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Term 1 2012
9 February Special Character Assembly 15 February Opening Mass 9am 16 February Athletics Sports, Porritt Stadium 22 February Ash Wednesday 23 February Academic Assembly 23 February Whanau Hui 6-7pm , Puawai (Cook Street Entrance) 24 February Swimming Sports, Waterworld Te Rapa 8.40 am Dear School Community Tena koutou katoa Nga mihi nui ki a koutou Warm greetings to the Sacred Heart Girls' learning community. We are joining with the Mission Sisters as they celebrate 150 years as a congregation. We acknowledge the vision and determination of Euphrasie Barbier that has led to making this Catholic learning community what it is today. We have a positive start for the year with our results. Our key focus last year was to raise the quality of our NCEA results by increasing the percentage of Merits and Excellences. Our preliminary results show that on nearly all of our indicators, we have significantly increased these percentages. Congratulations to all the hard work of both our staff and students. Congratulations to the following students:- Four Year 10 students, Mereana Te Tuhi-Fisher, Jazmine Tamaiparea, Raven Priestley and Waiaria Putaranui-Henderson attended a Youth Summit at Turangawaewae organised by Te Wananga o Aotearoa with approximately 80 other students (Nov 15-17th).
Congratulations to Mereana and we wish her well in her role this year. The following students have had writing selected to be published in a book of writing by Young New Zealanders. Glyn Strange the editor of the book has said of previous editions of the Re-Draft series that this writing is “a benchmark for the state of creative writing in this country at this time”.
The following students participated in the Junior Shakespeare Competition held at Hillcrest High on the 13th of November. Lia Hockly Lia and Devon were awarded Best Ensemble for their performance from Macbeth. Lia was also awarded Best Actress in a Tragedy. Lisette Reymer was photographed recently at the NZ Herald Awards for The best of New Zealand's future journalists, writers and artists.
The following students were successful in the recent NZ Economics Competition administered by the University of Auckland. Congratulations to them both. Shay Nobilo, Year 9, has had her creative writing "The Day I Stopped Taking Life for Granted" published in the College Herald on 4 October 2011 which is a supplement of the NZ Herald on a Tuesday. Student writing and art work is published every week for 20 weeks on a weekly theme or a general theme. She has won $100 JB HIFi voucher for being published as one of 20 pieces of student work for the week. 
Sarah Lewis , Year 9, has also had a photograph, "Steps to the Heavens," published in this edition of the College Herald. This is the third week in a row for publication by Sarah. She has had another photograph and a poem published. She has now won a total of $300 for having works published in the College Herald this year.
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