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Wednesday, October 29 2014: Term 4 Week 4

Planting Seeds for Tomorrow

8 Cardinal Street, MOSMAN NSW 2088 t: (02) 99696600 f: (02)9960 4312 e: [email protected]

www.shmosman.catholic.edu.au

Principal’s News Dear Parents and Friends of Sacred Heart,

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The

superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

(William Arthur Ward)

This Friday marks International or World Teachers Day. Each of us

harbours many memories of our teachers from our school days,

some pleasant and some maybe not so pleasant – such is life! I

believe that Mr Ward, quoted above, was pretty much on the

money with his observation that the mark of a great teacher is to

be found in one’s capacity to inspire their students. In the lead-up

to this day I encourage you to speak to your children about the

positive qualities that their teachers bring to school each day to

nurture and educate those in their classes.

Sydney Kings Visit Thursday 2.00 pm: This promises to be a whole

lot of fun as some of our students take on the Sydney Kings for a

fun game on our own home turf (well, painted asphalt actually). I

have been in contact with the Mosman Daily and they will be

sending a photographer along and I will be speaking with the

education editor directly after the game, spreading the good news.

(Please see Sacred Heart Special Ticket Offer Flyer at the end of

this newsletter)

All Saints Day Mass this Friday at 9.15 am: This will be a whole

school mass as we gather to celebrate this significant feast day in

the church’s liturgical calendar. The children will be wearing little

shields, bearing the name of their chosen saint and teachers will

be focusing their RE teaching on the qualities of saints – those

people who do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Short School Satisfaction Survey: As part of the reporting

requirement for the Federally mandated Annual School Report to

the community, all schools need to report to their parent

communities on the level of student, staff and parent satisfaction

with the school. Accordingly, a short survey will be emailed to all

families next week. This is a fairly straightforward exercise

whereby we ‘test the temperature’ of the water, so to speak. We

will be using the Google Forms app to deploy the survey and once

we have the results of the survey I will communicate these via a

forthcoming edition of HeartBeat before the end of this year.

Next year, 2015, our school will be engaging in the Sydney CEO

‘Cyclic Review’ process where we stop and take stock of our

learning journey over the past four years at Sacred Heart and plan

future directions. As part of the Cyclic Review process all parents

will be given the opportunity to complete a more lengthy and

detailed survey.

School Planning for 2015: We are now well underway with our

planning for 2015 and in next week’s HeartBeat I will be providing

detailed information around how all of this is coming together.

Watch this space………

NAPLAN RESULTS 2014

The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy

(NAPLAN) is an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and

9. NAPLAN assessment results provide valuable information about

student achievements in literacy and numeracy. At Sacred Heart

we analyse these results in order to highlight our strengths,

determine areas where we can improve significantly, support

learning and teaching programs and develop goals and planning

strategies to boost overall performance.

The tables below show the percentages of students who achieved

particular skill bands in numeracy and aspects of literacy. The

school results shown are compared to students nationally.

Literacy is reported in four content strands or aspects: Reading,

Writing, Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation. Numeracy is

reported as a single content strand.

The third table allows us to analyse the performance of our

previous Year 5 cohort, now students in a number of local high

schools, in terms of their performance in this year’s Year 7 NAPLAN

test. The Year 7 NAPLAN test measures the learning gain in

literacy and numeracy from seven terms of teaching and learning

at Sacred Heart and one term of teaching and learning in the

secondary context. Learning gain can therefore be mostly

attributed to teaching and learning at Sacred Heart. Analysis of this

new data may therefore be used as an indicator of the

effectiveness of our Years 5 and 6 teaching at Sacred Heart.

As part of our continuing efforts to become an increasingly ‘data

informed’ school, all teaching staff will be engaging in ongoing

professional learning this term and into 2015, using the rich data

that NAPLAN gives us the opportunity to use. One of the Key

Goals in next year’s Annual Improvement Plan is based upon how

we use data to drive improvements in learning and teaching:

Goal 4: By end of Term 4 2015 at Sacred Heart we have in place

highly effective approaches for gathering, analysing and

interpreting data so that student learning needs and potential are

more accurately identified and student progress is more effectively

monitored.




Wishing you all well and thanking you for your ongoing support for

Sacred Heart.

Vince Campbell

Principal

General News

Term 4 Calendar WEEK 4

Thurs, October 30 Sydney Kings Basketball visit @ 2pm

Fri, October 31 All Saint’s Day Whole School Mass @

9.15am

World Teacher’s Day

WEEK 5

Tues, November 4 Sacred Heart Challenge: School Hall

Wed, November 5 Yr 4 Mass @ 9.15am

Sacred Heart Challenge: School Hall

Thurs, November 6 Yr 5 Canberra Excursion

Fri, November 7 Yr 5 Canberra Excursion

Term 4 Calendar Continued WEEK 6

Tues, November 11 Remembrance Day

Wed, November 12 Yr 3 Mass @ 9.15am

Fri, November 14 Yr 6 Little Red Whittington

Performance: 2pm School Hall

Sat, November 15 Spring Fair: 2-6pm

WEEK 7

Wed, November 19 AGM – Sports Club: 6pm School Library

Thurs, November 20 Reconciliation Preparation Day

Fri, November 21 Positive Parent Talk: 9am School Library

WEEK 8

Tues, November 25 AGM – P & F

Wed, November 26 K Blue Liturgy @ 9.15am

First Reconciliation Yr 3 from 5-7pm

Fri, November 28 Yr 5 Incursion: Creative & Visual Arts

K Gold Liturgy @ 9.15am

Yr 6 Modern Day Heroes & Habits of

Mind Awards

Sun, November 30 Kindergarten Family Mass

WEEK 9

Tues, December 2 Yr 3 Blue Liturgy @ 9.15am

Wed, December 3 Yr 3 Gold Liturgy @ 9.15am

Thurs, December 4 Yr 1 Blue & Yr 1 Gold Liturgy @ 9.15am

Yr 6 Graduation Mass & Awards @

4.30pm with Graduation Function @

7pm

Fri, December 5 End of Year Awards Assembly: 8.40-

9.40am in School Hall

Sun, December 7 P & F Working Bee

WEEK 10

Tues, December 9 Yr 4 Gold Liturgy @ 9.15am

Yr 2 Blue & Yr 2 Gold Liturgy @ 11.15am

Wed, December 10 Reports due to go home

Yr 4 Blue Liturgy @ 9.15am

Thur, December 11 School Swimming Carnival @ St Ignatius

College Riverview for Yrs 1 – 6

Fri, December 12 Christmas Concert @ 9.30-10.30am

Open Classrooms “Gratitude for

Classrooms for the 21st

Century”

WEEK 11

Tues, December 16 Yr 6 Surf Camp

Wed, December 17 End of Year Mass – 9.15am

Parents Thank You Morning Tea

Last Day of School for 2014




Spring Fair News

Spring Fair: Spring Into Christmas Fair Saturday, November 15 from 2-6pm

Spring Fair: It’s Open It’s Open!!!! Pre-Purchase your tokens online today & save!!!!!!!

Visit www.trybooking.com/107200 See attached flyer for more

details

Spring Fair: There Will Be So Much To See and

Do

• YOU’LL HAVE THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE with something to

entertain children of all ages. The Bungee’s back! Along

with Pony rides, Mega Olympic Obstacle Course, Cubby

House, Turbo Tubs and more FOOD!

• GLORIOUS FOOD! - Hamburgers - Pizza - Sausage Sizzle -

Turkish Gozleme - (Crispy) Potato Sticks – Snow Cones –

Fairy Floss - Krispy Kreme Donuts - Chocolate Fountain -

Popcorn - Lolly Bags – Gelato – Drinks

• ACTIVITIES INCLUDE Cupcake Decorating- Face Painting -

Tombola - Pass the Footy - Plaster and Sand Art - Hair &

Nail Salon

• GET YOUR SHOPPING DONE FOR CHRISTMAS - We have

an exciting range of market stalls lined up for this year’s

fair. Prepare to be tempted by gorgeous clothing from

Pepper Blue, stunning jewellery and accessories from Our

Jewellery Box, Ocean Mantra and Signora Fioretti, beauty

products from Arbonne, Turkish towels, Balinese

homewares, School for Life Christmas Cards, pot plants,

gourmet Lomondo Olive Oils and Vinegars and more.

Spring Fair: Spirited Mama We are lucky to have Spirited Mama with her unique collection of

French traditional and handmade toys and gifts including award

winning French wooden sailing boats, delightful hand-painted

mobiles and music boxes. Aside from the traditional gifts, there

will be French creative art packs and fun retro French loot perfect

for Santa sacks (bead purses, fairy TV, squirt cameras, yoyos,

toothpaste pens, etc). These items are only available through

Spirited Mama. Head to www.spiritedmama.com for a sneak peak

or to make an order request. Exclusive fair prices available on

some items.

Spring Fair: Ocean Mantra Ocean Mantra jewellery is hand made in sterling silver and 18

carat gold plated sterling silver, featuring a range of semi precious

gem stones. Ocean Mantra's carefully sourced gems include

amethyst, citrine, onyx, aquacalcite, a variety of quartz and

carnelian. As well as being dedicated to creating beautiful

jewellery, Ocean Mantra also donates 10% of profits to marine

conservation. The jewellery and accessory range is available at

select Sydney markets as well as online at www.oceanmantra.com

Spring Fair: Arbonne Looking for premium skincare and cosmetics that support Sacred

Heart? For the month of November all presentations and pamper

sessions booked will have all profits donated to the school! As an

Arbonne host you also receive goodies such as heavily discounted

items (80% off) and free products! Arbonne products are pure,

safe and beneficial. Botanically based and formulated without

parabens & mineral oils to European standards! Pamper groups

start from 3 people and upwards and take about an hour and a

half! Don't miss out - book today!

www.laughlivelove.myarbonne.com.au, [email protected]

or phone 0434 665 541.

Spring Fair: Raffle A valuable bunch of prizes on offer!!

1st

: $150 Kidstuff Voucher, 2nd

: Two double movie passes to the

Cremorne Orpheum, 3rd

: Fourth Village Hamper Valued at $120 &

4th

: A3 Poster Signed by the X-Factor Judges

$5 each or 3 for $10

Winners drawn at the Fair and will not need to be in attendance.

Sold every morning at Silver Seats. Get yours TODAY.




Spring Fair: Tombola Time! Each family should have received two containers to be filled with

goodies for the tombola stall. The preference is one for a boy and

one for a girl. Be creative! Please bring the filled tombolas back to

your child’s classroom and place them in the box marked

“Tombolas.” Thanks, The Tombola Team

Spring Fair: Pre-Loved Kids Clothing Thanks for all the wonderful contributions so far. At this point,

we'd really love more clothes/shoes (including baby items). We’re

also still grateful for toys for all ages (no soft toys please). Boxes

for collections are located in classrooms. Michelle Giglio and Julie

Dodson: [email protected]

Spring Fair: 2nd

Hand Books, CDs & DVDs Donations of excellent quality Books, CDs and DVDs are still

needed. Please provide your generous donations in the boxes

available in each classroom.

School for Life Christmas Appeal Give a Gift this Christmas to School for Life Foundation’s Christmas

Appeal. Their online store hosts a whole range of gifts that are

available for you to purchase for the community in Uganda. When

you purchase an item you will receive a certificate thanking you for

your contribution! School for Life will also be selling its gorgeous

Christmas cards at Sacred Heart’s Spring Fair! Thanks to Jefferies

Printing, 100% of the profits from the cards will go to their work

in Katuuso!

Pantene Beautiful Lengths – Alyssa from Yr 2 In March this year Miss Maclarn came back to school without all of

her hair. My sister Tully in Yr 1 came home and told us the story

about why Miss Maclarn cut all her hair off. Tully said that Miss

Maclarn had donated her hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths who

make wigs for people with Cancer that lose their hair. Miss

Maclarn taught a girl at another school last year in Year 4 that was

sadly diagnosed with a cancer in her leg just before Christmas.

When I got my hair cut last week I decided after talking to my

mum that I would also donate my hair to Pantene Beautiful

Lengths. I am very proud that I have been able to give my beautiful

long hair to this charity and not have it thrown in the bin. If you

are interested in donating look it up at:

http://pantene.com/en-us/experience-main-section2/beautiful-lengths

Written by Alyssa (Yr 2) and Tully (Yr 1)

Positive Parenting Talk – Friday, November 21

@ 9.00am in School Library Danielle Buckley will speak to parents after Friday assembly on the

above date. Danielle is a registered psychologist with a passion for

positive psychology and how it can be used to support parents to

bring out the very best in children, focusing on their strengths,

working on their areas for development and building resilience in a

tough world. Please see flyer at the end of this newsletter.

Yr 6 – Selling Ice Blocks Yr 6 will be selling ice blocks to raise money for their graduation

this Friday, October 31. Ice blocks will be sold for $2 each at

second lunch break.

Class Mums for 2015 If would like to be a class mum for 2015 please contact us

on [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing from

you.

Last Day of School for 2014 The last day of school for 2014 will be Wednesday, December 17.

Students from Yrs 1 to Yr 6 commence school for 2015 on

Wednesday, January 28. Our new kindergarten students

commence on Thursday, January 29.

Staff Development Day -Thursday, December 18 This is a reminder to all parents that Thursday, December 18 is a

Staff Development Day. The School and After School Care will be

closed for this day and you will need to make alternative

arrangements for your child/children.

P & F Annual General Meeting Please note that the P & F AGM will be held on Tuesday,

November 25 in the school hall commencing at 7.00pm. All are

welcome to attend. The new P & F executive will be voted for at

this meeting. A Parents & Friends Nomination Form will be sent

home with all families this week. If you would like to join the

P & F Executive you will need to complete the form and return to

the school office by Thursday, November 20

AGM – Sacred Heart Sports Club

The Sports Club AGM will be held on Wednesday,

November 19 2014 in the School Hall at 6.30pm.

Everyone welcome. Any questions please

contact Natalie Muil on [email protected]




Clothing Pool: Phasing Out Size 6 Uniforms A reminder that after the Spring Fair we will no longer stock any

Size 6 uniforms. All other sizes will still be available in 2014-15 as

we transition to the new uniform. If you require Size 6 uniforms,

you can pick them up at our fair stall or email

[email protected] before the Spring Fair. Old uniforms

will eventually be donated to schools overseas. Uniforms in good

condition can be left at the Office. Thanks, Julie Dodson and

Michelle Giglio

Leaving Sacred Heart at the end of 2014 If your child will be attending another school in 2015 would you

please notify the school office, in writing, at your earliest

convenience.

Car Line Pick Up Times Where parents have children across the grades, younger children

will wait with older siblings and be picked up with them. The times

are as follows:

• Kinder & Year 1 from 3.00 to 3.05pm

• Years 1, 2 & 3 from 3.05 to 3.10pm

• Years 4, 5 & 6 from 3.10 to 3.20pm

Please display on your sun-visor your last name and the

child/children’s grade e.g. LEE 5B & 2B

Class Communication Network The Head Class mums will send out all weekly communication to

the class mums on a Thursday, which will be issued to each year

group Friday morning for the following week. All notices for the

following week need to be submitted to the Head Class Mum’s by

9am on the Thursday at the latest to [email protected]

Please submit notices in their finished format. Many Thanks

Annette, Sally & Elisabeth

Clothing Pool The clothing pool is being run this year by Michelle Giglio and Julie

Dodson. If you require any second hand uniforms please email

them directly. All items $5. Email orders are always welcome.

Please email: [email protected]

Term Dates for 2014 Term 3: Mon, July 14 to Wed,

Term 4: Tues, Oct 7 to Fri, Dec 19

Term Dates for 2015 Term 1: Wed, 28 Jan 15 to Thurs, 2 April 15

Term 2: Mon, 20 April 15 to Fri, 26 June 15

Term 3: Mon, 13 July 15 to Fri, 18 Sept 15

Term 4: Tues, 6 Oct 15 to Fri, 18 Dec 15

Sacred Heart School Uniform The Sacred Heart-Online Uniform Shop is now live and on-line

ordering can now commence. The purchase procedure is as

follows:

1. www.yerongauniforms.com/shm 2. Select the item you wish to purchase

3. Choose your size

4. Add item to your cart

5. View your cart proceed to checkout

6. Log In – Register for purchase history

7. Select payment: Credit Card, PayPal, EFT

8. Select Delivery – Home: Roselands Store: Sacred Heart

Exemption from Attendance at School Some important amendments to the Education Act 1990 have

resulted in significant changes and procedures governing school

attendance. Parents now wishing to exempt children from the

legal requirement to attend school for any length of time, must

apply to the Principal for an exemption. The Principal will

consider the application and decide whether to grant a ‘Certificate

of Exemption from Attendance at School.’ The Application for

Exemption from Attendance at School Forms are available from

the school office.

Anaphylaxis & Food Allergies We have several children in our school who are severely allergic to

various varieties of nuts and certain foods. Their allergies are

actually life threatening, so we ask all parents to refrain from

sending their children to school with the following foods: nuts,

peanut butter sandwiches or dippers, nutella sandwiches or

dippers, muesli bars with nuts or nut-based products in them,

cakes or chocolate bars with whole or partial nuts in or on them,

satay flavoured noodles, meat or other products, chocolate coated

nuts, chocolate bars coated in or containing nuts (eg. Snickers or

Picnics). Please tell your child not to swap or trade their food with

others. Please also be mindful when sending in treats for your

child’s birthday. We prefer water iceblocks only. Many

sunscreens and lip balms contain certain nut oils which can also be

harmful to anaphylactic children.

Whole Day Absentees As the attendance rolls are now electronic it is essential that if you

are late you or your child MUST sign in at the office before going

to the classroom. If you arrive after the starting time of 8.40am

they will be marked absent unless signed in at the office.

Parish News

Parish Bulletin To view the Parish Bulletin please click on the link below.

http://www.shnparish.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=55




Sydney Kings Visit – Thursday, October 30

& Special Ticket Offer

1.50pm: All Sacred Heart students & parents to be seated at court

1.55pm: Arrival of players

2.00pm: MC revs up crowd

2.05pm: Announcements of Kings players and Sacred Heart team

players on court

2.10pm: 5 min game - Sacred Heart Team

2.18pm: MC announces second team on court

2.20pm: 10 min game (5 mins each way) - Sacred Heart All Stars

2.35pm: Slip Slop Slap game for 2 Sacred Heart winners (from

Lottery) – wearing oversized Kings gear and shooting

hoops

2.40pm: Sydney Kings Captain thanks Sacred Heart and announces

winner of poster competition – prize given

2.45pm: Photos or signings with Kings players

3.00pm: Sydney Kings players leave

Sydney Kings School Lottery – gold coin donation (Run by Sports

Captains)

• Chance to win - be 1 of 5 children playing against The

Kings in 'Sacred Heart Team'

• Chance to win - be 1 of 2 children to form guard of

honour at the game as the players are announced on

court just prior to the game – high five with each player as

they are announced.

• Chance to win - be 1 of 2 players in the Slip/Slop/Slap

game where the children climb into all the King's

oversized gear and run to shoot a hoop

Value add for Sacred Heart's game - Sunday 9 November

• Sacred Heart special offer – all adults at children's

prices – adults normally $25 a ticket but will be offered

for ONLY $15 per ticket – a saving of 40% on each adult

ticket

• Sacred Heart will be seated together (will hold seats up

until 72 hours before the game)

• 200 tickets sold and Sacred Heart will win 10 Kings

basketballs which can be used as giveaways or for training

sessions

277 tickets and you will have an entire seating section for your

school and win a Special Kings basketball signed by all the

players

Results from Basketball Championships held in

Wollongong Last weekend a number of our basketball teams travelled to

Wollongong to compete in the Catholic Schools State Basketball

Championships. Congratulations to all those who competed

Sacred Heart sent 4 "A" teams and 4 "B" teams

• Senior Boy A QF WON 16-4 SF WON 27-15 GF LOSS 32-25

Silver Medal

• Senior Boy B QF LOSS 21-11

•

• Senior Girl A QF WON 33-13 SF WON 35-17 GF WON 18-

10 Gold Medal

• Senior Girl B QF WON 25-2 SF WON 30-4 GF WON 14-11

Gold Medal

• Junior Boy A QF WON 30-5 SF WON 27-10 GF WON 20-11

Gold Medal

• Junior Boy B QF Loss 10-12

• Junior Girl A QF WON 36-6 SF LOSS 11-4 Bronze Medal

• Junior Girl B QF WON 17-0 SF WON 17-6 GF LOSS Silver

Medal

• State Championship Summary 3 Gold medals , 2 Silver

medals , 1 Bronze Medal

(See photos on next page)

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