonies- Tuesday 31st May, Wednesday 1st June, Friday 3rd June

Friendology 101 at Sacred Heart has commenced! Sacred Heart has joined the community of URStrong schools that aims to promote and enhance the quality of friendships they will have at school and throughout their lives. We encourage all parents to be a part of this journey! Each week until the remainder of the term, updates on friendology will be popped into the newsletter.

Parent access and resources coming soon!

Finally, our year 6 wellbeing team are leaving little messages for our students. Happy Wednesday everyone!

Mr De-Villiers

Sports/Wellbeing

A friendly reminder to families, that iPads should be clearly labelled with your childs name.

We have a number of unclaimed iPads in the school office from the end of 2021 without names on them.

If your child misplaced their ipad at the end of 2021, please contact the school office.