100 days of School

Kindergarten will celebrate this milestone next Friday morning. The children will dress up to look 100 years old. Parents of Kindergarten children have been invited to attend an assembly following the morning line-up on Friday next week. To assist families, we will be giving out awards after Kinder's presentation. We expect that the assembly will begin at about 9.00am.

We appreciate your support in keeping the current COVID -19 protocols

• check-in on entering the school
• follow the 1.5 social distancing requirements
• sit in household groups (seats will be set up in twos)

Website Assistance Required

Do you hate it when links on websites don’t work or a typo gets published? So do we! Can you help us get it right?

Kerry Wode and Lisa Davis have been slowly checking the information and weblinks on our school webpage to ensure they are correct.

We are hoping that someone in our community can help us with our checking. If you have a spare hour or two to help us, from the comfort of your own home, please email us.

Tournament of the Minds Volunteers Needed

Sacred Heart has a rich history of being involved in TOMs. The ACT Tournament of the Minds Committee is made up of volunteers. They are asking for help with judging on the competition days.

If you, or maybe a senior highschool or uni student, who is familiar with TOMs would like to be involved this year, please contact Kerry Wode. She will pass your details on to the committee.

There will be other requests for volunteers such as room hosts or bbq support closer to competition days.

Our team has chosen the literature challenge this year and are busy meeting to complete the challenge. Our competition day is Sunday 29^th August. We wish them well.

ICAS Assessments

A number of students have elected to undertake the ICAS Assessment this year. Online enrolment has now closed. We ask parents to send back the permission note, so Mrs Wode can finalise the list of students involved. The first test, digital technologies, is on Monday 9^th August. Other dates were on the note and are listed on the school calendar during August.

On testing days, the students will be called from class and supervised to complete the tests in another room. There is no possibility for catch-up sessions. Mrs Wode will meet with all the students involved later next week to help them be prepared.

ICAS Assessments are completed online. This allows greater accessibility for students and faster delivery of results. Students completing the tests will require headphones and their iPads. Please speak to Mrs Wode next week if your child requires assistance with this.

Most assessments are browser based but writing and spelling require the Janison player to be installed. Use the link below to complete a technical readiness test to ensure you have installed this locked-down browser correctly onto your child’s device if you have signed on for the writing or spelling tests. https://www.icasassessments.com/support-technical-requirements/

Sports Uniform days for Term 3

• Kinder - Tuesday and Thursday
• Year 1 and 2 - Wednesday and Friday
• Year 3,4,5 and 6 -Tuesday and Thursday

• The next MHOC Youth Group meeting will be held on Sat 31 July. Children in Years 5 to 8 please come along from 4.30 to 6pm, and Years 9-12 from 7-9pm. Feel free to bring a friend for some games, food and good conversation. This Youth Group will meet on a fortnightly basis unless otherwise noted. Please contact Nick Weir by email or on 0452 208 151 with any questions.

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