Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been a very big week at Sacred Heart with still many exciting events to happen.

Last Friday our School Captains and myself attended the Mosman Council International Women's Day Breakfast. The speaker Maeve O’Meara (an ex Sacred Heart parent) told of her exciting career as a journalist and TV presenter. It was inspiring listening to a speaker who had followed her dreams and not let anything stop her in her attempts to achieve her goals.

On Friday evening over 223 staff and parents joined us under lights in the school grounds. The event was run by the P and F and guided by Jacqui Mc Carthy and MJ Whitson. During the evening raffles and an auction raised $6500 for our sports club. I hope those that attended felt warmly welcomed to the school and used it as a great chance for parents to catch up with old friends and make new ones. Thank you to everyone who made the night such a wonderful success.

Over the last two days the school has gone through the process of Inquiry and Review. This process is held every five years and looks at how the school has improved over that time. On the first day the leadership team presented the work that we have done in teaching and learning over the last five years and presented the panel with the teaching programs and assessment data that we hold on all students. We also presented the work we have done on behaviour management, wellbeing, our work in Religious Education and the partnership with the parish. The panel interviewed Father Phil, parents, office staff, learning support officers, teachers, and students. They watched our teachers teaching lessons in reading, music, physical education and science. They also visited and saw in action our Arrowsmith class and our Diverse Learning team in action. 

On the second day of the panel visit the leadership team shared with the panel our vision for the work we will do for the next five year Strategic Plan. We will share the major points of the panel report when it has been finalised. The panel thanked the staff for their work. They endorsed the work we have done in the past and affirmed our future direction.

Today the children who are attending the Dance Fever showcase on April the 2nd began their group practice. Students who had not bought tickets were reminded that they must do this shortly. As the show dance this year is based on a basketball theme the children have been asked to wear the Sacred Heart basketball singlet as their costume (with black pants). Some children may need to borrow these. If you have a basketball singlet at home that no longer fits or is not being used I’m sure the children who don't have them would be grateful to borrow them. If you would like to drop any unwanted basketball singlets at the office it would be greatly appreciated.

FUTURE EVENTS

Tomorrow Barbara Arrowsmith will be visiting the school. Barbara is the designer of the Arrowsmith program (a cognitive training program) that we host in our school. She will be meeting teachers, parents and students of the Arrowsmith program as well as holding a public forum next week at Croydon.

A reminder that school photos will be taken at school on Friday 13th March. All children should wear their full summer uniform that day. See article below.

Sports and Year Six Mass - wear your favourite jersey to Mass - Sunday 15th March 9am Mass.

Regards

Julie Caldwell

Congratulations to all our swimmers who attended the Eastern Region Swimming Championships on Monday 9th of March. They represented Sacred Heart with pride and a burning passion to be the best they can be.

Congratulations to our Junior girls relay team who will be progressing to the next stage of their swimming journey at the Mackillop Swimming Championships on the 25th of March. This team was made up by Alexandra Goulstone, Lucie Gaffney, Eloise Bailey and Charlotte Mutton. We wish you all the best; many good nights sleep; good food and training in preparation for your event. 

Congratulations to Utsav Panta of Year 6 who will also be joining the girls at the Mackillop Championships, for his individual events. Keep up the training and do your very best.

We have some fabulous new books ready to read for our Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC).  All books on this year’s list are clearly marked with a PRC sticker and outlining reading level as well.

All students would have received their login details and instructions last week. If you have any difficulties logging in, please get your child to see their class teacher who has a copy of all passwords or email Cecilia  - ceciliia.jago@syd.catholic.edu.au

The Challenge started on Monday 2/3/2020 and runs through until 28/08/2020. Students can also include any books read in their classrooms by their teachers.

Looking forward to sharing all our student’s reading progress over the coming months.

Please let the Library know if you have any spare time to cover new books from time to time, it would be greatly appreciated.

Happy Reading!

Cecilia and Josie

Sacred Heart Library

This Friday, March 13th will be our annual school photograph day for Sacred Heart.

Children must wear full summer uniforms.

Boys:

SHM shorts (knee-high navy socks)

Short sleeve school logo shirt

Tie

Black school shoes - please polish for group photo

Girls:

SHM summer tunic dress

Navy socks

Black school shoes - please polish for group photo

Photos will be taken of all students and families can order directly from the School Photographer. Please see attached flyer.

Unfortunately, if your child cannot be at school on this day, there will be no alternative date.

Applications are open for Year 7, 2022!  

Please visit their website https://www.maristcollege.com/enrolments/enrolment-information/ 

for enrolment information and documentation. 

Applications close 27th March, 2020