Kia ora koutou e te whānau,

Welcome to Jackson, Room 1, who joined our school on Monday, 13th November. Jackson, you and your family are going to love being a part of the Sacred Heart Cathedral School Community.

Thank you for all your support with selling raffle tickets. We are super grateful for this.

We had a really lovely evening last Sunday night to farewell our Year 8 students. It was a fabulous opportunity for whānau to get together and celebrate what our young people have achieved while being at our school. As always, I am super grateful to our staff for all their support on the evening.

 

Last week, we had a special gathering to thank Hanwen our 2023 Mandarin Language Assistant who will be leaving us at the start of December. Hanwen was presented with a beautiful "pounamu" on behalf of our school community. Hanwen has shared so much with our students about Chinese culture and language. Hanwen we wish you safe travels back to China to see your family and your future is very bright as a teacher. 

I have had to have a really frank discussion with all the students this week in assembly about:

• The use of the toilets at school. We have had an ongoing issue with students not using facilities correctly across all areas of the school and misuse of feminine hygiene products in the senior girls' toilets.
• Deliberate kicking of balls and damaging our neighbour's property causing damage.

Teachers will all be following up on both issues in class and I have also asked that we have monitors in each class doing regular checks of toilet facilities so we as a collective work together to always keep our wonderful facilities clean and safe for everyone to use .

Special thanks to our families who have been supporting the delivery of the curriculum with sharing about careers.

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Have a wonderful week.

Arohanui,
Bernadette Murfitt
Tumuaki
Sacred Heart Cathedral School