Tena koutou Nga whanau

It’s really hard to believe that we have almost come to the end of another year at Sacred Heart School and another strange year due to Covid! Thank you for support over our COVID journey again this year!

A huge thank you to all of you –parents, grandparents, older siblings and whanau- who have helped us in any way this year. Without your help we would certainly not be able to do all the activities we do. Thanks also to our Board who willingly give hours of their time to support our students. I would like to acknowledge the fantastic staff- both teaching and support- who all go the extra mile for the children and ensure that the learning at Sacred Heart is wonderful, challenging and exciting. Thanks also to our FOSH group for all their hard work this year.

At this time of year we say goodbye to our Year 8 students. We thank them for everything they have done for the school community over their time at Sacred Heart and we wish them all the best for the future.

This year we are also farewelling the Devine, Tatafu, Ting, Fereti, Criscillo, Lysaght, Marsden, So'otaga, Ladrera, Fairfield and Griffiths families, some of them after a long association with the school. We thank them for their contributions to the school over their time here.

We are also saying good bye and thank you to Julia Havell, Clare Lewis and Maree Mahony from the staff. We will farewell them all at Assembly tomorrow in the church at 11am. We will also farewell Maria Devine, Toutai Vaka and Rosalyn Ting and we wish them well at their new schools.

Reminders:

· School closes at 12.50pm tomorrow Thursday 15th December. Please ensure your children are collected at this time.

· There will be a final Assembly at 11am, after which children will return to their classrooms and be dismissed at 12.50pm.

We have much to be proud of and grateful for at Sacred Heart School and we can only continue to build on everything that has gone before us. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a blessed Christmas and a joyful New Year and look forward to seeing you all back at school on the 1st February, 2023.

Thought for the Week

May you experience the joy of Christmas, which is giving

the heart of Christmas, which is hope

and the spirit of Christmas, which is love.

Happy holidays!

Ma Atua e maanaaki

God bless

Liz

Stationery lists 2023

These will be coming home today. Please check your child's school bag. Stationery lists will also be available to view on our website.

Uniform shop

The shop will open from 10.30am to 12pm on Monday 31st January 2023. It will then resume normal hours from Term 1. Welcome to Susie James who will be our new uniform shop assistant.

Stationery Invoices 2023

You will receive an invoice in January for Stationery from the school. This covers the My Faith Diaries, RE Resouce, Numicon Explorer books and Technology costs (for Years 7 and 8). All invoices need to be paid in full by 20th February 2023. (Unless you have arranged regular part-payments with the office.)

Please keep an eye on your inbox and check your spam if you do not receive this invoice by 1st February. If you have changed email addresses, please email the office.

FOSH Xmas Festival

What a beautiful evening we enjoyed! Sunshine, food and Christmas craft and music - the perfect way to end our year. Thanks to FOSH and our school community for helping to raise $2334.00 for the school! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the raffle and joined us on the night - we had some very lucky prize winners and some very excited children who got to meet Santa in his Grotto!

We would also like to thank the following people for making the night an extra success:

Kate Wasson and Hugh Rosemergy

Madeline Louden and Jared Sowerby

Caroline and Matt Bartholomew

Kirsten and Ollie Mannix

Lauren and Thomas Smith

Minon Wijeyeratne

Emma Gendall

Phoebe Marsden

Louise and Alister Thomson

Onieka Tristram

Sherry Perez

Jess Davis

Nicole and Steeve Sharpe