We have very quickly arrived at the final week for Term 1.  All good things must come to an end and Term One has been very, very good. We will have managed to fill every day of the term with lots of positive experiences and the final two weeks are no exception. Last week we had a plethora of sport ranging from Rugby to Touch Football trials to CCC Swimming to Rugby League trials to our annual Cross Country Carnival. A huge thank you to the Cootamundra Golf Course for allowing us, to once again, use the beautiful facilities so that our students could complete the course in safety. More about our sporting triumphs and efforts in the Sports Report. We held the first of our Parent Teacher Student Interviews on Thursday and will continue these this Tuesday 8 April. Please log onto COMPASS to make your bookings asap before they close later tonight. The 2025 Mock Trial team also competed for the first time and came away with a well-deserved win against The Riverina Anglican College in Wagga. This is no mean feat when you consider that the Wagga school has such a large population. Thank you to Ms Potter who has helped prepare the team for their first trial. Well done to Alexis Day, Henry Fry, Matilda Lewis, Declan Emery, Makayla Whicker and Maddie Hourn. Thank you also to Mr Hugh Smith who generously travelled to Cootamundra to be the magistrate for the trial. It was our pleasure to have him share his expertise and experience. Thank you to the local library who made the Stephen Wards available for us to use.

This week we will be conducting many assessments to finish the term and we still require students to be present every day to complete all the learning tasks. As we close the term on Thursday please ensure that all absences have been explained. We apologise that in some cases we have experienced issues with saving the roll marking, and erroneous messages have been sent about absences that were not in fact absences. If you could please respond that they were in fact present that helps us to amend our records. We do apologise for this extra step. We are trying to make sure that the rolls are marked and saved correctly.

Today our Infants students, with the aid of their parents, families and other helpers, made their fabulous Easter Hats for the annual Easter Hat parade on Wednesday. This is always a highlight of the year for Infants students and they love creating marvelous hats for display. If you are able to join us on Wednesday at 2.30pm in the Infants Playground.

On Wednesday we will be holding our next Uniform Free Day to raise funds to donate to our Community Soup Kitchen. This is an important way that our students learn to give back to our local community to help others less fortunate than themselves by contributing a gold coin. The dress theme is “Footy Colours” and there is sure to be a vast array of different football teams and codes represented.

On Thursday we will have the privilege of watching the 2025 Year 9 presentation of The Passion Play. This is a long-standing tradition of performing the Passion of Christ to prayerfully tell the Easter Story. Thank you to Ms Wade and Mrs Maxwell for their Leadership of this event. They continue a proud tradition that has been running for well over 30 plus years. Sr Kathy was the original inspiration for providing this prayerful experience.  In keeping with the significance of the story the presentation traditionally contains stylized violence and loud noises. It is an emotionally representation of the last days of Jesus’ life. In preparation for the performance Religious Education classes are taken through the story of Holy Week. If you have any concerns please raise them with your class teacher. The school community presentation is on Thursday 10 April at 10am in the Sacred Heart Church. We will conclude the day with our community whole school tabloid afternoon. Thank you to Mercy house for their organization. All students are permitted to wear sports uniform to participate in the tabloids.

A reminder that this Friday is a pupil free day. Our staff will be on site completing professional development to improve outcomes for our students and plan and prepare for Term 2. Please keep the students at home. We thank all our students and their families for their efforts this term and we look forward to another fabulous term. Have a fabulous break and stay safe.

Remember if you have to choose between being extraordinary or being kind…..be extraordinarily kind!

God Bless

Ms Nicky Trinder

Principal

Stage 3 Science & Technology

In Science and Technology, our Stage 3 students enjoyed making a Solar Oven and experimenting with melting chocolate through creating energy. 

SHC Cross Country

Thank you to the staff, students, and parents who helped to make the Cross Country a successful event. The enthusiasm and participation were lovely to see as we wind down a very busy term.

Congratulations to the students who will progress through to the Western Region level for Primary and the Canberra Goulburn level for Secondary. These students will be informed of their success very soon.

2025 Results

Full results - click HERE

Spirit Cup Attendance

1st - De La Salle - 81% attendance

2nd - O'Shaughnessy - 74% attendance

3rd - Mercy - 73% attendance

76% attendance overall

Cross Country Champion House

1st - Mercy - 317.083 points

2nd - De La Salle - 316.833 points

3rd - O’Shaughnessy - 282.083 points

Primary Sport

CG Soccer

Good Luck to; Ella Sannazzaro, Ava Sannazzaro, Lachlan Cram, Leo Sutherland, Chase Evans, Harry Schofield and Joshua Knewstub Who will head to Canberra on Monday for the CG soccer trials. 

CG Rugby League trails.

Well done to Archie Byrne who represented Sacred Heart in Canberra last Monday. Archie had a great day making it to the possible probable game. Well done Archie. 

WR Cross Country

Congratulations to those students who qualified for the WR Cross Country. You will have a COMPASS event shortly. Western region cross country is on Friday week one in Batlow. 

Rugby 10s

Thank you to all the parents and families that came to Harden on Tuesday to support our Rugby teams. A special thanks to Chris Friend and Scott Byrne for coaching the boys on the day. Thank you to the parents that took students and Mrs Winsor for being the teacher attending. If you have any action shots please send them to me and I will put them into the newsletter. 

MacKillop Swimming

Well done to our swimmers. There were many great swims and PBs made.

Zoe Lake came 4th overall in the senior girls Backstroke with a time of 38.26, 2 seconds faster than her seeded time. 7th overall in the senior girls Butterfly with a time of 36.20, 1 second faster than her seeded time. 8th overall in the open 100m Freestyle with a time of 1:14.92, 3 seconds faster than her seeded time. 

Ella Sannazzaro came 13th overall in the 50m junior girls breaststroke with a time of 56.16, 16th overall in the 50m junior girls Butterfly with a time of 59.95

Henry Manwaring came 13th overall in the 8yr boys 50m freestyle with a time of 50.48, seconds faster than his seeded time. 

Fletcher Gammon came 4th overall in the 8yr boys 50 freestyle with a time of 40.98, 7 seconds faster than his seeded time. 

Our junior boys relay team, Connor Winsor, Fletcher Gammon, Campbell Hardie and Jack Hazlett came 16th overall with a time of 3:01:23, 5 seconds faster than their seeded time.

Senior girls relay team, Zoe Lake, Ava Sannazzaro, Olivia Cassidy, Juliet Daley came 15th overall with a time of 2:42:60, 2 seconds faster than their seeded time. 

Mortimer Shield/Trent Barrett

This year both stage two/three league/league tag days will be held on the same day. This will be on the 8th of May in Junee. There will be a bus made available for students who need transport. Please give permission for this event though COMPASS. If you are able to assist on the day please complete the questions on the compass event. 

C & G Sporting Representatives

This program is an opportunity for our stage 3 students to trial and represent their sport at a higher level. It is up to parents to register for these events. Please go to https://csnsw.sport/sports/nswccc to register for any of these events. Please feel free to join the Canberra Goulburn Facebook page and access their calendar by this link. 

Athletics

Our SHC Athletics carnival is again set for early term 2, therefore we will start trialling and learning how to perform some of these events from week 6 this term. These will include, High Jump, Discus, Long Distance running, Long Jump and Shot Put. The top 8-10 students for High Jump and Discus will compete on the day. Students will be given the opportunity to practise and improve on these throughout the weeks.

If you have any photos from any event please email them through and we will put them in the newsletter next week.

If you have any concerns or questions please don’t hesitate to contact me via email

Kind regards

Wendy Van Kerk Oerle

Primary sports coordinator

wendy.vankerkoerle@cg.catholic.edu.au

Secondary Sport

CECG and Wagga Wagga U15 Boys and U18s Boys and Girls Touch

Well done to Jett Johnson, Zane Lange who trialled for the U15s CG/Wagga Touch team and Willow Hall who trialled for the U18s CG/Wagga Touch team.

Congratulations to Willow Hall for making the team. She will join Sophie Boxsell and Sophie Sannazaro (U15 Girls CG Touch Team) at the NSWCCC trials in Term 2.

NSWCCC Swimming

Well done to Halle Johnson and Sam Savanah for representing Canberra Goulburn Diocese at the NSWCCC Swimming.

Sam swam in the:

50m Breaststroke - 16th place 41.29 (PB)

Halle swam in the:

100m Backstroke - 3rd place 1:10.99 (4 second PB) - progresses to NSW All Schools

50m Freestyle - 5th place 28.69 (PB)

50m Backstroke - 2nd place 32.25 (PB) - progresses to NSW All Schools

50m Butterfly - 7th place 31.48 (PB)

100m Freestyle - 5th place 1:03.22 (PB)

Congratulations to Halle for her Silver and Bronze medals and for making the NSWCCC team to compete at the NSW All Schools Swimming Championships in May.