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.

"Kua hinga te tōtara i te wao nui ā Tane."

This week we are holding Bernadette Murfitt very close in our hearts and prayers. Today, she farewelled her father Noel at St Peter and Paul's Parish in Lower Hutt.  Bernadette's love and care for her father have inspired many in the past few months, and it has been a privilege to witness and support their journey. Our school whānau was able to support her today as staff and students represented us all. Moe mai rā, e te rangatira!

A special mention to our Sacred Heart Cathedral School students for their attitude and behaviour over the past week. We have had staff absences and illness, but our wonderful students continue to amaze the staff with their focus and hard work. It has been amazing how settled and calm each classroom has been.

A warm welcome to Kristian Room 1, Sosaia Room 2 and Blandina Room 3, who started at our school on Monday. We hope that your time and journey at Sacred Heart Cathedral School is special for you all and that you make life-long friends amongst us.

Arohanui,

Sue Cranney

Acting Deputy Principal

Sacred Heart Cathedral School

Kia ora koutou.

Please find below the candidate statements for the upcoming board of trustee parent elections. Thank you to all our candidates for standing to represent parents on the Sacred Heart Cathedral School Board of Trustees.

All parents will shortly be issued with voting papers by post. Unfortunately, the provider we are using was not accredited by the Ministry of Education to run an electronic vote so the vote remains as paper based for this year.

The timeline for the election is:

Voting papers issued by August 10 (arriving by post a few days later).

ELECTION DAY: 7 September, 4pm.

COUNTING DAY: 13 September

BOARD TAKES OFFICE:  14 September

If you have any questions about the election, our returning officer is Bernadine Vester, returningofficer@myschoolelection.nz,www.myschoolelection.nz.

Ngā mihi,

Suzanne Adair

Presiding Member of the Sacred Heart Cathedral School Board of Trustees

The student council will be running a sausage sizzle tomorrow Thursday, 11th August. Sausages will cost $2.00 each. Please send along the correct amount of money in an envelope with your child's name, room number and the total number of sausages ordered written on the envelope. Money raised from this will go towards the Year 8 Yearbook.

Apologies for the short notice!

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.

KELLY SPORTS SUMMER FOOTBALL

Registrations are now open for Kelly Sports summer soccer (5 aside) which takes place in terms 4 and 1 on Friday afternoons at Ian Galloway Park in Wilton. We normally have 2-3 teams enter for Sacred Heart.

The season is from 28 October to 16 December (and again in term 1 from 3 February to 24 March 2022). Games start at 3.45pm for the youngest juniors and the older children play later.  Approx. cost per player is $100 for the whole season.

If your child is interested, please contact Suzanne suzanneadair@hotmail.com for all year groups. We will then work out groupings (normally a junior team, a middles team and sometimes a senior team). We are also looking for team managers for each team so please mention in the email if you are interested in doing this.

BASKETBALL RESULTS: Year 3 & 4

SH Ninjas vs Holy Cross Wild Cats won 25-15. Player of the day was awarded to Shaun (Rm 3).

BASKETBALL RESULTS: Year 7 & 8

Sacred Heart Lightning vs St Marks Lakers won 24-16. Player of the day was awarded to Joaquin (Rm 9).

Sacred Heart Thunder vs EBIS Matai won 44-11. Player of the day was awarded to Zachary (Rm 10).

Capital E’s National Theatre for Children proudly presented Story Studio Live Aotearoa 2022, a high-energy, multi-genre, TV broadcast, performed in a Te Whanganui-a-Tara studio, live-streamed exclusively to St Mary's College hall, attended by all our students this morning!

This year’s theme is all about Aotearoa and discovering where ākonga come from through our history and embracing te reo Māori via a huge live interactive screen.

The flyer below has information about Newlands Brownies, but the join us link would be relevant for all suburbs/areas.

If your child is interested in participating please email ann@sacred-heart.school.nz.

2022 Wellington & Kapi Mana Primary and Intermediate Schools Tennis Tournament to be held on Tuesday 20th September for the Girls and Wednesday 21st September for the Boys at the Renouf Tennis Centre, 60 Brooklyn Road, Wellington.

• Girls: Tuesday 20th September 2022 @ 8:30am  (back up day on Friday, 23rd).
• Boys:  Wednesday 21st September 2022 @ 8:30am  (back up day on Thursday, 22nd).