“Faith & Courage”

Term 2

Week 3

Lauren Haynes visiting Friday 18th May

Soccer ~ Sporting Schools Friday 18th May

Week 4

NO School Assembly Tuesday 22nd May

School Athletics Carnival Tuesday 22nd May

National Simultaneous Storytime Wednesday 23rd May

Mrs Dickie visiting /Drama Thursday 24th May

Drama Dress Rehearsal Friday 25th May

Soccer ~ Sporting Schools Friday 25th May

Week 5

Youth Festival Tour in Jerilderie Monday 28th May

School Assembly Tuesday 29th May

School Musical finale Wednesday 30th May

Lauren Haynes visiting Friday 1st June

Parent Support Group meeting Friday 1st June

Soccer ~ Sporting Schools Friday 1st June

Week 6

Melbourne Excursion ‘Wizard of Oz’ Wednesday 6th June

Sacred Heart community is committed to academic excellence through Christ-based learning experiences which foster reverence, respect and responsibility.

Principal’s Message, Thanks to all the parents who have donated food for the Early Stage One (Junior Room) Meeting that was held at our school today. Thank you to Melissa Jones and Kelly Baldwin for organising this day for the Junior teachers in our Diocese.

School Photos Families should have received school photos last week. Parents can view and order a photo by visiting www.academyphoto.com.au & go to “Products for Parents” “Order Online”. For School Leaders, you will need to enter the following 8 digit shoot key : KP729TQE. Whole school shoot key is: E2T73ECS Photographs will be available online for six months, alternatively orders can be made by ringing 1300 7666 472.

Drama Excitement is starting to build as we approach the finale of this year’s musical produc-tion “The Adventures of Captain Starblaster”. Mrs Dickie will visit next Thursday for a practice session and then on Friday for a full dress rehearsal. The finale will be held in the school hall on Wednesday 30th May. We will have 2 performances on the day - A Matinee at 10:30am and main performance at 6pm. Families are asked to bring a plate of food to share for the supper to follow the evening performance. All welcome to at-tend.

Athletics Carnival Sacred Heart together with St. Joseph’s Jerilderie will be sharing their Athletics Carni-val next Tuesday 22nd May. The carnival will be held at Jerilderie Football oval with the students bussed to the venue. Students are to wear their sports uniform and bring recess, lunch and water for the day. We will return in time for normal end of school pick up and buses.

National Simultaneous Storytime Students from the Junior room have been invited to attend this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime on Wednesday 23rd May. This year’s book is “Hickory Dickory Dash” by Tony Wilson & Laura Wood. The event is being organized through the Tocumwal Library and will be held at Tocumwal Preschool.

Project Compassion Thank you to all those who sent in your Project Compassion boxes. $93.25 will be forwarded to Caritas Australia .Your generous support will help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity.

UPCOMING EVENTS

THOUGHT OF THE WEEK

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” Dr Wayne Dyer

ST PETER’S PARISH

Mass Times: Sat ~ 5:30pm & Sun ~ 8:30am 10:15am in Finley on Sundays

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Phone: (03) 58742371

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Sacred Heart School Newsletter

Thursday May 17th 2018

Term 2 Week 3

Parent Support Group meeting

We will have our next Parent Support Group meeting in Week 5 on Friday 1st June. The meeting will be held in the school library at 3:30pm. All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Agenda items will include: School Uniform Fundraising Melbourne Excursion Student Wellbeing

Head Lice We have received news there may be another outbreak of head lice locally. Parents and Carers are reminded to keep vigilant and keep a regular check on your child’s scalp. If your child is suffering with an itchy head, visit the local pharmacy for advice on head lice treatments available.

‘Year of Youth’ Festival Tour For the Year of Youth, the Catholic Schools Office is hosting various events. All of our Year of Youth events are a response to the Australian Catholic Bishops call to celebrate youth and expand our horizons locally. These events will be a celebra-tion of the gift of young people and our Catholic faith expressed through music, exploring well being and responding to the call to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly. (Michah 6:8 NRSV) It is hoped all students attending will have: An experience of “joy and opening new horizons” for young people An authentic and personal engagement with young people from other schools, teachers, leaders and clergy An experience of dialogue - free to voice concerns, worries and/or questions, feel validated and supported through

hopeful and encouraging conversations A joyful experience of church and Catholic faith An immersive experience of learning in for faith, social justice, wellbeing and music Internationally acclaimed musician, John Angotti will be accompanied by secondary students for the Festival Tour. Sacred Heart students will visit Jerilderie Civic Hall on Monday 28th May to join in celebrations with the Wagga Youth Festival Tour. As we need to be ready for an 8:30am pickup we ask that students be at school at 8:15am on this day. This initiative is being funded by the Catholic Schools Office in Wagga.

6 Steps to Stamp our Math Anxiety ~ Jo Boaler’s Advice for Parents Encourage children to play maths puzzles and games. Puzzles and games - anything with

dice really - will help kids enjoy maths and develop number sense, which is critically im-portant.

Always be encouraging and never tell kids they are wrong when they are working on maths problems. Instead, find logic in their thinking. For example, if your child multiplies 3 by 4 and gets 7, say “Oh, I see what you are thinking. You are using what you know about addition to add 3 and 4. When we multiply, we have 4 groups of 3…..”

Never associate maths with speed. It isnot important to work quickly, and we now know that forcing kids to work quickly on maths is the best way to start anxiety for children, especially girls.

Never share with your children the idea that you were bad at maths at school or you dislike it - especially if you are a mother. Researchers found that as soon as mothers shared that idea with their daughters, their daughter’s achievement went down.

Encourage number sense. What separates high and low achievers is having an idea of the size of numbers and being able to separate and combine numbers flexibly, For example, when solving 29 + 56, if you take one from the 56 make it 30+55, it is much easier to work out.

Perhaps most important of all: Encourage a “growth mindset” ot let students know that they have limited maths potential and that being good at maths is all about working hard. When they tell you something is hard for them or they have made a mistake, tell them “ That’s wonderful - your brain is growing!”

Sacred Heart School Newsletter Sacred Heart School Newsletter

Thursday17th May2018

Term 2 Week 3

Last Month’s IGA dockets have raised $37.95 for Sacred Heart.

A big thankyou to all those who continue to save your IGA dockets &

hand them into the office.

Congratulations to this

week’s

Uniform Lotto Win-

Tariro Ella H

THIS WEEK’S AWARDS Class Awards

Junior Class: Values Award -

Integrity For striving to expand her un-

derstanding of Spelling un-known words. Eg. ‘screwed’

Ruby Baldwin

Senior Class: Values Award -

Trustworthy For being a responsible and trustworthy member of our

classroom George Wiles

Student of the Week

Junior Class Mia Noonan~ for con-centrating during class and producing a great verbal retell of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’

Senior Class Will Noonan ~ for having a pos-itive attitude to NAPLAN and using his reading strate-gies when completing activi-ties.

Well done everyone!

Sacred Heart thanks the Tocumwal Golf Club

for its contribution to our

“Student of the Week” awards.

NO Assembly next WEEK

Many Happy Returns

Liam Purtill & Oliver Almond

Liam turned 12 on

Tuesday 15th May and Oliver turns 12

tomorrow, 18th May

Term 2

Date Name

18th May Gabby Wiles

25th May Laura Mangion

1st June Steph Chappell

8th June Lyndall McLeod

15th June Michelle Purtill

22nd June Kelly Baldwin

29th June VOLUNTEER NEEDED

6th July VOLUNTEER NEEDED

Many thanks Jo for manning the canteen last week. Takings were $172.45

Birthdays

Mother’s Day Thank you to all those who came and sup-ported last Thursday’s Special Afternoon Tea. There are some great photos attached to the newsletter and up on the schools website web.shtww.catholic.edu.au Just a couple of facts you may not be aware of about Mother’s Day: Mother’s Day was first officially cele-

brated in Australia in 1923 30% of the World’s population are

mothers Mother’s Day is the busiest day of the

year for most restaurants More phone calls are made on Moth-

er’s Day than on any other day of the year

Every year Australians spend about $1.36 billion on this special day

Most popular/favourite flower given to mums in the carnation ( not a rose!!)

1/4 of all flowers purchased through-out the year is on Mother’s Day