Sacred Heart School of Halifax: April 2015

4.28.2015

Five Elementary Students to be in NS International Tattoo!

Five of our elementary students auditioned for this year's Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo children's choir, and all were successful! Participation in this choir involves a great deal of commitment from the students and considerable rehearsal time in order to learn all of their songs (in several languages) in readiness for a week of performances in July. The Tattoo is the largest indoor show in the world, with thousands of performers taking part. What an amazing experience for our students to be involved with such a first class show!

Congratulations to Olivia MacGowan and Elena MacKinnon (grade 6), Emma Hamlyn and Gabrielle James (grade 5) and Gabriel Shimoon (grade 4).

4.27.2015

Bursary Dinner April 25th ¡México Fantástico!

¡México Fantástico!

What a fantastic and amazing night on Saturday, April 25th.
We are most grateful to our sponsors, donors and volunteers for making our Bursary Dinner such a great success. Stay tuned for the grand total!

Here is a linked to the photos taken by Snapd: click here

Rory Flynn Places 1st at Nationals!

Rory Flynn, Grade 11, has once again placed 1st at the National Debate Tournament -- as she did last year in Grade 10. She and Mattea Roach got to the semi finals as a team. This time is Rory's 32nd 1st place standing...and she still has grade 12 ahead of her!

Congratulations, Rory!

4.23.2015

Victoria Bentley, Class '08, doing Cancer Research!

Sacred Heart graduate, Victoria Bentley, Class of 2008, doing incredible cancer research as a first year medical student. Awesome work, Victoria! She is featured on the front page of The Herald today.

click here for the article.

4.20.2015

Pauline Scott's Retirement Event - May 1st

Dear Sacred Heart Family,

On May 1st, we will be recognizing someone who has served our community for 45 years - Miss Pauline Scott. She will be retiring this summer.

Miss Scott is most humble, and seeks no attention - however, every living alum and current student knows her, every living past parent and faculty member would know her. Her quiet strength and fidelity have bolstered our school. Her hopefulness and hard work center around our five Goals and Criteria. As teacher, Principal, and former Headmistress (twice), she has been a faithful educator of the Sacred Heart - passionately carrying forth the tradition that formed her own mind and heart at Digby-Stuart College in Roehampton, England.

Miss Scott understands that people want to show appreciation, so she has graciously agreed to the establishment of the Pauline M. Scott Bursary Fund. Please join us in thanking her for her tremendous commitment to our students and her service to our school community. (Participate here.)
On May 1st, I hope you will be able to attend our retirement celebration for Miss Pauline Scott - an extraordinary Sacred Heart Educator.

Friday, May 1st, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Sacred Heart High School Gym

R.S.V.P. to Barb Martell at bmartell@shsh.ca

(this is an adult event only)

4.19.2015

Donahoe Cup Debate Tournament

The winners of the Donahoe Cup Debating Tournament held at Sacred Heart School of Halifax this weekend is the team of Rory Flynn and Mattea Roach from Sacred Heart School!

Congratulations once again, girls! Very well done!

Sacred Heart Senior individual ranking:

15th - Andrew Mayo

11th - Anya Freisen

3rd - Catherine Burke

2nd - Mattea Roach

1st - Rory Flynn

4.17.2015

New SHHS Student Council 2015-2016!

Congratulations to the newly elected SHHS

Student Council for 2015-2016.

Sandler, Vice Head; Ailin, Treasurer;

Mia, Secretary; Shannon, Head Girl

Below are the candidates and the voting!

Mi-carême - Acadian Tradition

Mi-carême is an Acadian tradition of dressing up in costumes and celebrating during the Lenten period. The Grade 7 Fountain boys attempted our own version of Mi-carême. We made our own masks in French class and then paraded through the school, spreading joy to all. We visited Mme Sealy's Grade 2 class and Mme Fitzgerald's Grade 4 class, and we had fun trying to guess who was who. Much fun was had by all.

Vive le français!

Seeking a Spirituality & Service Director for September 2015

Sacred Heart School of Halifax is seeking a

Spirituality and Service Director

for September 2015

Click here for the job posting.

ACIS Elementary Badminton Tournament Results

ACIS Elementary School badminton tournament was held here on Wednesday. Congratulations to all of our students who participated, representing our school with honour. Our team placed first. Jackson Bruce was first in boys singles. Ryan Smith and Sam Burke placed first in boys doubles. Sasha Oreskovitch and Rebecca Chipman achieved silver in girls doubles. And Tallulah MacNeil and Sam Barbara placed second in mixed doubles. Kudos to Mr. Griffiths for overseeing all the details of hosting this tournament. (Jackson Bruce is missing from the photo.)

Congratulations to all!

Admissions Open House Today!

Calling all prospective parents and students! Sacred Heart has an Admissions Open House this morning starting at 8:30am. Do drop by the school for a tour. For more information, please contact Robyn Erickson at 902-422-4459.

4.15.2015

SHSH Seeking Science Teacher & Senior High Teacher

Sacred Heart School of Halifax is seeking a Science Teacher/Department Head and a Senior High History Teacher for September 2015.

For full details click here

4.14.2015

Blessing of the Babies & Easter Liturgies

Today, Sacred Heart School hosted the Blessing of the Babies during our Elementary School liturgy. We had seven children and their parents attend and some brought their brothers and sisters along, too! After the Elementary liturgy was held, the high school celebrated an Easter Liturgy as well with Father Charles Offor from Saint Mary's Basilica.

4.13.2015

Seeking a Library & Information Services Manager

Sacred Heart School of Halifax is seeking a Library and Information Services Manager for September 2015.

Click here for a link to the job posting.

LaLa Lee Wins Again!

LaLa Lee, Gr. 10, won the Dr. Piano and Yamaha Canada Piano Rosebowl

last night at Kiwanis.

This comes with a $1,000 award as well.

Congratulations, LaLa!

Sean Ballesteros Wins 1st place In Karate

April 11th was the 2015 ISKF (International Shotokan Karate Federation) NS Provincial Tournament. (Incidentally, the karate class being offered at the Sacred Heart Elementary School on Fridays is also part of the ISKF).

Sean Ballesteros (FA, Gr 8), won 1st place in both "kata" (forms exercise) and "ippon kumite" (basic sparring) competitions in the Adult-Youth Green-Purple Belt division.

Sean started karate last Sep 2013 and plans to continue to train seriously.

Congratulations, Sean!

4.10.2015

North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad

In late January some of our students participated in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Open Round at Dalhousie. Emma McLean, Gr.11, won this round, Maria Samman, Gr.10, placed 2nd, and Hanna Garnier, Gr.12, placed 4th for our region. Emma's results were in the top 10% of the entire Open Round in Canada and the United States (1700 students participated), so this moved her on to the Invitational Round which she wrote on March 12. Emma made it as an alternate for the Canadian Team who will compete in the International Olympiad in Bulgaria in July. Congratulations to Emma, Maria and Hanna!