Dear Parents/Carers, 

One of the highlights of the school year, a personal development highlight that is loved by students and staff alike, is our ‘Lip Sync Battle’. And what a battle it has been so far this year! All students and staff who performed and every audience have been absolutely brilliant! In all my years as a teacher I have never known anything bring a school community together as much as this has. It has been the talk of corridors, classrooms and assemblies and we cannot wait for the Grand Lip Sync Final which will take place on Monday 15th July. A huge amount of money has been raised for our chosen local charity St Cuthbert’s Care; we will reveal the final total in July’s Heart News. 

We have just three weeks left of this academic year and still have our Sacred Heart Feast Day celebrations to look forward to. We are also very proud to be welcoming Bishop Stephen Wright to school on Thursday 18th July to celebrate our Big Mass with all of our Sacred Heart community.

Another highlight of July will no doubt be our amazing school production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, a dark comedy which follows the story of a flower shop assistant who raises a man-eating plant! ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ will run for three nights from Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th July at 6.00pm in our Rose auditorium. Tickets are priced £10 for adults and £6 for children.

Please buy your tickets using this link 

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sacredheart  

and come along to support the show’s cast and crew, knowing you will be in for an excellent night of entertainment! 

Best wishes, 

Mrs Howell  

Headteacher 

We are delighted to announce that this year we are putting on a production of the musical 'Little Shop of Horrors'. This will take place in our school auditorium from Tues 9th to Thurs 11th July at 6.00pm each night.  

Tickets are priced at £10 for adults and £6 for children and can be purchased from our school website, or by using the direct link below to TicketSource. 

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/sacredheart 

Monday 24th June marked the start of our annual Festival of Reading celebrations at Sacred Heart!  We came together as a community to celebrate the joy of reading, with a number of wonderful literary events, prizes and gifts. 

A special well done to our Year 7 and Year 10 paired reading participants, who have completed our paired-reading programme and were rewarded with an afternoon-tea style breakfast (with the most delicious fruit scones!) and a book voucher to spend at our Scholastic book fair.

Last month, Year 12 Study Ambassador Leader Scarlett Daniels, attended a fundraising biodiversity ball in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, hosted by Lady Amelia Windsor, Patron of the Cross River Gorilla Project (CRGP).  

To celebrate our Goal of Personal Growth, students were invited to take part in a competition, reflecting on what personal growth means to them. 

This half-term we hosted our second Sacred Heart talent competition: Lip Sync Battle! The purpose of this show is to raise money for our chosen charity of the year, St Cuthbert’s Care. 

In July, forty-five of our Year 10 students will go on an international trip to Belgium and France as part of their GCSE History course. They will have the opportunity to visit the Ypres and Somme Battlefields and to gain a fuller appreciation of the experiences of soldiers in the trenches during the First World War. 

A group of our Year 10 students will be attending the annual Summer Festival at the Emmaus Youth Village in July.

As we draw closer to the end of this final term, we are encouraging students to think about how they have lived out the Goal of Personal Growth this academic year.   A group of our Year 10 students will be attending the annual Summer Festival at the Emmaus Youth Village in July.

This term, two of Sacred Heart’s Year 12 students, Poppy Watkins and Evie Wilkinson, participated in a special pilgrimage to Lourdes in France, with Hosanna House and Children's Pilgrimage Trust (HCPT).

On Duck Day, Year 8 students at our school plunged into the exhilarating and educational world of running a Duck Factory.

Alongside the General Election campaigns being run by national political parties, students at Sacred Heart will have the opportunity to represent their own parties and all students will be able to cast a vote on the Election day.

As part of our 2024 Festival of Reading,  Spoken Word Open Mic IS BACK and will take place on Thursday 27th June!

At Sacred Heart we recognise, not only the importance of helping students to develop academically but also spiritually, morally, socially and culturally.

Come and celebrate our young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) that are currently on or have achieved a Supported Internship programme.

A Feast Day is a special day in the Catholic church's calendar where people across the world will celebrate the occasion by going to mass or making dedicated time for prayer.

Breeze Creatives at The John Marley Centre are running three workshops as part of the Young Entrepreneurs programme created with thanks to the Community Lottery fund.

On Thursday the 24th of May, the Year 8s and 9s had a visit from Tia Fisher, who came to talk to us about her debut novel Crossing the Lines.