Sacred Heart P.S. strives to be environmentally aware and active. Therefore we opted to take part in Recycle Week.

Throughout the school, each class participated in presentations, discussions and research linked to the theme of recycling.

It was great to see litter picks taking place around the village as well as new items being created from a range of recyclable materials.

Elections took place throughout this past week and now we can proudly announce our Eco Council for the academic year 2021/22.

P1 - Fionn and Aliaith
P2 - Annie and Declan Óg
P3 - Casey and Austin
P4 - April and Darragh 
P5 - Cara and Kasey
P6 - Kayden and Effie 
P7 - Mikaela and Niall

This group are very keen to get meeting to plan for new initiatives for the school year ahead. Miss Crozier will oversee the Eco Council this year.

Elections took place throughout this past week and now we can proudly announce our Student Council for the academic year 2021/22.

P1 - Sophie and Hugh
P2 - Eilish and Cailie
P3 - Isla and Cahal
P4 - Niamh and Elsie
P5 - Lorcan and Freya
P6 - Oisin and Eimear 
P7 - Niamh and Martin 

An AGM will be held in the next few weeks with a chairperson and secretary to be elected. Mr McCartan will oversee the Student Council this year.

The Principal’s Award this week went to P5 pupil Lorcan. Lorcan sets a shining example in class with his work ethic and determination to succeed in everything that he does. He is a great friend to everyone and an all round brilliant pupil. 

Well done Lorcan!

It was with great pleasure that we announced this morning at our online assembly, our very deserving Pupil of the Week winners:

P1 - James
P2 - Cailie
P3 - Isla S
P4 - Isla T
P5 - Christopher 
P6 - Caitlin 
P7 - Martin

Well done to you all!

- Monday 27th September to Friday 1st October -

Next week is Bike to School Week. Your child/children are welcome to cycle their bicycles to school. Please ensure that your child’s bike is safe to cycle on before they take part. Please also ensure that your child gets to school safely on their bikes and gets home safely too. Scooting to school is encouraged as well!

If your child/children are cycling to school, please ensure that they;

· Ride sensibly and safely and to follow the Highway Code.

· Wear a helmet at all times whilst cycling to and from school.

· Ensure they can be seen by other road users, by using bicycle lights and wearing high visibility clothing, as appropriate.

We will also be welcoming John Ross from Ross Cycles to the school on Thursday for Dr Bike Day. John will be able to look at all the bikes and fix any issues with them.

There will be a competition running next week in conjunction with the event. Details can be found at https://www.sustrans.org.uk/.../bike-to-school-week-pledge/. Submitting the form will enter you into our prize draw to win a Frog Bike worth up to £400.

Thanks.

Sacred Heart P.S. were fully participant in National Coding Week 2021. Using the vast range of coding based equipment and resources that we have here in school, the boys and girls got to experience a wide range of coding activities and challenges.

Beebot robots were used for sequencing, estimation, problem solving and just having fun! 

Scratch was enjoyed as the children got to program their own interactive stories, games and animations. Thinking creatively, reasoning systematically and working collaboratively were skills built upon.

The Spheros were a great tool for creating the outline of shapes, programming the ‘bots to navigate a maze and even for a game of football!

Some classes also engaged with Lightbot. A very entertaining game app whose mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels.

One class thought outside the box and completed some offline coding tasks. Here, the basic principles of metacognition, problem solving and abstract thinking were all to the fore.

#NationalCodingWeek
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This school year 2021/22 will see a new format for our monthly school newsletter. It will now be in an online format, utilising Microsoft Sway.

This week, the boys and girls from P1 to P7 got involved in some healthy competition to see who could come up with the name of our new newsletter.

There were a lot of tremendous suggestions but the winning name came from a collective effort from the P4 class. We are now proud to announce that the first edition of ‘Heart Beat’ will be launched on Thursday 30th September!

This week a very deserving Padraig from P4 was given the Principal’s Award for an excellent contribution to discussions during talking and listening as well as superb use of mental maths strategies throughout the week. 

Well done Padraig!

All of the children in Sacred Heart P.S. are settling in well as our school year enters mid September. Today we were delighted to announce our special Pupil of the Week winners:

P1 - Lorcan
P2 - Eoin
P3 - Charley
P4 - Niamh 
P5 - Cara
P6 - Effie
P7 - Mikaela

Well done to you all!