Weekes' Weekly News
Learning, growing and celebrating together...
Dear Sacred Heart Kew Families,
It has been another eventful and busy term. Well done to everyone for digging deep and pushing all the way into the first week of July. The holidays have now arrived. Hooray!
We have celebrated many wonderful events this term…
- ANZAC Day commemoration
- Sacrament of Reconciliation
- Mandarin Day
- Garden and Running Club
- Interschool Sports
- Mother’s Day activities (Stall, Morning Tea, Classroom visits and Paraliturgy)
- School Tours
- Wellbeing Groups
- District Cross Country
- Year 4 Camp
- Year 3 & 4 AFL Gala Day
- Walk-a-thon
- Assemblies
- Ladies Lunch
- School Disco
Last Friday was yet another wonderful event, as we celebrated our annual ‘Feast Day’, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at our Parish Mass, where we celebrated the love and compassion of Jesus. It is celebrated nineteen days after Pentecost, on the Friday after Corpus Christi and is also a celebration of our Parish Feast Day. It is a reminder that by belonging to our parish faith community we celebrate our faith as God’s people.
Father Michael led us in a beautiful Mass, reminding us that Jesus loves and cares for us all, so very much. Father Michael shared with us the parable of the lost sheep, where the shepherd leaves his flock of 99 sheep, to go and search for the 1 lost sheep. When he finds the lost sheep, he rejoices and carries the sheep home to be with all the other sheep. The shepherd is so happy that he found the lost sheep, that he calls all his friends and they all celebrate that the lost sheep has returned, and has been saved. Father Michael explained to everyone that the shepherd in this story is Jesus, who our school of Sacred Heart is modelled on.
We are blessed to have Jesus as our model here at Sacred Heart Kew. We strive to model ourselves on Jesus every day, by having love and compassion for others, thinking of those less fortunate than ourselves in different ways. In the lead up to our Feast day, our collective love and compassion for others led to generous donations of many bags of groceries and essential items for the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project, which were gratefully received by Sister Bridget and all those in need.
A special thanks to Mrs Richardson for all her organisation of our Feast Day Mass and for sourcing those delicious heart shaped cookie treats for everyone to enjoy. Thank you to all our families who kindly contributed to the Food Drive to support the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project this year. Your continued generosity, kindness and compassion is very much appreciated. Thank you also to Kristopher Brown for donating several reusable shopping bags from Woolworths to help us transport the grocery items and thanks also to Vince Privitelli for loading up his car, transporting all of the grocery items to the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project in Albert Park last week.
Next term we look forward to many more exciting things. One of these is our Disney Frozen Jr tickets going on sale! This will happen on Monday 28 July at 9am.
Some other important events and dates for Term 3 are below.
July
21 - Term 3 commences
25 - Grandparents and Special Friends Day
25 - Semester 2 Leaders badge presentation 2:30pm in MPR
28 - First Aid in Schools Program (rescheduled)
28 - Disney Frozen Jr Tickets GO ON SALE 9am
29 - Year 3 Excursion (TwistEd Science)
29 - Building Resilience in Children, Teens and Families Parent Session 7:30pm in MPR
August
1 - Prep 100 Days of School
1 - First Eucharist Reflection Day
2 & 3 - Sacrament of First Eucharist
4 - Registration for Confirmation opens
4 - School Tour 9:30am
6 - Year 3/4 Hoop Time (selected students TBC)
8 - Feast Day of St Mary MacKillop
8 - Year 3/4 Soccer Day
9 - 17 - Science Week
15 - The Feast of the Assumption
18 - 22 - Book Week
18 - Character Dress Up Day
22 - Author visit (Charmaine Ledden-Lewis)
27 - Parent/Teacher Chats (12:45pm finish)
29 - Registration for Confirmation closes
September
1 - School Tour 9:30am
3 - Father’s Day Stall
5 - Father’s Day Morning Tea
5 - Men’s Lunch Day
7 - Father's Day
12 - Confirmation Reflection Day
18 - Sacrament of Confirmation
19 - End of Term 3 (Footy/Soccer Colours Day) (12:45pm finish)
Wishing everyone a relaxing and enjoyable school holiday break. May you all stay safe, healthy, happy (and warm) during this time away from school. I look forward to seeing everyone back together again next term.
Kind Regards,
Ed Weekes
School Principal
