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Art Festival



On Wednesday the 6th of December the whole school participated in the annual arts festival.

The show was based on the story of the ' The Match Girl ' and also included the Nativity Play.

The preparation for the show was exhausting, but interesting we had many parts to fulfill but that wasn't so hard with all the talented students at Sacred Heart. 



The juniors were the animals, angels and shepherds. They sang joyfully and with pride. The middle school were the wise men and the poor children. They sang with enthusiasm and looked the part with there amazing costume and face paint. And finally the seniors who were the rich children, who sang and acted with confidence and made the school proud. The senior students who had the main acting and singing parts had many words to learn but succeeded with there dedication to work hard.



As the day turned to night it was show time and everything seem to be going to plan and running smoothly. As the final speech from Adrienne was given, the show was finally over but for the year 8's who sang and acted it was going to be there last time participating in the Sacred Heart School arts festival. I think for our last year it was one that we were going to remember. When you think about when we started till when the show ended all that hard work, getting ordered around had suddenly seemed worth it, well most of it anyway, but overall the arts festival was a good way to end the school year with an amazing school play. I can't wait to see what the new year 8's have in store for us next year.

By Nina

Blooper pics from today. Need some captions for these.

they see me rollin they're hatin

Zombies,  Walking dead

paparazzi ahh go away

girl, excuse me one handed

Manny Pacquiao vs Brandon Rios Round 1

Who's that girl?

just off to the bakery ..my shifts about to start

Cycle Safe 2013

On the 25th November Room 7 of Sacred Heart School had their first day of learning about cycle safety. To teach the students about cycle safety, the cycle safe team spent the day at Sacred Heart. Cycle Safe is a program sent around Christchurch by the Christchurch City Council. The team is split into two units and each unit has a certain amount of schools each. The Cycle Safe Crew teach students about road rules, what road signs mean, how to bike safely on the road, how to do a 4 step safety check on bikes and many other interesting facts that will help students later on in life. In conclusion, it was a fun filled day of new learner facts and skills. 

The end

By Willow

The morning was opaque and a bit nippy due to weather the previous day but the day endured on to be a pleasant climate to be learning the requirements for biking on the road harmlessly. Firstly we observed on what the cycle safety team had to say and they then briefly informed us about what we will be doing later in the morning.

Each individual was spilt into groups of approximately 10 people then we ambled towards the other instructors who were inspecting our bikes seeing whether they were in good condition.then we continued to repeat four simple steps to check if your bike is road worthy to be driven.

Then we followed each other towards the main court and drove our bikes around cones we imitated this for several minutes while signalling with our hands we continued with a 20 minute interval and returned back to be tested on the basic cycle safety rules this persevered until each person in your group had finished when so they had spare time to ride around on your bikes this lasted until lunch time.

When lunch time was finished so was biking due to weather conditions but we had inside session defining what the road signs meant, this was ended by a couple of convivial games.

Overall our first day of cycle safety was a success learning about the basic road and cycle rules.

By Violet

Speed Date an Authour

We all arrived before 9am, waiting in the midst of a sultry and casual morning outside the doors of christchurch south library, to observe and to take note of these adept authors and illustrators who were to define there occupation and to briefly inform us about how to create a more surpassing piece of writing.

We first gathered together to listen to the organiser who elucidated us about the eminent authors and illustrators history. As the minutes continued we followed on to our first writing learning session with Tusiata Avia who guided us through the steps of making a poem then continued after with Helen Taylor who defined what it is like to be an author while an illustator she taught us to cope with criticism and changes exposed . After Andrew M.Bell talked about the 5 senses- smell,sight,touch,taste and hear. We continued with a 20minute interval and endured on to our next lesson with Bill Nagelkerke who talked to us about how to catch the readers attention then carried on with a skilled artist Ant Sang who helped illustrate 'bro town' and informed us about how to create a comic strip, next we moved on to our final lesson with Ben Brown who spoke about how changing words can make a difference and where the beginning of a story is, the title.

Overall it was an educational and pleasant experince that i among many enjoyed.

By Violet

Sky Dancer with NZSO at CBS Arena

Sky Dancer with NZSO at CBS Arena

Sacred Heart students had an early lunch on the Thursday 14 November as we were preparing to see the performance of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra perform at the CBS Arena.

In the midst of a humid and hot yet windy day, we walked to the Arena from Sacred Heart, through and beside the traffic, the talk and laughter of children suppressing the roaring engines of cars, and once we reached the Arena, the atmosphere was rather different the one outside, the air was cool but the noise was still filled with the sound of children chatting amongst each other, it got louder as we were joined with other schools who were also keen to see the show.

By the time we settled down to our seats and got ready to see the performance of the Orchestra, they were still getting ready, the children saw this as a marvellous opportunity to keep on talking to their friends, but some were eager to see the show and waited impatiently for it to begin. 

After an eternity of children talking, laughing and fussing around, the show began. It began with a blare of instruments, the sounds danced and flew as different instruments playing in harmony created the voice of the whole Orchestra, the voice that was created by the singing instruments. Every group knew exactly when to stop or start playing their instruments, and this created and told an amazing story, using not words, but music.

The day ended with another trip-walking back the school, packing up our school gear and getting ready to go home to families, ready to tell them the splendour that the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra has given to us, and the heavenly treat that they gave to our ears.  By Roche

Our Kiwiana Art

This lively, vivid and prolific collage brimming with kiwiana was muralled into a single portrait. everyones hardwork completed and now hung up at the back of the classroom, portraying new zealands heritage representing iconic kiwi elements.  This was accomplished by these adept artists who neatly replicated a kiwi image which is now revealing New Zealand's famous items and icons.  By Violet

The Kiwiana poster that Room 7 created turned out to be a success. It took a few days because of the delays caused by Zones Athletics, entrance tests and the accidental use of printing ink. But the poster turned out to be a wonderful piece of art work made individually and put together by a few students.

We chose a Kiwiana icon which was drafted, copied on a nice square paper and thickly outlined by black vivid. A few Room 7 girls who didn't go to Zones Athletics did not realise that they used printing ink, which took a long time to dry. The year 8's had entrance tests, so they had to work hard to finish the painting. Everyone finished their painting.

Finally, a few girls put together the 27 paintings to make a huge, colourful poster and put it on the back wall of Room 7. Many staff and students were amazed to see the Kiwiana themed poster. Colourful and astounding, those are my words to describe the artwork put up by hard working Room 7 students.  By Timothy

Christchurch Music Festival

On Wednesday 30 October, many primary students gathered at the CBS Arena from various schools to perform at the Christchurch music festival. An amazing concert consisting of two special choirs, the massed choir, an orchestra, concert band, recorder ensemble and skilled conductors. The room buzzed with excitement and exhilaration. The children were ready to give the performance of a lifetime! The lights flashed vividly on stage and the concert began with a resounding cheer.
   After an introduction from Richard Oswin, the audience and choirs stood for the opening song, God of Nations. The concert continued through the massed songs and was quickly followed by the junior and senior special choir's performances. We then had interval and the second half of massed songs before the ending speech and the night was concluded a great success.
   Overall, the Christchurch Music Festival was a fun, exciting and amazing experience that I will never forget.

Zone Athletics

At 9:15am on the 5th of November the zone athletics at Hillmorton high school had begun. It was a blazing hot day and 14 schools were at the event.

The very first event started at 9:20am and Roche was the first to leave the group for high jump. After 10 minutes Roche came back with a placing of first equal with Wharenui. The next event was long jump and me, Roche and Clifford left the group. About seven people were in the event for the 13yr olds and the longest jump was 4.65 metres and OLA came first with Cashmere not far behind and Sacred Heart third with Roche jumping 4.55 metres.

Sadly for some people it was a three hour wait for their next event and sprints was the event. Clifford, Lance, Roche and I moved off to start. In the two heats Roche came first and I came third but in the final Roche came first and I came sixth. Jayda had an amazing day with discus and it was the first time she had done it and came first!

The last event of the day was long distance and I was the only person from Sacred Heart in it. After all the hard work in the other events the fatigue started to set in but once the finish line was in sight the adrenalin kicked in and I secured a placing of sixth.

The zone athletics was seen by many parents and children throughout the schools. Everyone enjoyed it and will always be looking forward to next year.

Room 7