Sacred Heart Primary School - Morwell eNewsletter

Dear Families,

This fortnight we have celebrated the school house sports. Even with quite a few families away we were able to have many children compete. The day was delightful and it was such a joy being in the middle to journey around to see all the events.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Again, I ask that all parents be vigilant with their children interacting on social media platforms. Most platforms have an age limit of 13. Please see the attached guide for platform use and maintain close viewing of their interactions.

School Review

This week coming up our school is undergoing a “School Review”. This entails leaders from DOSCEL coming and interviewing all stake holders of the school, students, teachers, office staff, support staff and parents.

Alongside the interviewing process, teacher’s delivery of lessons, their understanding of High Impact Teaching Strategies and their use of the curriculum at children’s point of need are examined. The information they gather about our school will then be placed against the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) standards.

We as a school then look at the next items we can do on the standards to improve our school.

Tuesday 29^th and Wednesday 30^th are the days when the reviewers are at the school.

Last Day of school.

On our last day with students this term, being Thursday April 7^th, the Stations of the Cross and our first Easter Bonnet Parade will be held on our oval. The 5/6 students have been organising the Religious celebrations and all children have an opportunity to create their own Easter bonnet at school. They do not have to use the one made at school for the parade if they would prefer to bring one from home.

We are hoping to encourage the community to gather with us having tea and coffee and the opportunity to chat.

Please enjoy the blessings of the long weekend,

See you all on Tuesday.

Anne-Marie Robb

Hello parents and students,

We would like to thank everyone who brought a donation for the Easter raffle.

The Easter raffle will be held on Thursday 7th April, the raffle tickets must be given to the office by Monday 4th April,2022.

We would also like to congratulate Isabella-Rose and Simon who are the blue house captains and lead their team to victory! A great day was had by everyone.

Have a good weekend.

Rahni, Mayah, Elli & Isabella

On Monday we had a beautiful day to hold our Athletics Day with the sun shining. The whole school participated and all students were very well behaved and everyone demonstrated excellent sportsmanship. The students participated in a range of different events with many students receiving ribbons. The final results were very close, however Sebastian (Blue house) were the lucky winners of the day! Congratulations to Sebastian and all students for participating!

STUDENT AWARDS	Student	For	From
Week 8 18/3/22	Brayden	For completing his work and following instructions	Mrs Larkins
Week 8 18/3/22	Sienna	Putting in 100% effort to each task	Mrs Larkins
Week 8 18/3/22	Ethan	For the effort he is putting into making the right choices	Miss Barton
Week 8 18/3/22	Jordan	For his hard work getting the structure of his persuasive writing right.	Miss Barton
Week 8 18/3/22	Elli	For putting a great effort into all her learning this week	Miss Barton
Week 8 18/3/22	Simon	For putting a great effort into all his learning this week	Miss Barton
Week 8 18/3/22	Claire	For being a motivated and independent student with a great love of learning. Well done!	Mrs Handley
Week 8 18/3/22	Indrani	For working hard and completing tasks with a positive attitude.	Mrs Handley
Week 8 18/3/22	Jordan	For your outstanding effort in everything you do! You are a pleasure to teach.	Mrs MacDonald
Week 8 18/3/22	Izzy H	For working so hard on your persuasive writing! You are showing improvement every day!	Mrs MacDonald
Week 6 4/3/22	Jesse	Attempting new things.	Mr Sass
Week 6 4/3/22	Jakzon	Always having a go at his learning tasks.	Mr Sass
Week 6 4/3/22	Scarlett	Positive attitude to all her learning. Well Done!	Mrs MacDonald
Week 6 4/3/22	Shenuli	Always being kind and respectful to her peers and teachers. Well done!	Mrs MacDonald
Week 6 4/3/22	Chase S	Always being an inclusive friend to others	Mrs Larkins
Week 6 4/3/22	Lino	Always putting in a big effort with his tasks	Mrs Larkins
Week 6 4/3/22	Annabel	For being a good friend	Mrs Handley
Week 6 4/3/22	Hayden	For putting in an amazing effort with his work and growing in confidence.	Mrs Handley
Week 6 4/3/22	Jesse	For having a good go at all of his learning tasks	Miss Barton
Week 6 4/3/22	Jakzon	For having a good go at all of his learning tasks	Miss Barton
Week 6 4/3/22	Xavier	For engaging so well with the narrative writing progress	Miss Barton
Week 6 4/3/22	Indianna	Doing her SRC speech so well - she read beautifully	Miss Barton
Week 4 18/02/22	Lucy	Being a great helper	Mrs Larkins
Week 4 18/02/22	Hope	Writing her name correctly	Mrs Larkins
Week 4 18/02/22	Harrison	Wonderful expression and performance of Jack and the beanstalk	Mrs Handley
Week 4 18/02/22	Nixon	Always demonstrating our school values to a very high standard	Mrs Handley
Week 4 18/02/22	Jakzon L	Your awesome attitude in maths and for always being up for a challenge.	Mrs MacDonald
Week 4 18/02/22	Ali	Always being ready to learn and for the fantastic editing of his story.	Mrs MacDonald
Week 4 18/02/22	Tahlia	Your thoughtful responses to reading and for following all instructions.	Mrs MacDonald
Week 4 18/02/22	Mary	Your effort with word work in reading to rewrite information from our text.	Mrs MacDonald
Week 4 18/02/22	Oliver B	Always working to improve his learning	Mr Sass
Week 4 18/02/22	Akeksja	Always showing compassion and kindness to everyone.	Mr Sass
Week 4 18/02/22	Jakzon	Your awesome attitude in maths and for a challenge.	Mrs MacDonald

MARCH
Thursday 31st	Sacrament of Reconciliation - Sacred Heart Church 5:00pm
APRIL
Sunday 3rd	Daylight savings ends - Clock goes back 1 hour
Thursday 7th	Stations of the Cross/Easter Bonnet Parade -School celebration for students and parents
Thursday 7th	End of Term 1 - 3:00pm
Friday 8th	Student Free Day
Friday 15th	Good Friday
Sunday 17th	Easter Sunday
Monday 25th	ANZAC Day public holiday
Tuesday 26th	Commencement Term 2
MAY
Tuesday 10th	School Photos
Wednesday 18th	Confirmation Workshop 1 @ 5:pm
JUNE
Monday 6th	Student Free Day
Monday 13th	Queens Birthday public holiday
Thursday 23rd	Sacrament of Confirmation
Friday 24th	Feast of the Sacred Heart (Student last day of Term 2) 2:00pm dismissal

HOLY WEEK PROGRAM

Holy Thursday 14th April - Lumen Christi Church @ 7.30pm

Good Friday 15th April - St Vincent’s Church 10.00am Stations of the Cross
Good Friday 15th April - Sacred Heart Church 3.00pm

Easter Vigil 6th April - Sacred Heart Church 7.30pm

Easter Sunday 17th April - Lumen Christi Church 9.00am
Easter Sunday 17th Ap - Sacred Heart Church 10.30am

Lenten Stations of the Cross

Wednesday after 5pm Mass at Lumen Christi Church

Friday 4.00pm – Italian Stations of the Cross at Sacred Heart Church

Friday 5.00pm – English Stations of the Cross at St Vincent’s Church

Prayer for Peace and Justice in Ukraine

God of peace and justice,
who changed the hardened heart and
break the power of violence,
we entrust the people of Ukraine to you.
Protect them in this time of peril;
let them know not death but life, not
slavery but freedom.
You are Father of all;
We are brothers and sisters.
Give us the strength to live that truth in
love, choosing peace not was.

Through Christ our Lord.

It was on 25 April 1915 that the armies of Australia and New Zealand entered into their premier battle of the First World War, at Gallipoli, Turkey. At the time, Australia had only been recognised as a federal commonwealth for thirteen years.

While Anzac Day is set to coincide with the anniversary of the landing in Gallipoli, the day itself is not meant to be a commemoration of the event, but rather the qualities that Australia established for itself there. On Anzac Day, we recognise the courage, mate-ship, skill, and perseverance of those who have served, fought, and given their lives in the military. On Anzac Day, we show love, honour and support for those who fought to enable freedom for people all over the world, but were not able to make it home.

The Morwell Return and Services League will be conducting a service to recognise all Australians who have served in all wars from 1915 to the present day and sadly those who were killed in action or died of their wounds in battle. The service will commence with the Parade starting at 11.50am from the corner of Commercial Road and Tarwin Street. The main service will start once the Parade arrives at the Cenotaph.

Each year in support of Return Services League our Sustainability Warriors will be selling Anzac badges, pins, Key rings and wrist bands ranging in price as follows:-

Anzac Pins @ $1, $2, $5, $10 & $20
Key Ring $4
Wrist Band $3
Clip-on $4.

Harmony Day

Sacred Heart Morwell Primary school came together to celebrate Harmony Day which is a day to celebrate unity and diversity. Students were encouraged to wear a splash of orange. Sacred Heart students spent the last hour of their day in cross-aged rotation groups looking and exploring activities around the theme “We come together to celebrate harmony in diverse cultures fostering respect and inclusiveness”. Harmony day not only encourages everyone to respect each other but also appreciate the country’s multicultural background.

RECONCILIATION

Some of our senior students have been preparing for their first Sacrament of Reconciliation. This will be celebrated on Thursday 31st March, 5pm at Sacred Heart Church.

Please pray for all on this journey.

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We currently hold a supply of new single packed green school socks available in sizes as shown:-

Size 5-8 (2-4 years)

9-12 (5-7 years)

Size 2-8 ( 10 years)

Size 7-11 (Large fitting)

These are old stock and are free.

We also have odd supplies of the old style uniform which are new and being sold at a heavily reduced rate.

Limited 2nd hand shorts, polo shirts (long and short sleeve), windcheaters and summer dresses are still available for free.

Should you wish to obtain any of the above items please email Sylvia in the office at sallan@shmorwell.catholic.edu.au who will arrange your order.

The school communicates with parents and carers via the Skoolbag App. It is important that you download the free app which will enable you to received correspondence from the school.

Please see attached the steps to download the app.

Skoolbag_App.pdf