23 February

Dear Parents

Thank you to those parents who were able to come to the Parent Information night on Tuesday. If you were unable to be there, please make sure you get a copy of the class newsletter which explains the routines and expectations.

Some of the other topics discussed include:

Newsletter – Sent home on a Thursday. Send your email address to Christine at office@shsinv.school.nz to be put on the mailing list.

Also please let us know if your child has achieved something special outside school that we can celebrate in the newsletter.

Communication – A reminder about no teacher interviews after 8.30 am.

The easiest and quickest mode of communication with your child’s teacher is email. Mail will be cleared daily.

moneill@shsinv.school.nz vstupples@shsinv.school.nz tswney@shsinv.school.nz

stagomoa@shsinv.school.nz rbuxton@shsinv.school.nz nwinders@shsinv.school.nz

jharding@shsinv.school.nz klieshout@shsinv.school.nz

Lent

Lent is a 40-day period of preparation for Easter Sunday and one of the major liturgical seasons of the Catholic Church. The season is a time of prayer, fasting, giving to those in need and preparing ourselves for Easter. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. (The Sundays are not included in the 40day count.)

This time is an opportunity to focus on things about ourselves that we know we need to change and is a time to give to others in need.

A Lenten box will come around the classrooms each day for children to put a donation in, if they wish. The money will be sent to the Pontifical Mission which helps children.

School Jubilee

This year is the schools 50^th Jubilee. We celebrated the opening date of 4 /2/1962 during our opening school mass. A jubilee committee has been established and plans are under way to hold jubilee celebrations in conjunction with our school fair in November.

Enrolments

It is the time of the year when we send roll returns into the ministry of education to predict future year staffing. If you have a pre-schooler or know of someone who is intending to enrol at Sacred Heart, could you please let me know.

PTA – Meeting 7.30pm Thursday 1^st March School Staff Room

Welcome back to school everyone, to what’s started back as a very busy term already. The PTA are getting together to discuss what’s happening in this first term, make arrangements for a fun family event, and to organise our AGM, later in March. We would love to meet some new people who are keen to come and help with organising fun children, family or parents events, and/or help out when they can with our fundraisers.

We are again selling the Entertainment Books and these will be on offer to our parents, families, friends and work mates. The school receives $10 from every book sold, so if you know of people wanting to buy the book, let them know that you can get them for them when they become available later in March. A flyer will come out in the coming weeks explaining all you need to know about the Entertainment Book or you can have a look at their site www.entertainmentbook.co.nz. The money we earn from the sales of these books is to be used to purchase new gym mats.

Our meeting is this Thursday evening, 1^st March in the staff room at 7.30am. We’d love to see you there. So if you’re keen, come along, bring a friend, and get to know how the school runs. You will meet people who share the common goal of wanting to help where possible to ensure our children get to enjoy their time at Sacred Heart School and have access to all that’s required to help in their learning and development.

PTA – 2^nd Hand Uniform Sale – Friday 2^nd March 2.30 pm

A massive secondhand uniform sale will be held on the above date.

Items will be sold for as low as .50c so this is a great opportunity for parents to come along and get a bargain.

Year 4, 5 & 6 Cricket

We are looking for a couple more players for this team. Games are at 4 pm on Fridays. Please see me if your child is able to play. Thank you.

Lost Jersey - Please check your child has the correct jersey at home.

Aubrey Page from Room 5 has misplaced his.

2012 Southland Junior Schools Swimming Champs

This is being held on Sunday 1^st April at Splash Palace. Entries close 21^st March.

If your child is interested in competing in this, please see me.

Altar Servers

Saturday 25^th Feb 7.00 pm Nathan & Sam Russell

Sunday 26^th Feb 10.30 am Charlotte & Sam Sherriff

Children’s Liturgy Trish Sherriff

Sports Results

Seals Flipper -ball team beat Waianiwa 7-0. They all played really well for their first game.

Under 6 Soccer team played All Brights and drew 1 all. POD was Matthew Winter.

Dore Programme - FREE Information Evening

7.30pm on Monday 27^th February. Southern Institute of Technology, 133 Tay Street

Dore is holding a free information evening, which we believe will be of particular interest to special needs teachers and the parents of students who have learning difficulties such as Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome.

The Dore Programme is a highly effective drug-free exercise based programme for those with learning difficulties. To reserve a place phone 0508 520 000 or email info@dore.co.nz. For further information on the Dore Programme visit www.dore.co.nz

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Heritage Harvest Festival 24-25th March

Celebrating Southland¹s Home Harvest. Mark on your calendar and come along for a family fun weekend, competitions, workshops, displays and stalls. Gold coin entry for adults, kids free. Harvest themed stall space available, only $20 for 2 days or $15 for 1 day. For more information check out our webpage www.sces.org.nz or phone 2348 717.

Camp Columba

Check out the notice board in the junior corridor if you are interested in attending a ‘Mother Daughter’ or ‘Father Son’ Camp at Pukerau in March/April.

Room 3 Class Happenings

What a great start we have had in Room 3! As you all will know, yesterday saw the first anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake. To remember the hardship that the Canterbury people have had to face, Rooms 2 and 3 put flowers in a road cone that had been placed in front of the Sacred Heart church. As we stood around the road cone in a circle, each one of us put a flower in the top of the cone or around the base, and if we chose to, we could also say a prayer.

In class, we also practised what to do in the event of an earthquake if we were in the classroom. We all moved to under a table, holding onto a table leg while forming a ‘turtle’ to keep ourselves safe. A ‘turtle’ is where we make ourselves as small as we can. We would be happy to show you if you asked us to. We learnt that it is important to know what to do even if we do not have an earthquake.