For safety reasons, parents mustn't enter the playground before school or at the end of the school day. It is an accident just waiting to happen.

St Mary's College have asked us not to park on their grounds.

Our neighbour today (on Eccleston Hill) was blocked in by parent cars and was unable to leave his home.

Please show consideration to our students and our surrounding neighbours. 

Please note that there should be no parents coming up Guildford Terrace at the start of the school day or at the end of the school day.

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,

Welcome to Ellie, who joined our school in Room 1 yesterday. Ellie, you will make lifelong friends at our school.

Last week was such a special week as we celebrated belonging to our fabulous Catholic Community.

I hope you took the time to enjoy some whānau time during the long weekend. It is certainly a great opportunity to change the pace of life and the weather was so lovely here in the capital.

We had a fantastic get-together with our Filipino community last week. We were very grateful to Ambassador Kira, who joined us for this occasion and shared with us insights about her role.

The 2025 theme for Samoan Language Week is ‘Ia malu lou sā. Folau i lagimā – A well-grounded self, is a successful self’.

This is a special week for all of our Samoan whānau. Thank you for your willingness to share your culture with us all. Thank you for all that you do for our school community from governance to fundraising, coaching and managing and supporting events inside and outside the classroom.

Special thanks to Asus Education and Aiscorp Limited, who have donated a high-spec Chromebook for our school to use in our raffle for our fundraiser.

At our playground area, it was nice to see our students playing our new ping pong set.

Tomorrow and Friday, I am at the New Catholic Principals Conference here in Wellington. Te Ao Mārama - Embracing Hope through Aroha and Whakapono.

Thank you all and take care. To our Samoan whānau, have a wonderful week of celebration.

Arohanui,
Bernadette Murfitt
Tumuaki
Sacred Heart Cathedral School

Attendance continues to be a top priority for the government, which has set a target of 80% of students attending school for more than 90% of the term by 2030. To achieve this, schools must aspire to reach an average daily attendance rate above 94%.

Last week, 26th-30th May, we were 86.34%.

We will offer the "Seasons for Growth" programme later this year. 

This is a programme for children who have experienced major change, or suffered loss or grief.

The programme which will be facilitated by Catholic Social Services, and will help to strengthen the social and emotional well-being of children who are navigating major change, loss or grief in their lives. The course runs for 8 weeks one hour per week and will be during school hours.

If you would be interested in your child participating, please reach out to Bernadette - Bernadette.Murfitt@sacred-heart.school.nz or Nik Solia - nik@sacred-heart.school.nz.

Charlie (Room 7) is sharing a piece of his amazing writing with us.

If your child has a sibling turning 5 years old (new entrant) or older (up to Year 8 level of age), please fill out an enrolment form for your child. Please click on this link to download the enrolment forms under the “Enrolment Pack” section of the school website: https://sacred-heart.school.nz/our-school/enrolment/. Once you have filled in and completed the enrolment forms, please scan them back to us and email the forms to the office at office@sacred-heart.school.nz on or before the 31st of July at 12:00 noon.

Special thanks to our whanau who have supported us with the Pie and Savouries Fundraiser. The $1,900 has been raised toward Camp 2026. Thank you so much! We are over the moon.

Delivery day for the pies will be on Monday, 23rd June, from 1:00 PM. Please mark that date and time in your calendar. Pies and savouries will need to be picked up on this day as we have no freezer storage facilities. This day is also Parent-Teacher Interviews day. We will email you separately with pick-up arrangements.

Special thanks to our Middle Syndicate who have enriched the lives of residents at Summerset Landing.

Thank you to our staff and our incredible whānau helpers who made it all happen.

From Cassie and Riva (Room 7) - On the 30th of May, the Middle Syndicate went to Summerset retirement village to sing songs and interact with the residents about Matariki. We sang a variety of waiata while they watched and listened. After we sang, some of the children went to level 1 to sing to the residents who weren’t able to go down to the ground floor, while the rest listened to stories from the residence and created stars for Matariki. They appreciated us going there for the morning and it was a great experience for everyone in the Middle Syndicate. We really loved seeing all the residents at Summerset smile and we hope to see all of them again soon.

From Summerset:     

Hello beautiful whanau from SHCS,

What a delightful morning you provided us with. I am still getting stopped around the village by residents who thoroughly enjoyed your visit. You have lit up the resident’s lives.

As you saw, one couple was downstairs and then took the lift up to the first floor to see you sing again. What a joy!

The stars on our Matariki wall look amazing. Once I have finished putting the wall together, I will certainly share a photo with you all.

The two teachers who live here were just delighted to work with your young people. How they miss working with Tamariki.

You, students coming in and giving us such an amazing show has sparked so much aroha here, and has started a bit of talk about Matariki (believe me, this is no mean feat!).

Once again, thank you, from the bottom of our hearts for your amazing performance. Just like last year, I am sincerely hoping that you will come back again. We LOVE having you. The interaction between your students and my residents is life-enriching!

Mabuhay!

On Thursday, 12th June, the Philippines will be celebrating its Independence Day. On the 12th of June 1898, the country commemorates the declaration of independence from Spain.

Our Filipino students can come dressed up in their Filipino attire to represent their Filipino culture.

PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE:

To book a time to meet with your child's classroom teacher, please click on the link below. The meeting will be for 10 minutes, so if you have more than one child at the school, please allow yourself 10 minutes between interviews to give yourself time to walk from one classroom to the next one.

• Monday, 23 June 3:00-7:00 PM or
• Tuesday, 24 June 3:00-5:00 PM

Click here to book or scan the code below.

Booking QR Code:

On Friday, 27th June, we will be celebrating Sacred Heart Feast Day. We will have a school liturgy at the Cathedral, 12:10 PM. You are welcome to join us. Please note that we are unable to provide parking at the playground due to our students having a play at the playground for lunch break.

Next term, we are celebrating our grandparents. We ask families to email some photos of their grandparents with their grandchildren to share in our Grandparents’ Liturgy in Term 3, Friday, 25th July at 9:30 PM, Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 40 Hill Street, Thorndon.

Please email Hannah Ryan in Room 6 - hannah.ryan@sacred-heart.school.nz.

Please make sure you name the people in the photo.

Sacred Heart Crispy Crème (Year 7/8) vs Sacred Heart Dunkin Donuts (Year 7/8) - A great clash between the two SHCS teams on Friday! Deserved win to the Dunkin Donuts 24-12 but everyone had lots of fun against their friends. Congratulations to Brodie (Room 9), as player of the day for the Crispy Crème team and Kundiso (Room 8) is the player of the day for Dunkin Donuts.

Sacred Heart Throws (Year 5/6) - It was an awesome game, team! Well deserved and good teamwork! The Throws won against Redwood States, 35-15. Congratulations to Jackson (Room 7) for player of the day.

DANCE:  

The girls' dance school (LA Dance) has annual full dance school productions held every year. This year’s production is called “The Museum of Fame” — it follows a family who gets locked inside a museum overnight… and as the lights dim, the wax exhibits of famous people magically come alive. Think “Night at the Museum” — minus the dinosaurs!

Simone (Room 5) and Arabella (Room 2), among the white swans of Anna Pavlova, Eliza (Room 3), one of Taylor Swift's dancers and Eona (Room 1), one of the moonbeams of Frank Sinatra. Well done girls!

GYMNASTICS:

It's a delight to share Alex (Room 9) and Riva (Room 7) recent achievements in their chosen sport - Rhythmic Gymnastics for the past 2 weekends. They're both competing for Level 5 Nationals.

Big Congratulations Alex & Riva!  All the best of luck for the rest of your qualifying competitions and hope to see you in Nationals Championship in September.

To purchase an entertainment book, click on the following link:  https://subscribe.entertainmentnz.com/fundraiser/

The enrolment deadline for students looking to start at St Mary's next year is coming up soon - Friday, 20th June.

Ngā manaakitanga,

Megan Chisholm

Office Reception & Enrolments

enrolment@stmw.school.nz

Waea: 473 5554

Pae tukutuku: www.stmw.school.nz

Our Open Night is next Wednesday, 11th June, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM at 14 Upper Bourke Street in Kilbirnie.

Easyswim Swim School – LEARN TO SWIM

Easyswim runs lessons for babies through to adults out of six school pools around Wellington. Locations include Plimmerton, Tawa, Johnsonville, Rewa Rewa, Khandallah and Newtown School Pools. Birthday Party bookings are also available.

For more information, call 2347946 or email: book@easyswim.co.nz.

Easyswim Swim School

04 2347946

seahorse@easyswim.co.nz