The Miraculous Medal O Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, We dedicate and consecrate ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. May this Medal be for each one of us a sure sign of your affection for us and a constant reminder of our duties toward you. Ever while wearing it, may we be blessed by your loving protection and preserved in the grace of your Son. O Most Powerful Virgin, Mother of Our Savior, keep us close to you every moment of our lives. Obtain for us, your children, the grace of a happy death; so that in union with you, we may enjoy the bliss of Heaven forever. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 th October 2016 Dear Parents and Members of our Sacred Heart School community, Today we marked ‘Day for Daniel’ – not in any morbid or scary way, but as a day when we remember the incidents of thirteen years ago, through the lens of child-safety. Our message to the children today was one of keeping ourselves safe. As a school we hold, as one of the aspects of school life, the right of every member of the school to be in a safe place on the premises and to act safely at all times. The issue of safety has been raised with me in various ways over this week. For one child, it was an issue of safe play in the playground when it was unsupervised after school. For a mother, it was about her children’s safety when they are at school and when they travel home. On another front, it was the need to respond to the safety of our grounds as a result of an accident involving a Year 1 boy - in another school - whereby he sustained a bleed on the brain due to a safety issue at his school. As adults, we play a major role in keeping our children safe. This is not to say that we need to keep them wrapped in cotton wool so they never explore the world and never risk making a mistake. Rather, it’s about ensuring the risk they take is calculated, manageable, non-life threatening, and one they’ll survive. IMPORTANT DATES TUES, 1 st NOV Talent Quest Feast of All Saints Melbourne Cup Day Halloween Bake Sale WED, 2 nd NOV Talent Quest All Souls Day Yr 5 Leadership Day Hat Attack Day DDJ Concert – 6pm THURS, 3 rd NOV Talent Quest Yr 5 Leadership Day #2 Hat Attack Day#2 Welcome New Students Count Us In Music Event – 11:30am FRI, 4 th NOV Hat Attack Day #3 Friends of the Heart Morning Tea
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The Miraculous Medal O Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate, We dedicate and consecrate
ourselves to you under the title of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
May this Medal be for each one of us a sure sign of your affection for us
and a constant reminder of our duties toward you. Ever while wearing it, may
we be blessed by your loving protection and preserved in the grace of your
Son. O Most Powerful
Virgin, Mother of Our
Savior, keep us close to
you every moment of our
lives. Obtain for us, your
children, the grace of a
happy death; so that in
union with you, we may
enjoy the bliss of Heaven
forever.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------28th October 2016
Dear Parents and Members of our Sacred Heart School community,
Today we marked ‘Day for Daniel’ – not in any morbid or scary way, but as a day when we remember the incidents of thirteen years ago, through the lens of child-safety. Our message to the children today was one of keeping ourselves safe. As a school we hold, as one of the aspects of school life, the right of every member of the school to be in a safe place on the premises and to act safely at all times. The issue of safety has been raised with me in various ways over this week. For one child, it was an issue of safe play in the playground when it was unsupervised after school. For a mother, it was about her children’s safety when they are at school and when they travel home. On another front, it was the need to respond to the safety of our grounds as a result of an accident involving a Year 1 boy - in another school - whereby he sustained a bleed on the brain due to a safety issue at his school. As adults, we play a major role in keeping our children safe. This is not to say that we need to keep them wrapped in cotton wool so they never explore the world and never risk making a mistake. Rather, it’s about ensuring the risk they take is calculated, manageable, non-life threatening, and one they’ll survive.
IMPORTANT DATES
TUES, 1st NOV
Talent Quest
Feast of All Saints
Melbourne Cup Day
Halloween Bake Sale
WED, 2nd NOV Talent Quest
All Souls Day
Yr 5 Leadership Day Hat Attack Day
DDJ Concert – 6pm
THURS, 3rd NOV Talent Quest
Yr 5 Leadership Day #2
Hat Attack Day#2
Welcome New Students
Count Us In Music Event – 11:30am
FRI, 4th NOV Hat Attack Day #3
Friends of the Heart Morning Tea
For us at Sacred Heart safety is about:
Ensuring every child has a safety plan for the times they feel at risk, especially for those who walk or ride home from school, or for when they are at the shops. It’s not assuming that ‘they’ll know what to do’, but being explicit with them about how to put themselves into a safe place if ever they feel threatened;
Ensuring all children have a safety network upon which to draw should they need to tell someone something that has scared or is scaring them;
Having no child dropped at school before 8am as they are unsupervised and cannot be here on the grounds before then (OSHC can fill this void for you);
Families exiting the school grounds by 3pm so that ancillary Staff can undertake their roles and play equipment is vacated;
Ensuring that our children are well supervised on the school playground whenever they use it;
Ensuring all adults who volunteer within our school have undergone the Volunteer’s induction each year;
All school visitors (including parents) ‘signing-in’ at the School Administration should they enter the grounds during the school day;
Not using the Church carpark due to the dangers it presents to our children; and
Persistently supervising our children when using technology to ensure cyber-safe practices are being engaged.
There is so much we can do as adults to assist our children to be safe without smothering them. Let us use this day to focus on child safety and the small acts we can do to make our environment the best it can be for them.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Do not look the other way; Do not hesitate. Recognise that the world is hungry for action, not words. Act with courage and vision.
-Nelson Mandela
WE DID IT! Yesterday we (that is, our Validation Team of Gerald Shegog, Karen Schlort and Maureen Cullip did on our behalf) presented the school’s Religious Education program for verification and validation. The program is put under the scrutiny of teams from 3 of our other schools as well as one of the Brisbane Catholic Education religious education officers. To our great delight the Sacred Heart Religious Education program passed their scrutiny and, with a few recommendations of areas for growth in the year ahead, has been officially validated. Congratulations especially to Gerald, Maureen and Karen as well as the whole team of teachers who team and plan in Religious Education for a job well-done. CONGRATS & PRAYERS Congratulations to the Barclay family (Rebekah and Simon with Chelsea in Year 3) on the safe arrival of baby Thomas during the week. Great news. Unfortunately, Thomas has had a few complications as he begins life in this big wide world, so your prayers would be greatly appreciated as he returns to full health. YEAR 6 LEADERSHIP 2017 – THE JOURNEY BEGINS During the week ahead, the formal journey for leadership positions for next year will take place. I know our young ladies are eager to take over the reins and make a difference within our community. Wednesday and Thursday are the two big days and their parents are very welcome to join us at 10am on Thursday to hear the ‘speech-component’ for nomination to a position. My best wishes to Year 5 as they consider their leadership for the new year. A 'NO HOMEWORK SCHOOL'? NOT HERE. There is a mantra being bandied around that Sacred Heart is a ‘no homework’ school – but this is not the case at all. When our School Board developed in consultation with the Staff and Parent communities the Sacred Heart Homework Statement -which is on the Parent Portal - they took into account the latest in educational research regarding activities that schools have children do. Our Homework Statement focuses on the importance of regular (daily) reading in a child’s life and holds this to be of prime importance. The Statement goes further to suggest ways of enhancing the learning at school with activities at home to reinforce and extend the learning, and to place it in a context of life. What we need to develop further are strategies to inform parents as to the particular ‘work’ being conducted within their child’s classroom. To this end, I am in the process of writing ‘A Parent’s Guide to Supporting your Child’s Learning at home’ - a document I anticipate will be ready to start the new school year. If you ask ‘Are we doing traditional homework at Sacred Heart?’, then your answer is rightfully ‘No’. However, we are looking at providing the best learning for your child and ways to impact their learning in a positive way. P & F EXECUTIVE – POSITIONS VACANT A reminder that the following positions on our P & F executive for 2017 remain unfilled. We really need your support to fill these positions to allow our P & F to function well for the new year. Please consider your availability for the following:
President - Treasurer – 1 nomination received Grants Officer Fundraising Co-Ordinator Mother’s Day & Father’s Day Stall convenor Facilitator of Class Co-Ordinators – 1 nomination received Archdiocesan delegate
If you wish to nominate for any of these roles then please either send your nomination to me ([email protected] )or simply attend the November P & F meeting and put forward your nomination then.
PARENT CONSULTATION RE CLASS GROUPINGS 2017 The week ahead is Week 3 of 3 - the final week of the consultation period. My thanks to those parents who have already entered into a conversation with their child’s teacher around this topic. Pre-term 4 School Administration team determine staffing allocation for the school through the
use of the Brisbane Catholic Education Staffing Schedule. COMPLETED Term 4 Wk 2 School staff meeting to discuss possible class groupings scenarios for
the following school year.
Parent meeting to discuss possible class groupings scenarios for the following school year. NOT REQUIRED
Term 4 Wk 3 Class groupings for the following school year determined by School
Principal and announced. COMPLETED This coming week is Term 4, Week 5
Term 4 Wk 3 – 5 If parents have considerations which they would like to express to inform the school’s decision regarding their child’s class placement for the following school year (eg Social issues we need to be aware of, or family issues which you would like us to consider in allocating your child’s class) then a meeting should be arranged with their child’s present teacher during this period. At the end of Week 5 this process is closed.
Teachers will be unable to give parents any undertaking or guarantee of where children will be placed but will use the information provided as part of the process of making a professional judgement about the class groupings.
Our aim is to utilise the professional judgement of teachers regarding which children work best together and which teacher will bring out the best for each child for the following year. The teachers will utilise their professional skills and their working knowledge of the children as academic and social beings to determine their best placement.
Term 4 Wk 6 Allocation of children to classes is complete and announced. Class teachers announced for the following school year. Changes will only be made to these lists after they are announced in the event of human error on our behalf.
PAST STUDENT NEWS With Secondary schools awards nights on at present we are always looking out for news of how our past students have been performing as they continue on their educational journey. From St Rita’s Collee Clayfield we are glad to hear news of the success of Beth Guilfoyle (Year 7, 2012). Beth took out the Year 12 Long Tan Award, Debating Captain, Awards in Film, Television & News Media, and Service to the College, as well as the Prix d’Honneur Award. Great effort Beth. Sincerely
Year 1 Silver going to the Science Centre in the city!
Year 2 Maroon making lava lamps in Science
Year 2 Silver doing our science experiments
Year 3 Maroon "Our wondrous day of learning" on Wednesday with 3S. We engaged in Science, History and Geography activities throughout the day. Thanks to the
parents who were able to spend some time with us and to Mrs Burton.
Year 3 Silver was our Wondrous day of Learning for Science, History and Geography.
Year 4 Silver working on our Science activities using magnets; gravity; frictional forces
and push and pull forces.
Year 4 White making connections to the Mulga Bill's Bicycle and our own lives.
Year 5 Maroon
Year 5 Silver doing a prayer reflection on the calming benefits of Japanese tea - Rachel
Copsey
making rice mandalas - Ivy Robbins
was doing fun assessments at our own pace - Lauren Whillans
Year 6 Maroon gathering amazing images of Jesus, as well as learning about Ocean Gyres.
Mon 31st Oct
Meet N Greet 8:25am. All welcome
Swimming program
Instrumental lessons - DDJ
Parent Consultation Week 3 of 3 – re: class allocations for 2017 school year
Tues 1st Nov
BUDDY Lunchtime
Feast of All Saints
School Board meeting 7pm in Library
Mission Ministry – bake sale day
Wed 2nd Nov
Feast of All Souls
Hat Attack day #1
Thurs 3rd Nov
Parish Playgroup
‘Count us In’ 11:30 in Donna Philps Place
Mass – Year 3 – 6 Sacred Heart Church – 9am
House party – Prep – Year 2 Come dressed in your house colour
Hat Attack day #2
Fri 4th Nov
Assembly led by Year 1 Maroon 2pm in Donna Philps Place. All welcome.
School RE Newsletter for Term 4 issued to parents
Hat Attack day #3
Week Ahead
Dear Parents / Caregivers My thanks to the families who attended our Family/School/Parish Partnerships Mass last Sunday evening. The aim of occasions like this, is to gather that sense of community between the school and the Parish. We believe that families, Catholic schools and parishes work together as partners in the spiritual formation and education of children and young people. This opportunity is provided once a term and is an invitation for all families in the school.
Next Thursday morning our Year 3 – 6 students will attend a school Mass commencing at 9:00am. This is not only for the students and the staff, but also for parents and caregivers. I look forward to seeing you there to join in the celebration. The Spiritual Works of Mercy The Spiritual Works of Mercy have long been a part of the Christian tradition, appearing in the works of theologians and spiritual writers throughout history. Just as Jesus attended to the spiritual well-being of those he ministered to, these Spiritual Works of Mercy guide us to "help our neighbour in their spiritual needs." We continue the seven Spiritual Works of Mercy this week which is focused on
FORGIVING INJURIES
Forgiving others is difficult at times because we do not have God's limitless mercy and compassion. But Jesus teaches us that we should forgive as God forgives, relying on him to help us show others the mercy of God
Let go of grudges
Saying sorry is something we learn as kids, but how often do we really mean it? Forgiveness transforms hearts and lives
Participate in the Sacrament of Penance
Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet “…we are called – to act, to love, to serve, to walk – to be a light for others and a sign of hope…The first reading from the Prophet Isaiah takes up this theme with some of the most beautiful words to be found in the Scriptures: do not be afraid, I have called you by your name, you are mine, I will be with you”.
- Pope Francis Yours in Christ,
Gerald Assistant Principal: Religious Education
Assistant Principal Religious Education
Featuring Work by Year 2
Maroon This term in 2M we have been have been focusing on the concept of
Chemical Sciences and have been experimenting with different
materials to be combined for a particular purpose. The students have
enjoyed making chocolate crackles, slime, lava lamps and mixing
water, oil and detergent together to record the results. We know that
scientists make predictions, complete the experiment and then
observe their findings. So we have been using this process of predict,
experiment and observe for all of our experiments.
“My favourite thing in science was when we made chocolate
crackles” Amelia.
“The experiment that I enjoyed the most was making Slime” Sienna.
“I liked making the lava lamps,” Oliver.
“We think the best experiment was making Slime” Abbey and Brock.
Today I offer the following on PASSWORDS, SOCIAL SKILLS and CYBER SECURITY. This information was provided by the Courier Mail on Wednesday October 12th 2016.
“Parents should friend their children on Facebook and ask for the passwords to their social media accounts”, according to a cyber safety expert.
Tricia Munn of Eyes Open Social Media, says parents needed to improve their social media savviness to keep their kids and teenagers safe online. Parents need to be getting on the social networks that their children are on and they need to know their way around them. Ms Munn believes:
“parents are entitled to know their children’s social media passwords at least until they turn 16.”
Ms Munn said it was important for parents to ensure the people their children connected with online were people known to them in real life.
HOW TO KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE
follow your child’s social media accounts;
demand your child’s social media passwords;
create a social media contract with your child, governing the rules for appropriate use;
ensure your child knows every person they are friends with online;
check the privacy settings on your child’s social media accounts;
know how to disable location services on your child’s device;
request your child us a non-identifying profile picture, like a photo of their don of apps they use;
keep devices and smartphones in common areas;
be guided by age restrictions on social medial sites.
I hope you find the information I have given these past three weeks helpful in your discussions with your child/children.
I have noticed the children in younger grades are very good
at parroting my Japanese pronunciation, sometimes my
English pronunciation, too. :)
Experts say that children who learn a language before their teenage years are more likely than
older learners to achieve native-like pronunciation.
I started learning English in Year 8 at middle school from a Japanese
teacher. I remember learning my first sentence "This is a pen" from him who
had a very strong Japanese accent. I don't mean to blame him for my
Japanese accent, but no matter how hard I try to get rid of my Japanese
accent, I just can't master pronunciation like a native speaker.
Preschool years are vital years as the foundations for thinking, language, vision, attitudes,
aptitudes and other characteristics are laid down. For children up to Age 12, their brain is like
a super sponge. It would be a waste not to use a child's natural ability to learn a foreign language
during their most vital years. By the time a student reaches high school the optimum learning
period has passed.
Young children can learn a foreign language by listening, seeing, imitating, and practicing, so I
teach the children lots of Japanese songs, words and phrases with actions.
The more fun the children have, the better they learn a foreign language.
Happy learning Japanese.
Shoko Thompson (Japanese Teacher)
L.O.T.E - Japanese
Parish News
MASS TIMES Weekday Masses Monday: Brighton 9:15am Tuesday: Sandgate 7:00am Thursday: Sandgate 5:30pm Friday: Sandgate 7:00am 1st 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 (1st & 3rd Thursday of each month) Principal: Chris Bathersby Phone: 3269 3427 St Kieran’s School: 2pm (2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month) Principal: Marissa Clark Phone. 3269 5989
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.
The Irish Australian Support Association of Qld Inc (IASAQ) invites you to our Annual November Remembrance Mass, which will take place on Sunday 6 November at 12 noon in St. James’ Church, 165 Old Cleveland Road, Coorparoo.
Come and join with other members of the Irish Community in praying for the peaceful repose of deceased relatives and friends. Tea/coffee will be served afterwards – an opportunity to renew old acquaintances and meet new friends IASAQ is part of the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme. Our primary mission is to assist any Irish or Irish Australian persons in time of need or distress.
For further information, please contact Association Co-ordinator on 0432 087 328.
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:
Enrolments Applications of enrolment are invited for Year 7 in 2018 and 2019. There are limited vacancies for Years 7-12 in 2017.
For information on the many opportunities for students at St Benedict’s College please call or email our office – 3385 8888 or [email protected]. Very limited vacancies for Year 7 in 2017, and interviewing for Year 7 2018 and 2019 with places filling fast!
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
