We have reached the end of the first quarter of year 3. What an amazing term of growth for our students. There has been solid dedication to work, especially in writing and mathematics. I am feeling very proud of the effort put in by every student.

I apologise for not getting to either HACC  or SOS, however I have been so unwell for so many weeks, as have the students and I did not wish to share this with our elders.

We will be sad to say goodbye to Evelyn and to Adea and possibly Brancis and wish all students who are leaving Sacred Heart the very best in the future.

NAPLAN is now behind us and the children did a great job emotionally and in trying hard to do their best. They played by the rules and handled the online parts of the assessment with courage and success.

Year 3 have managed to master logging in quickly to their email accounts, to their accounts on reading express, ixl and essential assessment this year and seem to be using their devices with responsibility and respect.

What a fantastic term of swimming culminating with such a successful swimming carnival. I felt proud and impressed watching the organisation and readiness for our lessons each Friday. I also feel impressed in general with the level of independence and organisation students have shown with assignments; assessments and various activities.

Although we have missed some library lessons for various reasons in Term 1, the ones we have had have been lessons resulting in so much learning about books, authors, genres and characters. Thank you, Ms Chris, for this and for the support you lend to teachers and what they are trying to achieve in the classroom.

Thank you, Mr Lochie, for the wonderful and creative Science and Technology lessons and of course Sport.

We will study EASTER when we return as Easter Sunday falls on the last day of holidays.

Children learned to make a slide presentation for HASS and successfully made an oral presentation to the class about their chosen Community Hero. We enjoyed around 8 different visitors to class to talk about life before and after on Hammond Island; Ergon; Rebel; The island electrician, The T I hospital, our Federal Member for Leichhardt, and our local council and rural fire fighters. If I have missed someone I apologise. All visitors were amazing and very different.

Enjoy your holidays and again, thank you for your imput and support.