Photo Day 2022 has been and gone and it was a great success. Thank you to all the families who made the effort to have the children resplendent in their uniform for the photos. The students were very well behaved and the photographers made lots of positive and affirming comments about our children, their manners and behaviour.

Next week is the annual Book Week Parade and celebration of all things to do with books and reading. Reading is the essential building block for further success at school and in life. The ability to engage with books is fundamental to accessing all other subjects and content regardless of the year level. Our Infants and Primary students will be attending the parade but we are required to limit contact with other adults and other schools as a COVID safe measure. All details have already been sent home about the day.

A reminder that raffle tickets were sent home this week for the Ten Grand in the Hand P & F fundraising. Please do not lose the tickets as it is a legal requirement that they are returned sold or unsold. We would love people to sell them to their neighbours, family and friends so that we can continue to supply all the “extras” for our students, namely additional iPads for the infants classes and representative sport uniforms for the primary and secondary. There are also tickets in the father’s day raffle available. The P & F have sourced a BBQ, car seat covers and a fuel voucher for the raffle and tickets are available through the front office.

We have been touched this week by a few COVID cases but we seem to be managing to prevent the spread as well as we are able. Please speak to your students about personal hygiene in terms of covering their mouth when they cough or sneeze. It is an expectation that you do not send children with COVID like symptoms to school. We ask that testing continues if the students display any COVID-like symptoms. We are continuing to monitor the numbers of COVID cases within the school and amongst the staff. Please contact the front office if your child tests positive to COVID. Also all secondary students who are close contacts must continue to wear masks and test negative for the next 5 days.

Our school is so blessed and lucky to have such wonderful ladies managing our Canteen. They do an amazing job and provide an invaluable service to our school community. We have a number of different ways to access the canteen; online, through lunch order bags or walk up sales. However, it is important that orders are placed before 9.30am each morning. If you inadvertently forget to place the order please note that it will be difficult to fill until the lunch time rush is over at 11.40. Most times, there is only a single lady in the canteen to prep and prepare the lunches, especially on Thursday and Friday. So if you do forget and the student present at the front office it may be necessary for them to eat their recess first and get their lunch at the recess break. This is not ideal, but it is also unavoidable when there are in excess of 100 lunch orders to get out and sales at lunch time complete. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Planning is in place for classes for next year. Please contact me at the school if you have plans for 2023 that impact on our enrolments. Also please encourage anyone you know who is considering Sacred Heart to make an appointment to meet with me at their earliest convenience.

“It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being.”
― Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth

Have a wonderful weekend.

Blessings

Ms Nicky Trinder

Principal

~Art Class~

Dear Parents,

School photos have now been taken. Group and portrait photographs can be purchased by following the link below for 7 days from the day photos are taken, after which late fees/additional charges will be incurred.

NEW
advancedlife now offers Latitude Pay! To take advantage of LatitudePay and split the cost of your order into 10 small easy payments, simply order your school photos online as usual, set up a Latitude Pay account in just a few clicks and pay no interest or fees when you pay according to your payment schedule; it’s that easy.

2 easy ways to purchase before late fees apply:

1. LatitudePay – Click on the link below, set up an account during the online order process and split your payments across 10 weeks with no interest or fees, if you pay on time
2. Visa, MasterCard or PayPal

Or visit: www.advancedlife.com.au
And enter online order code: 94R TNP NPJ

School photography information:

• Online orders - do not require an envelope returned to your school
• Late fees - a late fee will be applied to each package purchased more than 7 days after photo day due to the additional cost of producing these packages separately
• Package delivery - photographic packages will be returned to your school for distribution approximately six weeks after photos are taken
• Previous Years’ photos - Past years’ photographs including sports, co-curricular and representative groups are also available to order under the 'previous years or group photo' tabs at your school’s advancedorder site when you click on the 'Order School Photos Here' button above. You can also order past packages, portrait images and gifts from your child’s unique, individual and secure advancedyou image archive site using the unique 9 digit image code found on packages you have ordered in the past

advancedlife would like to express our appreciation to Sacred Heart Central School for placing your trust in us. Please remember we offer a 100% money back guarantee on our products to ensure your peace of mind. We would also love to receive your feedback or resolve any issues you may experience as fast as possible, to ensure your satisfaction. If you have any questions, comments or feedback relating to your advancedlife experience please contact us at: www.advancedlife.com.au/contact

Year 9 Excursion - 19-22/9/2022

Year 10 Excursion - 19-22/9/2022

Year 6 Thanksgiving Mass - 25th November

Year 6 Excursion - 29/11-2/12/2022

Annual Awards Ceremony - 7 December

Year 10 Mass and Graduation - 9th December

First Aid - $90

White Card - $120

Year 9 Excursion progress payments

Year 10 Excursion progress payments

Term 3 School Fees overdue

Primary Sport

CG trials of 2023

It is an opportunity for stage three students in 2023 to trial for representative sport. We have been successful in the past in students being selected to represent at such a high stage. Some of the trial dates for 2023 will start at the end of this year. If you are interested and wish to register please visit CSNSW Sport Portal. If you have any questions or wish to have more information, please don't hesitate to contact me. 

CRICKET

• The Canberra Goulburn Cricket Trials for the 2023 teams will be held on Friday 4th November 2022 with a closing date of the 28th of October

 Taylor Park. 1B Yass Road, Queanbeyan East 2620

TOUCH FOOTBALL

• Canberra Goulburn trials Friday 9th December – Open to boys and girls

Southwell Park, Lyneham, ACT

TENNIS AND BASKETBALL

• 2023 Canberra Goulburn Tennis and Basketball trials will be held on Friday 2nd December 2022.

Belconnen Tennis Club. Halloran Place, Macquarie, ACT

Belconnen Basketball & Sports Centre 42 Oatley Court, Belconnen, ACT 

More information and dates will go out at the end of this year

CG athletics 

Good luck to our students representing SHC at the athletics trials next week.

Regards

Wendy Van Kerk Oerle

Secondary Sport

Good Luck

Good luck to the students competing at the Archdiocesan Athletics carnival next Tuesday.

Secondary Sport Dates

For further information, see Ms Withers or go to:

• CSNSW Sport: website (https://csnsw.sport/)
• CG Sport: Canberra Goulburn Sport nominations page (https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/nominations)
• Sport @ SHC: Secondary Google Classroom (student code - xcdqo3f) https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/Njk2NjYzNTMxM1pa 

For school teams to go away to gala days and competitions, students must return their note and money by the due date to be eligible to attend the excursion.

As always, if you are concerned about anything to do with PE or Sport, please arrange a meeting or get in contact with me so we can work out a solution. We want everyone to be involved in all aspects of school life, to the best of their ability and feel good about their experience.

I can be contacted at megan.withers@cg.catholic.edu.au or on 02 69422612 during school hours. 

Regards,

Megan Withers

Secondary Sports Coordinator

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