9th August 2088

Dear Parents and Carers

What a big week! This week we celebrated Father Joe’s Ordination along with almost 100 seminarians and priests from the archdiocese of Sydney at St Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday. Yesterday Father Joe celebrated his first whole school mass with the school for the Feast Day of Mary McKillop. Father Joe will move in two weeks time to the Liverpool parish to begin his new life as an ordained priest. We welcome Father Kene (who celebrated the Grandparents Mass with us) as the new Assistant priest for our parish. Seminarian Noel also joins our parish.

This week the students have been been engaged with their studies about Mary McKillop’s life in a live theatre production of Mary’s life on Tuesday. The children also experienced a planetarium in the hall to begin their Science Week experience next week.

We were thrilled to receive this week the results of the Year Six RE test. The Year Six students scored above the diocesan average and the student's achievement of 7 High Distinctions, 25 Distinctions and 18 credits was extraordinary. This is a great credit to all the teachers of Religion at the school, particularly the Year Six teachers who have taught the Year 6 students valuable study skills that they can make good use of in high school.

Our first Year Six Winter Sleepout will be held tonight. Thirty brave Year Six students will sleep the night at school with four even braver teachers (thank you to Mrs Watson, Mr Brieley, Mr de Villiers and Mrs Siokos. Our Year Six students and their families, plus our wider community have so far raised $5393 for St Vincent de Paul for tonight’s sleepout. Some of our social justice initiatives have focused on homelessness this year. Our Mother’s Day and Father’s Day gifts and the stall at the Spring Fair support the Cana Community and Farm where homeless people work and learn life skills. Daniel from Cana will work with Year Six tonight. 

You are all invited to Father Phil’s Golden Jubilee school mass. On Friday the 23rd August he will celebrate 50years since he was ordained. You are invited to our special mass on the 23rd and you are also invited to contribute to the parish/school gift for Father Phil. If you would like to donate to the parish gift please put your donation, in cash, in an envelope and send to the school office or take it to the parish office

It was a little like Hollywood today with photographers, movie makers, directors (Mrs Loots!) and drones to take photos for our new school website. Many thanks to Sydney Catholic Schools for the funding for this as well as the setup of our website.

Mystery! Lost bag. This week we were contacted by a member of the public who found a lost bag at Sydney airport in the holidays. The only identifying feature of the bag was that there was a Sacred Heart library book in the bag. If this sounds like your bag please  contact the school office.

Maths Tips for this week : 

Mathematics is really the study of patterns. We take time in class for students to explore patterns. At home you can to:

Look for patterns

• Creating and exploring patterns with numbers, shapes, colours, music and symmetry are the basis for early algebra. Activities that encourage looking for patterns are often hands-on and fun for children to do.
• Look for patterns and symmetry:
• On signposts, in nature, on fabric, wrapping paper, when playing with blocks or counters, when counting.
• In the shapes of numbers and letters.
• Older children can begin sequencing using skip counting, which is the basis for multiplication, patterning and early algebra.
• 2, 4, 6, what comes next?
• 3, 6, 9 what comes next?
• 1, 3, 5 what comes next?
• 3, 5, ?, 9 what number is missing?

Other fun activities you might want to try include:

• Use blocks or pegs to make patterns on a clothesline or a string. Encourage your child to make their own pattern by stringing coloured beads or home-coloured penne pasta. It’s great for developing fine motor skills too!
• Make your own wrapping paper. Create potato or vegetable stamps, dip them into paint and stamp on butcher’s paper. Encourage your child to draw or continue a pattern that you start. Get them to describe the pattern they have made in their own words.
• Sound is an excellent way to identify patterns. Clap a simple pattern then get your child to copy it. Take turns in creating patterns and repeating them back.

Regards

Julie Caldwell

Congratulations to Christian Camu who yesterday qualified for Nationals Athletics.  The nationals which will be held in Darwin next month. He came 1st in his heat and 2nd overall on the day.  

After working so hard and trying for the last 3 years to get into Nationals for running, he finally got lucky on his 7th and final attempt at Primary School level. He's absolutely over the moon at the moment and can't believe it.

His parents and Christian would like to that the school community again for all your support - it really does mean so much to him and them.

Book Week 2019 is fast approaching! 

There is much discussion and excitement over costume preparations and poster designs in readiness for our Book Week Parade on Tuesday 20th August.

Parents/ carers can help by sourcing bits and pieces from around your homes to create the most amazing costume based on this year’s theme- 

READING IS MY SECRET/ SUPER POWER

An order form will be sent home today if you would like to pre order a book by our visiting author - Lesley Gibbes. Ms Gibbes will be at our school on Thursday 22nd August to talk to the students and sign copies of her books.

Looking forward to sharing the festivities of Book Week with you. Just wait until you see how teachers and staff are dressing up too! 

Cecilia and Josie

Sacred Heart Library

Each year we offer our students in Years 2 to Year 6 the opportunity to participate in The University of New South Wales International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS). The International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) is an independent, quality skills-based assessment program which rewards and recognises achievement. All students receive a certificate and an individual student report indicating which questions they answered correctly and their score compared with the rest of the students tested in Australia. 

Certificates are awarded for each year level as follows:

• High Distinction to the top 1% of students in Australia
• Distinction to the next 10% of students in Australia
• Credit to the next 25% of students in Australia
• Participation to all other participating students

The assessments are suitable for students wishing to extend themselves academically and take up the personal challenge of competing in an international assessment. ICAS gives you broad insights into your child’s performance across English, Mathematics and Writing. It gathers performance information through a 30-60 minute supervised in-school test. 

ICAS Assessments are now online, a move that reflects a sector-wide transition to computer-based assessment. This allows greater accessibility for students and faster delivery of results. 

https://pay.unswglobal.com.au/ 

The dates and entry fee per student are as follows:   

Writing - Tuesday, 10th September 2019 (AUD $15.95 AUD GST inclusive) OPTIONAL  (Not available for Year 2)

English – Tuesday, 17th September 2019 ($15.95 AUD GST inclusive) OPTIONAL  

Mathematics – Wednesday, 18th September 2019 ($15.95 AUD GST inclusive) OPTIONAL  

Online parent payment:

ICAS fees is now paid online directly with ICAS, visit https://pay.unswglobal.com.au/  and enter your school’s unique code to make a direct payment to UNSW Global. Online payment will close on 14th August 2019. Sacred Heart’s unique access code is: f94f5f50b6

Please note that Year 2 students have not previously sat a test under these conditions. Therefore, it would be wise to ensure that your child is both academically and emotionally prepared for this experience.

If you require any further information, please contact michelle.glynn@syd.catholic.edu.au or your child’s classroom teacher.

Great news! Sacred Heart has joined Shopnate (shopnate.com.au)

With shopnate.com.au you can help our school raise funds simply by doing your everyday online shopping. Once registered you don’t have to do anything you wouldn’t normally do when buying things online.

Over 680 big name retailers such as Target, eBay, ASOS, Booking.com, Menulog, Woolworths, Ticketmaster, Dan Murphy’s and Amazon are included (just about any site you spend $$ on online). Every time you shop, our school will receive a small percentage of the purchase price (1%-5%). 

It’s completely free to you as the purchase prices are the same as you would usually pay.  In fact Shopnate actually has regular discounts from its retail partners not available if you don’t go through Shopnate. 

You’ll be surprised how these donations can add up.  If we all sign up we should be able to generate thousands for the school each year, and get these donations without much effort at all.    

We want to raise as much as possible so please sign up at: https://www.shopnate.com.au/cause/sacred-heart-primary-school-mosman

Importantly once you have registered download the Donation Reminder from the Shopnate home page.  When you do this, it will tell you if a site you are on is a Shopnate partner.

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

 
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.