College Newsletter - Friday 11 March
Formal Uniform - Monday 14 March & Friday 18 March
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Congratulations this week to:
- All Year 7 (2021) prizegiving recipients. Details below.
- Academic Awards
- Logan Jennings (Year 10) - for an outstanding start to his academic year, setting high standards and working diligently towards achieving his potential.
- David Latu (Year 8) - for consistently applying himself and working to the best of his ability across all subjects, positively seeking and acting on feedback.
- Lucas Swann (Year 7) - for always putting his best foot forward, seeking feedback and taking pride in his work.
- Marist Man Awards
- Tadhg Tuapola (Year 10) - for always being willing to help his friends, respectful to his teachers, and a great role model.
- Harrison Rope (Year 8) - for offering his time and skills to assist and support students and teachers. For having a practical and organised approach to situations and giving service.
- Christopher Yousif (Year 7) - for being reliable and taking initiative - quietly helping others without fuss or needing recognition.
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Special Character
Your talk matters
The words of our gospel, Jesus said: "For a person's words flow out of what fills their heart."
The defects of a person appear in their talk. If they are not very bright, you will pick it up quite quickly. If they are a bully, you will hear racist remarks and put-downs. We are told not to judge a book by its cover - you may see a person that is easy on the eye, but spend some time listening to their conversation before making your judgment of them. Do they say silly things? Do they spread gossip? Fake news? Conspiracy theories? Do they dominate the conversation never giving you a chance?
Jesus speaks of "the words flow out of what fills the heart" - if the words that flow are empty or nasty then the heart they flow from is likely to be empty and self-centred or nasty and dangerous.
Ecclesiasticus goes on to say "the test of a man is in his conversation." Use that test to judge the people you encounter, don't be fooled by looks, listen to the words they say, and judge them by what comes out of their mouths.
Jesus also talks about taking the plank out of your own eye before worrying about the splinter in someone else's. So, once you get good at judging people by the words they say, start listening to yourself.
- Do you talk sense?
- Are you constantly attention-seeking?
- Are you respectful to the people you should show respect to?
- Are you sarcastic and nasty or are you fun to talk with?
- Do you swear a lot and put people down?
"A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart."
This is the behaviour that Jesus expects of his disciples. So, what I would like you to take away from these thoughts is that our words matter. Our words reveal our hearts. If we want the world and the Lord to see us as good people, then we have to be careful to speak like good people.
Words from Fr. Merv Duffy SM, spoken at a Mass in the SHC Chapel
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Caritas Lenten Appeal
During Lent, New Zealand's Catholic Bishops invite us to provide for the needs of the poor through the work of Caritas. Money raised through the Bishops' Lent Appeal helps us to fund both development and emergency relief work around the world. The theme for 2022 is "Called to be Peacemakers".
Our Young Vinnies are managing the Caritas Lenten appeal. There are collection boxes in all Homerooms and at the tuckshop. Please remember to bring a donation to school. Students may like to do a chore or service at home to earn this donation.
Alternatively, donations can be deposited in the Sacred Heart College bank account: 03 0104 0914050 00. Please use the reference “Caritas 2022”.
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Academic
Year 7 (2021) Prizegiving
Earlier this week we celebrated the Year 7 (2021) Prizegiving for our current Year 8 students. Congratulations to the following award recipients:
Year 7 Headmaster's Academic Excellence Award
Harry Shand
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Year 7 Academic Excellence
Dimitri Bade - Excellence in Science
Isaac Barron - Excellence in English and Social Studies
Charlie Berrill - Excellence in Religious Education and Social Studies
Robert Borodatov - Excellence in Mathematics
Andrew D’Silva - Excellence in Social Studies, Science and Mathematics
Kaelin Estenzo - Excellence in English
Max Fong-Leat - Excellence in Social Studies
Sam Fraser - Excellence in English and Science
Zach Goddard - Excellence in Mathematics
Theo Hunt - Excellence in English
See Ieremia - Excellence in Religious Education
Griffin Jolly - Excellence in Religious Education
Hayden Kwan - Excellence in Mathematics
Kyvan Leal - Excellence in Religious Education
Tobias Marco-Ramos - Excellence in Mathematics
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Wilbur Martelli - Excellence in Religious Education, Social Studies and Science
Andy Mascarenhas - Excellence in Religious Education, Mathematics and Science
Jackson McDowell - Excellence in Science
Hugo Ormazabal - Excellence in Mathematics
Francesco Oyaka - Excellence in Science
Tom McLean - Excellence in English and Social Studies
Lalith Pudota - Excellence in Religious Education
Harrison Rope - Excellence in Religious Education
Harry Shand - Excellence in Religious Education, English, Social Studies and Science
Denzel Sila - Excellence in Science
Simon Tighe-Umbers - Excellence in English
Breyton Tubu - Excellence in Religious Education
Jorden Zeinoun - Excellence in Mathematics
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Year 7 Confortare Awards
Aaron D’souza
Tuinua Finau
Carter Hemmingsen-Jensen
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Noah McKenzie
Bailey Robson
Denzel Sila
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Congratulations to all of these students. Please visit the photo gallery here. Throughout next week, Prizegivings will be held for the remaining Year Levels of 2021.
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Rotation of Year Levels learning from home
This week we began rostering Year Levels home for a day due to the number of staff members needing to isolate due to COVID, reached our threshold. So far this has worked very well, and as communicated, it will continue through next week.
Designated days:
Monday - Year 12
Tuesday - Year 10
Wednesday - Year 11
Thursday - Year 9
Friday - Year 13
Should this arrangement need to be extended past Friday 18 March, we will let you know. Furthermore, if multiple Year Levels are to be rostered home on certain days, we will communicate this. Please note, we have not rostered Year 7 or Year 8 to learn from home at this point, however, this may change.
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Google Classrooms while isolating
This is a reminder that if students need to isolate at home because of COVID, there is an expectation that they will keep up with the work being set by their teachers, through the Google Classrooms. If your son is unwell and therefore unable to complete the work, he will need to catch up on the work set once he has recovered. We must emphasize the importance of this so that he does not find himself behind the rest of the class when returning onsite.
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Study Centre
Our Study Centre is open from 3.30 - 4.30pm Monday to Thursday, in S3 (a classroom next to the Library) and students are able to access the Library (until 4pm).
Each afternoon it is staffed by teachers, who are there to provide supervision and assistance where required. There are also senior students rostered on to provide academic support to students.
Students can work in the area that best suits their needs. It is open to all students from Year 7 through to Year 13; everyone is welcome.
Please note that it is for the purposes of completing work. Students who are not utilising the facility in this way will be asked to leave.
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Read & Write Gold
This is a reminder that Read & Write Gold is available to all students at Sacred Heart College. This is a Literacy Toolbar for Google Chrome that provides personalised support, making documents more accessible. Click here to install the extension. To access all premium features, sign-in using your Sacred Heart College account.
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Pastoral Care
Staying safe online
With a number of students learning online due to isolating or when their year levels are rostered home, now is a great time to remind parents and caregivers to be vigilant in monitoring their son's online profiles and presence. We ask parents to provide the following guidance:
- Communicate with your son/s about their use of technology
- Remind your son/s of online protocol
- Monitor their online behaviour - know who they are talking to and what apps they are using
- Maintain an acceptable level of screen time
- Keep family and friends safe in the digital world.
Key points in this regard are to:
- Activate security settings on social media sites
- Only give personal information to people they know and trust
- Use available online safety options (website blockers and email/spam filters)
- Avoid sharing images of themselves
- Report inappropriate behaviour.
You may also be aware of the recent dangerous videos depicting "blackout games" currently circulating on social media platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat. If we become aware of students engaging in this type of activity, we will contact home immediately. We all need to work together to ensure young people are not exposed to these types of ideas, and if they are, they are informed of the extreme dangers of this type of behaviour. For more information about this latest activity, read here.
Cyber Safety and Online Resources
Switch on Safety
While students are learning from home they are away from the online safety and security services provided by Network for Learning (N4L) at school. So together with N4L and Netsafe, the Ministry of Education has launched Switchonsafety.co.nz - a free way to block the worst of the web for students and teachers. Please remember, no technical solution is a silver bullet. Please complement this with other tools and resources available.
Netsafe
Netsafe provides comprehensive support and information to support everyone to stay safe as they work, learn and play online. Netsafe has new and updated resources for parents and students on their website Netsafe.org.nz.
Health Centre and COVID updates
With the change in isolation period for COVID Positive Cases and Household Contacts moving from 10 to 7 days from midnight tonight, we would like to clarify the following. From 11.59pm Friday 11 March:
- All cases and household contacts who are currently isolating can end their period of isolation after Day 7. Those currently in isolation will not have to complete their Days 8, 9 and 10 of isolation.
- Anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 will be required to isolate for seven days. Day 0 is the day symptoms began or the day the test was taken (whichever came first). Cases will isolate for a full seven days and are free to return to normal activities on Day 8, if they are not symptomatic.
- Recovered cases will no longer need to isolate again if they become a household contact within 90 days of having the virus.
- Household contacts are required to isolate for the same seven days as the case. They will be required to take a self-administered rapid antigen test (RAT) on Day 3 and Day 7 of the case’s isolation period. Household contacts can return to their normal activities on the same day as the first case in their household, so long as all test results have been negative, and they are not symptomatic.
- If a household contact has finished their period of isolation they do not need to return to isolation if a new case is identified in their household. However, this only applies for a period of seven days following their leaving isolation.
- Should a new household member be confirmed as a case eight or more days after the household contact has left isolation, then they must start a new period of self-isolation for seven days.
Stay home if symptomatic
Even if a Negative RAT test is completed, if your son has any symptoms, please keep him at home. He should only return to school when fully recovered with no active symptoms. It is important to know that even after 1 or 2 Negative RAT's, a person can return a Positive RAT result a day or two later, especially if they are still symptomatic. We appreciate these are difficult times, however our priority is to keep our students and staff safe.
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Music and Culture
Kapa Haka
This year’s ASB Polyfest will be live-streamed for all the whanau to watch, with information available on their website.
Our Junior Teina group perform on Thursday 24 March at 2.15pm and the Seniors on Friday 25 March at 11.35am.
Practice this week at Sacred Heart:
Seniors - Friday 3.30 - 8pm
Juniors - Sunday 9am - 1.30pm
SHC FiaFia Night
It is with disappointment that we must cancel the SHC FiaFia night for 2022. Due to the current COVID restrictions, we are unable to provide the right environment for what this event deserves. We look forward to enjoying the energy this brings our community in 2023.
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Sport
Athletics - Day #1 - Collage Sport Athletics Championships 2022
Yesterday saw the running of the 3000m, 800m and 200m at Mt Smart Stadium, and our boys were finally going to have some competitive track racing!! Here's a summary of the day:
Juniors 3000m
Blake Taylor (Year 10) - GOLD!
Henry Moore (Year 9) - 6th
Cormac Pepper (Year 9) - 13th
Intermediate 3000m
Zach O’Dwyer (Year 10) - GOLD!
Intermediate 800m
Charlie Richardson (Year 10) - 4th
Senior 800m
Connor Te Rito (Year 12) - 5th
Intermediate 200m
Cohen Norrie (Year 11) and Max Morgan (Year 10) both had strong races, finishing just outside of the top 8.
That completed Day#1… looking forward to the 2 more days to come.
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Football
A reminder that 14th grade trial is on next week as follows:
Friday 18 March 7:30am - 8:30am (1st XI Pitch @ SHC)
Other upcoming trials:
15th grade trial - Friday 25 March 7:30am-8:30am
3rd XI trial - Friday 1 April 7:30am-8:30am
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Rugby
Registration and Weigh In
All Year 9-13 students wanting to play Rugby for the College this year MUST REGISTER and WEIGH IN. Please REGISTER BEFORE the School Rugby Weigh In by filling out a Rugby Registration form. The link for School Rugby registration is found here.
Weigh In dates
Year 9-10: Monday 14 March
Years 11, 12, 13: Tuesday 15 March
Weigh In’s will take place at lunchtime outside the Auditorium.
Grades and Weight Limits
Under 14 Open: (Born 2008, 2009). Open Weight
Under 15 Open: (Born 2007, 2008). Open Weight
Under 15 Restricted: (Born 2007, 2008, 2009). Weight Limit; Students must be Under 55kgs
6th Grade: (Born 2006, 2007, 2008). Weight Limit; Students must be Over 55kgs, but Under 60kgs
5th Grade: (Born 2005, 2006, 2007). Weight Limit; Students must be Over 60kgs, but Under 70kgs
2nd XV Grade: (Born 2004, 2005, 2006). Open Weight
1R Grade: (Born 2004, 2005, 2006). Weight Limit; Students must be Over 70kgs, but Under 85kgs
Students are expected to play in the grades they weigh in at in regards to RESTRICTED WEIGHT GRADE RUGBY. Only in exceptional circumstances can a student play up a WEIGHT GRADE. This will need to be signed off by Mr Stowers (Head of Rugby) and Mr Guise (Head of Sport).
Grade Rugby Pre-Season Training
- Pre-season training for boys wanting to trial for Senior Open Weight Rugby (2A and 2B) has commenced. Trainings are every Tuesday and Thursday 3.30pm to 5pm on Field 2
- Pre-season training for boys wanting to trial for Under 15 Open Rugby has commenced. Trainings are every Monday and Wednesday 3.30pm to 5pm on Field 3
- Pre-season training for boys wanting to trial for Under 14 Open Rugby has commenced. Trainings are every Tuesday and Thursday 3.30pm to 5pm on Field 3
Boys wanting to attend pre-season trainings for the Under 14 Open, Under 15 Open and Senior Open Weight Rugby Grades must register their interest with Mr Stowers in the Sports Office or email fstowers@sacredheart.school.nz. Internal trials for ALL Rugby Grades will take place from Week 9 of Term 1.
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Swimming - Eastern Zones
Congratulations to Henry Moore (Year 9) – 2nd Backstroke, Ryan Peck (Year 12) – 1st Freestyle and Fly, 2nd Breaststroke and Nathanial Hunt (Year 12) – 2nd Freestyle.
The school record for Senior 50m Butterfly was broken by Ryan Peck with a time of 27.12.
These boys (top 2 swimmers per zone), are eligible for a Championship event on 13 April 2022 at Westwave.
Full results can be found at this link on the College Sport website.
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Water Polo
Premier A1 Team
Our Premier A1 team had their games postponed due to COVID last weekend. There was only one premier game that went ahead between St Kents and Kings. All other games were deferred. Our games against St Peters and AGS will be played at a later date - to be decided.
Senior A Boys
Our Senior A2 Team had a decisive 14 – 3 win against AGS Prem 2 team last Friday. It was a great team effort and the boys remain undefeated in 2022. Keep up the great work boys!
Our Senior A3 Team had an exciting game last Friday that went down to the wire, scoring in the final seconds for a 2-2 draw against Kristin Prems Team. Well done boys you did us proud!
This weekend:
This Friday our Premier team take on Rosmini A at 6.10pm.
Our A2 Team vs Kristin Premier on Sunday at 5.30pm and our A3 Boys take on St Kent’s A on Sunday at 6.20pm. Go well boys!
Please join our Facebook page for regular updates.
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College Information
Advertising in Confortare - Sacred Heart College Magazine
Confortare is the Sacred Heart College print and digital magazine that captures school achievements and memories for students, Old Boys and the wider SHC community. It is produced in mid-May and end of September each year. Significant events in the College and amongst our Old Boys are captured and reported both in text and images, while reflecting the Special Character of the College. The May edition covers events from October previous year through to April of the current year. The September edition typically covers from May to end of September. The high level of engagement from the community means it is consistently relevant, as Conforate is repeatedly referred to over the years. We print over 3,500 copies each edition, and the digital edition is sent to the College community and uploaded to the Sacred Heart website for the wider community to access.
An opportunity for advertising in this magazine has arisen. Please view our information on rates and ad specifications. Contact Anne Walbridge, Marketing and Communications Manager: communication@sacredheart.school.nz for more details.
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Silent Auction 2022
In light of this year’s Fair rightfully being cancelled, we have decided nonetheless, to proceed with the auctioning off of some fabulous New Zealand baches! Historically, the income generated at the Fair’s Silent Auction stall for bach accommodation has been a huge part of our overall fundraising efforts. Hence, we are now looking for anyone in the school community who would like to kindly donate the use of their bach for a week or weekend.
The baches will be auctioned online in the coming months, in time for the July school holidays!
If you or any family or friends would be happy to donate the use of your bach towards this fundraiser, we would be most grateful!
(The PTA can cover the cost of the cleaning fee too!).
Any questions, please contact either Andrea Hawes - andrea.hawes@xtra.co.nz 021 059 4813 or Kimberley Shaw - kimberleyshaw@gmail.com 021 463 327.
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Application for Enrolment - Year 7 & Year 9, 2023 is now open
Enrolment applications for Year 7 and Year 9 2023 are now open and we welcome your interest in educating your son/s at Sacred Heart College. At Sacred Heart, we are committed to creating courageous Marist men. See our website for more information https://sacredheart.school.nz/enrolment/enrolment
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Job Vacancies
Sacred Heart College Hostel are seeking:
- Hostel Night Supervisor
- Hostel Supervisors
For more information, please see our website.
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Community
Saturday Evening Mass
There will be no Saturday Evening Mass held at the College Chapel this weekend, however Mass will be held on Saturday 19 March, at 5.15pm by Fr John Dunn. Please keep an eye on our newsletter for information on when Masses will be on as it may change week from week.
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NZ Catholic - Digital Issue
Please click here to view the digital version of NZ Catholic’s latest issue for you to enjoy.
Some headlines for the latest issue include:
- Lent leads to foot of cross preaches Anglican bishop
- Dunedin rural roadshow gathers feedback
- Young adults speak on faith in the workplace
- Pope Lent message 2022
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An update from the Auckland Transport Metro Bus Team
As Omicron spreads, many bus operators are experiencing staff shortages and service cancellations across bus, train, and ferry services. Although Auckland Transport is working hard to update cancellations in our systems, there may be some occasions when these are last-minute and can’t be communicated in time. We recommend checking service updates on the AT Mobile app, Live Departures, or on digital signs at stops and stations.
AT are trying their best to make school bus services a priority and run most school bus services to a regular timetable. However, they are expecting to see last-minute cancellations due to the spread of Omicron in the community. Although they're working hard to update cancellations in their systems, there may be some occasions when these are last-minute and can’t be communicated in time. If any of our bus services do not arrive on time, we will liaise with the students, and request them to find or use alternative transport options.
Defence Force
Information Evenings are being held on the following dates, 5.45pm - 7.45pm:
- Monday 4 April
- Monday 2 May
- Thursday 2 June
Spaces are limited to 30 people per session so please head to the Facebook Page and register your interest against the date that suits. People that attend these evenings will need to be fully vaccinated and be able to produce their vaccine pass.
Study in the United States
EducationUSA New Zealand will be offering a virtual Student Information Session for anyone interested in studying in the United States. Whether you are planning on heading to a U.S. university soon or are just beginning to consider this as a possibility we will be available to answer your questions. Please join us at 6pm on Monday 14 March. We look forward to talking with you. Register here.
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