28th June 2019

Dear Parents and Carers

Today is Sacred Heart Feast Day. We have had a beautiful mass led by Year 4 and games at school led by Year 6. Our mass was very special as we introduced our new school song “Faith, Generosity and Courage” to the community. Thank you to Miss Conroy and her brother Tim who wrote the words and music for us. We also thanked our students and families for their generosity and our volunteers (especially Jackie McCarthy and MJ Whitson) for preparing the baskets for the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal. 

Can you please save the date for our next whole school mass on Thursday August 8th at 9.15am. We would love to see many parents at this mass. This will be the first school mass that Deacon Joe will say as an ordained priest. 

Many thanks to all our teachers for all their hard work and preparation that went into the parent teacher interviews. 

Our last student day will be next Thursday the 4th of July. Our staff development day on Friday will be on Mathematics particularly multiplication and division. This will be led by Mrs Kelly and Miss Mclarn. 

This week the Sports Club held their Term 4 meeting. I am often amazed at how much our volunteer leaders do for our sports club and our children. Their reports detailed the work of so many of you who support our coaches, manage our teams and manage communication. Our soccer club is having great success this season with their new coaching arrangement. Accelerate, the new soccer coaching group, is leading “coach the coach” training sessions with our coaches gaining many skills as leaders and our players benefiting enormously. The summer basketball season will kick off next term and our teams have been chosen to represent the school in Albury in October.  The Kinder basketball skills after school program will be run again this year later in Term 3 by Mr De Villiers. Netball is running smoothly with over 100 girls representing our sports club on the weekends. Many thanks to Andrea Agar and Cathy Davis who have managed netball for a number of years. They will be handing over the reins to Susie Rich and Susanne O’Neill at the end of the season. Thank you to the parents who organised a trip last weekend to the Swifts game.

A huge thank you to Fiona Dynon who manages our 100 soccer players by herself (any volunteers to help her would be very welcome I’m sure) .Thank you to Irene Grebe, Katie O’Brien and Annie Zukerman who manage the 200 plus basketball registrations and teams. All codes have moved to having paid coaches this year and this has been a very successful model. Thank you to Chris Chard (President)  Emma Lund (Secretary) and Brad McCarthy (Treasurer) who support the many volunteers in our Sports Club.

Next Thursday the children can wear sports mufti for a gold coin donation. Their favourite sports team jersey or favourite sport outfit would be appropriate. The money raised will be for our second senior basketball player who has made the NSW team for basketball. A record for a school to have two players in NSW teams. On Thursday Mr Tony Farley will visit the school. Tony is the new Director of Schools for Sydney Catholic Schools.

Car line - We have recently been working with the children on our dismissal areas. The school crossing, Kameruka, Kindergarten dismissal and bus lines have all improved and are going smoothly. We are currently working on our car line with the children. Keeping them quiet and orderly helps the street process move much quicker. Parents can help by:

• Ensuring surnames names are displayed in large black print on the passenger side of the car. Order yours via the QKR app.
• Making sure children are able to clip themselves into seat belts (don’t get out of the car)
• Cars not all arriving at 3pm, if parents with older children (Yrs 3-6) can arrive after 3.10-3.20 that would help relieve congestion in the road
• When dropping off or picking up, do not reverse  out but wait for the car in front to leave. 

Next Monday our students will experience the Big Science Show in the hall. There will be a K-2 session and a Yr 3-6 session. The children have learnt a lot from the Fizzics group that have visited each grade this term.

Regards

Julie Caldwell

Save the Date! 

Grandparents Mass takes place in week 1, Friday 26th July at 9.15am

Sacred Heart Feast Day

As with every year at Sacred Heart, we celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a whole school. Each Catholic school in Sydney will celebrate their namesake on their feast day and we are no different. We try to ensure that the day is a reverent and sacred day, while also allowing students to have fun and engage with each other positively.

We began the day with a whole school Mass in our church. Students from across the school were led by our school choir in our new school song ‘Faith, Generosity and Courage’ written by Ms Conroy, and her brother Tom Conroy.

Towards the end of Mass, we reflected on and thanked the community for your incredible donations. St Vincent de Paul is a Catholic organisation that we support twice a year with our Winter Appeal and Christmas Appeal in December. We are also looking to explore a third way of supporting SVdP but more on that in the coming months.

Thank you to our helpful parents Mrs Whitson and Mrs McCarthy in assembling our beautiful hampers. They are going to where they are needed most in our community.

Our Year 6 students then led their colour house groups through a series of activities and rotations throughout the middle block. If it sounds like it has been a lot, it has been! Year 6 did an amazing job of leading the students through fun and games. They should be very proud of themselves.

One of the main aims for us on the day was to promote the namesakes behind our colour houses. Of course, we have Polding (red), MacAuley (blue), Champagnat (yellow) and MacKillop (green). We will aim to refer to these more and more throughout the years to come so that we don’t lose this important tradition.

Upcoming Dates

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/

 
Cowen and Lewis is our school and sport uniform provider.  They have a shop front at Turramurra which is open 9-5pm during the week and on Saturdays from 9-12pm.

All can be purchased on-line at Cowen and Lewis with free delivery to the school twice weekly.

https://www.cowanlewis.com.au/shop/category/sacred-heart-mosman   

 Your child will be called to the office once their order arrives, it will come home with your child in a brown labelled bag.  For returns, please print the following, complete: https://www.cowanlewis.com.au/files/Exchange_Sheet.pdf and return with the item to school office for collection. 

The following is when summer and winter uniforms are worn:

Term 1 & 4:      Summer

Term 2 & 3:      Winter

Please find a Link to the Uniform Guidelines.

There will also be allocated days in Term 1 and Term 3 where Cowen & Lewis will set up shop on campus to sell relevant uniforms for the following terms. 

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