2025 Term 3 Week 2
Principal Report
As we move into the second half of the year, Term 3 is shaping up to be a busy and exciting one for our school community.
Teachers have been engaging in professional development around the administration of DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills), a research-based assessment tool that supports students in becoming successful readers. This marks an important step in tracking and supporting literacy growth across our classrooms.
We’re also pleased to share that this year’s NAPLAN results have been released and are available for collection from the school office.
Our staff will travel to Charleville on Monday, 28th July for the Bishop's Inservice Day, a valuable opportunity for professional learning and collaboration with colleagues from across the Diocese. Please note that there will be no school on this day.
This event marks the beginning of Catholic Education Week, which will culminate in a special liturgy on Friday, 1st August. To continue the celebrations, we will host an Open Morning, where both existing and prospective families are warmly invited to visit and see learning in action across our classrooms.
Sport is also a major focus this term, and we’re looking forward to our Athletics Carnival on Wednesday, 30th July. Due to ongoing work on our school oval, this year’s carnival will be held at Cunnamulla State School. We encourage all families to come along and support our students as they give their best on the track and field.
Thank you for your continued support as we work together to make this term a positive and enriching experience for all students. We look forward to sharing more highlights with you in the weeks ahead.
Mrs Cara Haig
Principal
Have Your Say in Shaping our Future!
We warmly invite all parents and carers to take part in the Shaping our future – Perception Survey. This short 5-to-10-minute survey is your chance to share your thoughts and help guide the future of our school and the 31 others in the Toowoomba Catholic Schools community.
Your voice matters – and we’d love to hear it! Check your email for the survey link and be sure to complete it by Wednesday, 6 August 2025.
Classroom Snapshots
Prep with Miss Ball
This week, our Prep students began a new unit exploring families. Through class discussions, they’ve shared stories about their loved ones and reflected on what family means to them. We’ve read picture books such as Koala Lou and Our Class is a Family, which highlight the many ways families are formed. Students have made thoughtful connections between these stories and their own experiences. As part of the unit, students have created family portraits, which are displayed on our classroom family tree. The Prep students are looking forward to continuing this unit and celebrating the important role families play in our lives.
Preps will be celebrating 100 Days of Learning in their classroom this Thursday, July 24th!
They are invited to dress as their favourite superhero.
Year 1 with Miss Charlton
Welcome back for Term3! I hope you all had a relaxing and enjoyable break. This week the Year 1 students began exploring their first HASS topic. We will be looking at natural, managed and constructed features of the environment. We learnt what each of these words mean, which has helped us understand what they would look like in our own environments.
Year 2 with Mr Smith
Year 2 have started the term strong with great enthusiasm this week! We are learning the Jump Strategy in Maths to help with addition and subtraction learning. We are also focusing on writing better sentences and will continue to develop this skill as the term progresses. It will be exciting to see how they progress in their writing this year.
Year 3/4 with Miss Carter
Welcome back to term 3! We’re thrilled to see our wonderful Grade 3/4 students back and ready to dive into another exciting term of learning. This term in English, our focus is on teaching and exploring high-quality sentence construction—and our students are already rising to the challenge with enthusiasm and creativity! From crafting detailed descriptions to experimenting with sentence structure, they’ve done an amazing job so far, and we can't wait to see their skills continue to flourish.
Year 5/6 with Miss Walker
In English, we have a new class novel Runt by Craig Silvey which is set in outback NSW and follows the story of a young girl and her dog. In Math, our major focus this term will be on multiplication and division. As well as this, we will be looking into factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers. In HASS and History, we will be discovering births and Irish migration to Australia.
Extra Curricular Activities
Our extra-curricular activities resume in Week 2!
- Monday – Chess Club – 3-4pm Library (Years 4-6 welcome)
- Tuesday – Instrumental Music Lessons Online
- Wednesday - Run Club - 7.30am (Years 2-6 welcome)
- Thursday – Choir Practice – 8am Year 1 Classroom (All welcome)
Birthdays
We have a lot of students who celebrated birthdays over the holidays, or in the first two weeks of this term. Happy Birthday to the following staff and students!
Kelsie-Lee Mitchell - July 3rd; Riley Thompson - July 7th; Frankie Dunsdon - July 9th; Issak Breed - July 9th; Clive Cullen - July 12th; Kyella Jordan - July 13th; James Hanbidge - July 14th; Natasha King - July 16th; Lake Wilson - July 16th; Claudia Land - July 19th; Grace O'Sullivan - July 24th.
Mrs Haig - July 6th and Mrs Allan - July 14th
Class Awards
Uniform Policy
The school uniform represents the pride we have for our children and our school. A smart, neat and user-friendly uniform encourages the children to take pride in their appearance and in the school. The school uniform requirements:
Hats: Our school policy is ‘NO HAT – NO PLAY’. A green school hat must be worn and can be purchased form the office.
Jewellery: The only jewellery allowed is one set of fine studs or sleepers, a chain with some form of religious significance and watches.
Nail Polish: Nail polish is not to be worn.
Hair: Children’s hair must be neat and tidy. If hair is below the collar it needs to be tied back with appropriate white or green accessories. It is expected that hairstyles reflect the code of dress required by the school. The colouring of hair and unusual hairstyles are not acceptable.
Tuition Fees
School Fees will be sent home this week, please pay by Friday 12th September 2025. At Sacred Heart, we have several payment options for your convenience: Cash, Cheque, ETPOS, Direct Debit and Centrepay. For further details on these payment options please see the school office.
Student Protection
At Sacred Heart the safety and wellbeing of our students is our highest priority. All children should grow up free of violence or exploitation and be able to learn in a safe and supported environment. Schools have a number of specific child protection reporting obligations that are detailed in our Student Protection Processes and Guidelines.
It is a legislative requirement that all non-state schools have at least two nominated staff members to whom a student can report the behaviour of another staff member that the student considers inappropriate. We call these specially trained staff members School Student Protection Contacts, or SSPCs. Each SSPC has been nominated by the principal in recognition of their integrity, approachability and knowledge in the area of student protection. Whilst students are encouraged to speak up to any trusted adult in the school community, it is important that they know they can access these specific staff members at any time should they have worries, queries or concerns. You will have noticed posters throughout the school depicting our current SSPCs. The SSPCs are also published on our school website along with information about our student protection processes. In everything we do at Sacred Heart Primary School student safety is our highest priority, therefore the SSPCs at our school are key personnel in our overall safeguarding processes.
If a student wants to talk to someone about harm, abuse or inappropriate behaviour toward themselves or others, they can speak to a trusted staff member or one of our School Student Protection Contacts (SSPCs). The SSPCs receive additional training and are identified in the student protection posters displayed around the school.
Summary documents have been developed for parents and caregivers about our student protection obligations and our broader strategy for maintaining safe school environments.
Further information on all of the above topics can be found on the Toowoomba Catholic Schools website at the link below:
Embed Link - https://www.twb.catholic.edu.au/parents-and-community/student-protection/
Our Schools Student Protection Contacts are:
- Mrs Carolyn Crick (Administration Officer)
- Mrs Cara Haig (Principal)
What's On
With so much happening at the school, we have multiple ways to keep you updated on upcoming events and important dates.
Our newsletters are now available on the SZapp app. Please install it to stay informed! A revised version of the newsletter will be sent home with students every week.
We also post regularly on Facebook and share information for the coming week every Sunday.
Tuckshop
Tuckshop is open on Fridays.
You can order and pay for lunches via the Flexischools app anytime before 8.45am on Friday morning.
Simply download the Flexischools app from the Apple or Google store and follow the prompts to create an account. Once set up, click “Order Food” to place your order and pay.
Important Dates
