Sacred Heart School of Halifax

4.10.2015

CTV Interviews Mattea Roach & Rory Flynn

CTV's Sarah Richie interviewed Mattea Roach and Rory Flynn about their recent debate competition in Oxford's School Debate Tournament in Oxford, England.

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Background from an earlier post:

On March 15, 2015, the Sacred Heart team of Rory Flynn and Mattea Roach made history (again) becoming the first Canadian team to final at the Oxford Union in the Oxford Schools Debating tournament. Debating against about 90 schools from England, Scotland and Wales they elbowed their way into the final round, beating 89 other teams before losing in the finals to last year’s winners from Dulwich College.

On March 22, 2015, Rory Flynn placed 1st at the Durham Schools debating competition – the largest residential schools debating competition in the world. We are so proud at Sacred Heart of these girls!!!

Sacred Heart Students in Provincial Children's Chorus of Nova Scotia

Three of our Sacred Heart students have been preparing for a performance this weekend as part of the provincial Children's Chorus of Nova Scotia. They are Emma Nicholson-Krupp (Grade 5), Kelly Page (Grade 6) and Isaac Djogbenou (Grade 7).

They have already attended a regional rehearsal with over 80 other students who live nearby to Halifax. This weekend they have two full days of rehearsal on Friday and Saturday along with over 180 students (Grade 4-9) selected from choirs from across the province. The big concert is on Sunday April 12th, 3 pm at the United Memorial Church on Kaye St. Tickets are $15 on the door.

Emma, Kelly and Isaac have shown great commitment to this event, memorizing 7 choral pieces, most of which are in other languages such as Norwegian, Spanish and Japanese. Most of the songs are in 2 and 3 part harmony, and some have choreography to remember also!

The students will also be working with a guest international conductor, Zimfira Poloz, who teaches vocal Pedagogy for Young Choirs at the University of Toronto, and is the current Artistic Director for the Young Voices of Toronto and the Hamilton Children's Choir. This event is organized by the Nova Scotia Choral Federation.

We wish you luck!

4.07.2015

Back to the 80s Musical April 9, 10, 11!

Come join us for a fantastic musical...

presented by the Sacred Heart School of Halifax

Thursday, April 9 at 7:30pm (Gala Night)
Friday, April 10 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 11 at 2pm & 7:30pm

Tickets: $15 for Gala Night
Other nights: $10 and $8 students/seniors

Call 902-422-4459

Click here for the poster and the synopsis of the show.

Student Review in The Herald April 9, 2015

Lala Lee Wins NSYO Competition

Congratulations to Sacred Heart student, Lala Lee!

Lala won the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra Concerto

Competition 2015-2016.

She will perform a solo concerto with NSYO in Nov. 2015.

This is a great accomplishment.

3.31.2015

Anisha Rajaselvam Comes First in Interprovincial Dictée!

The Grade Five and Six classes participated in a French dictée program to raise money for developing francophone countries. This year, the focus of the money being raised was for education in these countries. One of the dictée's written was a competition at the school level. Anisha Rajaselvam, Gr. 6, came in first for the school. She then wrote a regional dictée (N.S., P.E.I., NL) and she came in first for that dictée as well.

This means she now moves up to the international dictée which will be held in Montreal in May. What she has achieved is quite an honour and no easy feat. It is the same program for which Sacred Heart student, William Ryan, came first in last year.

It is fantastic that a student from Sacred Heart has come in first for two years in a row!

Congratulations, Anisha!

Grade 9 Egg Drop Competition - National Engineering Month!

In celebration of National Engineering Month, the grade 9 students from SHHS and FASH participated in an Egg Drop Competition that was held in the FASH gym on Monday, March 30. Mr. Jobb, grade 9 science teacher from FASH, and Mrs. Bekkers, grade 9 teacher from SHHS, grouped students into teams of four. The teams were given the task of designing an apparatus around an egg such that the egg would stay intact when dropped from a 10-foot ladder. Students were given a supply list and a limited budget of $20,000 (fake money) that they could use to purchase these supplies.

The winning team members, with the only uncracked egg, were Hannah Baillie, Molly MacInnes, Ava Bampton and Arshan Keyghobadi. Special thanks to Mae Seto and Marcel Lefrancois, current SHSH parents and professional engineers, who volunteered to help organize and run this event for our students.