Dear Families

This afternoon you will be able to retrieve your child's report in preparation for your parent/teacher interview next week. To retrieve your child's report log into Compass via the app or the compass website: https://sacredheartmosman-nsw.compass.education/ Once in your child's profile, choose the Reports tab from the dashboard.

When you get your child's report please spend a little time reading the explanatory guide at the beginning of the report.  Please note that Kindergarten only have three achievement levels (thorough, sound and basic) while years One to Six have five achievement levels (extensive, thorough, sound, basic and elementary).  Each child's achievement level has been made through a combination of formal assessments, informal assessments, work samples, individual interviews (especially in mathematics) and matching work with NESA syllabus expectations. 

Your child's effort grade is made using teacher observation of a child's engagement in class, their attention to completion of work and their participation in whole class and group situations.  There are four grades for effort for Kindergarten through to Year Six.  (Needs improvement, satisfactory, commendable and outstanding.)  When reading your child's report you will find that teachers have given you areas that your child is working well in so you can congratulate them on their success in those areas.  Any areas of need are framed as a goal for the next two terms.  A helpful discussion to have with your child is to ask them if they know (or have any strategies) how they will achieve that.  This can be a good starting point for your conversation next week with teachers.

A few reminders:

• Mosman Council rangers seem to be quite regular at the school at the moment so please be aware of the parking regulations and safety around the school as the fines are very high for infringements around school.
  
  
• A reminder that no dogs should be brought onto the school grounds.
  
  
• If you are going on a holiday for more than 10 school days please ensure the paperwork is filled out ahead of time.  Extended Leave Application, 10 days and over during school term  This document along with other handy links is located later in the newsletter under: "Quick Link to Guides & Forms"
  
  
• A reminder about our Writing Workshop at 8.45am on Tuesday 2nd July.  The workshop will run for an hour and then classrooms will be open for you to see writing in action.  Our school goal for the year is to improve writing and we would love many parents to attend so that we can work on this goal together. At the workshop you will also hear three of our public speaking finalists present their speeches so you can "hear" some of our wonderful writing.

Important Dates:

28th June is the Sacred Heart Feast Day Mass at 9.15am whilst the Big Blue Awards will be held at 2pm in the school hall.

4th July Thursday,  is the student last day of school, Friday the 5th is a student free day.

9th - 19th July - Vacation Care at Sacred Heart - See the  Vacation Care Program   & booking form  within this newsletter

22nd July is the students 1st day back for Term 3.

Congratulations to our students who made a great effort over the last semester to achieve their report results. 

Kind regards
Julie Caldwell

Very exciting times for a few of our Sacred Heart students. Recently, Millie Cargill of Year 2 who participated in the Irish National Dancing Championship last weekend for Dwyer Whelan dancing school, winning her section. The INDA is the longest running Irish dancing competition in Australia. 
Due to her hard work and passion for dance, she placed overall 1st place! Congratulations to Millie and all her hard work! Thank you to her parents for supporting her and taking Millie to all her practices.

Cassidy Thomson of Year 6 has been out and about for the last week representing Mackillop at the PSSA Girls Basketball Championship at Aubury. Over the course of 4 days Cassidy played a number of games against teams within New South Wales. In her first game, the Mackillop team was up against the Polding team. Mackillop came on top for this game and Mackillop therefore received the Catholic Cup. A great start to their tour.

After 4 days of competition, Cassidy and her team made their way to the grand final! After a grueling 4 quarters, the Mackillop team placed second in the entire competition! Well done Cassidy! To further this excitement and due to Cassidy’s love of Basketball, passion and hard work, she has been selected to represent New South Wales in the National Competition! In the school basketball pathways this is the highest achievement a student can reach. Well done Cassidy! Sacred Heart looks forward to hearing about your next competition.

On the 14th of June, a number of our students travelled to Eastern Creek for the Mackillop Cross Country. Congratulations to Bronte McPherson, Katie Maddern, Christian and Remy Camus, Poppy O’Brien and Grace Prince for their efforts on the day. Especially considering the weather!

An additional congratulations and standing applause to Poppy O’Brien and Christian and Remy Camus who all placed, securing positions at the PSSA Cross Country Championships! A reflection of their hard work and dedication to their sport. Sacred Heart wishes you all the best in your preparation for the next level.

What an amazing day! The stage finals were held on Thursday and were a very successful culmination of the school’s work on persuasive text. The enthusiasm of the students for this task was fantastic.

Congratulations to all the students who participated over the past 3 weeks in speech writing, practice and competition within the classroom, grade and finally across the stages.  Public speaking is one of the most important and often dreaded forms of communication. People have many reasons for engaging in public speaking, but the necessary skills are applicable whether someone is speaking to inform, persuade or entertain. We chose to focus on persuasive speeches to complement the classroom outcomes on persuasive text.

The audiences were truly amazed and entertained by the variety of topics and quality of the speeches. It certainly had the Adjudicator, Ms Hayley Jago, making some very difficult decisions in choosing winners, runners-up and highly commended students.

The stage winners were as follows and will receive their certificates at morning assembly.

Early Stage 1:

Winner: Molly 

Runner-up: Aurelia

Highly Commended: Cole and Ben

Stage 1:

Winner: Sonni

Runner-up: Amelia

Highly Commended: Sienna 

Stage 2:

Winner: Rose

Runner-up: Max 

Highly Commended: Hugo

Stage 3:

Winner: Charlie 

Runner-up: Henry 

Highly Commended: India 

Thank you Ms Jago for your wonderful feedback and helpful tips. Thank you also to all the staff who did such a great job of encouraging and supporting their students over the past weeks in order for us to have such a successful event.

I am sure everyone has collected a few helpful tips for 2020’s competition and will put these great skills to good use in their classroom work.

Susan Russell

Teaching and Learning:

Diverse needs: Gifted and Talented

Click on the PDF to open the full document should you require an auto link. 

Heartfelt Week 8, Term 2

Come and enjoy your football over the holidays with our SHM FC training partners XLR8:

XLR8 July School Holidays

Both weeks

9am – 12pm

Four locations:

Montview Oval, Hornsby Heights

North Turramurra Recreation Area (NTRA)

Charles Bean Oval, Lindfield

Thomson Park, Artarmon

For more information and registration please follow the link - https://nsfa.asn.au/xlr8/holiday-clinics/

  

We also have our XLR8 Mini World Cup returning this July. One day, 5 vs 5 tournaments with prizes to be won and a BBQ lunch provided!

See the attached flyer and the following link for more information – https://nsfa.asn.au/xlr8/worldcup/

Many thanks to those parents who had taken the time to complete the Change of Circumstances form we recently sent home out via your eldest. 

 
We ask parents to please let us know in writing should any of the following three changes in your child’s or family circumstances apply, by completing the attached form.
 
1. Should your child be moving on to high school please enter your child's destination school.
 
2. Should you have pre-school children to enrol for 2021 or later, please note dob. & toddler/infant’s name in the space provided.
 
3. Should your child/ren be leaving SHM early for another school or if your family is moving, please note this down in the space provided. 

Please return the completed form back to school by Friday 21 June.

Kind regards

Administration

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