Students Of The Week ~Week 2 Term 4

for Attitude, Values and Study Habits

K-2 ~ Lachlan Bates (Yr 2)

for using multiple strategies to solve mathematical problems.

Yr 3-6 ~ William Horwood (Yr 3)

for decoding tricky words when reading.

Principal's Award ~ Coen Gough

for displaying kindness to his peers.

Reading Award ~ 150 Nights - Elsie Groves

ST MARY'S COLLEGE GUNNEDAH TRANSITION TASTER DAY

Last Tuesday our Year 6 students enjoyed a day at St Mary’s Gunnedah for a secondary school experience accompanied by Mrs Katie Goddard. Special thanks to Mr Adam Mooney for driving the bus and transporting Sacred Heart and St Francis Xavier students to Gunnedah and returning children to both schools. Our students loved catching up with the friendships made in Canberra last week with the St Francis Xavier Students. Felicity, Hunter and Georgia participated in a variety of subjects including Science, Music and PE. St Mary’s provided a yummy lunch of pizza, juice and zooper doopers and we thank SMC also for making both schools and teachers feel very welcome on the day.

SMALL SCHOOLS PUBLIC SPEAKING

Congratulations to everyone involved in the organisation of the very successful Small Schools Public Speaking Competition held last Wednesday.

Sacred Heart School hosted this event that has been proudly sponsored by the Rotary Club of Boggabri for the past 26 years. Everyone greatly appreciates your continued support and commitment to the development of the speaking skills of our local students.

A huge thank you to our event co-ordinator, Miss Tahlia Morrissey who put in hours and hours of her own time to ensure that this annual event was a success. Well done!

To the staff of Sacred Heart, Boggabri Public School, Mullaley Public School and Curlewis Public School, many thanks for entering your students as without your support we would not be able to continue this amazing competition.

Congratulations to all of the students who participated on the day. The adjudicators and the Rotary members all commented how wonderfully everyone delivered their speeches and what a fantastic life skill their were developing. You can all be very proud of yourselves.

Sacred Heart School results are listed below:

Prepared Speech

Year 2

3rd - Ellie Rodstrom (Sacred Heart)

Year 3

3rd - Jacob Caroll (Sacred Heart)

Year 4

3rd - Grace Groves (Sacred Heart)

Highly Commended - Lucy Furner (Sacred Heart)

Highly Commended - Willow- Rose McKay (Sacred Heart)

Year 5

1st - Evie Watt (Sacred Heart)

2nd - Molly Murphy (Sacred Heart)

3rd - Xanthia Watson (Sacred Heart)

Year 6

1st - Georgia Baird (Sacred Heart)

Impromptu

Year 3 / 4

1st - Lucy Furner (Sacred Heart)

Year 5 / 6

1st Evie Watt (Sacred Heart)

2nd Xanthia Watson (Sacred Heart)

3rd Georgia Baird (Sacred Heart)

YR 6 FUNDRAISER

At the Public Speaking event last Wednesday we held a Cafe with the profit going to the Yr 6 fundraiser for their end of year gift to the school. Many thanks to the staff for supplying the delicious cakes/slices and a massive thank you to Mrs Georgie Carrigan and Mrs Kate Groves for their generosity in providing her coffee van for the day. The Year 6 students would like to thank everyone involved in helping on the day. A profit of $815.30 was raised.

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