PARISH VOLUNTEERS

There has been an announcement in the bulletin the last few weeks for new Parish volunteers. To date we have had no one step forward. Now coming out of Lockdown and with the churches reopened, we need even more volunteers. We are very grateful to those who have been there to read and count and clean and sing in years past, but these volunteers have been involved for years and it is time for some new faces.

The church is not the same with just a Parish Priest saying Mass. Readers telling us the stories from the Bible and Eucharist Ministers and faces welcoming us all to Mass whenever we attend. And God willing we will have singing in the church again soon!

We want the Parish here for years to come to celebrate our First Communions, Confirmations, Baptisms, and Weddings; however we only get out of it what we put in. Readings and Eucharist Ministry take place during Mass while we attend, so no additional time is required. Counting can happen in the evening or mornings. It can be arranged during a time that suits our volunteers, and usually only takes an hour every few weeks. COVID volunteers (ushers & track & trace) would only be required when the church opens 15 minutes prior to Mass.

We are asking pretty please, with a cherry on top even, for people to make just a little time for our church. We understand that a lot of people are still being quite cautious in our current COVID climate, but please get in contact if you would be willing to help out in the future. Thank you for your consideration!

Young at Heart, our joint Pre-School Afternoon Club between the Parish of Dundrum/Tyrella and Sacred Heart P.S. were delighted to welcome some Dundrum Development Association (DDA) members to their new outdoor area this afternoon. 

The newly built zone includes an elevated seated reading area, an artificial grass section along with a play-based learning activity part. 

The DDA gave substantial financial backing to the project and this contribution is appreciated by all stakeholders, none more so than the children at Young at Heart and Sacred Heart P.S. who will be availing of the new area. 

We also thank contractor Bobby Murdock and his team for carrying out the development work.

This afternoon our P7 boys and girls celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Sacred Heart Church with Father Fleck conducting the ceremony.

The children were a credit to themselves, their families and their school, such was the level of participation and contribution to the service.

We thank Mr Doyle for preparing the boys and girls for the Sacrament and to all the adults in the school who helped to assist with the day in anyway. Thanks also goes to Eva McAlea, who along with Mr Doyle, provided the music for the occasion.

Well done to all the children. Enjoy the rest of your special day!

Today our P7 boys and girls will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. The ceremony will take place at 3pm in the Sacred Heart Church. For those family and friends who cannot attend along with members of our wider school community, the service can be viewed live on the Parish Webcam.

Our P2 pupil Ruadhán started running a mile a day on the 1st April with the goal of running 30 miles by the day of his 6th birthday on Friday 30th April. The chosen charity that he is fundraising for is the Cancer Fund for Children (Daisy Lodge).

As Ruadhán approaches the last few miles of his total, his P2 classmates decided that they would help him on his quest. So the whole of Miss Kearney’s class joined in as they ran alongside Ruadhán in the school playground this morning with everyone completing a mile. What great camaraderie between all of the P2’s!

Donations can be made to this great charity through Ruadhán’s Just Giving page at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/claire-mcguigan3?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=claire-mcguigan3&utm_campaign=pfp-share&utm_term=5d31306aa4fd4e1582c724e3746cb69d&fbclid=IwAR2xyZTJIApe8_vHFJTUYxCUM0dGUZRM90KYnFRymTAeEhAlk9Iv-S51pCM

#TogetherThroughCancer

Thank you to everyone who applied to Sacred Heart P.S for a P1 place for 2021/22. The application acceptance can be viewed online at: https://pupilservices.eani.org.uk/CitizenPortal_LIVE/en. Please use the email address and password that you used for your initial online application to access it.

A guidance/information letter along with an official acknowledgement of acceptance will be sent out next week to all prospective parents/carers.

Thank you - Mr Mark Fitzsimons (Principal).

Today the P3/P4 class used their PE lesson to learn more about different forms of active travel. Bikes, scooters, go karts and trikes were all utilised as everybody enjoyed navigating their way around tracks and obstacles.

Sustrans Big Pedal began on Monday 19th April and will run to Friday 30th April. All pupils are encouraged to walk, cycle or scoot to school during this period.

Two new born spring lambs hopped and skipped their way into Sacred Heart P.S. today. The school had organised through our staff member Miss Kathleen Milligan, for the lambs to come in from her family farm.

Spring has been a main focus of our weekly school assemblies of late while the P2 class are doing Animals for their World Around Us (WAU) topic and the P3/P4’s are focussing on Food.

With the visit of the lambs tying in with some of our WAU topics, the other classes also got a chance to engage with the lambs and in some instances even feed them. They also ventured over to see the children at Young at Heart as well.

This was a great experience for everyone and one that our children learned a lot from. Thank you again to Kathleen for bringing them in and to the two stars of the show, the duo of lambs themselves!

The P3/P4 class are currently enjoying their new topic: food. The class took part in an activity based learning exercise on Thursday when they got to experience a variety of different mediums related to the topic.

Activities included; writing shopping lists, guess the food, milking the cow, shopkeepers, pizza making, sorting healthy and unhealthy foods, matching the meat to the animal and food colouring.

A great learning opportunity was had by all.