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,

Where has the term gone?

Thank you very much for all the support you have given us since starting our school year. We also have so many exciting plans for next term, Thanks to Sue Cranney and Adele, who have been working on an amazing Readathon project together. As a school, we believe that instilling a love of reading gives every child a head start on expanding their vocabulary and knowledge. Reading also helps our children to make sense of the world around them while building social, emotional, and imaginative skills.

Palm Sunday during assembly - Thank you to Room 7 for their dramatic portrayal of Palm Sunday, which helped us understand the final week of Jesus' life.

The students gathered together into our four house groups and completed an amazing visual outlining our school values.

Seniors Camp - Special thanks to Julius, Anna, Hannah, and all our amazing parent helpers who supported our students with an amazing outdoor experience. The camp was fabulous we are so lucky to have such a great facility close to our school that is reasonably priced and has great activities and good food. Having a camp at this time of the year helps to extend friendships while encouraging socialisation skills as students are pushed out of their comfort zone. 

Thank you to our school community who have been so supportive of camp fundraising activities.

Easter Liturgy - Tomorrow, you are welcome to join us for the Easter Liturgy tomorrow at 9:30am in St Mary's College Hall. You are welcome to join us. Please note that there will be limited parking on the Sacred Heart Cathedral School courts. Please be informed that there is no parking at St Mary's College.

Please take note of the following dates for NO CLASSES during the Easter holidays:

• Good Friday - 29th March
• Easter Monday - 1st April
• Easter Tuesday - 2nd April

Here is a beautiful poem about Lent that Jackson has written - stunning language Jackson. Thank you for letting me share this with our school community.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J3Z3PT6HBHM 

Have a wonderful break over Easter. We will see the children on Wednesday, 3rd April.

Arohanui,
Bernadette Murfitt
Tumuaki
Sacred Heart Cathedral School

School donations are used to help bridge the funding gap and are vitally important to help provide valuable resources and enhance our learning environment here at Sacred Heart Cathedral School.

As our school sits at an Equity Index and Isolation number of 374, we are not eligible for the government donations scheme that was introduced in 2020.

General School Donation:                                         

$100.00 per child.

$200.00 per family.

The 2024 General School donations will be used for:

• ICT classroom equipment. Chrome books and I pads.
• New adaptive furniture that supports a vibrant and flexible learning environment.
• Resources to support Health and PE programme.
• Resources to support Literacy, Mathematics and Science learning.
• Resources to support the external environment.

Specific Donations:

Class trips & activities (all year levels)  $100.00 ($25.00 per term)

Swimming (all year levels)  $50.00

Technicraft at Karori West School (Year 7 & 8)  $80.00

Dance (all year levels - Term 1)  $35.00

Kluwell Reading Book (Rms 1, 2 & 3)  $8.00

Religious Education (all year levels)  $10.00    

Mathematics and Reading Eggs (Years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)  $23.50

Mathletics (Year 7 & 8)  $11.50

My Growing Mind Books (Year 7 & 8)   $10.00

2024 School camp for (Year 7 & 8)  $190.00

Did you know that school donations are a tax-deductible payment and you can claim 33.3% of the payment amount? Any payments made before 31 March 2024 are eligible for a tax rebate of 33.3% in the current financial year, otherwise donations paid after this date can be claimed the following tax year.

Information on how to get your tax rebate can be found on the IRD website –

https://www.ird.govt.nz/income-tax/income-tax-for-individuals/individual-tax-credits/tax-credits-for-donations

There are several different ways that you can make your school donation. Parents or caregivers may also make donations of a different value, which are always gratefully received. For example:

1. A single full payment.
2. A payment per term.
3. Weekly, fortnightly, or monthly payments.

For your convenience, you can make internet payments in the Sacred Heart Cathedral School operating account: 

Name of Account: Sacred Heart School Board of Trustees (Thorndon)

Account Number: 12-3140-0325505-00

When the donation is paid, you will be emailed a receipt from Frances.

Thank you for your ongoing support. Your voluntary donations are greatly appreciated.

Bernadette Murfitt                    Suzanne Adair

Principal                                      Presiding Member

​Kia ora whānau, 

From the start of term 2-2024, there will be an increase in After School Care fees due to an increase in the minimum wage and food costs. The increase is necessary in order to enable the School to continue to provide a high quality, well-resourced service for all students who attend. Please note it is over two years since the last fee increase. 

We are proud of the service Robyn and her team deliver each day for our students and their families.

We thank you for your continued support of the service that our school provides at the end of the school day.

These increases are reflected in the 2024 Schedule of Fees (including GST) below:

If you have any questions, please do contact us. We thank you for your continued support.

Suzanne Adair                                 Bernadette Murfitt

Presiding Member                          Principal

suzanneadair@hotmail.com        Sacred Heart Cathedral School

021 039 7558

We would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes of your time to give your feedback for our health consultation. Please click the link below.

Health Consultation

Thank you.

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Best wishes Bernadette for this term and year too.

Thanks for organising the Easter egg Raffle and for also supporting the Cathedral restoration project this year again.

Also, food cans for the Cathedral’s Church foodbank.

Many thanks for your school's ongoing support for Vinnies.

Kind regards,

Camp Review

By Jack T. (Room 8)

Hi! I’m Jack and today I'm going to talk about camp.

We went to Camp Kaitoke, a camp in the bush surrounded by farms filled with sheep and cows.

Now, what you really want to hear the activities, we had Outdoor Cooking, Rock Climbing, Archery, Kayaking, Orienteering and Giant swing, probably my favorite activity partly because of my own experience, partly the teachers and parents. They were the laughing stock of the kids whooshing through the air singing a melody of screams. My favorite was Ms. Ryan (My mum) as she couldn’t even open her eyes on the way up.

Finally my favorite part… The food! It was surprisingly good compared to my other camps. We got nachos, roast, wraps, sausage and bread and toast and cereal for breakfast. My favorite being the roast as the potatoes were so crispy they were practically chips.

I have a few tips for anyone else going to camp in the future: Don’t overpack, bring a camera if you're allowed to, bring snacks such as Skittles (Don’t tell Mr Sah) and get to sleep better than my cabin did.

Overall, it was a great camp excluding the smell of deodorant in my room and I’d give it a 4.5/5 stars. Why is it not a 5? Because I wish I could've been there for longer.

A good digital citizen is careful about what information they share.

They are also conscious of their digital footprint.

A good digital citizen respects others by making sure they don't share other people's information without asking.

A really good question for children to ask themselves is "Am I ok?"

For example, "Am I ok with this being on the internet forever?" and "Am I ok with people other than my friends seeing this?"

A good digital citizen understands how their actions can affect others.

Our new curriculum is very strong in its framework of understand, know and do. This can be applied in the cyber world.

Congratulations to the children in Room 5 who received their Holy Reconciliation over the weekend:

• Ayana
• Shenaya
• Micah
• Naomi
• Richard Leo
• Kiyan
• Sophia
• Cassie
• Athena
• Charlie

May the Lord bless you and His presence be a constant guide for you.

Congratulations to the following winners of our Easter Raffle Hamper Draw yesterday, 26th March:

• Chantelle B - Hamper #1
• Jiezl (Room 7) - Hamper #2
• Elijah A - Hamper #3
• Gabrielle - Hamper #4
• Geary Family - Hamper #5
• Kobe-Max (Room 6) - Hamper #6
• Owen (Room 3) - Hamper #7
• Kate S - Hamper #8
• Carles (Room 10) - Hamper #9
• Ethan (Room 10) - Hamper #10
• Ayva-Fua (Room 5) - Hamper #11
• Malchus (Room 8) - Hamper #12
• Jo C - Hamper #13
• Caroline J - Hamper #14
• Mikaela J - Hamper #15
• Philip M - Hamper #16

Winners were already notified via phone call. Thank you very much for supporting our school.

On Monday, a notice was sent out to our students regarding "Earn A Can" Lenten challenge. We encourage you to support your child to help those in need by having them earn a canned food item at home as we get to close the Lenten Season. A good deed will earn your child a can. The cans that we collect will go to our parish and then be distritributed to those who need it most. Tomorrow, Holy Thursday (28th March) is the last day for collection.

To the families who have already donated their earn-a-can to the school, we are very grateful. We sincerely appreciate your generousity and support.

Tomorrow is our mini ice blocks fundraiser for the Seniors Camp 2024. The cost of an ice block is $1.00 each.

NETBALL REGISTRATION:

Thank you for those who have registered for Winter Netball. Teams have now been finalized for this year. We are lucky to have x2 Year 5 & 6 teams and x2 Year 7 & 8 teams.

An email will come out shortly from your coach/manager regarding meet and greet and trainings. First game of the season is Saturday, 4th May.

Netball subs of $85.00 are to be paid into the Parents and Friends Account before the first game please. These subs cover the umpires for the season and the fees for Motu Kairangi. Please see account details below for payment:

Account Name: Sacred Heart Parents and Friends

Account Number: 12-3140-0397242-00

Reference: Child's name and "netball"

Any questions, please email: netball@sacred-heart.school.nz.

SUMMER FOOTBALL:

A tough fought game! Sacred Heart Strikers took the lead but ended up losing 1-2 vs Kelburn Cosmic. Some great sportsmanship shown as well, checking on the opposition to see if they were ok after a tackle. Player of the Day was Charles (Room 7) for awesome all round play. What a season - well done everyone and thanks to Suzanne for all the organising!

Sacred Heart Junior Strikers vs Northland Gems lost 1-2.

The team played so well in their final game of the season, and it was really close game. An awesome goal from Xander (Room 2). Player of the Day was Owen (Room 3) for absolute perseverance in the face of adversity. Also, a correction to last week where Dougal (Room 2) was supposed to be Player of the Day for his awesome Goalie moves. Overall, the team had a tough season after being graded with older teams, but the determination, heart and growing ball skills that the team showed over the whole season did us all proud.

A pic of the team attached – Landon (Room 5), Owen (Room 3), Dougal (Room 2), Fintan (Room 5), Xander (Room 2), Sophia (Room 5), Joaquin (Room 5 – backrow), Marrick (Room 5) and Diego (Room 1) not pictured.

Basketball Registration for Term 2

• Year 3/4 - will be on Tuesdays
• Year 5/6 - will be on Mondays
• Year 7/8 - will be on Wednesdays

If your child is interested, please contact either Ann Stephens - ann@sacred-heart.school.nz or Anna Revington - anna@sacred-heart.school.nz.

Please note that once the number of players and team/s are confirmed, the fee needs to be paid upfront to the school account as the school has a policy of "no pay, no play". We will confirm everything closer to the time.

Splat! will be running a fun drama class from term 2 onwards at school.

The drama classes are filled with awesome games and original scripts. These lessons are designed for every child to have a great time and improve self-confidence in a fun, judgement-free space.

Lessons run for 8 weeks (Mondays) and the students will practice a hilarious script that they get to perform for family and friends at the end of the term.

Spaces in these classes are limited to 15 students, to sign up for a free trial lesson, book in for the term, or find out more info – please email josh@splatnz.com or visit our website www.splatnz.com.

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