28th August 2019

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you to our Year Three parents for organising the Father’s Day Breakfast this morning. The cold and wet weather did not deter our dads or family representatives from joining in with the children to eat breakfast, to watch the band and to enjoy their children’s work.

Our Sacred Heart soccer players were commended at the assembly following the breakfast and medals were presented by Ed and Nick from XLR8. The coaches and managers were thanked as well. Thanks must go to Fiona Dynon who runs the soccer for the Sports Club and does this by herself!

Naplan results: Despite the news in the media regarding Naplan results schools have not received results as yet. As soon as the results are delivered to the school they will be sent home to Year 3 and Year 5 parents. A report regarding the school results will be delivered at the next P and F meeting on the 10th September.  All are welcome to attend.

Thank you to those parents who responded re our concerns for road safety in the morning. Many of them also said there was a concern that parents were executing U turns in Cardinal Street after drop off. I’m sure if we work together that we can make the morning drop off safe for all our families. Regarding the suggestion I made to have a parent roster which I had at a previous school. This was not to do the rangers work for them, the roster that was set up was to assist children out of the cars and keep the drop off time as short as possible. We also combined it with a “welcome to school” acknowledgement to each child as they stepped out of the car. My parent engagement team had brought to our attention the research that a simple welcome each day could lift the mood and benefit the child emotionally.  It soon became everyone’s favourite duty for teachers and it was very easy to fill the roster with parents . The roster is still running to this day eight years later!

Good luck to our Year Six and their wonderful teachers who are heading to Canberra next week. Excursions and camps are an important part of school life for our seniors but it is the teachers that I admire enormously for giving their time so willingly to be away from home, to be on duty 24 hours a day in order to bring the History curriculum alive.

On Tuesday the 3rd of September I will attend a compulsory Principals/Priests meeting with the Archbishop. As our other senior leaders will be in Canberra we will have a relieving principal for the day. Mr Steve Conlan who recently retired from St Michaels Lane Cove will be Acting Principal for the day.

You are all invited to the Family Faith Celebration at Marist College North Shore College next Wednesday the 4th of September from 6.30pm to 8pm. Members of our choir will be performing alongside John Burland at the celebration. The Faith Celebration features a combined choir from our North Shore network of schools.

This week we were advised by Sydney Catholic Schools that they have appointed a Chief Executive to lead the network or hub of schools in the North Shore. This is one of the first appointments by the Director to this type of model of networks and leadership. Ms Barbara Watkins (recently from Loreto Normanhurst) will guide the Northshore network which comprises of Sacred Heart Mosman, Blessed Sacrament Clifton Gardens, St Michaels Lane Cove, St Mary’s North Sydney and Marist College North Shore. We will pass on to the community more details of this role and what it means for our school as it comes to hand. It is an exciting time for our network as we explore ways that we can be stronger together for the good of each individual student and family.

After years of service to our community Joseph Arena has let us know that he will no longer be serving lunches to Sacred Heart from the end of this term. We thank Joseph for his prompt and smiling service over many years and wish him well in his new ventures. We are currently negotiating with a new service provider for an online service and will let you know the details as soon as possible.

We welcome Sheryl Imlach to our administrative team. Sheryl will replace Dianne Loots when she moves with her family to the Gold Coast at the end of this term. Sheryl has many years of school administrative experience and is an alumni parent at Sacred Heart. 

Regards

Julie Caldwell

Congratulations to Morgan Donnelly who was shortlisted for the Mosman Youth Awards in Literature 2019.  Morgan is one of our very keen and talented writers in Year 5.

Spalding Waratah Junior League -

State Cup 2019 - U12 Boys - Runners Up

Congratulations to John Dynon & Francesco Saffioti of Year 5

The Basketball NSW State Cup was held over the weekend of 11 & 12th August in Minto.   The boys competed in their U12’s Norths Representative team over a gruelling 2 day tournament.  They played the top teams from Division 1 Junior competition from; Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western leagues and the top 3 teams from Division 2 Metro League.

The boys won all their matches and went through to the Grand Final Sunday afternoon - the game was incredibly close with the boys matching basket for basket -  after a tough and physical match the boys came up short by 3 baskets in the final quarter.

A big congratulations to Poppy O’Brien of year 4 has returned from the Cross Country National Championships held last weekend. She has worked incredibly hard for this event and has consistently strived to be the best she can be in preparation for this event. After months of competitions and preparation Poppy has placed 6th in her 2 Km event! Well done Poppy! The Sacred Heart Community is thrilled for you! Enjoy your well deserved rest!

 Congrats to our ex student Holly Warn who also made the Nationals. 

Good luck to the Netball teams playing this week and next week. As we are currently coming to the end of the season and we have a number of teams playing in the semi-finals and finals! Good luck to the girls in their final preparations!

PREMIERS READING CHALLENGE (PRC) finishes Friday 30th August 2019.

Students have until 11.59pm 30/8 to log all their books read during the Challenge.

Well done to all students who read an amazing array of books. It was wonderful to see and share their progress. 

Students who completed their quota of books will each receive a Certificate and/or Medal acknowledging their efforts. These will be sent to our school next term from the Premier’s Department!

Please find details regarding The Carnival Book Fair which starts next Tuesday (note change of start date).

We are hosting a 

CARNIVAL BOOK FAIR

Each class will be invited to preview the books. The preview sessions are an ideal opportunity for children to share and discuss the books 

with their teachers and peers.

The selection of books at our Book Fair will include a wide range of quality books from the best Australian and overseas authors & illustrators.

All books are discounted.

Every purchase from the Book Fair earns 

FREE books and resources for our school.

Our Book Fair selling times will be:

TUESDAY 3rd SEPTEMBER 2019 TO FRIDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2019

8.10am to 8.40am and 3.00pm to 3.30pm EACH DAY

Please note that we will not accept cash, online orders only either from home or school.

You, your family and friends are most welcome to come and enjoy the

 Book Fair, and help your children select their books.

www.carnivalfairs.com.au

As always, happy reading!

Cecilia and Josie

Sacred Heart Library

Phone calls to Parents

The office frequently has to call parents or guardians with important messages, voicemails that have not being activated can cause delays. We ask parents to please ensure that the school can leave a voicemail, and not "voice to text" or "number will be sent" option.  Please mark the numbers 9969 6600, 9960 8199 and 9969 6981 are saved as favorites for SHM. 

The Woolworths Earn and Learn promotion has come to an end. Thank you to all of those families who collected over 42 000 thousand stickers for our sister school, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Waterloo

They are looking forward to using the stickers to purchase new equipment for each classroom which we will detail through the school newsletter next term. 

Many thanks for your support!

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