Kailena Van de Nes, '01 Opens Dance Studio in Ottawa!

Kailena Van De Nes, class of 2001, has opened a professional dance studio in Ottawa.  Congratulations, Kailena!

read the article in the Ottawa Citizen.

Sacred Heart High School Student Accomplishments June 2014

Governor-General’s Medal

Zoé McIntyre

Elizabeth 11 Medal

Claire Bullock

O’Dea Trophy

Taryn Mason

Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal

Claire Reardon

Board of Governor’s Award

Claire Bennet & Robbie Mason

Birks Medal

Taryn Mason

Elizabeth Mackasey Memorial Prize

Kathleen MacLellan

Monica Robertson Memorial Prize

Shifa Quraishi

Faculty Award

Talah Al-Sharkawi & Elizabeth O’Carroll

Provincial Council Award

Laura Bullock

Boyd Family Award

Sabrina Secord

Barbara Pressé Courage et Confiance Scholarship

Razan Al-Sharkawi

Judith Simms Sapp Award

Mia Ferguson

Anita Thomas Memorial Award

Mairin Sullivan McCulloch

McBirney Memorial Award

Andrea Field

Sacred Heart Award

Shannon Jankari

Sacred Heart Alumnae Award (Gr. 9)

Annie Xu

Sacred Heart Alumnae Award (Gr.12)

Claire Bullock

Sister Mary Power, rscj Achiever Award

Maria Samman

Margarita Carew Wallace Award

Zoé McIntyre

Judith Linley Award

Hannah Bekkers

Canadian Association of Sacred Heart Alumnae Award

Robbie Mason

Barat Literary Award

JH - Julia Foot; SH - Claire Bullock

Senior History Prize

Zoé McIntyre

Spanish Prize

Emma Churchill

French Prize

Nouran El-Bulkiny

Lubna Javed Award

Zoé McIntyre

Dorothea Cooke Award

Erin Palmeter

English Prize

Claire Bennet

Mme Wilson Memorial Prize

Zoé McIntyre

Music Prize (JH)

Annie Xu & Lala Lee

Art Prize (JH)

Sylvia Driscoll-Sangster & Mia Ferguson

Millennium Award for Environmental Action

Laura Bullock

Joanne Lynn Scott Memorial Award

Mimisu Lee

Daughters of Ada and Thomas Wallace Scholarship

Claire Bennet

Father Basil Carew St. John Scholarship

Rebecca Butler

Marie Evangeline Kennedy Miller Prize

Mimisu Lee

Harvard Prize Book

Laura Bullock

University of Toronto National Scholarships Book Award

Zoé McIntyre

Association of Professional Engineers Award

Rebecca Butler

Parents’ Guild Awards

Gr. 12 – Neve MacRae, Kinza Shahid

Gr. 11 – Emma Sande, Paige Smithers

Gr. 10 – Cynthia Ghosn, Meghan MacAskill

Gr. 9 – Thea Hart, Sarah Tanner

Gr. 8 – Sydney Hayden, Ailie Sullivan-McCulloch

Gr. 7 – Mary Cate Driscoll-Sangster, Lucy Traves

Highest Averages

Governor-General’s Medal Gr. 12 – Zoé McIntyre

2^nd – Claire Bullock

3^rd – Taryn Mason

Gold Medal Gr. 11 - Laura Bullock

2^nd – Mattea Roach

3^rd - Catherine Turnbull

Silver Medal Gr. 10 – Anya Friesen

2^nd –Sophie McIntyre

3^rd – Razan Al-Sharkawi

Grade 9H Highest Average – Maria Samman

2^nd – Emma Butler

3^rd – Sylvia Driscoll-Sangster

Grade 9R Highest Average – Lala Lee

2^nd – Catherine Burke

2^nd – Mairin Sullivan-McCulloch

Grade 8B Highest Average – Manal Quraishi

2^nd – Caroline Fernandez

3^rd – Sydney Hayden

Grade 8K Highest Average – Rachelle Lawen

2^nd – Ailie Sullivan-McCulloch

3^rd – Juliana Murphy

Grade 7G Highest Average – Michaela Hammond

2^nd – Madison James

3^rd – Olivia Southcott

Grade 7M Highest Average – Mary Cate Driscoll-Sangster

2^nd – Brenna Noble

3^rd – Layla Haddad

Sacred Heart High School Girls Volunteering for Run for the Cure

On Saturday morning, August 23rd, SHHS girls volunteered to hand out information on the Halifax waterfront about the upcoming Run for the Cure event.  Thank you to all these young ladies for the support of our greater community.  The ladies who participated were Sophie, Alex, Emma, Rebecca, Lucinda, Sophie and Hannah!

Have you heard our radio ads?

Sacred Heart has three radio ads on various stations.  Our thanks to Vikesh and Ishan Mukhida and Will & Mark Nickerson.  Just in case you have not heard them, here they are:

Click here for the link to the radio spots.

Rory Flynn & Her Sister Aislin in the News!

On Thursday, August 21st, ATV/CTV came to the school to do a piece on Rory Flynn, Gr. 11 and her sister, Aislin, Class of 2012.  Both of these young ladies recently returned from the World's Debating Championship in Thailand.  In addition to the World's, Rory and Aislin came to the Debating Camp hosted by Sacred Heart School of Halifax last week.  The piece was put together by reporter Marie Adsett at ATV.  It aired on "Live at 5" on Friday.  Click here to see it.

Thank you to Brian Casey, the debating coach, for a great week.

Fountain Means Business

As many of you know, we will be offering an online AP Computer Science course this year, and several years ago we began offering a business course to our students. Two of the reasons for broadening our course offerings are featured in an article in today’s Chronicle Herald business section. Fountain students Alex Gillis and Aristides Milios, who will be taking our new AP Computer Science course in September, are shaking up the world of e-commerce with their new business application.

Take a look for yourself. Halifax Teen Makes Customer Profiles His “Bitness”

Debate Camp at Sacred Heart August 18-22

National Debate Camp will be held at the Sacred Heart School of Halifax from August 18-22.  We look forward to hosting 36 students with 16 of them from across Canada.  The cities represented are:  Victoria, Edmonton, Calgary, Manitoba, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, St. John's and Halifax.  This is an annual Debate Camp under the direction of debating coach, Brian Casey.

Brian has been devoting his time and expertise to these young men and women for many years.  We cannot thank him enough for his commitment to the Debating program in Canada.

Picture of last year's participants...

French Camp at Sacred Heart this week!

Students enjoying the Sacred Heart French Camp this week.

Team Canada 2014 - Ready to Compete

Team Canada 2014 is composed of a dozen Canadian high school debate students - two of whom are from Sacred Heart School of Halifax:  Rory Flynn and Mattea Roach.  Eight members of Team Canada 2014 are participating in the world competition in Thailand, a journey that began with several preparatory days in British Columbia. Rory Flynn was able to make the trip.  The Team's Blog begins: "Eight of us arrived in Vancouver today to start training for WSDC in Thailand!  The day was full of early flights, long flights, delayed flights, preparing topics, doing refutation activities, eating chicken, board games, and being happy to see each other again...."  You can follow their progress at the Team Canada 2014 Blog. Sacred Heart Alumna Aislin Flynn continues to be involved in debate - as a coach and a judge - recently in India for a debate competition among university students, and she will be helping to judge the high school competition in Thailand.  We are proud of Rory, Mattea, and all of our debate students, alums, and coaches.