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.

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

A special welcome to Simone, who started at our school in Room 1 on Monday. You are going to have a wonderful time learning and meeting lifelong friends.

I hope you have had a great break over the past few weeks. Spending time with family, getting outdoors, doing physical activity and having a laugh are all excellent ways to enrich our lives.

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education strongly recommend students in Year 4 and above to wear masks when indoors for the first 4 weeks of term 3. Wearing a mask is an extra layer of protection for us all. Wearing masks can reduce new cases of the virus by as much as 53%. It works alongside other measures including vaccination, good ventilation, staying home when sick, and hand washing and other hygiene measures, to protect our students and staff.

We know that some of our students are exempt from wearing a mask. If they have an exemption card or a letter from their health provider or we have agreed that mask-wearing is not practicable for them, we will support them to not wear a mask.

If your child is sick - they need to stay at home and follow the advice of Healthline.  Please remember all students have hard copy packs that can be used at home. Middles and Seniors will have work posted in Google Classroom and Juniors Seesaw.

Thank you for your support in protecting our school community.

We thoroughly enjoyed having face-to-face catch-ups with many families at the end of last term to discuss learning progress to date and where to next. If you have any concerns about the progress your child has made or any challenges that are making learning tricky, please contact your child's teacher. As a staff, we really value the input from our families so we can strengthen and grow future learning.

Special thanks to the Whitaker Family who entered the competition "Hits Wellington Become A Saint For A Day" and won so the prize is our Basketball Saints are coming this Friday to visit our school. The weather forecast is looking good for Friday as well.

Please keep well. If we can do anything to support your child's learning, please reach out to us.

I have been a household contact this week and have kept well so I am looking forward to returning to school tomorrow morning. 

Arohanui,

Bernadette Murfitt

Tumuaki

Sacred Heart Cathedral School

On 23rd August, the Junior Syndicate (Room 1, 2 and 3) will be visiting the Museum of City and Sea. We will need parent helpers. Please click the link and fill in the Google form for your child's permission and if you are able to help.

We will be celebrating the wonderful influence Grandparents have in the lives of our students. There will be a liturgy for our Grandparents on 25th August at 1.20pm, St Mary's College Hall.

Parking will be available on the school court from 1pm.

Lord God almighty, bless our grandparents with long life, happiness, and health. May they remain constant in your love and be living signs of your presence to their children and grandchildren. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Our SHCS Gospel Value for the next four weeks is Generosity - Ngākaunui.

Netsafe is celebrating Net safety Week on the 25-29th of July. Net safety Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about the safe and positive use of technology.

During this year’s Net safety Week, Netsafe is co-hosting a parents' webinar with TikTok for the very first time. This webinar focuses on online challenges on social media, and aims to empower parents with knowledge of how young people engage with online challenges and how technology can be used to support online safety.
 
The session is also joined by Dr. Amanda Third, from Western Sydney University’s Young and Resilient Research Centre, a world-leading expert on online safety issues. TikTok’s Safety Guide for Guardians will be distributed at this event.

Find more details and register here: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/tiktok-parent-webinar-tickets-383758019567

We are so lucky to have the Olympic Football Club teaching our students football skills.

The Football in Schools programme provides children with a fun and positive experience which uses football-based challenges and the joy of playing football as motivation for engaging participation. The programme covers manipulative skills, as well as agility, spatial awareness and of course teamwork. This is another example of how, we are emphasising and promoting physical activity as a lifelong journey while contributing to healthy wellbeing.

The Year 3 and 4 Sacred Heart Ninjas had their first game of playing basketball last night and won, 22-13 vs Owhiro Stars. They all played really well and tried hard and heaps of fun! They had also great support from the sidelines. Player of the day was awarded to Harley (Rm 3).

Our school is hosting NED'S Mindset Mission show on Tuesday, 2nd August for all students. An engaging performer takes our students on an interactive educational journey filled with storytelling, illusions, yo-yo tricks and humour. NED's message inspires students and promotes a growth mindset and academic growth in students.

Joaquin, Room 2 is part of the cast of Frozen Junior and he will be performing in three shows opening at the Lower Hutt Little Theatre in September. 

This enchanting modern classic from Disney brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arandelle to life, onstage. The show features all the memorable songs from the movie plus extra Broadway hits written just for the stage.

Musical Stars Performance Trust has been staging performances for school children, by school children, for the last twenty years. All our performers are drawn from schools in the Hutt Valley and Wellington region.

For weekend shows and general audience tickets please follow this link: Trybooking Frozen Jr.

St Vinnies are promoting a Winter Coat/Clothing donation drive presently.  If you have any winter coats or clothing you are interested in recycling, please drop it off at a St Vinnie's Op Shop.

Marrzipan Drama

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No. It’s a Marrzipan kid dressed as a bird-plane for their upcoming play!

Marrzipan is at your school and we would love to have you come and try it out!

Come see all the craziness and fun as we run 9 drama-based self confidence lessons a term. Marrzipan is full of games, a wacky play, and an even wackier Joshuwawa!

*Free Trial Lesson*

For more information please contact Joshuwawa at:
Josh@MarrzipanDrama.co.nz or visit www.marrzipandrama.co.nz

FOOTBALL SKILS TERM 3 - FRIDAYS 3.30PM-4.30PM

Aimed for beginners, an 8 week Football Skills programme held at Wests Rugby Club Rooms, Wilton (In the Green Room!). 

Come and learn all things about Football!

This programme covers both individual and team skills including:

Game rules, Ball control, Dribbling, Passing, Tackling, Defence, Team work, Goalkeeping, practice and warm up drills for players and teams.

It is ideal to improve skills and confidence and have lots of fun!!

The sessions start on Friday, 4th Aug 2022, 

Book online at www.kellysports.co.nz and in the suburb box put "Wilton".

We run fun weekly speech and drama classes to help your child express themselves creatively as well as learning some valuable performance skills along the way. Our drama classes work alongside the Trinity College London syllabus. Classes are based in Karori. Two week free trial available for all new students. Email admin@dramaclub.co.nz or check out our website - www.dramaclub.co.nz for classes.