Sacred Heart College, Napier

Te Kāreti o Ngakau Tapu

“Hearts and Minds in Harmony”

June 2008

Senior Ball

“My Secret Garden” was the theme for the Sacred Heart / St John’s Colleges Senior Ball,  at the War Memorial Centre in Napier last Saturday night.  Our girls looked beautiful and had a wonderful night.  Here are some photos for you to enjoy. 

Our Annual Academic Challenge against St John’s College  was held last week. Our Junior and Senior teams put up a fantastic fight to the end. St John’s retained the Cup by only a few points.  Well done everyone on a wonderful evening of active brain-power.  Also, thank you to Mrs Taylor for her tireless hours compiling the questions and organising the event —phew!!! 

Dear Parents, Caregivers, Whanau, 

           In recent times we have celebrated the range of our Special Character dimensions.  Sacred Heart Feast Day was a tremendous witness of the love that Jesus declares for us all as we shared Mass at St Patrick’s Church and then hosted Fairhaven children and entertained one another in our afternoon concert.  A few days later many staff and student representatives attended the funeral Mass for Mrs Doreen Keogh, past pupil, teacher, Chaplain, Trust Board member and driving force behind the Chapel fundraising appeal.  Doreen’s life highlighted the values associated with family and service to others that are so central to our Special Character.

           Included in this mailout is your daughter’s first full report for the year. I have been very impressed as I read through them with the excellent attitude of students towards their learning.  Our focus in Term 3 will be strongly academic to ensure goals are realised.  Parent interviews next week provide the opportunity to discuss progress towards these goals.

           Parent Teacher Interviews

Tuesday—1 July at Sacred Heart: 4-7pm

Thursday—3 July at St John’s College: 5-7pm

 

                     

           The end of the term marks Miss Raewyn Calder’s departure. Raewyn has served the first two plus years of her teaching career at Sacred Heart and now is setting off for her big OE.  She has been a very generous, popular and successful PE teacher, coach and organiser of sport.  Mrs Jill Massey our Executive Officer/Bursar also leaves to move to the South Island.  Jill for 8 years has given us excellent service and advantaged the College in many financial, property and personnel areas.  We wish Raewyn and Jill all the best in their new adventures. Their replacements respectively are Miss Susan Arrowsmith (ex Tamatea High School) and Mrs Karen McGrail. 

           The first day of Term 3 Monday 21 July will double as a staff professional development day (New Zealand Curriculum Planning) and student work day.  (Notices enclosed in this mail out.)  Please support both of these important initiatives by completing the B.o.T.’s consultation soon to be sent to you, and by encouraging your daughter’s work commitment on the day.

           World Youth Day commences in Sydney soon.  We have 20 girls travelling to Sydney and we wish them God’s blessings for a fulfilling and safe pilgrimage.

 

‘God of all that has been,

we remember those who have gone before us;

We pray that their example will inspire and guide

our journey towards World Youth Day 2008’

                                 Amen 

 

Regards and God’s blessings  — Steve Bryan, Principal

Karen McGrail

   Suzie

Arrowsmith

Science Yr9: “Plants”: Shelah Abdullah, Courtney Bilby, Stephanie Boyd, Laura Carrad, Molly Cotter, Sarah Cotter, Holly Gillies, Tamar Kinney, Petra Minehan, Sarah Nikolaison, Jeanie Su’a, Rosanna Taylor

English Yr9: “Response to Literature—Novel Study”: Molly Cotter, Sarah Cotter, Noelle Faka’osi, Viivale Gafa, Holly Gillies, Jeanie Su’a, Jemma Tocker

English Yr10: “Response to Literature—Novel Study”: Sophie Gittings

English Yr10: “Visual Language”: Sophie Gittings, Litecia Gyde, Clare Silverwood

Art Yr10: “Printmaking”: Laura Ferrick, Kirsty Gordon, Ashton Hughes, Siobhan Hughes, Te Puawaikori Komarkowski-Simpson, Cassandra Robinson, Rosanna Ward,  Annie Wilson

History Yr11: “Communicate Historical Ideas”: Jordan Anderson, Michelle Porter

Science Yr11: “Carry out a Practical Investigation with Direction”: Jordan Anderson, Stacey McCourt, Christina Noetzli, Michelle Porter

Te Reo Māori Level 1: “Whakarongo i te reo o tōna ao”:  Alexandra Cox, Jazz Kora, Nivana Manson, Herena Petera

Te Reo Māori Level 2: “Whakarongo i te reo o tōna ao mōhio”: Denise Kahukura

Te Reo Māori Level 2: “Whakarongo i te reo o tōna ao whānui”: Leilani Naera

Religious Education Yr12: “Human and Moral Development / Vocation, Commitment and Ministry”: Abigail Neave, Ashleigh Neave, Courtney Pedersen, Nicola Mann, Sue Seumanutafa

Religious Education Yr12: “Human and Moral Development”: Sarah Johansen

Religious Education Yr12: “Vocation, Commitment and Ministry”: Morgan Dysart, Christina Ferrick, Emma Hinton, Rebecca McGrail, Eniketi Onesi, Joy Whittington

Biology Yr12: “Describe Aspects of Genetics”: Emma Hinton, Ashleigh Neave

Biology Yr12: “Carry out a Practical Biological Investigation with Supervision”: Emma Hinton

Chemistry Yr12: “Solve Simple Quantitative Chemical Problems”: Christina Ferrick, Holly Girven-Russell, Emma Hinton, Abigail Neave, Ashleigh Neave, Veronica Noetzli, Eniketi Onesi

Physics Yr12: “Waves”: Veronica Noetzli

Biology Yr13: “Describe Applications of Biotechnological Techniques”: Emma Pedersen

Chemistry Y13: “Determine the Concentration of an Oxidant or Reductant by Titration”: Whitney Burt, Alice Downs, Isabel Mooney, Siobhan Storey

English Yr13: “Creative Writing”:  Sidney Dillon, Margaret Guntner, Siobhan Storey, Te Huinga ki Matariki Williams

Congratulations to: Katie Alexander, Morgan Dysart and Lauren Johnson —as part of the Catholic Youth Band “U Turn”, they were runners-up in the Te Taiwhenua O Heretaunga Award for outstanding achievement in Culture, Art and Music fields at the recent Hawke’s Bay Youth Awards.  The band received $100 for their efforts—well done girls.

 

Young Vinnies:  Our Vinnies girls and Mrs Lunnon held a cake sale last week and raised $38.60.  This money will go to “Family Life International”.  A great team effort—well done.

 

Sacred Heart Feast Day:  What a wonderful day we had to celebrate our special day.  We celebrated Mass at St Patrick’s Church in the morning. Sr Carmel was recognised there for her wonderful work keeping our Archives up to date. Our special friends from Fairhaven joined us for games, shared lunch and in the afternoon we all went down to the Gymnasium for our concert—what fun!!

 

Touch of Class:  Once again we welcomed Year 8 students to share a day in the life of a High School student.

 

Our Comperes

Our Fairhaven friends

PARENTS ... Your hard earned dollars spent on your daughter’s uniform could be sitting in lost property in the Home Economics Department. Please ensure that all uniform is very clearly named.  This also means items that are brought to school for camp or sports events. The old saying “Inspect not Expect” is useful here, as you need to check yourself that the items are marked.  Save your Dollars and train the young ones to take care of their belongings.  The charity shop does well out of our unclaimed unmarked items!!

Mission Cup: Term 2 has been a very busy term for winter sport. Our College Netball team competed in the Mission Cup over Queen’s Birthday weekend at Sacred Heart College, Hamilton. Our team did fantastically well achieving third place. Congratulations to all concerned. Our next trip away will be to Palmerston North at the end of August to compete at the Lower North Island Secondary Schools’ Netball tournament.

 

The Napier netball teams are having mixed success.  The Development team won the Collegiate B grade in round one and have been promoted to Collegiate A.  This is an outstanding achievement.  The College Senior A netball team has won all their games and has been promoted into Collegiate B grade.  Congratulations to all players. The College thanks our parent netball coaches: Cecilia Su’a-Rappel, Tina Luka, Vicki Simpson, Jenny Dinneen and Shiralee Kora, our senior student coaches and umpires.

 

Our rugby team is undefeated in second division. Special thanks to coach Reti Takiwa and Mr Marshall.  We have three football teams this year. The 1^st X1 team is undefeated and playing extremely well. Special thanks to Tim Motu for all the great coaching and Mr D Brown, Mr Scott and Mrs Stout for managing teams.

 

This year we have a junior squash team and will be competing in the Hawke’s Bay Secondary Schools’ Squash Championships. Thank you to Mrs Lisa Whittaker for her leadership. 

 

Practices for our hockey team are not for the faint hearted; 6.30am until 7.30am in the morning! We will be competing in the Mission Schools’ Te Toa Hockey tournament in July in Lower Hutt. Thank you to coaches Deborah and Te Paea.

 

The College has six badminton teams competing in the Hawke’s Bay Secondary Schools’ competition and four canoe polo teams in the local competition. Thanks to Mrs Pearce and parents who organise and coach the teams. 

 

Our junior basketball team has lost only one game against Havelock North High School so is sitting 2^nd in the A grade Hawke’s Bay competition and our senior team is undefeated.  Thanks to Mrs Taylor for her tireless energy.

 

I attended a Sports Coordinator conference last week with coordinators from the lower North Island. From feedback we are one of the very few secondary schools to have such a commitment from teachers in sport. Our participation rate of 65%  is  very high as nearly all schools were strategically planning for 2012 to get to 60% participation. I am proud to say that sport in our school is expanding and the quality of coaching is great.   

           - Henny French, Sports Co-ordinator

June has been an exceptionally busy month for ‘things musical.’  A variety of events had our girls featuring in barbershop singing, a rock band, choral singing and chamber music performances.  Toni Makea and her group “Intermars” qualified from their performance in the heats, to compete in the local final of the 2008 Smokefree Rockquest.

 

Mr Lundall is pictured conducting our Marian Choir while in rehearsal for this year’s “Big Sing” at the Municipal Theatre in Napier.  Twenty three choirs from local secondary schools performed in the daytime competition and an evening gala performance on Wednesday 11 June.

 

Also pictured are two of our chamber groups who competed in the Hawke’s Bay District Chamber Music Contest for secondary schools held at the Century Theatre last weekend.

 

Congratulations to: Judy Faka’osi who was placed first in the Registered Music Teachers Institute annual Scholarship Competition recently and was awarded  the Neville Harkness Memorial Cup.  Also to Christina Noetzli for “very highly commended” at the same competition.  She also performed in the Napier Performing Arts Society Easter Competitions this year receiving seven awards.

 

Siobhan Storey competed in the Speechmakers competition under the umbrella of the Napier Spirit Lions Club recently and presented two speeches.  Well done Siobhan, you were a credit to our College.

PTA News: Rugby Raffle Winners:  Drawn last  Friday 20^th June 23, 2008

1st Prize - Nigel Foster from Napier : ticket number 0977

2nd prize - Tony Pattison, Taradale : ticket number 1691

We still have 60 families to return books and would appreciate these being returned immediately. Thank you to all those who supported this successful fundraiser.  We have raised approximately $5272.50 and funds will go towards the performing arts and the canteen upgrade.

Workday:  Please support our students for the upcoming workday Monday 21 July. All money from this fundraiser goes towards items and projects that the girls choose.          - P.T.A. supporting our College and our girls

Year 9 and 10 Dinner:  This event is all go.  An excellent meal, entertainment and guest speaker are planned for this night.  Get your ticket now from the office

 

Year 9/10 Parents’ Dinner

Cultural Centre

Friday, 8 August

$30 : 6.30pm start

 

Uniform News:  The school has taken over the operation of the Uniform Shop.  We look forward to meeting your uniform needs.  Hours of opening are below and the school holiday opening is different to earlier notified.

 

School Holidays:         Friday 18 July:  9.00am—1.00pm

Term Time: Every Thursday : 8-9am; Bk1(10.45-11.15); Bk2;(1.30-2.15pm); 3-4pm

 

NZQA News:  Enclosed in this mailout are accounts for NZQA fees (for senior students).  Please read the criteria for financial assistance and if you receive a benefit of any kind or have a Community Services Card, ensure you contact the school office for an application form in order to reduce the amount payable.  It is essential that payment is received by the school office by the given date, as NZQA will enforce penalties. 

 

Pastoral Care from St Vincent de Paul Society: The Napier District Council of the Society will again assist families with children at our Catholic Schools / Colleges to pay winter power accounts.  Parents should send a copy of their outstanding account and a brief note to the Napier District Council President, Brian Collins, 98 Waverley Road, RD3, Napier advising:

1. Family name, number of family members, names of children and the school(s) they attend…

2. Address and phone number…

3. The reason for financial stress

 

 

BoT News… The results of the parent surveys completed by those who attended interviews last term were very pleasing.  Survey results are available on the school website at www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz; hard copies are available from the office and at Parent Interviews next week.  Thank you for taking the time to do this as self review is a valuable tool for success and improvement.  A further community consultation will be sent to all parents and caregivers early in August.  The Board invites your input as to your visions for Sacred Heart College and what values are important to everyone involved in the life of our school.

           Policies scheduled for review next term are under NAG 3, Personnel and include Equal Employment Opportunities, Complaints, Equity, Responsible Computer Use, Sexual Harrassment.  These are available for viewing at the office or on our website and your feedback is welcomed. 

Library Corner!

Many of our students are taking on the challenge of becoming “Sensational readers”. We had an award presentation at Assembly a couple of weeks ago. Congratulations to Sarah Cotter for receiving the first Bronze Award. The Pewter Award was received by Shelah Abdullah, Temeti Teweti, Jeanie Su’a, Charlotte Oliver, Katherine Dunstall, Simone Reid, Georgia Irvine, Brooke McKelvie, Sarah Sandilands and Jemma Tocker.  Congratulations to all these wonderful readers.

 

Milo Bookclub has resumed with the winter months and it is great to have students and staff who come along for a cup of warm milo and a chat about what they are currently reading.

 

Be bold! Be adventurous – “Get bitten by the BOOK BUG! You’ll be smitten by what’s written!”

 

Maryanne Macintosh-Wright - Library Manager

 

 

Head Lice Alert!  Please check your daughters’ hair during the holidays—Thank you.