Come join us for our annual Bursary Fundraising Dinner at The Lord Nelson Hotel on South Park St. Tickets are $95.00 per person. Tables of 8 or 10 are available. Early bird draw for those who buy a table of 8 or 10 by March 22nd. Prize: 6:00 p.m. wine reception at the school for table with Sr. Wachter prior to event.
Call 422-4459 for tickets or purchase tickets online at shsh.fundraiserorders.com
Come and enjoy French Cuisine, silent and live auction and a dance!
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2.28.2013
2.26.2013
Alexander Sapp to Represent Canada at Youth Worlds in Cyprus!
Alexander Sapp, Gr. 11 at Fountain Academy of the Sacred Heart, and his partner Jake Megaffin race a 2 person sailboat called a 420. In August, they placed third at Youth Nationals in Gimli, Manitoba. They recently completed a regatta in Jensen Beach, Florida, where competitors from Canada and USA made up a fleet of 76 boats. They placed 11th, top Canadian boys, and qualified to represent Canada at Youth Worlds in Cyprus this July 11-20, 2013.
2.25.2013
Senior Sharks Move on To Provincials
The Senior Sharks earned themselves a place at the provincial championships this coming weekend by taking down the stiff competition at qualifiers this past weekend. The boys played with honour and acquitted themselves like gentlemen.
They play Pugwash on Thursday at 6 pm at Sommet, and would appreciate all of the fan support they can get. Stay tuned to the calendar and @FAathletics on twitter for reports on their progress and upcoming games.
They play Pugwash on Thursday at 6 pm at Sommet, and would appreciate all of the fan support they can get. Stay tuned to the calendar and @FAathletics on twitter for reports on their progress and upcoming games.
Science Fair Winners Honoured
Elementary Update 2/21
We were blessed to have
author/singer/drummer/Poet Laureate Shauntay Grant with us all day
Tuesday. In our morning assembly she
performed three of her books and a funky rap of childhood memories. She encouraged all of us, especially the
resistant writers, to imagine “What if…?” to get the ideas flowing.
Shauntay made special appearances in
Junior Primary and Senior Primary, where students spontaneously got up and
danced to the beat of her rhythms and rhymes.
Selected students in grades 4, 5, and 6 participated in special writing
workshops with the inspiring African Nova Scotia artist.
Next week, we continue our celebration
of African Heritage Month with a special presentation by the Maritime Centre of
African Dance. We are richer and more
enlightened when we experience the diversity of culture in this city… And for our children, and folks like Shauntay
Grant, The City Speaks in Drums!
Stand,
you’ve been sitting much too long
There’s
a permanent crease in your right and wrong
Stand,
there’s a midget standing tall
And
a giant beside him about to fall
-
Sly
Stone
Jr. High Provincial Debating Tournament Results!
Brian Casey, our Sacred Heart Debating Coach, is pleased to report on the results of yesterday’s Junior High Provincials which were held at Middleton Regional High School.
Three teams from Sacred Heart and two from Fountain competed; all acquitted themselves very well.
The Sacred Heart "A" team of Rory Flynn, Anya Friesen and Catherine Burke successfully defended the provincial title, defeating a team from Halifax Grammar School.
In addition, our Sacred Heart "C" team of Maria Samman, Emma McLean and Robin Short were 5th and our Fountain Academy team of Aristides Milios, Andy Samman and Robert Sapp were 6th and the Fountain Academy "B" team of Keegan Martin, Torsten Sinclair and David Sapp were 11th. Our Sacred Heart "B" team, of Sarah Bjornson and Sophie Moryto, lost a member Saturday morning to sickness and so placed 13th despite strong individual performances by Sarah and Sophie.
In individual results, our students captured 9 of the top 18 spots:
This was easily Robin Short’s best tournament, and I anticipate that it contributes to family harmony that the Sammans tied for 14th spot. Aristides and Andy who always vie for top spot from Fountain were only 4/100ths apart.
It is gratifying to see some of our debaters move up the standings as they prepare for larger responsibilities in the coming year. There are so many things to get right in a debate – content, rebuttal, delivery – that it typically takes two years for a student to get everything to gel. Our top 9 debaters have all been doing it for two years or more (except for Emma McLean who seems to have figured it all out in record time).
Nova Scotia sends an 8 person delegation to the Junior High Nationals in Vancouver in May. The team is usually made up of the top 8 students from the junior high provincials.
As a result of the tournament, Rory and Anya will represent Nova Scotia at that event, along with students from the Grammar School, Truro Junior and Middleton.
Catherine Burke, as the 6th place student, would have qualified to attend but Nova Scotia’s rules provide that only two students can go from each school. We are hoping Nova Scotia will be offered an additional spot and Catherine will qualify for that opening (which is not subject to the restriction).
Our participation in the tournament was made possible by the volunteers who cheerfully got up at 6am to drive the debaters to Middleton. My thanks to Heidi Sapp, Maya Churbaji, Denise MacDonell and Kathryn Bjornson.
We are required to supply judges to be able to participate in the event and I thank on behalf of the participating debaters Meaghan Carlson, Clarissa Brisseau, Patricia Donnelly, Andrew Aven Gillis, Heidi Sapp, Maya Churbaji, Denise MacDonell and Kathryn Bjornson.
We hope to get some of our debaters back on their feet for the Donahoe Cup, which we host at the school April 13 and 14th. More details about that in the weeks to come.
2.15.2013
Elementary Update 2/14
"There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done, nothing you can sing that can’t be sung, nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game – it’s easy."
There has been a lot of doing and singing this week. We’ve been celebrating kindness, friendship, and love in colourful ways. And, for the record, according to some of our younger boys, tough guys do wear pink!
Amidst the busy-ness of Open House preparation, we have taken the time to stop and come together as a community of faith. Yesterday, we entered into the journey of Lent with a somber and moving Ash Wednesday Liturgy. I would like to share yesterday’s Prayers of the Faithful with you because the message resonates so well with us here and now in all that we strive to do and be:
That all of us try to follow Jesus’ example, we pray to the Lord.
Take My hand and walk with Me.
That we try to help people who need friends and are lonely, we pray to the Lord.
Take My hand and walk with Me.
That we try our best to be kind to each other in words and actions, we pray to the Lord.
Take My hand and walk with Me.
That we say we are sorry when we hurt one another, we pray to the Lord.
Take My hand and walk with Me.
That we try to be peacemakers in school and at recess, we pray to the Lord.
Take My hand and walk with Me.
Celebrating Children’s Art
The inaugural, now First Annual, Sacred Heart Elementary School Art Show was a raging success because of to the hard work and dedication of our students and teachers. I want to send particularly loud thank yous out to D’Arcy Wilson, Barbara-Ann O’Halloran, Janet Gray, Nicole Ferguson & Sharon Bennet for their tireless dedication to this important cause. Of course, we would be nowhere without the artistic vision and talents of our student artists, musicians, and ambassadors. Thank you all for coming out and bringing your friends. We will do this again…
Open House this Sunday
We open our doors to the public on Sunday afternoon for our annual open house. Presentations, activities, and displays from Junior Primary all the way up to grade 12 are designed for you. Open House runs from 1:00 until 4:00 p.m., but elementary school student activities should conclude by 3:00 p.m.
For those new to our school, all elementary students attend Open House in dress uniform, starting at 1:00 p.m.
Please make sure your child is primped and punctual. Thank you.
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road
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