Sacred Heart Primary School Pearce
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Cnr Beasley St and Hodgson Crescent
Pearce ACT 2607
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Email: david.austin@cg.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 02 6286 2443
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REMINDERS AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Friday 23rd April

  • Cross Country Carnival

 Sunday 25th April

  • ANZAC DAY

 Monday 26th April

  • ANZAC DAY holiday

 Wednesday 28th April

  • Confirmation Session 1

Saturday 1st - Sunday 2nd May

  • Confirmation Presentation Masses

Monday 3rd - Friday 7th May

  • Catholic Schools Week

Tuesday 4th May

  • Community Council Open Meeting 7pm Via Zoom

Monday 3rd May - Friday 21st May

  • Enrolment Period

New Sign in/out System

As of the beginning of Term Two we have moved to a new procedure for signing in/out your child/children. This will now be done electronically by the front office staff.

Cross Country

This year's Cross Country will be held tomorrow, Friday 23rd April. Please CLICK HERE for further information and the permission note.

Sports Uniform days for Term 2

  • Kinder, Stage 1 and 2 - Wednesdays and Fridays
  • Stage 3 - Tuesdays (not week 1) and Thursdays

ANZAC Day

Families are invited to join our school community in a short prayer service for ANZAC Day. 

This will be held on Tuesday 27th in the school hall at 9.15am .  As this is a whole school event it would be appreciated if you could RSVP by emailing the school or call 62862443 if you wish to attend.

Library News

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WARM UP WITH A GOOD BOOK

TUESDAY MORNINGS - 8:30am - 9:00am

The school library is open each Tuesday morning during Term 2,  between 8:30am-9:00am. Parents and Carers are invited to visit the library with their children before school to borrow books or just come in to share a story before school starts.

Hope to see you!

Mrs Borgia  

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We are commencing our Peer Support lessons next Friday .The whole school participates in Peer Support for 30 minutes each week. One Year 6 Peer leader will facilitate a small group of 6-8 younger students, who work together through a number of structured activities. Each teacher will supervise 2-3 groups in their classroom. Sacred Heart are working on a module called Living Positively helping us explore the concept of optimism. Our first session enables the children to get to know everyone in the group, agreeing on how they will work well together and interact cooperatively with others. They will also begin to think about what it means to be optimistic. We encourage you to talk to your children about Peer Support every week, as it will help to reinforce the concepts learned in each session.

SZapp – Managing your messages  

SZapp is our main avenue for communicating with families. It was brought to our attention this week that some families were missing some messages. We discovered that not everyone knew to update their preferences to receive messages for a particular stage. So, within the SZapp app

  1. Select the MANAGE tab
  2. Toggle on PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
  3. Toggle on the name of your child’s STAGE group

We do not publish the security code for Sacred Heart in writing. Please speak to staff and other parents for our code or phone the office.

If you have the app for a number of schools, we advise you to select the DEFAULT SUBSCRIPTION to best suit you, and then carefully monitor messages from all schools.

 

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Term 2 Events, Learning Journeys, Open days and our Enrolment Period

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We are monitoring COVID-19 restrictions and hoping to welcome parents, carers and visitors back into the school for more events. Please monitor our communications carefully for how we will manage bookings and visits for Open Days, learning journeys or classroom visits, enrolment visits, Friday assemblies and our all-important Mother’s Day celebrations.

Open Days Save the Dates – 5th, 7th and 13th May 2021 Open days for current and prospective families.

We are aware there are many families across the school who have not had a chance to visit to see what schooling at Sacred Heart is like across all grades K-6. This year our Open Days will welcome current and prospective parents to take a tour and/or talk to staff about Sacred Heart K-6. Please save a date and watch for details.

Please Click Here for our K-6 Brochure, promoting the wonderful opportunities Sacred Heart Pearce offers from Playgroup – to Year 6. We encourage you to take a new look and to pass it on to local families.

Canteen News

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New to the Canteen Menu is a Beef Hamburger for $4. You can select to have lettuce, tomato, sauce and cheese (extra .50c).

iPads for Sale

Our lease agreement for our current iPads is up at the end of May and we will be offering these for sale. Please CLICK HERE for further information.

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Those parents who are wanting their child/children to have piano lessons, can contact the teachers directly on the following contact numbers;

  • Mrs Hildegarde Mendoza Phone: 0417 580 975
  • Mrs Pam Cox Phone: 0418 442 203
  • Mr Craig Mewett Phone: 0409 151 887 / 6278 7382

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CHESS!!

Learn to be a chess champion! Coaching for students at Sacred Heart Primary School Pearce is held on Thursdays from 11:00am to 11:45am, starting on 22 April 2021. Learning and playing chess helps children develop their logical thinking and problem solving skills, improves their concentration and focus, while also being a great source of enjoyment. Activities include group lessons on a demonstration chess board or interactive whiteboard, puzzle solving and fun practice games.Students earn merit awards by making checkmates, or by displaying skills and positive qualities, which all good chess players strive to develop. If your child is interested in taking part, you can collect an enrolment form from the school office, or Email for a copy. For all enquiries, please contact Sydney Academy of Chess on (02) 9745 1170.