Keeping Ourselves Safe

Special thanks to Constable Ross for leading us in our Keeping Ourselves Safe learning this week and next week.  Constable Ross is a popular figure around Sacred Heart.  We appreciate his friendliness and genuine interest in all staff and students. 

Deep learning presentations

Well done everyone in hub 34 for designing and presenting group presentations about the effect the Port Hills fire had on habitat and a solution to prevent a large fire happening again.

Congratulations to our prize-winners:
1st - Mata, Yuan, Akaela
2nd - Raven, Andrei, Chytel, Lachlan
3rd - Zaria, John, Richie

Name/Team:	Group R (Mata, Yuan, Akaela)
Team Work (while creating the presentation and presenting it)	8
High Standard (presentation created to a high standard)	8
Speaking with expression and clearly	8
Looking at the audience	7
Total	31/40

Representative choirs

We are very proud of Nevaeh, Akaela, Isa, Giliet, Ferlyn, Lebron, Ella and Nichole for auditioning with hundreds of other students from primary schools throughout Canterbury for a place in the highly prestigious junior and senior representative choirs at the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival in October.

Huge congratulations to Nevaeh who won a place in the junior choir and Lebron who won a place in the senior choir.  They will perform for the 3 nights of the festival at the Horncastle Arena. 

Nevaeh and Lebron will practise with the choirs for approximately 6 Saturdays in term 3 to learn the different parts of the massed choir items and will attend a 3 day holiday course in the September holidays where they will learn their 3 special songs to perform on the 3 nights of the festival.  Good luck Nevaeh and Lebron! 

Homework challenge

Well done Ondrej for presenting a great oral presentation on the Kiwi to the hub, as part of your homework challenge badge.

First Communion

Lovely to be with hub 34  last night - congratulations!

Learning Wall

More and more writing, reading and art activities, from our Monday to Thursday linked literacy collaboration, are being added to our learning wall every day - well done the learning hub!!

Philippines Independence Day

Today we celebrated Independence Day in the Philippines with all our Filipino students.

We formed a circle around the chalked Filipino flag, prayed a prayer in English and the 2 Filipino languages of our school, then enjoyed a bbq together for lunch.  Thanks very much to Mr French and Mr Currie for barbecuing our sausages on such a beautiful sunny day!

Prayer:  Loving God of Justice and Peace

We remember that today is Independence Day in the Philippines.

We are blessed to have so many students and families from this beautiful culture here at Sacred Heart.

We pray for our Filipino families in Christchurch and New Zealand.

May they feel the love and support from all of us here at Sacred Heart and from the communities they live in.

We pray for those in authority in the Philippines, that they will be guided to lead the country in the values we hold dear - Peace, Love and Justice.

Amen  

Turbo Touch Rugby

A big thank you to Logan from Turbo Touch Rugby for teaching us the skills we need to play Turbo Touch.  He will continue teaching us these skills on Thursday afternoons leading up to a game.

Designing a presentation

Working together to design a presentation about the effects the fire had on the Port Hills habitat and a solution to prevent a large fire happening again.