Dear Parents and Carers,

This week the senior students wrote applications for the leadership positions in the school.
These groups are the Sustainability Warriors, the Social Justice Team and Sport captains. Each
of these groups work together with teachers and students to promote the specific areas
within the school that the teams champion. There is an overwhelming amount of interest in
the jobs. The challenge to read them and give them the reflection and thought needed to
decern the right person for the right job in one evening was not attainable. I will now read
them in depth over the weekend, with the aim of being ready to announce the jobs on
Monday.

PBS shop

Our PBS shop has been open biweekly on Fridays. This shop has lots of fun things
that the children can buy with their reward coins. Last year favourite things were a
ride in the elevator, free time, computer time, extra play, cooking and the most prized
was lunch with the principal.
All children have to opportunity to earn coins for particular focused behaviour around
our expectations Respect, Inclusive and Safe. Earning coins happens when children
go over the expected and follow in the steps of Mary McKillop, caring for each other
and “Never seeing a need without doing something about it.”
Currently the school captains are running the PBS shop and will share this position
with all leaders throughout the year.

UNIFORM

All students are expected to be in uniform every day.
Coloured runners can be worn on sports days only. For seniors and Green room this
is Monday, Blue room have sport on Friday.
If your child is out of uniform their teacher will ask them to bring a note from home. If
you are having difficulty sourcing the uniform we are here to help. The teacher will
contact you if there is continuous uniform problems.

HOT LUNCH FRIDAY

We will continue to have a hot lunch on Friday. A calendar including the different
lunches will be out soon.

CAR PARK

When dropping off students in the morning please either park in the car park and
have the students walk across the crossing or drive to the bottom gate.
For safety reasons we cannot have cars parking where the morning flags are
or beyond to let children out. Parents and Cares who wish to drop and run
must drive to the gate at 8:30 and let the children walk up inside the school.
Cars must move in and around the car park at walking pace (10kph) as designated
by the signs on the road and (5kph) in the car park. Everybody must enter and leave
the road slowly.

Ten Years On

The school captains have supported me in making a short movie to show on
Saturday 17 th which is a Community Day at Kernot Hall. The Sacred Heart
captains have titled their movie “Reflect, Review, Renew”. They have spoken
with several staff members about their experience and reflected on how that
has caused change in the community. Please read the following information
regarding the Saturday Event where our mini movie will be shown.
Event Details
What: 10-Years-On: Community Day. A gathering to reflect on our
community’s progress since the Hazelwood mine fire.
This community day aims to be a mix of celebrating our wins and the power of
community advocacy, while also respecting the enormity of the impact that the fire had
on our community. Attendance will be free for all and include a free catered
community lunch, a range of kids activities, like Bug Blitz, story time + book
nook, drawing, colouring, activities centred on environment & energy. There will
also a collaborative community art mural, local art displays, an oral history
recording booth, Latrobe Valley historic memorabilia, interactive booths, film
screenings, workshops, talks with Q&A and more!
When: Saturday, February 17th, 2024
Where: At the newly refurbished Kernot Hall, 50-70 Princes Dr, Morwell, VIC
3840
Time: Time and program to be confirmed soon.
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/365y2i6tL
Ticket link: lifeaftercoal.com/tickets 
Panels:
1. How far we've come 
Focus: 10 years on from the mine fire, what are the positive outcomes in our
region and what work do we need to focus on moving forward? The ongoing
story of our community in transition.
2. Health & wellbeing outcomes
Focus: What have we learnt from community lead health & welling
being initiatives in the 10 years since the fire? Health impacts and progress in
our community.
3. Mine Rehabilitation
Focus: The Latrobe Valley's Future Vision and aspirations, what are the energy
sector and government's big picture plans for the region? What can we do to
make the Latrobe
Our movie will be showing at 11:30.

I wish you all a restful weekend,
God Bless,

Anne-Marie Robb

At Sacred Heart we implement a strategy known as, Whole School Approach to Positive Behaviour Support (WSAPBS) to support the facilitation of the:

• Personal and Social Capabilities in the Victorian Curriculum  
• Child Safe Standards
• Duty of care
• Occupational Health and Safety

We have worked with families, students and staff to develop our school wide expectations known as - RISE.  We use these expectations to help strengthen our community and promote a positive and safe learning environment for all students.  

These expectations are embedded into our daily practices and will help form the basis for our new focus on developing a school wide understanding of consequences.

Shrove Tuesday is commonly known as Pancake Tuesday. It is the last day before the
season of Lent begins. Traditionally Christians would use all their flour, milk, butter,sugar and eggs to make pancakes in preparation for fasting through Lent.This year all students had the experience of eating pancakes in the classroom kindly cooked by Mrs P. and Miss Kristy and served by our school leaders. 

Sacraments

NetSetGo is the official starter program in netball for children aged 5 to 10! It’s an experience where children can make new friends, learn new skills, build confidence, and have fun!  This free opportunity if for your children to get a taste of the program and to see what the fun is all about!

A NetSetGo program will then be offered to the community beginning 19 March to 14 June 2024 at the Morwell Leisure Centre.