Dear God,

You come to us in Jesus who teaches us that the way to happiness is through our love for one another.

Watch over the teachers, students and families of Sacred Heart Cathedral School as we try to be faithful to this teaching.

Help us to be a welcoming and joyful community, so that others may come to know your love and peace.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

I hope you are having a wonderful week.

Congratulations to Hannah Purser who from the start of 2024 will be permanent member of staff here at Sacred Heart Cathedral School.

We are all getting very excited about sharing with you all our movies on Wednesday, 13th September. The students are telling the narratives of our local area. It really is an example of the cross curricular learning that happens at our school which is of such a high quality and is just so innovative and totally incredible. Bring along gold coins as we will a raffle and lollies available for purchase. The first session is at 5.30pm, Memorial Theatre at Victoria University Kelburn Parade and the second session will be at 7pm. Entry is free but you do need at ticket.

Booking Links:

5.30pm Showing

7.00pm Showing

Tomorrow is market day. Wear your own clothes (no uniform) and bring a little bit of cash to buy goods and food and participate in activities.  The money raised will go towards our Year 7 and 8 camp.

The students are enjoying playing on the new turf.

Please come along on Thursday evening for a session with Dr Chris Bowden from     5-6pm there will be something for everyone in terms of how we can build resilience with our children. Child care is available down in the After-School Care room.

Special thanks for the generosity you show towards our school.

Arohanui,
Bernadette Murfitt
Tumuaki
Sacred Heart Cathedral School

Please click and fill in the google form link - San Lorenzo Ruiz Liturgy.

Maraming Salamat po!

On Thursday, 31 August we will be having a market day to raise money for our Year 7 and 8 camp in 2024.

Non-uniform day - students can wear their own choice of clothing.

If you are happy to bake some items for us to sell to the students on market day, please drop it off to the school office on Thursday, 31 August. It would be great if items could be dropped off to school in individual packages ready for selling.

Bring cash to buy goodies and food including a sausage sizzle.

We have a bird cage to give away for free.  If you would like it, please collect it from the school office.

Dr. Chris Bowden will present a workshop for our school community on Building Resilience in our Young People.

This is a practical session for parents to help children bounce back from setbacks.

Chris wears many hats. He is currently a lecturer at Victoria University at the School of Education. He also advises a wide range of groups including Mental Health Foundation, and Skylight Trust, and is part of the Youth Mortality Review team at Capital Coast Health.

We will have childcare available here at school should you wish to attend.

Our session will run from 5pm to 6pm on Thursday, 31st August.

Dr Chris Bowden highlights the importance of raising awareness of the prevalence of trauma and the way it affects adults and children in society. How they respond to trauma has a very significant influence on their health and well-being.

We don’t often make the connection between trauma and the symptoms of trauma. We focus on the outcomes of the trauma, but we don’t address the trauma. Chris will share his wisdom with us and help us to enable students to become more resilient.

Each class has been very busy creating a movie of a particular story of Wellington's history.

On Wednesday, 13th September at 5.30pm and 7.00pm, we will be holding our movie screenings of these stories at the Memorial Theatre, Victoria University on Kelburn Parade, Kelburn.

Booking Links:

5.30pm Showing

7.00pm Showing

Seats are strictly limited to 300 people, and entry is by ticket only. Please include your child/children in the number of tickets you request. Given we have limited seats we ask that only immediate family attends.

NETBALL:

Sacred Heart Stars (Year 5/6) played Island Bay School Rere. What nail biting game, it came right down to the wire, unfortunately Island Bay came away with the last min win 8-9. Player of the Day was Asu (Rm 7), great defence and intercepts. Special mentions to Hazel (Rm 6) great attacking, driving play down court and Kaatia (Rm 5) great defence in the circle.

Sacred Heart Emeralds (Year 7/8) vs Seatoun Pulse lost 8-20.

Sacred Heart Saints (Year 7/8) vs Scots Tui won 18-7.

BASKETBALL:

Sacred Heart Eagles (Year 7/8) vs Kahurangi Ra lost 26-36.

Sacred Heart Falcons (Year 7/8) vs Saint Mark's Whitu lost 16-36.

A reminder that on the first Friday of every month until the end of the year, we will be making a donation to the Parish Foodbank. If you would like to donate any non-perishable food items, please drop it off at the office. Thank you very much.

We would appreciate it if you could provide us with comments regarding health and wellbeing. Please fill out the form by clicking the link.

The Vision and Hearing technician from Te Whatu Ora will be at the school on Wednesday, 13th September at 9am for Vision and Hearing Screening of our Year 1-6 students and catch up on Year 7-8 students who missed the previous screening. If you would like your child to opt-out of the screening, please click on the link below and complete the form - Vision and Hearing Test Opt-Out for Parents.

To purchase, click on or copy and paste this link: https://subscribe.entertainmentnz.com/fundraiser/10428y2

HOME Cafe, located on Molesworth Street in the National Library building, has very kindly donated a voucher for our Pub Quiz raffle and is offering the following promotion: after 2.30pm, any student in school uniform or with a valid student ID who purchases a drink can get a 50% discount on food.

Registrations are open for the new summer season. Games are every Friday at Ian Galloway Park in Wilton from 27th October 2023 to 22nd March 2024 from ages 5-13! Younger children play from 3.45pm with older children playing later. We usually enter seniors, middles and junior teams and it is so much fun!

Please contact suzanneadair@hotmail.com if you are interested and also if you would like to co-ordinate/manage a team.

Find our more here: https://kellysports.co.nz/kelly_events/view/16190

Our season open day is Saturday, 14th October, at Newtown Park. We have a new start time of 9am this season and a new Hurdles, High Jump coach! At our club days athletes practice all events, Including long jump, hurdles, high jump, sprints, middle distance and throws. Our children's club day caters for all abilities. New members are welcome! You can register through http://www.whac.org.nz. For more information please contact:

Julie Richards

juliemaerdy@yahoo.co.uk

0212959026

Dance, Drama and Singing for students aged 4-18 yrs old.

Led by a London West End performer!

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Book your child’s two-week trial for next term NOW at 
www.spotlightperformingarts.co.nz.

KELLY SPORTS NETBALL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
Raroa Normal Intermedial School, Johnsonville
Week 1 – Tues, Weds, Thurs, 9am-12pm.

Years 1-4
For Beginners, these sessions will work on improving basic netball skills. 

Children will work towards the following skills: Passing, Shooting, Spatial Awareness and Defensive skills.
Years 5-8:
These sessions will work on sharpening the basic skills - Passing and Shooting and we will start to develop

a better understanding of the 7-aside game and the different positional roles.

KELLY SPORTS FOOTBALL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME!

Week 1 - Tues, Weds, Thurs, Week 2 - Tues, Weds, Thurs

9.30am-12.30pm, for children aged 5-12 years
This programme is perfect for "Beginner's" and those wanting to find out more about the game and have lots of fun, improve technique, knowledge and skills.
We focus on the core skills of control, dribbling, passing but MOST importantly having as much FUN as possible!

To book for either programme go to www.kellysports.co.nz 

SUMMER SERIES FOOTBALL/NETBALL COMPETITION!

Get your friends/teams together and enrol for the Kelly Sports Summer Series

Football or Netball!!

Competition starts on Friday 27 October 2023.

Football is held at Ian Galloway Park, Netball is held at either Marsden or Karori Normal School.

To enrol go to www.kellysports.co.nz/netball2023 or www.kellysports.co.nz/football2023

KELLY CLUB SEPT/OCT HOLIDAY PROGRAMME

Join us for a fun filled holiday programme!

We have lots exciting days including:
Book Day, Daring Detectives Day, Ginormus Galaxies Day, Kelly Club Favourites Day, Smiles All Round, Year of World Cups Day

plus trips to:
Te Rauparaha Arena for a Swim, Gymnastics, Roller skating and a Magician is coming to Kelly Club.
Kelly Club is available at the following schools:

Amesbury, Churton Park, Island Bay, Kelburn, West Park

to Enrol go to www.kellyclub.co.nz