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23th August 2088
Dear Parents and Carers
Sometimes a picture tells the best story. The week has been exciting one for all.
The Book Character Parade saw many superheroes celebrating the Reading is my Superpower Theme. Many thanks to Mrs Jago and Mrs Spano in the library for their work towards making this day a wonderful celebration for the children. Our visiting author Lesley Gibbs engaged the children with her tales of writing and her children’s books including Scary Night and Fizz the police dog series.
The students were introduced to the new head coach Brendan Mathes on Wednesday. Brenden and the Year Six basketballers played a spirited game much to the delight of the students who are looking forward to the next season of basketball.
Today we celebrated Father Phil’s Golden Jubilee school mass. It was a beautiful celebration prepared by our teachers and students. Thank you to our special guests, parishioners and parents who attended and helped out to make this day a very special one for Father Phil.
We also celebrated the first Blue Awards for Term 3. Here are the students who were selected for today's award ceremony, each receiving a generous gift voucher by our sponsor, Claudia Portale of Mosman McGrath.
Kindergarten: Ivy Costas - Kindy Gold & Chloe Batchelor - Kindy Blue
Year 1: Millie Ralton - 1 Gold & Olivia Myburgh - 1 Blue
Year 2: Patrick Old - 2 Blue & Matilda Woodlock - 2 Gold
Year 3: Ailish Roberts-Thomson - 3 Gold & Seamus Tyson - 3 Blue
Year 4: Thomas Swain - 4 Blue & Malu Sanctos - 4 Gold
Year 5: Zara Lee - 5 Gold & Ewan Malone - 5 Blue
Year 6: William Attewell - 6 Blue & Zoe O' Neill - 6 Gold
We look forward to welcoming many of our fathers and special friends to the school Father's Day BBQ Breakfast, starting at 7.30am on 30 August. Please make sure that you book your meals and coffees for the family before Wednesday via the QKR app.
Below please find an expression of interest form for two additional extra curricular activities that we hope to introduce to Sacred Heart. One is the Young Investigators group that would run on Wednesday mornings before school for an hour and the second is Spanish Language lessons which would be held after school on a day to be determined. If you think that you would like to take up one of these opportunities, please fill in the expression of interest forms.
Young Investigators before school Science group: Expression of Interest
Spanish Language Lessons: Expression of Interest
Regards
Julie Caldwell
The following resource has been shared by Sydney Catholic Schools to increase family engagement with road safety education.
Important reminder about vehicle movement around schools
It is important to remember of some basic road safety rules around the school.
When “dropping” children before school at carline we remind parents/ carers who disregard this kiss and drop process by getting out of their cars then standing on the pavement, chatting for many minutes with other parents/carers that this is potentially dangerous behaviour. We have also observed children jumping out of cars, in the middle of the road, whilst others wait in the long line of cars behind those parked cars.
Be mindful of children and their parents walking and cycling to school, as well as those students catching buses or waiting to be picked up by parents in vehicles. Schools can be very busy places at drop off and pick up time, and your courtesy and patience are appreciated.
The 40km/h school zones are in place and are applicable from 8.00am-9.30am and 2.30pm-4.00pm on school days and speeding penalties apply.
If you do speed or park illegally, you can expect a fine and the loss of demerit points.
What a blast of a week we’ve had! Our school simply radiated with secret super powers all week and is ablaze in colour from the displays of all our Book week Posters.
Our week zoomed off with a start on Monday with Years 3 and 4 visiting Mosman Library to hear author Mick Elliott. We also had some winners from Year 3 and Year 6 who entered their Competition.
Tuesday crash landed with our Book Week Parade. We were dazzled by an amazing array of costumes from each class depicting characters from much loved books. Our teachers zoomed around in red capes and masks showing that “Teaching Is Their Secret Super Power”.
We were fortunate enough to have author Lesley Gibbes visit on Thursday to share her books with us. She captured the attention of all from beginning to end, transforming in to the characters from her stories as she read them. Lesley also talked about what it is like to be a writer and how she came up with ideas for her plots.
Books that were pre ordered have not been delivered to school as yet. We will arrange for Lesley to sign all books and should be ready to take home early next week.
Information regarding the annual Carnival Book Fair will be sent home next week. The fare will be in our Library from Monday 2/9 to Friday 6/9.
Sincere thanks to all families for supporting your children in participating in The Poster Competition and Book Week Parade. We had many awards from each grade and those children received a voucher to spend at The Book Fair.
Happy Reading
Cecilia and Josie
Below you will see some helpful points that parents can use with their children to reinforce the importance of concepts such as safe places and safe people.
Reminding children about stranger danger and who to speak to if they are scared or have a stranger approach them should not be frightening but a normal conversation about protective behaviours that provides them with some strategies to be safe.
Some points that should be addressed include:
- making sure your parents or another responsible adult you know where you are at all times
- if you walk to and from school, always walk straight home or to the place you are walking to. Walk near busier roads and streets or use paths where there are lots of other people
- do not talk to people you do not know
- never get into a car with someone you don’t know
- if a car stops on the side of the road and you don’t know the person inside, do not stop
- if someone tries to grab you, yell out as loud as you can, “Go away, I don’t know you.” This attracts attention of other people around you
- know where safe places are – a shop, service station, police station, library or school. If you are ever frightened, you should go to one of these places and ask them to call the police
- learn about safe adults you can look for and talk to if you need help. Safe adults include police officers, teachers at school, adults you know and trust
- if you are scared and can use a phone, call 000 and tell the operator that you are scared.
The rally is a challenge to drive an ‘old’ car from Melbourne to Townsville over the Birdsville track. To be able to take part he must raise $5,000 to support cancer research. So far he has raised $1,700, and with the school community behind him, let's help him raise some much needed money for the Cancer Council.
Rick would like to invite all Dads to the Sports Trivia Night on Saturday 14 September 8 pm at Warringah Bowling Club in Mosman.
Tickets for the trivia night are $25 and you’re welcome to get a table together or elect to be allocated to a table. There are great prizes to win!
It promises to be a cracker of a night out with mates and Rick would really appreciate the support for such a worthy cause.
WE NEED YOU !
Interested in music?
Like group activities?
Want to be a musician?
We need you!
Rehearsals are on Wednesday mornings before school. If you are interested in joining our SH band, please email Mary Lozina at mary.lozina@syd.catholic.edu.au
SHM Chess Classes
Chess classes takes place in the school hall each Tuesday from 10:40am to 11:20am.
Attached is a copy of the permission slip which outlines the class structure, costings, dates and times for your convenience.To register your child in the class, go to https://sydneyacademyofchess.
Ph: (02) 9745 1170
Web: www.sydneyacademyofchess.com.
Learn to Play Tennis at SHM contact information has changed!
Jed Gould
Ph: 0411 775 945
Email: jed@pjtennisacademy.com
Jed wishes to thank the students who played tennis during Term 3 and wishes them a relaxing holiday. See you in Term 4!
DOUBLE DUTCH SKIPPING
Mark Saunders and his team of dedicated skippers have been teaching skipping at Sacred Heart for a long time. Some years the competition is tense as boy and girl teams compete and some years we have the fun seekers who wants to skip for fun. Mark has been a teacher, a trainer and a skipping instruction for many year - see below for more information.
The last class for Term 3 is on Thursday, 26 September.
Chinese lessons for next term will begin on Thursday, 17 October and the last class for Term 4 will be on 12 December in the Year 6 classroom.
QKR! Guides on Setting Up Profile and Clothing Pool
Parents Information Handbook
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
2019 School Fees
Application for Extended Leave
Extended Leave Application, 10 days and over during school term