Principal News

Dear Sacred Heart School Community,

Prayer 

MACSSIS

Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools – School Improvement Surveys (MACSSIS) are conducted annually for schools in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. This year’s MACSSIS will be open from Monday 28th August to Friday 15th September 2023.

MACSSIS is a set of tools for creating, collecting, analysing, interpreting and using data to inform Catholic school improvement. MACSSIS produces perception data that tells us about what different people in a school community think and feel about their learning environment.

The surveys gather data from:

• students in Years 4–12
• families
• teachers and non-teaching staff.

Survey questions cover several domains, which vary across the student, family and staff datasets.

As part of compliance with regulatory guidelines, schools are expected to engage with, and gather feedback from, their communities as part of their school improvement cycle. Schools are encouraged to view MACSSIS as a positive opportunity for gathering feedback and engaging communities in ongoing school improvement efforts.

More information will follow in next week's newsletter in how our families can participate in the MACSSIS survey.

School Closure Day

Our school closure day for this term will be on Thursday 7th September. On this day our staff will be looking at developing our knowledge and skills around the very important topic of "Feedback". I will contact YLV to ensure that they offer out of school care services on this day.

Altar Servers

Father Aloysius meet his altar servers "in training" earlier today to talk about their important role helping him at Mass each Sunday. He is so grateful that these students with the permission of their parents want to be part of our parish Mass in a helping role. Thank you so much to the following students who are going to be altar servers.

Natalie       Azariah        Aleisha        Shamus      Glendon       Ishe

Onella        Jasmine       Brenton        Jemimah    Maxi

YLV Invoicing

I have been made aware that some families who use the after school program, have not been billed and are concerned that a larger bill will be forthcoming. Please let me know if this is your situation so I can express your concerns to YLV administration. 

From Today's Assembly

Congratulations to our Good Samaritan Award recipients acknowledged at our assembly today.

Foundation class girls (including Stella and Patricia not pictured)          Kushi            Yianna               Aleisha                 Ellie              Michael

Parent's and Friends News

As mentioned in last week's newsletter:

Football Day - Will be held on Friday 8th September. Further details will follow soon.

Father's Day - The Father's Day Stall will be conducted on Friday 1st September. Wrapping days will be held on 25th/28th August. Jodi will call for volunteers to help out on these days. We will hold a Father's Day raffle in the week leading up to Father's Day and will greatly accept any donations from our school community towards the prize.

This Week in the Playground

This Week in the Classrooms

Yours Sincerely

Mark