Sacred Heart Girls’ College
Newsletter
21 September 2020 No. 383
Season of Creation 2020 ➢ 1 September – 4 October
Peace to Our Earth
Peace to this earth This gift of creation, Which we celebrate With joy and with reverence.
In the spirit of the first Francis, May we take time to see The radiance of creation, This gift of light and liquid And green growth.
Peace to this earth; May we practice nonviolence Toward our lakes, rivers and seas. May we renew the living waters Teeming with life, small and large. May clean waters quench our deep thirst.
Peace to this earth; May we practice nonviolence Toward the land, the very ground of life; May we restore the soil So its richness can give us plentiful food. May we all be nourished by the fruits of the earth.
Peace to this earth; May we practice nonviolence Toward air, sky, clouds. So we can breathe freely in gentle rain. May the natural world be a safe home for all.
Peace to this earth, We pray with our pope, Peace to creation, Which we celebrate With joy and reverence, Knowing we hold a fragile world In our hands.
(Jane Deren, Education for Justice)
Term Dates for 2020
TERM 1: TERM 3: Friday, 31 January – Friday, 27 March Monday, 13 July – Friday 18 September
TERM 2: TERM 4: Tuesday, 14 April – Friday, 26 June Monday, 5 October – Friday, 4 December
The Weeks Ahead
Monday, 21 September School Holidays Begin Year 12 Trial Exams Online
Tuesday, 22 September Year 12 Trial Exams Online
Wednesday, 23 September Year 12 Trial Exams Online Wednesday, 30 September VTAC Applications VCE Dance Rehearsals Close
Thursday, 24 September Year 12 Trial Exams Online
Friday, 25 September Year 12 Trial Exams Online VCE Dance Rehearsals
Saturday, 26 September - Saturday, 3 October -
Sunday, 27 September - Sunday, 4 October -
Wednesday, 7 October VCE General Achievement Friday, 9 October SEAS and Test (GAT) Scholarship Applications Close Year 7, 2022 Applications Close
In this Issue >
Message from The Principal
Deputy Principal – Student Wellbeing
Deputy Principal – Learning and Teaching
Sport
Year 8 News
Food Technology
Humanities
Arts
Principal
We have arrived at the end of Term 3, a term that proved to be more challenging than Term 2 (and we did not believe it could become more difficult than what we experienced then!).
Firstly, I thank our wonderful students for their commitment to their learning as we encountered our second phase of home based learning. It is pleasing to hear from our teachers about the positive approach taken by our students in meeting the demands of their learning programs. Our students made the very best of a very challenging situation and I congratulate all on remaining engaged and positive in their learning.
Secondly, I acknowledge and thank our teachers for their commitment to ensuring our excellent learning program was maintained. All those important elements of the student/teacher relationship were sustained and strengthened throughout the term. The optimistic approach of our exemplary staff and the confident response from our students facilitated great progress and learning.
Thirdly, I thank our parents and carers for the support given to their daughters, the staff and the College community as a whole. The value and importance of our partnership in the education of the young women of Sacred Heart was certainly evident throughout the term. Thank you to our parents and carers for providing the necessary support at home to enable ongoing growth and development of our young women.
It was a challenging term, yet one that we can be immensely proud of when we see what was achieved. As well as covering the prescribed learning programs many other benefits have been evident. Personal skills of self-discipline, planning and organisation, resilience, independence, resourcefulness, flexibility, adaptability, all developed and will continue to develop. These capabilities are so very valuable for an enriching future. Yes, many things were lost, yet some wonderful gains are so very evident.
As we know, we have yet to come out the other side of this pandemic. It is reassuring to know that the pathway to the future is looking much more positive.
Arrangements for the beginning of Term 4 were presented in the letter to the community in the last week of Term 3.
A quick recap:
Monday, 5 October, Term 4 begins. Home based learning recommences for all students.
Wednesday, 7 October GAT (onsite) for all students undertaking Unit 3/4 studies
Monday, 12 October VCE students (Year 11 and 12 and Year 10 undertaking a VCE Unit 2 study other than Religion and Society) resume onsite classes.
Year 10 students undertaking a VCE Unit 2 study will attend classes at Sacred Heart only on the days of their VCE class. Their Year 10 classes will be supervised onsite and be taken remotely.
Home based learning continues for students in Years 7-10.
At this stage, there is no clear indication on the recommencement of onsite classes for Year 7-10 students. An announcement will be made upon the guidance of the health authorities in line with government directions.
Congratulations
Congratulations to our newly elected Deputy College Captains for 2021:
Nikita Ravi Sophia Menidis
Deputy College Deputy College Captain Captain Faith Arts
Maria Elizabeth Ebi Emma Kurban
Deputy College Deputy College Captain Captain Social Justice Sport
Thank you to these four students for offering their leadership in the service of the College community.
Emma, Maria, Nikita and Sophia join the College Captains for 2021:
Nerise Elliott Elyse Pretty
College Captain College Captain
The Year 11 students now focus on the selection of the House Captains for 2021. Two students will be elected for each of the four Houses: Bede, Paul, Trinity and Xavier.
Farewell
At the end of this term, the College community farewells:
Chloe Palmer (Literacy Co-ordinator, English) who begins parental leave
Angelina Peluso (Mission and Ministry Team, Science and Religions Education) who begins long service leave for Term 4
Jyoti Ahlawat (Mathematics) at the conclusion of her replacement contract
Annemarie Carrie (Health Sciences) at the conclusion of her replacement contract
Special thanks to Jyoti and Annemarie on their commitment to the College during their contract period.
Welcome
At the beginning of Term 4, we welcome Sally Farr who is replacing Chloe Palmer as Literacy Co-ordinator and in the English Learning area. We also welcome back Annemarie Carrie who is replacing Angelina Peluso.
We will welcome back Vicki Pobjoy (Learning Leader Health Sciences), Caterina Garwoli (Mathematics) and Carmel McConnachie (Languages) after their period of long service leave.
Congratulations to Fiona McGrath and her husband, Peter, on the birth of Xavier’s little sister, Estelle, who was born last Wednesday. A warm welcome to another member of our community.
In your thoughts and prayers please remember Maria Bogovic (a regular Casual Relief Teacher at Sacred Heart) and her family, Juliette and Lucas. Maria’s husband, Antun, died suddenly and unexpectedly on Friday, 4 September.
Eternal rest grant to him O Lord May perpetual light shine upon him May he rest in peace
Amen
Enjoy a relaxing and restful term break as we prepare for Term 4.
Take care, stay safe.
God bless.
Christopher Dalton Principal
“Contemplation, which leads us to an attitude of care, is not a question of looking at nature from the outside, as if we were not immersed in it. But we are inside nature, we are part of nature #SeasonOfCreation #GeneralAudience.” PopeFrancis@Pontifex 16 September 2020
Deputy Principal – Student Wellbeing
School Uniform Return to School in Term 4 > Student Health Students have spent extended periods of time in home-based learning and we look forward to Term 4 Asthma and the prospect of students returning to school – actually being onsite! Over the time at home, some As we enter the pollen and thunderstorm asthma items of school uniform have lain dormant. In season, students and parents are reminded to be preparing for a return to onsite learning, please also proactive in regard to asthma prevention and check that your daughter is ready to return to school management. in a well-fitted summer uniform and in line with uniform expectations. Staff and students alike will be Asthma Australia provide access to a Spring Asthma adjusting to former routines when we return to the Pack upon application via their website: physical school! Go to https://asthma.org.au/get-your-spring-asthma- pack for more information and to submit your request If daughter’s summer uniform needs a top up or items for access to a Spring Asthma Pack. need to be replaced, the Academy Uniform shop will open in line with the lifting of COVID restrictions and It is important to be aware of thunderstorm forecasts continues to provide online shopping facilities for all especially on high or extreme pollen counts and to our families. avoid being outside. When at school, affected students are able to access the Library at lunch and For more information about Academy Uniforms please recess. Thunderstorm asthma forecasts and alerts check their website or your daughter’s student planner may be accessed via the Vic Emergency app or (page 3). Information about uniforms is also located in website. If using the app, go to menu; select ‘prepare the front section of your daughter’s planner. and get ready’, then select ‘thunderstorm asthma’ and then select ‘thunderstorm asthma forecast’. School TV
Asthma management apps you might like to consider Please take the time to check the special reports and
for you and your family: school survival series topics as we move into Term 4. Here a just a few of the many reports and topics you may wish to explore: >>> Surviving Final Year and Exam Jitters (school survival) Vic Emergency >>> Coronavirus: the transition back and Year 12 Menu/Prepare and Get exam stress (special reports) Ready/Thunderstorm Asthma If your daughter is feeling unsure or a bit anxious about returning to face to face classes at school, Kiss My Asthma please contact her Homeroom teacher, Year Level App for young people aged 12 Leader or College Counsellor (Jo Healy or Joanna Michalowski) for assistance. Your daughter is also years + to track their symptoms and encouraged to reach out to these school supports manage their asthma herself.
AirRater Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 Developed by University of pandemic has been a community concern and the Tasmania. Tracks your symptoms return to ‘normal’ or ‘COVID normal’ can be both and monitors your environment. exciting and daunting for people of all ages. We have been challenged and through this we have learned a lot this year and grown in unexpected ways. Own Medication
I hope that all our students and families are able to If your daughter requires medications to be stored in enjoy a restful Term 3 break. the Front Office (such as an epipen, antihistamines,
etc), please ensure that her medications and an Own Thank you for your support of your daughter’s Medication Form accompanies her upon her return to wellbeing and learning this term - the partnership onsite classes. The Operoo profile also needs to be between school and home has been strengthened updated with the new expiry date of your daughter’s and enhanced this year. I look forward to us being epipen for school. Outstanding individual asthma or onsite together again as restrictions are lifted. anaphylaxis management plans can be returned via
mail over the Term 3 break or to the Front Office by Stay safe. Stay well. your daughter on her first day back onsite.
Carmel Feeney Deputy Principal – Student Wellbeing
Deputy Principal – Learning and Teaching
Lessons from HBL
The end of Term 3 is upon us and what a very different term it has been. Despite the current challenges posed by COVID-19 over this time, our students should all be proud of their achievements over this term. These achievements include not only those regarding their academic learning but also all the “other” learning that has happened as part of home-based learning. They have proven themselves to be adaptable and resourceful; they have demonstrated perseverance and resilience; they have experienced collaboration and communication in a virtual environment; and they have become much more tech savvy in terms of video conferencing, online assessments, troubleshooting issues, working with new platforms etc. And this is only the tip of iceberg.
How our young women view themselves as learners, can only be enriched by these types of achievements and it is important that we all acknowledge and appreciate all the other learning that has happened over this term. Over the holidays it would be great if you and your daughters spent some time reflecting on and sharing these learnings, recognising that these sometimes called “soft skills” are as valuable, if not more so, than a number on a test. That these are the skills and dispositions they will be required to draw upon into the future and as such their achievements in this area over the term are worthy of celebration.
Reminder: Thanks to all of you who have already completed our online survey regarding online events this term. You still have time if have not already done so. This link Virtual Events Parent Feedback will take you directly to the survey which closes on Friday, 25 September.
Julie Swanson Deputy Principal – Learning and Teaching
Sport
Australian Olympic Change-Maker
Award
Congratulations to Alyssa Polites (Year 12) and Alissa Kinkela (Year 12) who have been nominated for the Australian Olympic Change- Maker Award.
The program recognises and rewards young leaders who make a difference in their community with other like-minded young people who are making a difference. Students further their knowledge of the Olympic Movement and the Australian Olympic team values of attitude, sportsmanship, pride, individual responsibility, respect and expression Alissa Kinkela Alyssa Polites of oneself, through learning about the positive impact sport can have on one’s life.
This is a great opportunity to showcase the great work being done by students and offers a chance for successful applicants to be part of a state-wide forum to connect with olympians and other students.
We congratulate both students for their achievements and hard work.
Tasia Fay Sport Administrator
Year 8 News
Poems
With great flair, the Mad Hatter >>>‘The Sick Rose’ recited by Crystal Hui welcomed an array of 180 guests >>>‘ Homer the Spider’ recited by Molly Nousis to the Mad Tea Party. Guests included Alice, the white rabbit, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenstein’s monster, Wednesday Addams, the Queen Jabberwocky of Hearts, witches, a suit of cards, The Sick Rose By Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) zombies, the Cheshire Cat, a By William Blake doorknob and many other weird 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves and wonderous characters. Within O Rose thou art sick. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; the virtual environment tea party The invisible worm, All mimsy were the borogoves, spreads were impressive. Scones That flies in the night And the mome raths outgrabe. with lashings of jam and cream, In the howling storm: cakes, chocolates, and other "Beware the Jabberwock, my son unusual items were consumed Has found out thy bed The jaws that bite, the claws that along with countless cups of tea. Of crimson joy: catch! And his dark secret love Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun Entertainment was mad of course Does thy life destroy. The frumious Bandersnatch!" with guests enjoying a step back in time and watching clips from He took his vorpal sword in hand; Frankenstein (1931), Alice in Long time the manxome foe he Wonderland (1951) and the hit TV sought— series ‘The Addams Family (1960- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, 1). A brave student from each And stood awhile in thought. Homeroom participated in a Mad Hatter styled quiz and our gothic And, as in uffish thought he stood, poets Molly and Crystal, recited Homer the Spider The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, ‘Homer the Spider’ and ‘The Sick By Wednesday Addams Came whiffling through the tulgey Rose’. wood, I have a gloomy little spider, And burbled as it came! With no student birthdays on 3 I love to sit down close beside her. September, the Mad Hatter She never knows where she has been One, two! One, two! And through and introduced guests to the concept ‘Cause all she does is spin and spin. through of celebrating ‘unbirthdays’. For My spider’s quite a busy roamer. The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! the uninitiated, an ‘unbirthday’ is Which is why I called her Homer. He left it dead, and with its head an event that is typically She loves to work and spin all day, He went galumphing back. celebrated on any or all 364 days And then at night she likes to play. in which it is not a person’s Her web is like my mother’s hair, "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
birthday. Naturally, unbirthday Her eyes have got my father’s stare. Come to my arms, my beamish boy! cake must be consumed! She may not jump or twist or bend, O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" But a spider is a girl’s best friend. He chortled in his joy. To conclude a decidedly unusual
and completely ‘over the top’ 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves wellbeing for learning lesson, the Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; Mad Hatter and the Year 8 All mimsy were the borogoves, Homeroom teachers, treated the And the mome raths outgrabe. guests to a highly dramatic rendition of ‘Jabberwocky’ from ‘Alice in Wonderland’. After a wellbeing for learning lesson such as this one, we all needed another cup of tea!
With my best wishes,
Kate (aka The Mad Hatter)
Year 8 Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Photos from
>>> Thursday 3 September
Food Technology
Alexi Flynn
Continued >>>
Jessica Yip Jaime Quinn
Continued >>>
Liana Montibeller Maddie Latimer
Georgia Schroder
Janice Jaison
Nikita Ravi
Stephanie
Caccamo
Shanara Arunthavanathan Sherlene Andrew
Talia Cristiano
Humanities
Congratulations to all the Sacred Heart students who created thoughtful, funny or unusual captions for the photos in the Humanities ‘Caption This’ competition from 31 August to 4 September. We had some truly creative entries some of which are showcased here.
Ms Dominique Wiegand Learning Leader Humanities
<<< <<< "Slow <<< “Coming out “Copy, day at the of quarantine paste” by office" and admiring the Tess by Marina view you haven't Dargan, 8 Funtusoff seen in ages” by Gold 8 Red Eileen Lim 7 Red
“Coming out for the first time in forever” by Mia Scherian, 7 Purple
<<< “White socks are my favourite” by Advika Bhatnagar, 8 Green
“Now, what was it that I had to remember…? Oh yeah, Always Upward Strive!” by Ashlee Quinn, 9 Green
>>> “When you turn your face to the sun, all the shadows will be behind you” by Guneet Kaur 7 Red
“A student mentally preparing themself for yet another week of home-based learning” by Alysha Cheah 10 Blue
<<< “When you have to play outside but the only
games you know are video games” by Angelique Nikitas 7 Red
“Dang it Bob! Why did you kick the ball over the fence again??!” by Isabel Laird 7 Red
>>> “They didn’t mention the uniform in the job description for you, did they?” by Ashlee Quinn 9 Green
“Dressed to protect” by Gabrielle de Robillard 10 Green
<<< “Worst toy ever, Mum, I can't read” by Mia Scherian 7 Purple “Have you read this article on Marie Kondo? It's got some really good tips on cleaning!” by Grace Longano 8 Silver “Creativity is messy, and I am very creative” by Guneet Kaur 7 Red
Arts
Take a walk around our virtual gallery
>>> https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/2336195/virtual-gallery-demo