WELCOME
Sacred Heart School is a co-educational primary school located in the coastal town of Yeppoon.  At Sacred Heart School, we endeavour to hold the message of Jesus Christ at the heart of all we do. This message permeates our relationships, decisions, our teaching and learning.

Sacred Heart is a school where our children are nurtured spiritually, academically, emotionally, socially, physically and culturally.  We offer a myriad of learning opportunities including instrumental music and choral programs, a well-developed Arts program, sports including netball, soccer, rugby league, swimming and AFL, the teaching of Japanese and the MJR (Making Jesus Real) program.

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TERM DATEs 2021

  • Term 1:  27th January to 1st April
  • Term 2:  19th April to 25th June
  • Term 3:  12th July to 17th September
  • ​Term 4:  5th October to 3rd December

COMING UP SOON

~ 23rd July
NAIDOC Week assembly 8.40am (3S presenting)

~ 26th July
Start of Catholic Education Week

~ 27th July
Catholic Education Mass at St Brendan's College 9am (Year 6 attending)

~ 30th July
- Under 10s Capra's gala day (Rugby League)
- Sacred Heart P&F Christmas in July function

~ 4th & 5th August
School Photos

~ 6th August
Interschool Sport commences (Year 5 & 6)

~ 9th August
Prep to Year 3 Athletics Carnival at school

~ 12th & 13th August
Confirmation Masses

~ 14th August
First Communion

COMMUNITY NEWS

IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE RESULT
Undoubtedly you have heard of the wonderful performances of our netball and rugby league teams at the Challenge Cup last week. Both our girls and boys won their respective competitions with an extraordinary run of good gamesmanship. Sacred Heart also gained the overall Challenge Cup trophy. A superb effort.

However, I am not just proud of the results, I’m proud of the behaviour of our children at the carnival. On the first morning with rain teeming down, there was a coaches’ meeting and most of the adults in charge were called to the officials’ tent. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the Sacred Heart students, sitting quietly, chatting in the distance, just as they had been asked to do.

Over and over again, I saw evidence of Sacred Heart children playing with courage, humility and courtesy, using their manners and enjoying the spirit of the carnival. We had three netball teams and two rugby league sides competing. The most of any school in our diocese. 

As Ash Barty said, following her recent Wimbledon final’s victory, “"It's more important to be a good person than a good tennis player." Sacred Heart children were a testament to this.  I wish to recognise the families who have supported our school in encouraging this good behaviour. Thank you.
Speaking of sporting pursuits, I came across this article from well known parent advisor, Michael Grose pertaining to this. 

Winning is great and is to be celebrated. It’s great to see our children’s faces light up when they win. Winning means they’re doing well. It’s equated with success. It’s a good habit to develop. …… or so the theory goes. Winning is just one story. Not winning carries emotion but it’s not necessarily positive. Children usually experience disappointment, annoyance and frustration. All unpleasant emotions.

But it’s good for children and young people to experience unpleasant feelings from time to time. It’s good to learn that bad feelings happen, but they don’t last. That things don’t always go your way. This is a huge life lesson. Not winning also teaches kids to link success with effort. It teaches them that perseverance pays off eventually.  Helping kids accept setbacks and unpleasant emotions rather than block them out is the key to building their resilience.
What about the child who never wins? Some children seem to never win, or hardly ever do.

I can still remember how one of my son’s goals when he was in primary school, was to be selected in a particular Capricornia sports team. He trained quite hard and on the days of the trials, I thought, played very well, mixing it with boys of much larger physiques. He made possibles and probables however was not selected in the side when several of his mates were. We left the fields and he was very upset but composed until we arrived home and he ‘fell into a heap’ in his bedroom. We sat down later and talked about the day. The following morning, he bounced off to school, better prepared for a similar situation in the future.

On other occasions, this same son missed out of grand final teams, shuffled home towards the back of the field in the cross country even after training, was not successful in gaining leadership roles at high school. As parents, it was hard work keeping their chin up. But that’s what you have to do.

As a young adult, he can now articulate the disappointment he felt coming close but never quite hitting the winner’s circle; but he can see the value of hanging in there long after others gave up. That’s possibly due in part to temperament, but I suspect in part due to some valued lessons from not winning, or coming close, when he was young.  Persistence and determination are some of his strongest assets.
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STEM MATERIALS
Our STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) classes are in need of junk materials that you might have at home.  Items from your recycling such as cardboard tubes, containers, food packaging boxes, and anything that you think would be interesting to use for building. Please send items to the school on Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays.  Thank you for your help.
ENROLMENTS
Enrolments at Sacred Heart are being taken for the 2022 Prep year (children born 1/7/2016 – 30/6/2017).  Please register at our school office if you have a child who will be attending Sacred Heart Prep next year or if you know of any families who are intending to send their children to our school. Thank you.

Places are filling very quickly which is pleasing and I ask that any current families wishing to enrol their child for 2022 to do so soon. 2022 Prep interviews will commence next week.