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SACRED HEART PRIMARY SCHOOL VISION: At Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School we promote a sense of belonging and generosity which reflects the teachings of Jesus. We strive towards independence and mastery in an atmosphere of faith hope and love.
40 Mary Street, Highgate WA 6003 Phone: (08) 9328 8817 Fax: (08) 9328 9340 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://web.shpsh.wa.edu.au/ Twitter: @shpsHighgate
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Dear Parents
Congratulations to all of our Year 3 to 6 swimmers. They all performed extremely well on Monday giving their best in all events. The extra training really produced results, especially in the 100m Freestyle and the 50m Butterfly. In previous years we only had a couple of children who could complete these events and on Monday we had a full pool for both, well done. Once again the organization of the event was first class and to Mrs Alderman and all her helpers, well done. We now have our annual inter school carnival on Monday next week at Challenge Stadium Pool. This is a chance for our better swimmers to compete at the next level and see how they go. I think this year we are a very strong chance at taking out the most improved shield going on results from our carnival, good luck to all.
There has been a couple of updates to one of our whole school blogs that you may want to read, as our focus has been emotions and manners over the last few weeks, the link is the following: http://shpshengagingheartsandminds.blogspot.com.au/
The rest of this week and next will be very busy as usual at the end of a term. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to attend student interviews this week. It is an important part of our reporting procedures and gives you the chance to get a clear picture of your child’s progress both academically and socially. Thank you to all teaching staff who have also given up their time to make these interviews happen.
Chris Dunning – Principal
FAITH TRUTH LOYALTY Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
“For the Greater Glory of God”
Parish Priest: Father Peter Bianchini 64 Mary Street, Highgate Phone: (08) 9328 3433 Fax: (08) 9227 0137 E-mail: [email protected] www.members.westnet.com.au/highgatesh/news.htm Parish Mass Times Saturday — 8:00am, Vigil Mass 6:00pm Sunday — 9:00am, Italian Mass 10:15am Monday to Friday — 7:00am (except 8am public holidays) Saturday — 5:00pm - 5:30pm Reconciliation
NEWSLETTER: 25th March 2015 TERM 1, WEEK 8
IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES
Mar 23 Parent Interview Week 27 P&F Parent Sundowner 7-9pm (Please note date change from 13th) 29 Palm Sunday 30 Interschool Swimming Carnival-HBF Stadium Apr 2 Good Friday Ceremony 9am School Hall Special Assembly 2pm LAST DAY OF TERM 1 20 TERM 2 RECOMMENCES Swimming Lessons commence
2016 Kindergarten Enrolments Interviews will commence in Term 2. Sibling families who have not provided an enrolment will need to do so immediately in order not to miss out on a place.
Students for kindergarten in 2016 must be born between 1/7/11 to 30/6/12.
Application forms are available at the school office or the website. Catholic families will need to provide a Parish Priest Reference form.
SCHOOL AWARDS - to be presented at assembly on Friday Principal Award Teacher Award Pre Primary George Blaikie Jack Chillemi Year 1 Lukas Van Niekerk Faith Baltov Year 2 Ben Le Sienna Lake Year 3 Kenshin Mina Leo Farinola Year 4 Frederique Bernier-Lessard Edoardo Paolucci Year 5 Jordi Stewart Valentino Tartaglia Year 6 Alana Nguyen Peter Nguyen
Swimming Carnival Results and Thank you Congratulations to Taylor for winning
this year’s Faction Swimming Carnival. Final Scores were 1st Taylor – 776 (Gold) 3rd Hewitt – 552 (Blue ) 2nd Henley – 568 (Green ) 4th Lee – 525 (Red) Every child competed in at least 3 events and everyone received a ribbon. There was wonderful team spirit and of course good sportsmanship displayed on the day. It was obvious that the training on Monday and Friday was worthwhile. Many thanks to Clairly Lance and Sonia Koroll for taking the children on Friday morning and to Andy who helped me train the swimmers on Monday after school. Thank you to the following people who played a part in the success of the Carnival: Mrs Hill who was the force behind Lee faction. Miss Allen who was the teacher supporting Hewitt. Miss Cooper who was a great support to Henley. Mrs Miocevich who cheered for Taylor. Thanks to Maria Devlin who organized the swimmers for the start of each race. She was a fantastic support and enabled the carnival to run smoothly. Thank you to our judges: Sharon O’Riley, Tash Spanjich, Rosanna Soares Mendes, Melissa Troy, Clairly Lance and Quyen Tran. The scorers: Mr Dunning and Mrs Castelanelli The Marshalls who organized our swimmers at the end of each race: Natasha Nillsen, Yvette Keys, Aesen Thambiran. The water supporters: David Miocevich, Natasha Mailey, Clairly Lance, Sonia Koroll and Phil Nillsen. Beautiful photos were taken by Kathryn Bond and they will be displayed on our website in the near future. And well done to Mrs Byrne-King who helped make it an exciting carnival by providing entertaining and informative commentary. Now it is on to the Interschool Event at HBF Stadium next Monday. I know our team is very excited and are proud to represent Sacred Heart at the next level. The school community is right behind you, so good luck, do your best and enjoy the experience. Mrs Stephanie Alderman (Physical Education Teacher)
Easter Liturgy There will be a special Holy Week Reflection with the presentation of the Stations of the Cross, on Thursday, 2nd April, at 9.00am. This will be presented by the Year Six Class and the school, and will take place in the school hall. Everyone is welcome to attend. Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
Special Assembly– Last day of Term 1 - 2nd April A special assembly for Mr Dunning will be held at 2.00pm on the afternoon of the 2nd. At this assembly we will say Farewell to Mr Dunning with a presentation from the Year 6 class and the school. We will also announce the winners of our traditional Easter Egg Raffle Draw. Please come and join us to
celebrate Mr Dunning and his time here at Sacred Heart. Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
CANTEEN (9422-7945) Please see the attached flyer for new Canteen items available.
Please ensure to order from the new summer menu. Sushi orders MUST be paid on Monday to receive
Sushi on Wednesday.
Uniform Focus At Sacred Heart we wish for the students to take great pride in the way that they present themselves in the school uniform. This week’s uniform focus is: ensuring that all girls’ hair ties are RED. Matching coloured hair ties may be worn on Friday to match the faction tops eg. students in Hewitt blue faction may wear blue hair ties when wearing their blue tops. All hair past shoulder length should be tied up. The uniform policy can be accessed on the school website. http://web.shpsh.wa.edu.au/pdf/policies/policies_uniforms.pdf Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
ATTACHMENTS 2015 My Life Short Story Competition Parenting Idea (School website) P&F Easter Raffle P&F Sponsorship Proposal School Fete (School website) P&F Committee Update (School website) School Banking Newsletter School Canteen - New Menu Items YMCA Vacation Care April 2015 YMCA Gumtree Enrolment Form
YMCA Sacred Hear t Before School Care tr ial is going for a fur ther two weeks with the hope of an increase in bookings. At the moment we are averaging about 5 children per morning. It is strongly encourage that if you want the program to continue running please book in for a couple of extra mornings per week to increase those numbers. We are looking at about 8 children to keep the program running. All it will take is a few extra bookings each day to keep the program which we really hope to see. Our Before School Care Program runs from 7am and is $17 for a permanent booking and $19 for a casual booking. For more information please contact us at 0458988083 or email us at [email protected]. The Vacation Care for April 2015 holidays is out now. YMCA Sacred Heart does not run Vacation care at Sacred Heart but will run the program at Gumtrees YMCA. Please refer to the flyers for more information and contact the supervisor directly at YMCA Gumtrees for more information if needed.
The Sacred Heart Community Cook Book As part of our school fund raising this year, we would like to publish a Sacred Heart Recipe Book. We know that many families have their favourite style of food, favourite cultural dish or special dietary requirements. Some of the categories we plan to use in our book will be breakfast, lunch, dinner, cakes and slices, special dietary requirements, old fashioned favourites, dips and snacks and mums quick and easy. You may also use recipes from popular chefs such as Jamie Oliver, or Donna Hay etc. If you are using one of these recipes then please acknowledge the chef and where the recipe comes from. If possible please take a photo of your creation using a camera or photo equipment with a high definition resolution. One of our categories will be Old Fashioned Favourites. Please ask Grandparents what was the best recipe of their day. Any cooking tips that you may have (old or new) can also be included. Please return your ideas to Mrs Worner by the end of term one. Happy recipe hunting and cooking. Mrs Barbara Worner (Art Teacher)
COMMUNITY
Caritas - Project Compassion 2015 feature people that help us learn about how their lives have changed through your support of Caritas Australia's development programs. Week 5 of the Caritas Lenten calendar features Cristian. Cristian is a farmer who lives in a remote Andean village in Peru. The community lives a traditional life, and without irrigation, farmers have always relied on the rains to water crops. Caritas Huacho is helping farmers like Cristian, to grow and harvest a wide variety of high-value, sustainable fruit crops which will provide a secure income and a wide variety of food for life. Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
Swimming Lessons Term 2 - MONDAY, 20TH APRIL 2015 School swimming lessons will take place in the first two weeks of Term 2 for all students in Years 1 through to Year 6. The students will be transported to and from Beatty Park by a hired bus and accompanied by their class teachers. The swimming lesson times are:
Years 1 & 6 9.20am Years 2 & 4 10.05am Years 3 & 5 11.05am
Students will need to wear bathers to school under their sports uniforms. For reasons of safety, they will come back to school to change after lessons. All students are to wear their sneakers to school and change into their thongs to go to the pool. The students will not wear their thongs to and from school. Students will need a plastic bag with the towel, sandals, cap, (swimming goggles, if they use them) sunscreen cream and underwear for afterwards. Please write your child’s name clearly on all items. It is essential that all parents please complete all details on the swimming form that went home last week and send it back your child’s teacher as soon as possible and no later than Friday 27th March 2015. Thank you for your understanding and assistance. Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
Sacramental Program 2015 If your child is a candidate for a Sacrament this year, here are some important dates for your diaries. (Please be aware that some corrections have been made on the days from last weeks Newsletter) Sacrament Parent Information Evenings Confirmation: Thursday, 30th April at 7.00pm. Eucharist: Thursday, 7th May at 7.00pm. Reconciliation: Thursday, 14th May at 7.00pm. Venue: School Hall Sacrament Workshops for Candidates and their parents. Confirmation: Tuesday, 30th June at 6.00-7.30pm. Eucharist: Tuesday, 9th June at 6.00-7.30pm. Reconciliation: Tuesday, 16th June at 6.00-7.30pm. Venue : School Hall Enrolment Masses Confirmation: Saturday, 16th May at 6.00pm. Eucharist: Saturday, 23rd May at 6.00pm. Reconciliation: Saturday, 6th June at 6.00pm. All Masses will take place at 6.00pm at the Sacred Heart Church. Sacrament of Confirmation Saturday, 8th August 2015 (Sacred Heart Church, Highgate) Carolyn Perlini and Renee Byrne-King (Acting Assistant Principals)
Practical Parenting Advice by Michael Grose (See attachment)
Italian Lessons The Italo-Australian Welfare & Cultural Centre Inc has provided an excellent Italian Community Language Program which has run for thirty six years in mainstream schooling (public and private schools insertion classes), as well as to the wider community, and now due to funding cuts the Italian program may be lost. There is a petition for parents to sign which will be in the school office over the next week. Please sign if you would like to support the continuation of this program. Thank you for your support. Signora Nicolao (Italian Teacher)
Morley Senior High School - Information Evening 2016 Students & Parents invited
Tuesday, 31st March 7pm (Arts Foyer) Free sausage sizzle will be provided by the P&F at 6.30pm.
Specialist Programs available: Aviation or Multi Media Program
Apply now, places available. Entrance testing Wednesday, 29th April at 1.30pm.
Further information call 9376-5555.
Mt. Lawley Dental Therapy Centre will be closed from Fr iday, 3rd April until Friday, 17th April. Emergency dental treatment only will be available between the hours of 8am -4pm:- 7th, 15th, 16th & 17th April at Hillcrest Dental Therapy Centre. Phone 9271-7184. 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th April at Roseworth Dental Therapy Centre. Phone 9342-4657. For after- hours emergency please phone 9325 3452. Mt. Lawley Dental Therapy Centre will re-open on Monday, 20th April at 8am. Please note we remain at Coolbinia Primary School until the dental clinic at Mt. Lawley Primary has been completed and ready for us to occupy.
P&F 2015 P&F Committee Update: See attached
Second Hand Uniform Sale: On the 1st of Apr il there will be a Second Hand Uniform Sale in the School Hall at the following times - 8:20-9:00am & 2:50-3:30pm.
School Fete 2015: We are looking for some fabulous businesses who are interested in sponsoring our rides at the School Fete – whether you own or work for a business who is interested we’d love your support, with great marketing opportunities available, please contact Alysha Cass on [email protected] or refer to the attached Sponsorship Proposal.
Before School Care YMCA: This vital program is currently averaging around 5 children attending per day. In order to make the program viable and to ensure that it will keep running, we need to be averaging around 8 children attending per day. YMCA has kindly agreed to continue to trial the program for a further two weeks in the hope that bookings will increase. Please contact the Supervisor Sharon NG on 0458 988 083 or [email protected] for more details.
Easter Raffle: Donations are now being sought for the Easter Raffle, please drop your donations in the basket within your child’s classroom by Monday 30 March 2015. Refer to the attached for more info.
Parents Sundowner: 7pm - 9pm Friday 27 March 2015. See attached for more info. Please RSVP to your year representative by today 25/3/15.
School banking: School Banking is on Tuesday morning from 8.30am in the school library, this is great way to introduce your children to the benefits of regular saving, they receive some great awards and the school is paid commission by the Commonwealth Bank on the deposits made.
School Fete Craft Group: We will once again be having a fabulous arts and crafts stall at the 2015 School Fete. Contact Danielle at [email protected] for more details.
School Bags: Old style school back packs are available at $60 and new trolley bags (no school logo attached) are now available at $75. Please see the office staff if you would like to make a purchase. 2015 P&F Executive
Come along & mingle with other SHPS Parents &
farewell Chris Dunning…Friday 27th March 2015
Sacred Heart Primary School Front Courtyard
7pm- 9pm
BYO- Drinks, Nibbles & Picnic Blanket
G&T Masterclass with Andy Mac from Five Bar – Just $15- PLEASE RSVP to year reps
NB: Some yummy nibbles will be provided by
Adam & Marissa at Poach Pear!
(This event is not for kiddies)
My Life Short Story Competition
Know young writers (8-13 years-old) who tell funny stories? Enter the 2015 My Life Short Story Competition and win $1000 plus signed My Life books and $1000 worth of books for your school! (I secretly hope to find a story to include in my next My Life book, too.) Enter as many times as you like and remember that I'm trying to find a story that fits with the kind of humour in the My Life books, so grab one and have a read. All the details and an easy submission page for your entry are on the Random House Australia website: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/competitions/entryform.aspx?id=633
Happy writing!
School Banking Newsletter….. March 2015 Welcome to another year of School Banking! We continue to work hand in hand with the Commonwealth Bank teaching our children the importance of saving and lifelong money stills through this wonderful program. We were thrilled to hear that our school earnt the highest amount in commissions of all the Western Australian schools in 2014. Our commission was a massive $2807.07 for the year! This is derived from 5% of all deposits we accept (to a maximum of $10 per deposit) plus $5 for every new student that starts banking through the school. Thank you to all involved with school banking and most importantly all the children who bank with us throughout the year. Let’s continue on our winning streak! Julianne Davidson School Banking Co-ordinator Ph: 0416 164 294
An important message for
Youthsaver account holders: The interest rate for Youthsaver accounts is only 0.01% p.a. however you can earn BONUS INTEREST of 3.19% p.a. if you make at least one deposit and no withdrawals every month. So even if you can’t bank every single week, at least make one deposit each month so you can earn the bonus interest.
Hey Kids…..Join the Program! To start banking at school, all you need to do is ask mum or dad to visit your local Commonwealth Bank branch and open up a Youthsaver Account. They’ll need their drivers licence or passport as well as your birth certificate or passport. You’ll receive a dollarmites deposit book & wallet as well as a Platybank money box. Then you just need to earn your pocket money and make your first deposit and start earing rewards. School banking is held every Tuesday morning, from 8.30 to 9.00 in the School Library! See you there!
To keep students motivated and encourage participation, every year CommBank introduce a new savings adventure. In 2015, we’re taking students on a mission to Planet Savings and have eight new reward items to choose from our Outer Space Savers range. The items available in term one are the ET DVD and the outer space handball. For each deposit made, you will receive one silver token. Tokens were carried over from last year, so remember to order your reward as soon as you have ten tokens on hand. There are also still plenty of great rewards available from previous years.
