Principal News
Dear Sacred Heart School Community
Gracious God
We pray for the people of Ukraine suffering from war.
May they be held in your loving care and protection and given
the strength to endure their suffering and hardship.
Transform the hearts and minds of those who perpetuate the
violence and aggression.
Grant wisdom to world leaders in advancing efforts toward peace:
may they not be compromised by self-interest and blind indifference.
We ask all this through the intercession of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
and in the name of your Son Jesus, and the
Holy Spirit, now and forever.
Amen
Sacrament of First Reconciliation
Congratulations to our Year Three students who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time last Thursday. Thank you to their 2021 and 2022 teachers Marie and Denise who prepared them so well and a special thank you to Father Eloysius for a beautiful Spirit Filled celebration.
Ash Wednesday/Lent
Yesterday our students participated in a Spirit Filled paraliturgy to celebrate Ash Wednesday. It was so comforting to be back in our beautiful Sacred Heart Church with Father Eloysius. A big thank you to Kate who organised this event.
We divided the school into two groups so that only three classes were in the church at any one time to minimize the spread of any possible Covid.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent. Lent is the period of 40 days which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, Christians replicate Jesus Christ's sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for 40 days
A Polish Tradition (From Chris Kaszubski)
It will be Fat Thursday in Poland.
The perfect time to make your own Paczki! The outside is crisp; the dough is rich and delicate, like an orange-scented brioche.
We mark the day before Ash Wednesday as Fat Tuesday, a day to use up the oil in the house, so traditional foods for this day are fried, before we start the penitential time of Lent and six weeks of plain simple foods.
In Poland, the day to eat fried treats in preparation for Lent is the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, and on Fat Thursday, Poles will eat 100 million paczki!
It’s not just a matter of tradition, good luck is involved! According to culture.pl, a Polish proverb proclaims that
'Those who don’t eat a stack of pączki on Fat Thursday will have an empty barn and their field destroyed by mice.'”
Covid News
From the special bulletins these past three weeks, you will have noticed, that our students testing positive for Covid are predominately in our Year 4/5 and Year 3/4 classrooms. I please ask that parents of students in these classes watch their children closely for Covid symptoms and take the necessary steps if required. Apart from one student in these classes, I am not aware of any students who cannot wear a mask for a medical reason. Please be aware that we will be supplying masks to any student (apart from our exempted students) who do not come to school with a mask.
School Video Filming
Last Thursday, was a busy but exciting day in our school with photographers and video people spending the day capturing the "Life of our school". When published, the video will go on our school website promoting our Sacred Heart School community in all its wonder, passion, care and excitement. We will unveil the published video when it has been completed. In the meantime the link below will take you to some photos that were taken behind the scenes on the day of filming.
https://www.schoolpresence.com.au/post/school-promotional-video-sacred-heart-preston
Manchester City/Parade Soccer School
As you can see from the photos below, our senior students are very excited about their first training session tomorrow at the Parade Preston campus as part of Parade's Manchester City Football School.
Leadership Positions
Our final student leadership positions have been voted upon and were announced at our school assembly on Monday. This year we have introduced House Captains for the first time in recent years with the view to having more activities around our house system.
Congratulations to the following students:
Environment Leader: Ria
Social Justice Leader: Ayisha
Arts Leaders: Bernice and Miliana
ICT Leaders: Brian and Liam
Whitten House Leader: Isabelle and Ahan
Cawley House Leader: Ria and Josh
Bradman House Leader: Ethan and Rahim
Freeman House Leader: Amelia and Liam
2023 Year Prep Enrolments
Year Prep 2023 enrolments officially open on Monday 7th March and close on Monday 20th June. We have already had a number of tours with prospective families late last year and so far this year. If you know of any families with a child starting school next year, spread the word about our school and encourage them to make contact or a school tour. Three students enrolled for next year are Ezra brother of Chloe, Aiden brother of Aleisha and Valentino brother of Roman.
Thank You
I would like to thank Peter and Anne Hall for their very kind donation to our school. Peter and Anne are the guardians of our Year Two student Cody. Peter and Anne's very generous donation is going towards fixing our sandpit, restocking tanbark under our adventure playground and installing a third flagpole and fixing an existing flagpole. On behalf of our community can I express my gratitude to Peter and Anne.
Congratulations
Congratulations to our Year One student Eklavya, his mum Nisha and dad Sudhir on the arrival of a second baby brother for Eklavya. As you can see from the photos, Eklavya is very proud and protective of his baby brother.
School Closure Day
Please be aware that our school closure day for Wednesday 6th April has now been confirmed. During this day staff will be working on their faith formation.
Please take care.
Yours sincerely
Mark Tierney
Principal
From the School Office
Camps, Sports & Excursions Funds (CSEF) - Reminder
If you are the holder of a Health Care Card (valid as at the 28th January 2022) or Pensioner Card, you may be eligible for CSEF Funding for your child. Please see Maria in the office for an application form. As applications close soon we would appreciate your co-operation in returning completed applications as a matter urgency. Please make sure you bring your card to the office for us to copy.
School Photos - Important information for families
School photo day is Thursday 17th March at 8.30am.
Children should wear summer uniform. If Year 6 Graduation T-shirts have arrived by this day Year 6 students should wear their Graduation T-shirt.
This Thursday 10th March your child will receive their personalised order forms. Each form will have your child's name, order number and internet id number.
Orders can only be placed on line as we cannot accept cash orders. Each student will have their photo taken even if there is no order placed. However no photo will be supplied unless paid for.
Parents can order up to 2 working days after photo day without using the above codes. Please do Student Search and enter the students first and last name and date of birth to place the order.
To place sibling orders this must be done online before 8am on photo day. Only siblings that have orders will be photographed.
Orders placed 3 days after photo day will incur postage of $7.95.
Please do not return the "how to order flyer" to the school. This is for your information.
