Dear Parents/Caregivers,

What a wonderful week we had celebrating the upcoming wedding of Miss Smyth with a truely Irish assembly, Matariki and the Feast of the Sacred Heart. Thank you to families who supported us last week. Special thanks to Parents and Friends who assisted Cardinal John with a Stewardship workshop by providing breakfast for participants and to our netball families who completed a range of extra tasks as part of duty week. Much appreciated. 

I enjoyed catching up with many families during our Learning Conversations. I hope you found the opportunity helpful to revisit goals with your child's teacher and are clear about the next learning steps and required actions.

Special thanks to Juliet Smith who has helped us out with Reading Recovery and literacy instruction over the past two terms. We really appreciate all you have done for our school.

Thank you for the way you have supported our school throughout the term. It has been a very productive and fruitful term of learning. Enjoy the two week holiday break with your family and I look forward to seeing you all next term.

I am writing this newsletter from the New Zealnd Principals' Conference in Auckland. I am thoroughly enjoying listening to key note speakers and extending my learning. 

Arohanui,

Bernadette Murfitt

Principal

Sacred Heart Cathedral School

To our Sacred Heart Whanau  - thank you for the overwhelming support you have given our family over the last two terms.

We have really appreciated all the generosity from the staff and families of this wonderful school. Our journey ahead is still a long one as we await a heart transplant for Courtney. Please continue to keep us in your prayers. 

With much love and thanks Adrienne, Dean, Courtney, Millie & Phoebe

Enrolment applications for Year 9 in 2020 close on Friday, 2 August.  If you require more information please email admin@stpats.school.nz or phone Gerardine Parkinson on 939 5417.  Enrolment documentation is available on the College website – www.stpats.school.nz 

We had an amazing community event to celebrate Matariki. Thank you to everyone who supported us and generously gave their time.

Special mention has to go to our performance Kapa Haka group who were exceptional singing their waiatia. 

A BIG THANK YOU to our generous sponsors who provided food and coffee for our Matariki breakfast:

Thorndon New World

Pandoro Panetteria Ltd, 2 Allen Street, Wellington

Caffe L'affare, 27 College St, Te Aro, Wellington

Last Friday we celebrated our school feast day. We had liturgies in our classrooms, followed by co operative games, and then in the afternoon a creative sharing assembly.

The day highlighted just how special it is to be a part of our wonderful school. The following photos capture our Feast Day in action.

Thank you to the Rm 5 parents who generously provided food for a shared lunch and a gift for Clare and Jonny for their upcoming wedding.

Term 1

Tuesday 4 February to Thursday 9 April

Term 2 

Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 2  July – Friday 3 July Kahui Ako Professional Development  day

 Term 3 

Monday 20 July - Friday 25 September

Term 4   

Monday 12 October – Thursday 17 December

We are participating in mufti mania next Friday to raise funds for Doputz Primary School in Bougainville, to help them access water, new toilets, repair classrooms and get new resources. This is part of the work Caritas are doing. A gold coin would be much appreciated.

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.

Code Club was a weekly after school activity every Tuesday.  Our task was to code/make a fully functional animation or game!  Everyone was either on Scratch or other various programmes and with the help of Pravin and Janet (from Victoria University), we were to achieve our goal by Week 9.  It was a lot of fun and hard work and by Week 9 we were presenting.  Our top three games/animation developers won prizes!  And they went home with packs from Google!  

Our winners were:  Fatimai Rm 10, Eva Rm 10 and Tyler Rm 8.  And we plan to continue to do code club for the next 2 terms!  We are all excited to continue our learning of computer science!

Written by Fatimai Rm 10

Photo of:  Pravin, Eva, Fatimai and Tyler.

Taupo Netball Tournament

Bella T Rm 8 and Tifa's Rm 9 team attended a netball tournament at Owen Delanely Park in Taupo on the 30th June.  We played 5 very competitive and challenging teams, taking out the tournament!  We won 13-11 against Matamata who we played in the finals! 

Netball Results:

Sacred Heart Jade played SFDS Rockets and lost 20-35.  Lynda Rm 8, was awarded 'player of the day.'

Sacred Heart Ferns played St Mark's Stars and lost 5-19.  Litia Rm 10, was awarded 'player of the day'.

Sacred Heart Emeralds played St Pat's Flyers and lost 5-9.  Larissa Rm 8, was awarded 'player of the day'.

Sacred Heart Pulse played Hataitai Honeybees and won 6-2.  Bianca Rm 7, was awarded 'player of the day'.

Sacred Heart Sapphires played St Mark's Diamonds and lost 0-11.  We did not have a player of the day.

Larissa from Rm 8 has lost her black Kathmandu puffer jacket.  It has her name on it.  Please check your child's puffer jacket and if found, please return to Larissa in Rm 8.  Thank you.

Congratulations to the above Room 3 students who have earned Gold Medals on Mathletics this term!

Alyssa, Adee, Chanelle, Cielo and Daniel.

We are very proud!

Last Wednesday evening, Cardianl John celebrated a special Mass to mark 50 Years of Caritas.

28 Jun 2019

Dear Bernadette,

 

Thank you for your recent support for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand’s work for justice, peace and development.  Your continued commitment, and that of all our donors, allows us to advocate for change, support community development projects and respond to emergencies both internationally and within New Zealand. 

We are very appreciative of your donation and thank you again for your kind generosity and support. We will be in touch again shortly with our Winter Update newsletter featuring more information on our work and how we are helping poor and vulnerable communities.  

                                                                       

 

 

Julianne Hickey

Director

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand

 

As a school, we are committed to promoting the safe and responsible use of the internet. The following may be of interest to you.

Fortnite - a game played with other players or on your own. The site recommends players should not be under 12 years of age because of the violent content.

OoVoo - a video and messaging app that allows up to 12 people to chat at a time. The site recommends you be at least 13 years old before you can create an account.

Skype - a video and messaging app that recommends you be at least 13 years old before an account can be created.

Instagram - an online mobile sharing, video sharing and social networking service which enables users to take photos and videos and share across a variety of social media platforms. This site recommends users to be 13 years old before they can create an account.

Facebook - this is a social networking site and recommends 13 years of age and older before you can create an account.

Whats App -an instant messaging app for smartphones. The user agreement recommends that users be 16 years of age and older. Children are often creating groups to which others can join. This means that all information is shared with anyone in the group so privacy is lost.

With text messaging, try talking to your child about appropriate online behaviour such as not sharing personal information and not positng or messaging content or photos that are offensive. Keep monitoring your child's use of language and how they communicate with others.

The Friends of Sacred Heart are running a movie fundraiser with Lion King.  For details, please see the PDF attached below.