6 June

Dear Parents

Our Prayers are with the Kinney family this week.

Sacred Heart Day  ~  Tomorrow is Sacred Heart Feast Day. We will celebrate with a Mass in the morning, a sausage sizzle run by the PTA, followed by fun activities in the afternoon. Children are to wear their normal school uniforms.

Fonterra Milk  ~  We have now had our 2^nd day of ‘Milk in Schools’. A big thanks to Amanda Smith and Maria O’Donnell for your assistance in the distribution and collection of the containers.

LCN Meeting  ~  Thanks to the parents who were able to attend the meeting on Tuesday. Staff, parents and children will be meeting with the Waverley Park School community next Tuesday 11^th June @ 6pm.

Two of the outcomes from our involvement so far have been:

• The discussions with the parents have provided us with a huge amount of information about parents’ perceptions around writing and how children learn.
•  A change of focus in the assessment of our writing. Less reliance on e-asTTle and PAT Tests and more on the criteria from our writing rubric. E-asTTle and PAT tests are still very useful, but a number of changes around the pupil grades have caused some inconsistencies. We are looking to analyse each writing step to find areas to work on.

Outstanding Sports Fees  ~  We would appreciate Term 2 sports fees being cleared up please. Accounts are rolling in so we need to get these paid. Please phone Christine if you are unsure if you have paid your child’s Netball, Hockey or Table Tennis.

Zone Cross Country  ~  The Zone Cross Country will be held at Elizabeth Park (St Patricks) on 18^th June. Congratulations to the following children who will be representing Sacred Heart School: William Reitsma-Smith, Justin Mclean, Cory Foleni, Shaun Wilks, Tom Nally, Jake Meikle, Caleb Brown, Aimee Brookland, Kayla Boniface, Bridie Kinney, Charlotte Sherriff, Piper Adams, Janelle Tinker, Shawn Clapperton, Devan Fiebig, Jakobe Paraki, Josh Cooper, Max Forde, Ben Oosterbroek, Tylee Fiebig, Brooklyn McLeod, Sionelle Cahill, Kate Johnstone, Amy Ingham and Katelyn Maloney.

PTA  ~  The next PTA meeting will be held this Monday 10^th June 7.30 pm in the staffroom. Parents are most welcome to attend.

Fruit Order from Roxburgh  ~  This is the last order for the season, so if you want pears, apples or pumpkins, come into the office tomorrow morning to place an order.

Delivery date is Tuesday 11^th June.

Cross Country Photos  ~  The photos from the school Cross Country will hang in the corridor for all to view.  If you wish to get a copy of any of these photos, you can email Mrs Buxton: rbuxton@shsinv.school.nz before Friday 14 June 2013, and she will email you a copy of the photo you require. 

Week 5  ~  In the words of Pope Francis...

Crossing the threshold of faith implies keeping our sense of wonder and a heart that has not lazily settled into a routine, but is capable of recognizing that every time a woman brings a child into this world she is logically betting on life and on the future, that when we protect the innocence of children we guarantee the truth of a tomorrow, and when we act as caregivers for an elderly person we perform an act of justice and cherish our roots.

School Production

Production is in the last week of term. Our classes are starting to amp up the production focus and some need help in various areas. Please let your classroom teacher know if you are able to lend a hand.

Room 1 children need animal costumes for their part of the production.

If anyone has any animal costumes that will fit 5/6 year olds, please let Mrs Williams know.

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.

Library Visit

7 students will be attending a librarian training day at the Invercargill Library next Tuesday.

Facebook Notification  ~  With some parents unable to access Facebook at work, for sports messages etc, there is another option available.   If you txt 8987 with “Follow shsch435” you will receive free updates to your phone.

Church Cleaners  ~  There is a great need for volunteers to help clean Sacred Heart Church. This takes two people approx. 1 hour. There are two vacuum cleaners available and there is no set time you have to do the cleaning. The more we get, you may only be required to clean once or twice a year. Thank you in anticipation, please contact Cecilia Russell 215-4666 or Pat Tippen 215-9971.

Achievements  ~  Lucy Baynes competed in her first Ballet Competition last weekend and received a 1^st in the 8yr Novice and a 3^rd in the 8yr Open.

Brooklyn McLeod received the ‘Etiquette Trophy’ for the most behaved in the Under 12yr olds.

Hockey Results

Sacred Heart Ballers played Otatara and won 6 – 1. POD was Josh Livingstone.

Sacred Heart Stars played St Pats and won 8 – 1. POD was Aubrey Page.

Altar Servers

Saturday 8^th June                     7.00 pm            Caleb Wolf & Caleb Brown

Sunday 9^th June                        10.30 am          Abby Humm & Max Forde

Children’s Liturgy                    Amanda Smith 

Class Happenings – Room 5

Mr Esler visited Room 5 to share with us about forces, gravity and magnets. He shared with us many interesting things and brought along lots of equipment for us to explore. Here are some interesting facts Mr Esler talked about.

·       Without gravity the world would explode.

·       That plants and spiders in space don’t know where to grow or in what direction to spin their webs.

·       That everything that drops falls directly to the centre of gravity which is in the centre of the earth.

·       That the furthest people have ever dug down into the earth is 3000m because it gets to hot and there is no air.

·       Mr Esler showed us the shape of cars today can turn corners because of their shape, more easily than the vintage car.

·       We also explored pivots and where the work happens in a variety of gadgets and utensils.

Lastly we explored a variety of activities to try with magnets.

Challenge to try at home ~ We tested our centre of gravity by kneeling on the ground, putting our elbows together and placing a cotton reel at the end of our fingers on the ground; and then placing our hands behind our back.  We then tried to lean over and rest our forehead on the cotton reel without falling over.

After play Mr Esler came to Room 5. I got to play with lots of stuff. It was fun too. I got to try magnets and there was lots of equipment.  Sam W

 After play Mr Esler came into Room 5. The best part that I loved was the gravity part because he told us how much gravity we need. The magnet one was cool too. I liked trying to pick up the fish. I liked doing the iron -sand magnet activity because I made a sand house out of it.  Cole R

Mr Esler visited Room 5 to share about forces, especially gravity and magnets. He told us that without gravity we couldn’t breathe.  Fabian

Today Mr Esler came to Room 5. He taught us about science.  My favourite part was when he taught us about magnets because we got to use them and find out what things they can do.  Malachi