Issue 5 June 2020

To celebrate Matariki, SHC hosted a ‘Celebration of Cultures’. It was a

symphony of language, music and dance. The girls looked stunning in their

traditional clothing. The customs and practices of the many cultures

represented in our school were showcased and enjoyed by all.

A huge well done to our Cultural Leader Delilah for bringing this vision alive.

Japanese Students enjoy Cultural Assembly

Akari and Ibuki from Japan, enjoyed the opportunity to share their country

and culture at this very special assembly. Dressed in traditional yukata the

girls looked lovely. Students from all over NZ were being repatriated home

during lockdown so Sacred Heart College feel very fortunate that the Kosei

girls are still here enriching our school with their culture.

In celebration of Matariki, SHC

came together for a

‘Celebration of Cultures’

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From the Principal

Kia ora, Talofa Lava, Malo e Lelei, Dia Duit,

From a global pandemic we have moved into a global movement to address the injustice,

oppression, and racism that some people are subjected to. The Black Lives Matter movement

is making us all aware of the vulnerability of human life. The Pope tweeted on June 3 ‘We

cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form. At the same time, we have to recognize that

violence is self-destructive and self-defeating. Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost. Let us pray for rec-

onciliation and peace.’ As a catholic school one of the gospel values we have been focusing on since our return is

Aroha/Love. We have been encouraging our girls to show empathy, understanding, and be kind. Not only to others

but also to ourselves.

At one of our assemblies recently I spoke about the concept of “creating your reality”. This is not just some

“personal development” idea designed to create a sense of empowerment or give people a positive outlook, though

it has been used in that way. The truth is that we – consciously or not – are at the cause of our experience, pleasant

or unpleasant. Here is an extract from my speech;

‘This year the theme for Samoa Language Week is 'Tapena sou ōso mo lau malaga' which in English means 'Prepare

yourself a gift for your travels'. This year's theme urges you to prepare for the journey ahead. It highlights the need

to honour, respect and share the gifts of your life's journey.

While at this stage of your life some things are still out of your control as parents and teacher set expectation rules

and behaviours etc. But what is in your control is the people you surround yourself with and your own achievements.

Often people get transfixed on trying to find the reasons “out there” as to why things aren’t going how they wish

they were. What they don’t realise is that there was this force at work called the Law of Attraction. If you focused on

the “problems” and other areas of dissatisfaction in your life, more of the same will come into your life.

The lesson today is taking responsibility (not blame) for what we’ve attracted is the first and most powerful step to

attracting something else – something more in alignment with our sense of purpose and passion. Jesus tells us to

treat others as you want to be treated and love your neighbour as yourself.

So surround yourself with positive friends and people who make you feel better about yourself and your life’s

journey. Treat everyone you come in to contact, with love, kindness and above all respect. Set goals for success and

take responsibility for achieving them. It is never too early to create a vision of what you want to be and make it hap-

pen. You are the driver of your future and you can create your reality. 'Tapena sou ōso mo lau malaga, prepare your-

self a gift for your travels'.’

Our Motto is Hearts and Minds in harmony. Never more so has this been needed now. You will have

realised that school is not just for academic learning, it is so much more than that. This holistic focus on education is

particularly important here at Sacred Heart College. What we have all learned, is that while our teachers have done

such a good job adjusting to the use of remote learning and teaching, there is something irreplaceable that happens

when students and teachers come together to learn in person. However, our staff have made tremendous

advancement in using Microsoft TEAMs as a tool for learning and they continue to use this in conjunction with tradi-

tional forms of teaching. It is important that your daughter brings her laptop to school every day as we continue to

capitalise on the advantages this platform provides.

Covid-19. We have well and truly transitioned back into school life and we celebrate that New Zealand is back at Alert Level 1. What New Zealand has achieved as a nation is astonishing and something we should all be very proud of. In years to come we will look back at this with pride knowing that we were one of the countries that beat Covid-19. God Bless Maria Neville-Foster Principal

This year our Urupa Liturgy was held on Thursday 28th May. Our year 9 students hosted a beautiful Liturgy in the

Mission Centre and were delighted to have our guests Father Barry and Sister Francis (RNDM) join us.

Students prayed and reflected upon the history the sisters made here at Sacred Heart with lovely singing of the

Galilee song and readings. Rose petals were then sprinkled on the graves of our RNDM Sisters who are buried

onsite. The Liturgy was followed by morning tea and cake with our guests and staff.

Victoria Vo—Youth Minister

On Saturday 6 June, a great event occurred for the

church in New Zealand and especially for the

Diocese of Palmerston North . The Ordination of a

young man to the priesthood is a rare and special

event, which for some will be experienced only

once in their lives. I had the privilege, along with

Mrs Neville-Foster, our Principal and Lucy Dineen,

our Head Girl, to witness the ordination of Trung

Van Nguyen by Cardinal John Dew in the Cathedral

of the Holy Spirit in Palmerston North.

Father Trung’s Ordination

Y9 Urupa Liturgy

The Ordination ceremony was particularly moving and at times, sad, because Trung’s parents and extended family

could not join him, instead they watched carry out priestly ministry. We look forward to seeing him involved in the

college life once again. Tom Silverwood—Acting Director of Religious Studies

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Kelly Briggs our Director of Religious Studies and

her husband, who have welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the

world. Patrick Murphy Briggs.

Both Mum and Patrick are doing well .

Special Character

In light of all the disruption in the world at present, Sacred Heart College students gathered together to pray for peace

and reconciliation. Year 13 student Ana Worthington organised the event, with the guidance and encouragement of

principal Maria Neville Foster. Having seen coverage of the murder of black American man George Floyd at the hands

of a white policeman, and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests on the news and social media, Ana thought it

was important to stand in solidarity. “I think when people are being treated badly or you can see that people’s human

rights are being denied right in front of your eyes and it’s so publicised, it’s important we don’t ignore that. We need

to address it in our small communities.” “It is important for us in New Zealand to recognise that while it may not be

our own direct issue, it is something that we could address in our school community and make people aware of it.

”While people tend to believe it “doesn’t happen here”, Anna says it does. “We must recognise that so it doesn’t get

swept under the carpet.” The event was held on Friday at the school’s Mission Centre with about 50 students. Mrs

Neville-Foster, Ana, Head Girl Lucy Dinneen and a couple of other student leaders spoke. Rather than “forcing every-

one into a room to listen” they decided to let people “come of their own accord”. Ana said she was “impressed” by

the number of students who attended because it showed that “people actually wanted to show their support”. She

spoke about how it was “important for us to stand in solidarity for people who are experiencing hardships and injus-

tices”. Education is a key part of moving forward, she believes. “We need to be more focused on education towards

these issues and make sure we are aware of the things going on in our world and being supportive of that and not ig-

norant.” “Having those tough conversations is necessary to gain awareness around issues like this.” As faith is

“important” not only for the school but for the students and teachers, Ana said it was vital they prayed for the world.

She hopes to keep important conversations alive and hold more events. “I think it is important to keep it alive because

change doesn’t just happen over the span of a week, it’s going to take a long time so if we can implement things like

that into our society it would be a good idea.” Astrid Austin—Journalist

Prayer for Peace and Reconciliation

Pictured: SHC students and

teachers gathered together to

pray for peace and reconciliation.

During the term, students were sent a survey to find out how they were coping with their transition back to school. These surveys are an excellent tool for finding out how we can best support our students as well as identify how everyone is coping in different areas overall, and as individuals. For student’s who may be hesitant in coming forward to ask for help, these surveys give them a great platform to voice their thoughts and feelings. When we put all the assertations together, our school scored 62% overall for transition satisfaction which is a good score for our school. The highest score went to ‘The people in my bubble coped well with the COVID-19 lockdown’ and the low-est score went to ‘I am feeling confident and positive about the rest of the year’ and ‘My learning progress was good while learning from home.’ From talking to colleagues at other schools, I believe we have managed to transition into lockdown and back out of lock-down very well. As a whole experience, we should all be feeling very positive and happy about where we are at in compari-son to other schools. When breaking down the survey results further, we found the individual year levels did give varied readings. All year levels scored ‘The people in my bubble coped well with the COVID-19 lockdown’ the highest. Year 13 had an overall score of 59% with ‘I am feeling positive about my mental/emotional wellbeing’ being scored the lowest at 45%. Year 12 had an overall score of 53% with ‘I am feeling confident and positive about the rest of the year’ being the lowest score at 41%. Year 11 had an overall score 68% with their lowest score being different to both Year 12 and 13 which was ‘I coped well with learning from home during lockdown’ and ‘My learning from progress was good while learning from home’ at 58%. Year 10 had an overall score of 61% and were similar to Year 11 with their lowest score being ‘My learning progress was good while learning from home’ which scored 54%. Year 9 had an overall score of 67% which was quite different to the other year level results. ‘I am feeling positive about being back at school’ being the lowest at 64%. It has been interesting seeing the variation in results and this has allowed us to best support each year level and individu-als in the areas they have identified to be struggling. We will be continuing to use these surveys as a platform to gather information and feedback from students, families and staff so we can continue to improve and best support everyone in our community.

Transition Back to School Survey

Academic

We know some of our students and their whānau are worried that they

might not be able to attain NCEA or University Entrance (UE) this year, because of the disruption caused by

COVID-19.

To help address this and support students, the following changes are being made to NCEA and University Entrance

requirements for this year:

Students working towards an NCEA can gain additional credits, based on the number of credits they achieve during

the 2020 school year. These additional credits will be known as Learning Recognition credits. For every 5 credits a

student achieves towards their NCEA either through internal or external assessment, they are entitled to an addi-

tional 1 credit. Students at NCEA Level 1 are eligible for up to a maximum of 10 additional credits while those at

Levels 2 and 3 are eligible for up to a maximum of 8 additional credits.

Students will be awarded a certificate endorsement if they achieve 46 credits at Merit or Excellence level, rather

than the usual 50. Students achieving 12 credits at Merit or Excellence level in a course – rather than 14 – will be

awarded a course endorsement.

Current UE requirements have been reduced from 14 to 12 credits in three UE-approved subjects. Students still

need to attain NCEA Level 3 and meet literacy and numeracy requirements to be awarded University Entrance.

External NCEA examinations and NZ Scholarship examinations will now take place from 16 November 2020 to 6

December 2020. This will provide extra time for teaching, learning and assessment in Term 4.

The submission date for subjects which require students to submit a portfolio (for example, Design and Visual

Communications) has been extended to 12 November 2020, to give students more time to complete their

portfolios.

There are no changes to Scholarship exams.

These changes have been designed to encourage students to continue working towards their NCEA and to ensure

that the NCEA attained by our rangatahi this school year is just as valid as those earned in previous years. Please

take the time to talk to your daughter about her academic goals for this year, as there may have been changes

since the start of the year when her NCEA goals for 2020 were established.

NZQA have also adjusted the end of year external exams dates. These have been moved back so that students

have more time to prepare for their final assessments. Please see the new NCEA and Scholarship timetable.

https://www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/qualifications-and-standards/qualifications/ncea/exams-and-portfolios/

examination-timetable.pdf

Next term we will have our Senior Assessment week. It will run from Monday 31 August to Friday 4 September.

This is a very important week in the academic school calendar. It is where the students are given a snapshot of

their learning and achievement for their external standards and derived grades are generated should they not be

able to sit their exams at the end of the year.

Elizabeth Ross—Deputy Principal

Pastoral Matters At Sacred Heart College we have a strong commitment to pastoral care and seek to provide a safe, nurturing envi-

ronment in which your daughters can strive to be the best they can be. Please feel free to contact your daughter’s

Tutor Teacher if you have any specific questions. The Tutor Teacher is the first point of reference for the student

and will be involved with pastoral care, specifically: guidance and mentoring, uniform checks, administration - such

as attendance concerns and encouraging involvement in school activities.

If you have greater concerns, please contact the appropriate House Dean as listed below.

Additonal Pastoral contacts:

Guidance counselling services: Miss Tracey Pinfold tpinfold@sacredheartnapier.school.nz

School Nurse: Debbie Williams is on site three days a week assisting students with all health-related matters

including, but not restricted to: wellness checks, hearing or eyesight issues, allergies, skin conditions, eating issues,

questions about periods, weight control, stress or anxiety. Debbie is contactable during the day on 027 233 0157.

Uniform Thank you for continuing to support our school by ensuring that the uniform is worn correctly and with pride. We have recently noticed the length of some skirts are far shorter than the regulation length – the correct length as stated in the uniform policy is ‘touching the floor when the student is kneeing’. A reminder that black pantyhose or white ankle socks, that can be folded down (not sports socks), are to be worn with shoes. We ask for your support in maintaining our high standards of which we are very proud. Attendance We encourage all students to be at school every day that we are open. This will help them to maximise their learning opportunities. It is important however that if the students are unwell, they stay home for the day. The student’s absence must be notified to the school either by phone, email or a message on the app. Please endeavour to make any extra appointments out of school time to reduce interruptions to curriculum time. Safety Please take care when you are driving and parking to drop off and pick up students in the surrounding streets. The roads do get very congested and students can make poor decisions when they are asked to run to a car because it is double parked. Consider parking further away or arriving a little later, and please do not park across driveways. Students must not be dropped off or picked up in our carpark please.

Albert House Dean Dr Amanda Aarons aarons@sacredhearthapier.school.nz

Barbier House Dean Mrs Henrietta Hillman hhillman@sacredheartnapier.school.nz

Holderness House Dean Mrs Ashton Jamieson ajamieson@sacredheartnapier.school.nz

Marian House Dean Mrs Edina McFarland emcfarland@sacredheartnapier.school.nz

Pastoral Matters Cyber Safety A cyber safety presentation from two of our local police officers was given to our Year 9 and 10 students in week 9. This session is held every year to focus on how to operate safely on line. The focus included: addiction to devices, security features, misinterpretation of facts, trust, appropriateness of content both sent and received, respect, bullying and aspects of the law. If you have any concerns regarding online issues I strongly recommend the NetsafeNZ site. Also contact Tutor Teachers and or Deans if you would like to alert the school to issues that we can assist with. Netsafe is New Zealand’s independent, non-profit online safety organisation. Taking a technology-positive ap-proach to the challenges digital technology presents. Working to help people in New Zealand take ad-vantage of the opportunities available through technology by providing practical tools, support and advice for managing online challenges. A new initial is the Keeping it Real on Line campaign: Netsafe is proud to partner with the government on the new Keep It Real campaign putting our tamariki’s safety online first. The campaign empowers whanau to reduce online harms including the risk of bullying, inappropriate content, pornography and grooming. If you’re looking for a good place to start for information, check out Netsafe’s Online Safety Parent Toolkit. It’s a practical seven step frame-work that helps you teach your children how to access digital opportunities and reduce harm. Find it at netsafe.org.nz/digitalparenting Marysia Airey—Deputy Principal

Board of Trustees News

Kia ora Whanau

So here we are entering week 5 back at our beautiful little school on the hill, after re-turning from the home learnings that COVID 19 enforced on us. I would like to take this opportunity, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, to thank our entire community for such an incredible transition into home and online learnings, maintaining this for 6 weeks and then transitioning back into campus school life, all with such grace and ease.

Although I’m sure for the most of us, it felt nothing at all like “ease” in our households at times.

The only way a community can transition so seamlessly, through such trying times, is to have a strong and committed community. From our Principle and SLT, our student leaders (weren’t those young ladies just AMAZING?), our family’s and extended whanau and lastly but certainly not least, our girls. Thankyou.

As always, there are, and will be, some “shakedown” type effects while we try to navigate through our new “peacetime”. Please remain positive and always remain kind.

God Bless

Nga mihi nui

Kirstin Thompson—BoT Chairperson

Collaborative Learning

Many families found that Covid-19 Alert Level 3 lockdown brought them closer together and this was no different for

Sacred Heart College and St John’s College, with cooperative learning taking place during that time. Around the

country, essential workers’ children in Years 9 and 10 who did not have anyone to look after them at home, were able

to go to school where they were cared for by teachers and in many cases their school’s principal. They participated in

their school’s online learning programme but were kept in their own bubbles at the school. For many schools, there

were often under ten students coming in each day, with some schools reporting one or two. This unique situation

called for strategic thinking, which is why the principals of Sacred Heart College and St John’s College decided to pool

their resources. The idea was that any St John’s College student who lived in Napier and needed to attend school

would do so at Sacred Heart College. For any Sacred Heart College student from Hastings, her new temporary place of

learning was St John’s College. The idea worked well, with up to seven students in total attending both schools each

day, including one St John’s boy, Devon Williams, at SHC. Having attended St Patrick’s School up until moving to St

John’s this year, Devon is no stranger to a co-ed environment. Despite being “forced” by his essential working parents,

Devon says he “thoroughly enjoyed” being at school. “I had loads of fun. I got to hang out with some of my old friends

from primary school and we did lots of learning,” the 14-year-old said. Because I have 12 or so friends at the school

but sadly only one of them turned up but I wanted to catch up with them all because I hadn’t seen them in a very,

very long time. Each morning, Devon, along with his seven-year-old sister, Autumn Sobek would be dropped off at St

Patrick’s school from their home in Pirimai, where SHC’s deputy principal would then pick him up and take him to his

temporary school. At school, each student had their own desk, appropriately spaced out from each other. Being the

only students at school proved to have its perks. “We got to go on walks with the teacher and explore the hill and

other areas,” he said.

Astrid Austin—Journalist

A segment from one of the articles on our Website—read more at www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz

As part of Samoan Language Week, we celebrated Samoan Independence day with prayers and hymns in the

Mission Centre. We were delighted to welcome back ex-student Jessie Matauli Maletino to be a part of the

celebration. Jessie returned home from university in Auckland and came along to Sacred Heart

College to commemorate the occasion with her Sacred Heart College sisters. Our Cultural Leader Delilah

Savaiinaea lead the girls in this beautiful ceremony.

Cultural News

Samoan Language Week

Senior Science

Our Level 2 Biology students have been

using eggs to investigate osmosis.

Our Level 3 Biology students

have been investigating animal

behaviour in invertebrates.

LVL 3

Biology

LVL 2

Biology

Our senior students in Level 2 and 3 Biology have been enjoying

the very interesting learnings on offer.

Thrilled to be back

Support Staff Appreciation Week

In week 9 we celebrated

‘Support Staff Appreciation

Week’ at SHC. On the Tuesday

we held our very own

‘Appreciation Day.’ The team

celebrated with a breakfast and

later were invited to a special

presentation at assembly where

our head girls presented each

support staff member with a

token of (delicious)

appreciation. Later in the week a

shared morning tea was held in

the staffroom. We are so lucky

to have such a fantastic team of

support staff and we thank them

for all their

dedication and support at SHC.

Our Year 9 Physical Education Class were thrilled to be back at school with their

friends, jumping for joy atop of Bluff Hill during one of their classes.

Artist of the Month — May

Peer Support

We were blessed with a sunny and warm winter day for session 2 of our Peer Support course.

One of the ways Sacred Heart College helps our year 9 students feel supported is by having our Year 13s lead small groups on a variety of topics.

This is the second of the 10 sessions for the year, which is very late due to the lockdown. Today was about starting fresh, making “A recipe for friendship” which was a collaborative agreement on the qualities of a healthy friendship. Tracey Pinfold, Councillor

Junior Artist of the Month:

Ann Maria Jelish (Left)

Senior Artist of the Month: Mia Anderson (Left, above)

After the few months without any sport, we have been itching

to get back into the swing of things. As alert levels lifted, the girls were

thrilled to be able train and begin resuming their school sports competitions.

The girls were eager for sports to return, perhaps after those months being

cooped up they were ready to stretch their legs.

There was a great response to the various sporting codes and we are

looking forward to seeing games get underway soon. This year, SHC has

entered 9 Badminton teams into the competition and this is due to start on

Thursday 18th June.

Netball training and planning has started with 9 teams entered into the

competition, this will start 20th June for the Saturday competition and the

23rd June for our Super 12 team.

We encourage our community to come along and support our school on a

Saturday and see our girls in action.

Football has also had a great response with a good number of girls signing

up to represent the school. Their games will start on Wednesday 24th June.

The school Hockey team are in Division 2 this year. This is an 11 week com-

petition consisting of 1 x Round Robin (9) + Semi-finals + Finals – Total 11

weeks. The team have been training before school on both Tuesdays and

Wednesdays and are very keen for their first game.

Finally, our Basketball team is set to commence on Monday 22nd June and

they too have had a strong interest this year.

Unfortunately due to the circumstances around COVID19, tournaments will

not be going ahead this year.

Good luck to all teams in their competitions. Lets have a positive, dedicated

season! Go SHC!

Sports

Any one for Tennis?

Students; Mercia Cuff and Betty Herron

1931

From the Archives

Pictured- SHC Football team back at training

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Sunday Mass Resumes

Sunday Masses at the Catholic Parish of Napier will resume from Sunday 14 June. The Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. Masses times are: St Patrick’s Napier 5.30pm Saturday evening 10am Sunday St Thomas More Onekawa 8am Sunday St Mary’s Greenmeadows 9am and 5pm Sunday

Forestry Scholarships

‘Keep it real online’ Campaign

The Department of Internal Affairs with Netsafe and the Office of Film and Literature

Classification is about to launch a ‘Keep it real online’ campaign.

The campaign will support parents and caregivers to reduce the risks of online harm such as

cyber-bullying, inappropriate content, pornography and grooming.

Parents and caregivers can find information including tips on how to have conversations with

their kids at www.keepitrealonline.govt.nz.

TV, radio and print ads will commence from Monday 8 June and will run through to the end of

July. Printed and online adverts will be produced in English, Te Reo Māori, Samoan, Mandarin

and Hindi.

Applications for Ngā Karahipi Uru Rākau – Forestry Scholarships opened on 1 June 2020, for

study beginning in the 2021 academic year.

More information including application forms is available on the Te Uru Rākau website.

The Ngā Karahipi Uru Rākau –

Forestry Scholarships will be open

from June to the 15th August

Foto iwi are running their school holiday creative workshops 13-17 July.

Each workshop is a different adventure with

behind the scenes photog-raphy at locations such as The Aquarium and The old

Napier Prison.

Limited to 10 students, $85 each workshop, includes

travel, entry fees and Foto iwi fun and learning.

To book head to www.fotoiwi.nz

School Holiday Program

School Calendar

For up to date news, notices and events please

check messages and alerts on our school app,

website and on Facebook.

Sacred Heart College

12 Convent Road, Napier 4110, New Zealand

PH: 06 8353761

www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz

Facebook @Sacredheartnapier

admin@sacredheartnapier.school.nz

St. John’s College Open Day

Sunday 2 August

2.00pm

June

19 Feast Day – 9:00am Mass

22 – 26 Wellness Week – Food Focus and Library week

23 BOT Meeting 5:30pm

26 Y10 Option 1 rotation finishes

26 Y9 Option 2 Rotation finishes

29 Y9 Option 3 Rotation starts

29 Y10 Option 2 Rotation starts

July

1 Leaders Lab

2 P.I.H.M.S Visit

6-19 School Holidays

20 Term 3 Begins – Week 1B

23 Home School Meetings – SHC

28 Touch of Class