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,

Thank you so much to our Disco team who organised our disco. The children had such an amazing time as did our whānau catching up with each other. Special mention must go to our parent volunteers who decorated the gym and provided disco lighting and the photo booth.

Below is the link to the photos from the photo booth.

This week, we celebrate Tokelau Language Week. This year's theme for Te Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau is "Ke Olatia ko ia Tokelau i tana Fakavae - Tokelau to Prosper Within its Foundation”. The overarching message is: that understanding the past is crucial for planning the future.

https://www.mpp.govt.nz/programmes/pacific-language-weeks/tokelau-language-week/

Our recruitment process has been very successful and I can confirm the following staff for 2024. We are really fortunate to have a really strong team in place at our school.

Room 1 - Year 1 Mrs Leanne Stewart and Mrs Ann Stephen

Room 2 - Year 1 and 2 - Mrs Sarah Maresca (composite based on age)

Room 3 - Year 2 and Year 3 - Miss Sue Cranney (composite based on age)

Room 5 - Year 3 and Year 4 - Mrs Clare Hewson (composite based on age)

Room 6 - Year 4 and Year 5 - Mrs Kate Woodbury (composite based on age)

Room 7 - Year 6 - Mr Nikolai Solia (Director of Religious Education)

Room 8 - Year 7 and 8 - Mr Julius Solia

Room 9 - Year 7 and 8 - Ms Anna Revington 

Room 10 - Year 7 and 8 - Ms Hannah Ryan 

I want to say an enormous thank you to our school community. The support you give us, especially with athletics and swimming has been truly amazing. We are grateful to you all. 

Have a wonderful week.

E koekoe te tūi, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū. 

The tūī chatters, the kererū coos. It takes all kinds of people. 

Arohanui,
Bernadette Murfitt
Tumuaki
Sacred Heart Cathedral School

Sunhats can be purchased from the office at $15.00 each.

It is really important that our children protect themselves from the harsh rays of the sun.

Please put Thursday (16th of November) in your calendar and join the staff for morning tea so we can say thank you for the special way you support us here at school.

To All Our Year 8 Parents/Caregivers:  PLEASE NOTE, THE LINK CLOSES THIS FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER and we will be UNABLE to include any late queries.

A friendly reminder to please find attached a link for our Year 8 Dinner which is coming up on Sunday, 12th November 2023 (less that a month to go!). If you and your child would like to attend, please fill out the form as soon as possible so that we can verify our attendance with the venue. If your child is attending the dinner, kindly make sure that you have made the payment to the school account. The link will be closed on this Friday, 27th October. We appreciate the parents/caregivers who have already completed the form and made the dinner payment. Thank you.

NOTE: If you are wanting to purchase food at the venue, you can pay as you order.

Year 8 Leavers Dinner 2023

The Junior School Picnic on Tuesday (28th November) has had a change of venue. It will now be at Shorland Park in Island Bay from 12 pm - 2 pm, following our last swimming session. This is due to the playground at the Botanical Gardens being closed for an upgrade.

On Friday, our Year 7 and 8s had an Athletics Day in which they hurled discus, shotput and vortex, and sprinted in a number of races each. It was an awesome day in the sun, with loads of team spirit, great support, big improvements and great results. Everyone had so much to be proud of. Ka pai Seniors!

A big thank you to our awesome parents - Josie, Adele, Gary, Maggie and Jess. It wouldn't have gone so smoothly without you.

Check out the top results. There were some excellent achievements.

We have around 60 students from Year 4-8 who have qualified for the Central Zone Athletics Event this Tuesday, 31st October. A notice has gone home with your child. Please inform Therese or John if you can help. We would be so grateful.

therese@sacred-heart.school.nz

john@sacred-heart.school.nz

Here's another set of our Silent Auction! Please click the link to see the exciting products. Thank you to those families who have already placed a bid.

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

Please send an item for our Christmas Raffle Hamper and wear your own choice of clothing (non-uniform day).  Thank you.

Congratulations to Ava Du.. (Rm 10) who is a member of the contemporary dance troupe, Paint it Black who were selected to perform in the National Dance event last weekend and they were fabulous!! There were 58 troupes and a total of 750 dancers from throughout the country! Most amazing dance event of the year!

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.

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