Sacred Heart Primary School - Morwell eNewsletter

Dear Families,

The great excitement in the past two weeks has been the performance production. All the children have been engaged with the many different elements of the performance.

Prop making, designing the interactive back drops, dancing signing, signing and all the discussions around the decisions being made for the class presentations. The play titled “Opportunity” has been written by the students. They have explained it through the introduction read by the Narrators. “It is a story inspired by the opportunities that our community offers. It is inspired by the coming out of COVID lock down, the love we have for our town and the challenges that we have had as children and just in general life.”

COVID and influenza

As the weather warms up we are seeing a little less illness. The government has announced changes with the length of days required to stay at home if you have contracted COVID-19. As yet I have not been informed of this means for schools. This information will be shared as soon as possible.

I continue to extend my thanks to all families for keeping to the RAT testing schedule. This is the best way to identify COVID and help to minimise the spread. At school we have maintained a double cleaning schedule during the day, have air filters in all learning areas and still have the play equipment cleaned between play times. If you have been unwell please allow yourselves and your children the time to recover, we are all in the same situation and to function well in all areas of our lives we need to look after our health.

CAR PARK

We have showcased our new signs around the school. There are a few more going up hopefully over the weekend so keep your eyes open for these. I invite all drivers’ attention to the new speed signs. 10 kms to enter on Wilson St. and 5 km in the car park.

Also, we expect that all children are dropped off and picked up in the car park or down at the gate. No children should be dropped off in front of the flags in the morning and walking back up to the top gate. Drop off through drive through in the morning must be at the bottom gate.

This is essential for the safety of the children

FATHER’S DAY

Thankyou to all the fathers, uncles, grandfathers, brothers and mums who came to support their children this morning. It was lovely to see so many families at the BBQ breakfast. We wish you all the best for the Father’s Day weekend and pray you enjoy the special day with your children.

Please enjoy the blessings of your children over the weekend,

God Bless,
Anne-Marie Robb

Child Safe Standard 2 – Child safety and wellbeing is embedded in organisational leadership, governance and culture

In complying with Child Safe Standard 2, an organisation must, at a minimum, ensure:

2.1 The organisation makes a public commitment to child safety.

2.2 A child safe culture is championed and modelled at all levels of the
organisation from the top down and bottom up.

2.3 Governance arrangements facilitate implementation of the child safety
and wellbeing policy at all levels.

2.4 A Code of Conduct provides guidelines for staff and volunteers on
expected behavioural standards and responsibilities.

2.5 Risk management strategies focus on preventing, identifying and
mitigating risks to children and young people.

2.6 Staff and volunteers understand their obligations on information sharing
and recordkeeping.

Warm good wishes to all our Dads, Step-dads and Carers to enjoy a wonderful Father's Day this Sunday. May you be blessed in the your position as role model, mentor, provider and fun person in your child's life.

A breakfast in honour of our dads and special person was enjoyed this morning. After breakfast the raffle was drawn. Congratulations to the lucky winners:-
L. Aitkinson, L Colantuono, L Tuisowawa, A Nicholls, G Larkin, A Heinemann, T Glass, W Foster and O Heriban.

Special thanks to Mrs Heinemann, Mrs Gallicchio and staff for organising and managing the breakfast. The raffle raised $342.05 which will go towards our running track.

A workshop given by a group of scientists from the University of Melbounre recently opened up the minds of students to the challanges facing developing countries today.

The project called Engineers Without Borders took students through a series of experimental challanges that mimic real world environmental problems.

The group introduced students to the many different types of enginering such as civil, mechanical, electrical and software. It outlined the benefits that engineering has on people and the planet and how it can create sustainable environments.

The students enjoyed the experiments and found the information insightful and valuable.

	Student (First and Surname)	For	From
Week 7 Term 3 2022	Darci-Rose	such a great effort collating her poems and publishing them.	Miss Barton
	Akeksja	Her enthusiastic approach to her learning.	Mrs Trotman
	Jordan	For always being a wonderful helper.	Mrs Trotman
	Benji	For his enthusiastic participation in our class song for the production.	Mrs Inchincoli
	Nevaeh	For working hard on all her tasks given	Mrs Inchincoli
	Logan	Bringing enthusiasm and positive energy to our concert practice.	Mrs Handley
	Isabella M	Being a good friend and being inclusive of others.	Mrs Handley
	Lydia	For showing independence in the classroom.	Mrs Larkins
	River	For learning to write his name	Mrs Larkins

SEPTEMBER
Friday 2nd	Father's Day Celebration - 8am Breakfast and raffle drawing
Monday 5th	Grade 5/6 Excursion
Tuesday 6th	Grade 3/4 Excursion
Thursday 8th	Whole school Mass 10am - Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Thursday 8th	Footy Day Lunch - orders due back
Wednesday 14th	Sacred Heart's Got Talent
Thursday 15th	Footy Dress up Day Fundraiser.
Thursday 15th	End of Term 3 - 3pm
Friday 16th	Student Free Day - School Holidays commence
OCTOBER
Monday 3rd	Commencement of Term 4
Thursday 6th	2nd Workshop - Eucharist
Sunday 16th	Eucharist Sacrament - Sacred Heart Church at 10.30am

To support the kinder children who will commence school next year, Sacred Heart Primary School will hold a Little Learner’s School Transition Program. This will be held on Fridays from 9am to 1pm commencing on Friday 14^th October, 2022 and run for 9 weeks finishing on 9^th December, 2022.

Little_Learner_s_2022.pdf