29 August 2008

Dear Parents

Welcome to Corbyn Shuttleworth and Tessa Wright who joined the children in Room 1 this week. We hope they enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the extended Hishon family this week.

I mentioned last week we were starting to show the effects of the flu epidemic. This week we have been really hit, with up to a quarter of the children away some days.
With the Olympics now over I heard that a container of fence posts and barbed wire had arrived in Beijing. The Irish fencing team had finally arrived.

Unfortunately we say goodbye to Mrs Buxton who is leaving to work in Abu Dhabi for 12 months. Her last day this term will be Friday 19th September. We wish her well and look forward to hearing how hard it is to ride a camel. P.s. we are putting in requests for barrels of oil to augment our supplies.
Miss Tagomoa will finish the year off in Room 5.

FIRST RECONCILIATION
Please pray for the following children who are making their FIRST RECONCILIATION on Thursday 7 June –at 6.30pm in the church. Benjamin Henderson, Rory Horn, Damian Mitchell, Samuel Russell, Samuel Sherriff, Michael Walker and Isabella Wild.

SPECIAL CHARACTER
We will be visited by representatives from the Catholic Education Office on Monday to carry out a Special Character Review. The reviewers will be Pam Robertson, Monsignor Vince Walker and Br Dennis Turner. They will be observing RE lessons in all classes.

THINKNET CONFERENCE
On Tuesday 9th September Chelsie Grindlay, Cassidy Mackie, Sophie Reitsma-Smith, Trent Ronald, Thomas Hawkes, Clarke LeBreton, Lee Boniface and Michael Walker will attend ‘Kids Conference’ at Bluff School.
Imelda Wilkes (organising committee), Tammy Honotapu & Patrick Horn (workshop presenters) will also attend this day.

SOUTHLAND SPEECH CONTEST
Meg Kelly and Ryan LeBreton will represent Sacred Heart School at the 2nd round of this competition at Verdon College on Tuesday 2nd September. We wish them luck!

JUMP JAM WORKSHOP
Clarke LeBreton, William Mason, Shelly Mitchell and Briar Kilsby will attend a workshop with Miss Kirkwood at Salford School on Tuesday afternoon to become ‘Jump Jam’ leaders. The workshop will be run by Brett Fairweather who is the founder and presenter of Jump Jam.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Ø Olivia Thornbury who has been selected to represent Southland in Women's Artistic Gymnastics (Level 4) at the Gym Sports National Championships to be held at Mystery Creek (Hamilton) from September 26th to September 30th 2008.

Ø Meg O’Connell, Imelda Wilkes and Rueben Brown for their performances in the Repertory Production of ‘Snow White and the dreadful dwarfs’. Fabulous performances! Thank you also to the Sacred Heart families who went to watch the show.

GOOD LUCK
Good luck to Joshua Cooper Room 1 4 – 5 years, Jake Meikle 6 – 8 years division 2 and Mitchell Thompson 6 – 8 years division 1, who are competing in The Southern MX Series this Saturday at Sandy Point MX track.
All welcome!!! Under 12 free or $5 entry.

REMINDER ~ ENROLMENTS FOR VERDON COLLEGE CLOSE 1 SEPTEMBER 2008

CORE 3 JACKETS FOR SALE SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 10.30 – 12.30 AM ST JOHNS AMBULANCE ROOMS JED STREET – Check out the ad on the noticeboard in the junior corridor. Contact 027-4529119.

PTA

A school fair is being organized for Sunday 9th November. For this to be successful we need helpers to help collect prizes for the chocolate wheel and silent auction. If you know of anyone who is able to donate any prizes please phone Liza Adams 215-9995 or Lynley Stevens 215-7275. Also keep aside all your trash and treasure for the white elephant stall. Please phone Liza Adams
or Tina Heath 215-8234 who have garage space available to store these items. If you are able to help in any way please let us know. Many hands make light work!!

Tickets are now on sale for Sing Out at the ICC Booking Office.
Our school’s performance is on Wednesday 17 September.Tickets are (once again, thanks to the assistance of the ILT) $12.50 for adults and $6.50
for children.

Class Happenings ~ Room 5

Speeches: All Room 5 have been working really hard on speeches for the last couple of weeks. We learnt about speeches and what makes a good speech. Everyone had a very good topic and had done lots of research and spent lots of time on them. Sadly, only two people can get into the next round of the competition.

Science Fair: On 22 August some people went to the Southland Science Fair at Ascot Park. I was one of those people. When I had a look around I had tonnes of ideas. If you did go you would have a good idea for an investigation next time. Patrick, Thomas, Kelsey, Cassidy, Michael and Clarke also represented our school. We got asked questions about our investigation. By Ryan

Brother Osmond: Brother Os came to Room 5 to talk to us about the mission of the Church and about Marist Brothers and priests. He brought some hats and balloons and we wrote our names on them to remind us about Brother Os. The hats were to show us that he does different things. We asked him some questions about living as a religious person. He told us that Marist brothers are ordinary people, who don’t just pray all day, but they don’t own anything of their own, but what they have is shared among the people who need it. He goes to the prison to talk to the people in there about Jesus and God.
We also learned that Brother Os doesn’t really like Holdens but would really like a Falcon!! He has some hobbies, one of these is tramping which lets him see all God’s finest creation.
At the end, Brother Os prayed with us. We lit a candle to show that Jesus is the light of the world.