23 May

Dear Parents

A big thank you to all your children for their excellent behaviour yesterday at the combined schools’ Mass and afterwards when we had our visitors from Verdon and St. Thomas’. The photographer from “The Eye” made special mention to me of how polite and helpful our children were while she was here taking photos.

Also what a great photo in today’s paper. Thanks to the O’Donnell family for the use of their balloon entrance structure. It was an excellent backdrop for our photogenic 5 yr olds.

It was especially good to see the Verdon senior students here. Our children really enjoyed their presence at school yesterday.

We also had an incident yesterday where one of the bus drivers was in a hurry to leave and somehow managed to hit the basketball hoop, breaking a window and causing a small cut to one of our pupils. Again a big thanks to the staff and especially our senior students who helped with their younger buddies, as we moved to another bus and onto the Mass.

All correct procedures were followed to ensure our children’s safety and I have discussed this with the bus company and Board chairperson.

Today we farewell our students from the Southland Campus and we thank them for their input over the last 2 weeks.

Welcome to Quin Brown who joined the children in Room 2 today. We hope he and his family enjoy their time with us at Sacred Heart School.

Thank you to Hannah Skeggs who is helping the Room 7, 8 & 9 children out with their dance practise for this year’s production.

Board of Trustees

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following members of our school Board of Trustees for their hard work over the years:  Ian Harrington, David Brookland, Piki Brown and Susanne Brown as PTA representative, Ann McCloy as parish representative and Peter Downing.

I wish these people all the best for their future endeavours.

Thank you to Father Jacob for his continued support at meetings and Kath Lieshout as our teacher’s representative.  Paul Brooks will be continuing as our Parish Representative.     

Megan Roulston

Board Chair

Declaration of Parent Election Results

At the close of nominations, as the number of valid nominations was fewer than the number of vacancies required to be filled, I hereby declare the following duly elected:

                    Henderson, Dougall                      

                    Holland, Hayley

                    Roulston, Megan               

                    Winter, Jeremy

Jill Robertson

Returning Officer

Week 3  ~  In the words of Pope Francis...

Crossing the threshold of faith leads us to beg for each one of us the “mind... which was in Jesus Christ” (Phil 2:5), so that we may experience a new way of thinking, of communicating, of being in the family, of planning the future, of living out the virtue of charity and our vocation.

Sunday Mass ~ Trinity Sunday 26^th May

The children are to line up in the school foyer 10.15am to walk over to the church in class groups. The children are to be in correct school uniform.

School Enrolments

If you know of any prospective enrolments, please encourage them to ring the school to make an appointment to have a look around.

School Cross Country ~ Wednesday 29^th May 1.30 pm

Cancellation date is the Thursday 30^th May.  This will commence at 1.30 pm. Parents are most welcome to come along.

Entertainment Book

We still have a few of the 2013/2014 books for sale at the office. If you bought a 2012/2013 Book please remember it will expire on 1 June.

Production

Rooms 7, 8 & 9 will be using ribbons, buttons and material (especially gold, silver and black) for their costumes.  If you have any of these items and you would like to donate them towards our list of requirements, it would be much appreciated. A box will be placed outside Room 9. Thank you.

Achievements

Congratulations  to Fabian O’Donnell and his sister Giovanna on their baptism, last weekend. 

The Sacred Heart Tap dancers competed at the weekend and all went away with first place titles as well as each of them earning special awards - the dancers competing were Malachi Lange, Anika Winders, Kayla Boniface and Aimee Brookland.  A pretty awesome effort from Sacred Heart pupils!

Kayla Boniface who has been selected in a Jazz Dance group to perform at the Sharks Basketball game this weekend.

Brooke Cross who got 1^st overall for the 7yrs Gymnastic tournament last weekend in Dunedin. This was Brooke’s first competition.

Altar Servers

Saturday 25^th May        7.00 pm            Isabella & Mackenzie Wild

Sunday 26^th May           10.30 am          Nathan Russell & Claire Kinney

Children’s Liturgy                                School Mass

School Sores

Please beware school sore are circulating at the moment and are very contagious.

Guitar & Ukulele Lessons 

Contemporary music degree graduate and professional musician Phil MacClure (BConMus) offers quality tuition at an affordable price.

Call/text Phil on 027-763-9957. First lesson is free!

Wacky Wednesdays $10 Haircuts for Children

@ Vision Hair & Beauty215-7768.

Electric Knights Under 16 Marching Team is hosting a Quiz Night Friday 14^th June 7.30 pm @ the Glengarry. $20 per team of 4. Great prizes and raffles being run all night.

Wanting Undercover Storage for a Caravan over the Winter

Please contact Mrs Forbes.

Class Happenings – Room 1

Yesterday was Catholic Schools’ day.  We all went on a bus to the Invercargill Working Men’s Club and had a combined mass with all the Catholic schools in Invercargill, which was about 1000 children.  Father Hook took the mass and we all thoroughly enjoyed listening to him sing and learning a new song.

Once back at school, St Thomas’ from Winton joined us for lunch and an action packed afternoon of fun activities. 

Some children’s thoughts

about the day.

I really enjoyed being on the laptops in the afternoon with some St Thomas’ children – Jack

I liked when we got to have a colouring competition because I won! – Fiah

I enjoyed playing with the lego, because I got to join my lego with Marcus’ lego and we made a really big thing together and it was super cool – Andrew

I loved singing the songs with Father Hook, they were so awesome – By Ellie

I liked when Fiah and Alex got a prize for the colouring competition, they did a really good job – By Anya

A big thank you to Mr K and Miss Hayes

for all their hard work.