‘‘ ’’ Love one another as I have loved you. John 15:17

H eart beat Week 10 Term 4 2016

15th December 2016

Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School & Early Learning Centre

PO Box 271 Palmerston NT 0831 34 Emery Avenue Woodroffe NT 0830

Phone : 08 8924 8700 Fax : 08 8924 8788 Email : admin.shps@nt.catholic.edu.au Website : www.shpsnt.catholic.edu.au

Our Lady help of Christians Parish Mass Times

Saturday 6.00pm Sunday 8.30am and 6.00pm

Church Open Every day from 6am-6pm Father Tom 0424 971 017

Farewell to the 2016 School Year The fact that our year together is over

Really seems so strange We’ve loved the time we spent with you

Watching you grow and change

We hope that you had lots of fun Whilst you were here

And always hold our precious time together So very very dear!

Thank you for being a special part of our

Sacred Heart Community May the Birth of Jesus bring

you and your loved ones peace, joy and great happiness.

From the Leadership Team

gez.mulvahil@nt.catholic.edu.au sarah.morrissey@nt.catholic.edu.au danielle.aspinall@nt.catholic.edu.au deirdre.shanley@nt.catholic.edu.au

Dear Families, Welcome to the final edition of our newsletter for the year. This year has been very eventful, with many changes and challenges, successes and celebrations. Through the entire year, there is one thing that has not changed, and that is the ability of our school community to “Love One Another”. We are extremely proud of the achievements of our school community throughout the year, and acknowledge the ongoing support from the School Board, the Parents and Friends Association and the entire Sacred Heart community. Thank you. We are still in the process of finalising our classes for 2017 and we will be working on this on Friday. We will send letters toward the end of January advising of teachers for 2017. At the end of each year, it is sad to say farewell to some of our staff. This year we say farewell to: Catherine Owen, Rachel Sinon, Antoinette Erasmus, Jonathan Paul, Sally Cameron, Caddie Palmer, Stephanie Redgment and Lisa Bound. We wish all of our staff and families who are leaving all the best and thank them for spending time in our Sacred Heart community. Year 6 Leaders in 2017 We congratulate our school captains for 2017, Paige Canavan and Liam Wells. Joining the Captains to form the SRC in 2017 will be Taylah Gardiner, Charlee Whiteman, Mia Cinquina, PJ Stalas, Tyler Dyson and Aidan Da Costa-Pereira. Our Sports Captains for 2017: Gsell: Gemma Kutija and Kenny Lopes O’Loughlin: Ava Greay and Oscar Russell Collins: Aaliyah Lew Fatt and Joaquin Tulloch Hurley: Destini Evans and Sibisik Misob We congratulate these students, as well as all of our Year 6 students for 2017 as they embark on their leadership within the school. As advertised in this newsletter, the school office will be open next week and will then re-open on January 16th 2017. Uniforms will be available from the Office during these times. The Back to School vouchers will be available for use from January 16th. This is all co-ordinated through our school office. Finally, we thank you all for your support and involvement with Sacred Heart this year. We are a strong community, built on faith and love, and we acknowledge the many different parts of our community that work together to make our school a great place. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and look forward to working with you again in 2017.

May you be filled with Christ’s blessings this Christmas.

Gez, Sarah, Dani and Dee

School Office Closes for 2016

Friday 16th December 2pm

Coming Events

Final 2016 School Assembly Thursday 15th December

2.20pm Presentation Special Guest

2017 School Tour Dates Tuesday 17th January

5.00pm

2017 Transition Parent Information Evening

Tuesday 7th Feb 6.00pm

School Office Reopens

Monday 16th January

2017 8.00am-2.30pm

TERM 1 2017 Commences

Wednesday 1st February

School Office Closes for 2016

Friday 16th December 2pm

Transition Room 3 Elexsandra Stalas Noah Doley

Transition Room 4 Benjamin Pearson William Ing

Year 1 Room 1 Anneliese Evans Cooper Harvey

Year 1 Room 2 Yiannis Mousellis Smarth Chopra Mason Marques

Year 2 Room 7 Hamish Tillack Smith Adam El-Zahed

Year 2 Room 8 Sarah Whiley Nathan Wilson Isabella Townsend

Year 3 Room 5 Molly Suradi Elsie Lasker Nicholas Troumouliaris

Year 3 Room 6 Sarah Galvin Tarah Sanchez

Year 4 Room 11 Gareth Blackman Blaze Colley

Year 4 Room 12 Madeline Miller Azura Moore Mikaylee Winch

Year 5 Room 9 Destini Evans Rydan Richards

Year 5 Room 10 Brad Tanner Charlee Whiteman

Year 6 Room 14

Year 6 Room 15 Liam Kennedy Eloise Waghorn

Nativity Hamarni Erceg

Art PE Felicity Lamberton Grace Turner

ELC

Student of the Week Awards Week 9 Term 4

Good on Ya’s Week 9

Congratulations to :

Charlee Evans Room 4 Caitlin Vallis Room 15 Walter Lasker Room 4

Tyeanne Tinoco Room 15 Dylan McMahon Room 10

We give thanks for the following wonderful people for their gifts of time, resources and self this week : For our Invited Guests, Award Sponsors, Families and Sacred Heart Community Members who took the

time to celebrate our Graduation and End of 2016 Masses with us. Jane & Nate Marshall for setting up for the Supper after Graduation.

Appreciations

Congratulations

Congratulations to Brayden Tilley for

his work that achieved a Run-

ner’s up Award for his piece during

Poverty Week called “Write away

Poverty “ Well Done to the Children that performed a presentation of songs at Terrace Gardens Aged Care Home .

TERM 4 CALENDAR

WEEK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday

Assembly 12.15pm

Week 10

December

12 Whole School

Assembly 8.30am

13 Year 6

Graduation Mass 7pm

14 15

Whole School End of Year Mass

9am

STUDENTS CONCLUDE

16 PUPIL FREE DAY

Holiday Care Available

AWARD Recipient Sponsored By

Academic Excellence Award Anika Kamarudin NT Board of Studies

Australia Day Council NT

Australia Day

Student Citizen

Sibisik Misob Australia Day Council

Administrator’s Medal

Nominee Elizabeth Salter NT Board of Studies

Citizenship and Community

Award Brian Moore Palmerston City Council

Sportsmanship Award Reilly Wells Programme Maintenance

Arts Award Elizabeth Salter CSG

Fr Gerry Remie Christian

Leadership Award Cholo Reyes St Vincent de Paul

Mark McCasker

Memorial Trophy Alister Lasker

Northern Territory

Catholic Principals

Association Scholarship

Oliver Bent

Northern Territory Catholic

Principals

Association

Most Improved Student

Award Noah Mitchell Palmerston City Council

Tony and Pat O’Brien

Community Leadership

Award

Kiki Troumouliaris

Information & Technology

Award Adam Burgess Area 9

Holiday Care Program

Please remember that our Outside Hours Care and Early Learning Centre

WILL BE CLOSED from Monday 19th December 2016 and reopen

for care on Tuesday 3rd January 2017.

2017 Term Dates

Placements for Holiday Care are now open for the Holiday Break Tuesday 3rd –Tuesday 31st January 2017, excluding public Holidays . Spaces are limited. For an enrolment form please contact the front office or for further information , please contact Debbie Phone: 89248742 Email: sacredheartoshc@gmail.com

OSHC & ELC Holiday Closure Dates

P & F Christmas Raffle

Thank you to all families that have donated items towards the P & F Christmas Raffle. Congratulations to all the lucky winners. The Parents and Friend association would like to thank all Families and Friends that contributed to the success of our Christmas Concert fundraising. Special thanks to the generosity of Matt and Donna Cartwright from Hungry Hearts Catering . We raised over $2000 from this one very successful event . We look forward to next years efforts and encourage all parents old and new to join the P & F committee in 2017.

TERM DATES

Semester One, 2017

Term 1 Wed. 1 February -Fri. 7 April

Term break Mon. 10 April- Fri. 14 April

Term 2 Tues. 18 April - Fri. 23 June

Semester break Mon. 26 June – Fri. 21 July

Semester Two, 2017

Term 3 Tues. 25 July – Fri. 29 Sep-tember

Term break Mon. 2 Oct – Fri. 6 Oct

Term 4 Mon. 9 Oct – Thurs. 14 Dec

Christmas Mass Times

Simbang Gabi Will begin Friday 16th December . The masses will be celebrated at 4.30am for 9 mornings.

Christmas Celebrations will begin on Saturday Christmas Eve 24/12 with the children’s mass 7pm Children are asked to dress as angels and shepherd.

Midnight Mass

Christmas Day 8.30 am and 6pm

CHRISTMAS CAROLS 2016 There will be house to house carolling again this year Caroling from 16th-23rd December Bookings can be made by SMS 0410 421 042 or email issey_927@yahoo.com

Sacred Heart Super Star

Enrolments are now being taken for Transition 2017. If your child turns 5 prior to 30 June 2017, he or she is eligible to commence Transition in January 2017. Please call into the office for an enrolment package and arrange your enrolment interview or visit our website to download the form www.shpsnt.catholic.edu.au

We also have limited vacancies in Years 1—6.

Enrolling Now for 2017

Enrol now for 2017

Join us for our

2017 School

Tours

Tuesday 17th January at 5pm

Please meet under the blue shade cloth in

the courtyard.

For enrolment information, please contact

admin.shps@nt.catholic.edu.au or phone 8924 8700.

Congratulation to Miss Elsie Lasker for her recent performance at the Darwin Entertainment Centre with the Palmerston Ballet School. There were two productions on the night, ‘The Brolga and the Star’ and ‘La Boutique Fantasque’. They performed beautifully (after much hard work!) and Elsie really enjoyed it! In 2017 we would love to hear about all our students extra curricular activity successes and share it in the HeartBeat Newsletter. Please forward photos and information to admin.shps@nt.catholic.edu.au

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