Physics 11 Wave Machines Shared with Elementary School

Sacred Heart High School Physics 11 made wave machines to investigate how changes in the medium change the wave. We also had visitors from the elementary school. Thank you to Jennifer MacDougall, Warren Kane, and Veronica Chipman for taking the time to visit and celebrate our learning.

FA Students Showcase ROV at Professional Conference

Fountain Academy's Underwater ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Team was invited to showcase their work at the 28th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering at Halifax's World Trade and Convention Center this week. This year's National conference was centered around the theme ‘Electrical and Computer Engineering - Celebrating 30 Years of Ocean Frontiers’ and brought together industry leaders in the field. The boys were invited due to their Second Place performance at this year's provincial competition and for their Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award. As the only youth representatives, the boys were able to showcase their work and network with industry professionals. They did their school proud!

Spring Time at Sacred Heart!

After a very long winter with lots of snow and ice, the weather is getting better and Spring is in the air and at Sacred Heart!  Some of the shots today around the outside of the school.

Principal of Fountain Academy of the Sacred Heart Comments about a Retirement

The message below was written by Mr. Robert Marchand, Principal of Fountain Academy of the Sacred Heart, about the retirement of a colleague.

My colleague, Pauline Scott, was honoured this past week on the occasion of her retirement. It was a beautiful event full of heartfelt tributes from her students and colleagues.  To say that Pauline is an institution at Sacred Heart would be stating the obvious for most, but I’m sure there are a few of you who may not know the extent of the impact she has had.

St Philippine Duchesne, another great Sacred Heart educator, was known by the Potawatomi tribe in the upper Mississippi region as “the woman who always prays”. Pauline is known here as “the woman who always works”. I arrive at school earlier than most almost every day, and some days I have arrived very early indeed, but I have never arrived before Pauline.  Similarly I am often in the building quite late for one event or another, but never later that Pauline.  Her stamina is legendary.

But it’s not simply her indefatigability that sets her apart from any other educators I have had the privilege to work with.  It is her other virtues that truly set her apart, and in fact they are many of the same virtues that I talk about with the boys of Fountain Academy.  Pauline is steadfastly loyal, uncommonly compassionate, pathologically humble, and a woman of great faith.  But the virtue that stands out the most is her integrity.  She is a woman whose great strength is derived from an understanding that one’s word is central to one’s worth, and that while flexibility is important, one’s core values should never be compromised. That is what I admire most about her, and why she inspires such loyalty from those around her.

On Friday night, Pauline came to the microphone to speak after an outpouring of love and admiration for her, and she stated in her characteristically humble fashion that the evening had turned into more of a canonization than a tribute.  She was right, it had. But I can’t imagine that the evening could have gone any other way.  It’s not a stretch to say that in the years to come Pauline will be spoken of in the same tones we reserve for Madeline Sophie Barat and Janet Erskine Stuart; all are women of exceptional commitment and remarkable impact.

While I listened to her speak that night, surrounded by hundreds of people whose lives she had touched, I was distinctly aware that there were more than a thousand women somewhere else in the world who had the trajectory of their lives altered by her and who were in turn affecting the trajectory of thousands more.  Who could ask more from a career than that?

Over 500 Alumnae, Parents and Staff Attend Pauline Scott's Retirement Event!

On Friday, May 1st, Sacred Heart School of Halifax held an amazing retirement event for Pauline Scott an extraordinary educator who is retiring after educating young women for many years.  Parents, faculty, staff, Religious of the Sacred Heart, including the Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart in Rome and a General Council member, Board members, alumnae, past faculty, past parents, neighbours and friends attended the event including her brother and sister-in-law from England.

We thank Pauline for her tremendous dedication to Sacred Heart School of Halifax and we wish her well when she retires at the end of June.

Sacred Heart School of Halifax established the Pauline M. Scott Bursary in honour of Pauline and to date has received over $130,000.  If you would like to make a donation to this bursary in her name, you can do so by going online or by sending a cheque made out to the Sacred Heart School of Halifax at 5820 Spring Garden Rd., Halifax, NS  B3H 1X8.  This named bursary is open to donations at any time.  Thank you!