A Year of Mercy

Reflection

Psalm 33

1 Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;

it is fitting for the upright to praise him.

2 Praise the Lord with the harp;

make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.

3 Sing to him a new song;

play skilfully, and shout for joy.

4 For the word of the Lord is right and true;

he is faithful in all he does.

5 The Lord loves righteousness and justice;

the earth is full of his unfailing love.

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4 March 2016

Dear Parents and Members of our Sacred Heart School community, In many ways each day you and I are both leaders. Whether it is by nature of our ‘job/career’ or by the role we play in an organisation or in our role as parent – we take on the lead role in something and show leadership through our actions. It’s an active thing – not passive. Last Thursday we inducted our new Student Leaders for 2016. At Sacred Heart we believe that each student has the potential and gifts to show leadership throughout Year 6, and as such, each student receives a position of leadership to utilise these skills and talents. Together and as one they lead the Sacred Heart School student body. My congratulations to each one of them as they formally begin their roles within our school.

IMPORTANT DATES

MON, 7th

MAR

Meet N Greet, 8:25am in Donna Philps Place

Solidarity day Cup of Rice $0.50c

DDJ Instrumental Music

Lessons

TUES, 8th

MAR

Grandparents Day Buddy Lunchtime

WED, 9

th MAR

House Party - GAFFNEY

THURS, 10th

MAR

Assembly @ 2pm led by Year 4M

FRI, 11th

MAR Dance Cart

SCHOOL CAPTAINS Caitlin Gunn Madeline Crowe HOUSE CAPTAINS CONNOLLY HOUSE Olivia Hadwick Amy Short GAFFNEY HOUSE Madeleine Simpson Cyd Ansell MCAULEY HOUSE Camryn Martin-Southby Charlie Devine MINISTRY LEADERS ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY Milla Vo, Ocean Halliday, Ava Bernard, Jordan van der Molen, Verona Bradley PASTORAL MINISTRY Caitli Bettington, Rose Davis, Aisha Clark, Siena Bradley, Sophie Burgess MISSION MINISTRY Jordan Barnard, Aoife Hickey, Anouk Lammersen, Harper Lynch-Smith, Lauren Taylor, Sinead Cabot THE NON-NEGOTIABLES – SUPER HEROES

Captain Caring Georgia Belshaw Sargent Safety Bailey Every Recruit Respectful Emma Alexander Lieutenant Learner Gabi Moro

Our Year 6 leaders will attend a leadership skills day this Thursday where they will work with students from many schools across Brisbane to refine their skills and to learn a few new ones. We wish them a successful day. BUILDERS OF THE HEART We have re-introduced the monthly ‘Builders of the Heart’ award which are designed to recognise the efforts of members of the community who contribute to the heart of our school and assist us in building community. Our winners this month are: Builder of the Heart – (parent) – Mr Glenn Rowley. Glenn receives his award for his support of the Parish/School family mass each month by volunteering to ensure there is a meal for all of us after the Mass. Builder of the Heart – (Staff) – Mrs Carlie Jackson. Carlie receives her award for the way that she has embraced our school and our students. She is extremely committed to her profession and everyone in our community stands to benefit from her skill set, mind set and her presence within our school. Builder of the Heart – (Students) – Emma Alexander (Year 6). Emma receives her award for the maturity she shows and for her positive role modelling of Recruit Respectful. Congratulations to these three very worthy recipients. CLASS COVENANTS As part of our behaviour program each class devises a class covenant – an agreement created as much as possible by the students themselves which details ‘what life will be like within (their class group)’. These were read out on assembly yesterday and celebrated for being very inclusive statements about the type of classroom our students believe will help keep them safe and promote their learning. Next time you’re in your child’s classroom keep an eye out for this statement on their classroom wall.

CLASS BLOGS Have you visited your child’s class blog recently? These blogs are updated regularly by their teacher to keep you informed about class happenings including the curriculum being covered within the class. It’s designed to provide you access of a different kind so that you can kept abreast of their learning. Log on and see how they develop. MY FAVOURITE VISITORS On Tuesday we welcome my favourite visitors to the school – our Grandparents. It’s always a special day for us when our Grandparents come to visit and join with us for a few hours. I know Year 2 Maroon have lots planned for us for the morning with our liturgy commencing at 9am. I can’t wait! PARENTS-IN-PARTNERSHIP NIGHT – HOMEWORK A reminder that this Tuesday night commencing at 7pm is our Parents-In-Partnership night on the topic of our school’s new Homework statement. I look forward to gathering with you to answer your queries (thanks to those who have sent them in to us) and to share our knowledge of what we believe will greatly benefit your children and help create a calmer home life. PTO ON-LINE PTO on-line is the on-line booking form which allows you to book your interview time with your class teacher as the first part of our ‘Reporting to Parents’ framework. These interviews commence on Monday 14

th March

and allow you a formal opportunity to meet with your child’s teacher and discuss how they have settled into their class so far in 2016. The booking system open this Monday (7

th March) and the system is a ‘first in, best

served’ approach in that once you have booked your times they are yours. [‘on-line’ is the only place you can make these bookings]. It really is an opportunity I urge all families to take up. Instructions for how to access the PTO system will be emailed to all parents. ZONE 6 SWIMMING Next Friday our Zone 6 swim team will compete at the annual swimming carnival. ‘Zone 6’ is a coalition of local Catholic schools who form a competition in swimming, athletics and cross country in a friendly yet competitive atmosphere. We wish our team every success. POSSUM HOUSE! Our new treehouse was going so well until one of the tree’s residents move back in after the refurbishments were done. I’m sure you’ve heard that a possum has taken up residence in our playground and has kept us out of the way for a few days. The problem is now solved and our friendly resident will now be looking for a new ‘pad’ to crash in. I’m surprised he even considered resting up amidst all that lunchtime noise. THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do’. (John Wooden) Wishing you a great week as we work together for the benefit of our children. Sincerely

Chris Chris Bathersby Principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Next Monday 7th March we will be conducting another Outreach activity for Caritas. We will be serving a cup of plain rice for 50c a cup. Using this as a fundraiser is not the goal of this exercise but to have an understanding of what it may be like to live on rice for a day. I would like to thank Mrs Cullip, Mrs Burton and Year 6 for this great initiative, particularly the Mission Ministry Team. Solidarity day: Monday 7th March “In our world today there is enough food for everyone but not everyone has enough food”. With these words ringing in our ears, the year 6 Mission Ministry have planned a “rice day” for our school, to be in solidarity with those who do not have enough to eat.

We want everyone to eat rice on Solidarity Day. Why? Because rice is the most consumed food item in the world and yet, one in eight of our world’s people is hungry! Millions of people do not have enough nutritious food to grow healthy bodies. On Solidarity-Day, we’re inviting you to substitute one of your regular meals with a simple cup of rice – sure you can eat before and after, but by just setting aside this time to eat simply and consider those who are hungry you’ll be surprised at how this meal will affect you. On Solidarity Day, we invite you to focus on what it is like to feel hungry and then direct our thoughts and prayers to justice for all who share this world. We believe that we need to help people who do not have enough nutritious food to develop healthy bodies and prevent disease and malnutrition. We also believe that we have a responsibility to give our money to support the work of CARITAS as they help the hungry around the world. Most of us can eat three or more meals a day plus snacks in between. Setting aside one meal to focus on the hungry by only eating a simple cup of rice helps us to identify with the nearly one billion people in the world who live on just one meal a day and sometimes even less than that. Please make sure you talk further about this with your students so they learn as much as possible from this experience. Thank you for your support Maureen and the Year 6s. For extra resources check out http://www.caritas.org.au/act/food-for-all includes a message from the Pope. Yours in Christ

Gerald Shegog

APRE

STUDENT COUNSELLOR

Good afternoon everyone.

I apologise for not getting my article out to you

this week. Unfortunately time beat me.

Enjoy your week and take some time to relax.

Regards,

Teresa.

SCHOOL NEWS

IMPORTANT - UPDATING OF PERSONAL DETAILS

Have you recently moved house, changed your mobile phone or work number? Do you have a new email address? Does the school have your correct contact details? It is extremely important to ensure we have your correct contact details for communication purposes and in times of emergency. Please notify the school with any changes by logging into the Parent Portal and accessing ‘My Student’.

***The lost property is held outside the Integrated Arts Room***

Please ensure that your child’s school uniform and hat is clearly named. Also, can you please have a look at your child’s uniforms, including hat to make sure it doesn’t belong to another child? If so, please return them to the office.

CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL - WEDNESDAY, 23RD

MARCH

SUBWAY LUNCH

$5.50 for a 6 inch Sub + a drink OR Salad bowl + a drink

SUB OPTIONS Ham/Turkey/Pizza/Chicken Strips + cheese and salad

Ham + cheese Chicken Strips + cheese

Salad + cheese

All served on a white 6 inch sub

SALAD OPTIONS Ham/Turkey/Pizza/Chicken Strips + salad

Plain Salad (lettuce, tomato, carrot)

DRINK OPTIONS Apple Popper OR CalciYum Chocolate Milk Popper

ORDER NOW VIA FLEXI-SCHOOLS. ORDERING CLOSES MONDAY, 21ST MARCH @ 10AM.

IN THE CLASSROOM

We come to school every day,

And mostly cause we like to play, But there are things that we should do,

Like learning things, hmm! two times two.

In Year 5, to camp we’ve been Where many interesting things we’ve seen.

On high ropes we dangled, scared; That we might fall - but in our effort, teachers cared.

Then there were the [Hmmm!] rafts we made,

Some even together stayed. Aren’t night supposed to be to sleep

Well, not many into dream – went deep.

Running through the mud was fun

Though that wasn’t true for everyone. But, to the challenge we all applied

The extra effort from way inside.

And, of course, there were the mighty waves, That pounded and caused enormous sprays.

But we were safe on small cute boards, With lifeguards there to keep us safe on boards.

Our teachers saw that we excelled,

In everything we tried to do well. But now it’s back into the grind,

And lots of information we must find.

And, so to studies we return, Essential if we are to learn

The most important facts of life Which help us grow and avoid strife.

Languages Other Than English (LOTE)

Japanese writing systems

(hiragana, katakana, and kanji)

Can you read this word? ' すし ' The Japanese writing system consist of three types of alphabet, hiragana, katakana and kanji (chinese characters). We use mixtures of the types of symbols in the Japanese writing.

Hiragana and katakana are both syllabic alphabets of 46 characters, each of which represents a sound. All sounds in the Japanese language can be expressed with just hiragana. Katakana scripts (the same set of sounds as with hiragana scripts) are used for foreign names and places. For beginners learning Japanese or young children, they start learning basic 46 hiragana symbols. Year 1s in Japan have to learn 46 basic hiragana and another 46 basic katakana and 80 kanji characters in their first year of schooling!

Kanji was introduced to Japan from China in the 5th century and has more than 40,000 characters, of which 2000 to 3000 are required to understand newspapers. There are no spaces in Japanese so kanji is necessary to distinguish between separate words within a sentence. Kanji is also useful for discriminating between homophones, which occur quite often given the limited number of distinct sounds in Japanese. Kanji characters have so many strokes and very hard to memorize, that is why we simplified kanji and created the hiragana and katakana alphabets. Our Year 5 have learned 5 out of basic 46 hiragana symbols so far. When they learn the hiragana alphabet,

we try to imagine pictures from each symbol. For example, this week, the letter 'す'is the sound 'su' and is

learned as " 'su' for soon the plant will grow". Let's use your imagination. The horizontal stroke is the ground.

Below the ground is the seed and root system. The seed has sprouted. It will soon be a flower. The letter'し' is learned as " 'shi' for she has long hair". This is the lovely long hair of a girl. Let's go back to the top and see. Can you read the two letter word at the top of this article. What does it mean?

I am confident that all (?) year 5s can read the word.

Happy learning Japanese!

Shoko Thompson (Japanese Teacher)

(as seen through the eyes of our students)

The highlight of our week was:

Prep Maroon Our highlight this week was making our superhero to be a part of our class covenant. We also worked well as a team to construct the buildings on a map with the wooden blocks.

Prep Silver Our highlight of the week was reading with the Year 2's.

Year 1 Silver Our highlight of the week was the Connelly House party and learning about non-fiction and fiction books.

Year 2 Maroon The highlight of the week for 2M is the Sandgate walking tour, where we walked to

the Town Hall for a Sandgate presentation in the library and to the old Post Office

where we sketched the new building.

Year 3 Silver 3 Silver’s highlight of the week was finding Jesus in the temple and designing name

tags for our storage buckets.

Year 4 Maroon Our highlight of the week has been creating gifts for our grandparents in preparation

for Grandparents Day next week.

Year 4 Silver In Year 4S our highlight of this week is creating our bible scripture quotes onto our window chart.

Year 4 White In 4W the exciting new furniture in our classroom which has encourage the ability to further enrich our modern learning and teacher practice.

Year 5 Maroon Our highlight of the week was creating our gorgeous Dove, symbolic of Peace for our Class Covenant. Everyone contributed to cutting out the feathers, to offering words that should be placed on the dove to remind us of how we should treat each other. God would love it!

Year 5 Silver Year 5 Silver have spent time working with fractions ~ not an easy concept without

pizzas and birthday cakes being involved.

Year 6 Maroon The year 6 had many highlights this week-ranging from receiving our awesome new desks to conducting crazy science experiments about convection currents and cyclones in bottles. The best part though has to be our leadership commissioning ceremony!

CONGRATULATIONS STUDENTS OF THE WEEK - 3 March 2016

Arabella Dean Prep M Spencer Fox Prep S

Madeline Rowley Year 1M Archie Youngman Year 1S

Elizabeth Cloake Year 2M Ella Gagen Year 2S

Rylee Wilkins/Ariel Bova Year 3M Samantha Bushell Year 3S

Toby Blagden Year 4M Emily Crowe/Kitty Patmore Year 4S

Celeste Ansell/Max Carson Year 4W Amber Jackson Year 5M

Kate Bradbury Year 5S

Student of the Week – 26 February 2016 – 3M Phoebe Hill JUNIOR CHOIR – Zoe Hogarty, Clover Youngman, Ruby Payne, Oliver Merrick

WEEK AHEAD

Mon 7th Mar

Meet N Greet 8:25am in Donna Philps Place. All welcome.

Instrumental music lessons with DDJ Productions

Parent-teacher on-line booking system for parents to book Parent-teacher interviews opens today

Cup-of-rice day – Prep to Year 6 50c per cup. Money to Caritas.

Tues 8th Mar

BUDDY lunchtime!

Grandparents Day 9am start

Parent Information night – HOMEWORK

Wed 9th Mar Zone 6 swim trials 7:15am – 8am at Sandgate

Pool

House party – Gaffney Lunchtime

Thurs 10th Mar

Year 6 GRIPS Leadership money due

Prep to Year 2 Liturgy of the Word 9am

District soccer trials

Assembly led by Year 4 Maroon 2pm in Donna Philps Place. All welcome.

Fri 11th Mar

Zone 6 swimming carnival

Dance Cart – Prep to Year 6

PARISH NEWS

SCHOOL BANKING

If you are new to the school and would like to find out how to join please contact Madonna Whillans - mwhillans@optusnet.com.au

COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL BANKING - AVAILABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS AND THEIR SIBLINGS Every child must learn that Mum and Dad are not the bank! Don’t forget that Tuesday is School Banking day and students should bring their weekly deposit. Please fill in the Deposit Slips with Date, Name, Student No, (Account No. if new) and Amount.

MASS TIMES Weekday Masses Monday: Brighton 9:15am Tuesday: Sandgate 7:00am Thursday: Sandgate 5:30pm Friday: Sandgate 7:00am 1

st Friday only: Masonic Care 10:00am

Weekend Masses Saturday: Eventide 9:30am Brighton 6:00pm Sunday: Brighton 7:00am Sandgate 9:00am Sandgate 5:00pm School Masses Sacred Heart School: 8:45am (1

st & 3

rd Thursday of each month) Principal: Chris

Bathersby Phone: 3269 3427 St Kieran’s School: 2pm (2

nd & 4

th Tuesday of each month) Principal: Marissa Clark

Phone. 3269 5989

The following students are due REWARDS for the Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program. The choices: Dollarmites Money Box, ET DVD, Flying Snake Tail, Galaxy Glider, Intergalactic Rocket, Outer Space Savers Money Box, Wildlife Writer Set. Imogen Martens-Edridge Kiarna Perkins Brock O’Sullivan Genevieve Simes Stella Coghill Reegan Moses Madison Cook Isaac Delporte Jodran Barnard Lauren McCarthy

Finlay McNamara Katherine Withers Heather Robbins Romy Beegling Josephine Harper Siamak Wearne Garvey Emily Crowe Maya Proctor Harrison Brinton Samantha Bushell

Rahni O’Dea Lauren Park Corey Watson Abbey Crowe Amy Lynne Kurtz Chloe Boyle Joshua Boyle Peter Robbins Isobelle Mudgway Emily Edwards

Madonna Whillans School Banking Co-Ordinator mwhillans@optusnet.com.au

COMMUNITY NEWS

FAMILY SUPPORT FOR FREE

Free confidential counselling support for our school community at ACU Brisbane Psychology & Counselling Clinic, Australian Catholic University, Banyo. No referral is required.3623 7453. Email: brisbanepsychologyclinic@acu.edu.au

*** SEE PREVIOUS STUDENTS GRETA & ALICE SIMPSON FROM SACRED HEART PERFORM IN MARY POPPINS!!! Greta is in fourteen shows as part of the main ensemble. Alice plays JANE BANKS on Friday, 4

th March 7,30pm,

Saturday, 5th March 2pm and Saturday, 19tth March 7.30pm

Hi there!

Out of the Box, QPAC's festival for children eight years and under, returns at the end of term two

(21-28 June) with an exciting program of performances, workshops, exhibitions, activities and

free events across the Cultural Precinct, South Bank.

Priority bookings for school groups are now open. The festival is highly regarded throughout

Queensland as an excellent complement to existing curricula, and as such, many workshops and

performances sell out well before the festival begins. Secure tickets for your group now before

they go on sale to the general public on Wednesday 2 March.

St Benedict’s College, Mango Hill Hear more about what is on offer for students at St Benedict’s College at one of our Visitors’ Days or Twilight Tours. Dates for these events are located on our website. Please register via our College office on 3385 8888 or via email to smangohill@bne.catholic.edu.au. Enrolments Enrolment applications are being taken for Year 7 in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Please contact our office for an information pack, or for more details. Our next round of interviews for 2017, 2018 and 2019 will be held on 10 March. Places are filling very quickly for 2017!

Brisbane Catholic Education Secondary Schools in the Local area – Quality Inclusive Catholic Education we recommend:

St John Fisher College - Bracken Ridge Girls Years 7 – 12 Ph: (07) 3269 8188 www.sjfc.qld.edu.au

Southern Cross Catholic College – Secondary, Scarborough Co-educational Years 7 – 12 Ph: (07) 3480 3600 www.sccc.qld.edu.au

Mt. Maria College – Petrie Co-educational Years 7 – 10 (with Vocational education based Year 11 & 12) Ph: (07) 3285 5500 www.mmcp.qld.edu.au

St Benedict’s College – Mango Hill Co-educational Years 7 – 12 Ph: (07) 3490 1758 www.stbenedictscollege.qld.edu.au

Mary MacKillop College – Nundah Girls Years 7 – 12 Ph: (07) 3266 2100 www.mmc.qld.edu.au