Dear Sacred Heart College community

The College’s theme for this year focuses on “Building Community”.  This involves three aspects:  the first calls for building community within each section of Sacred Heart College.  The second involves building community across the sections of the College, and the third entails building community beyond our College gates.

This focus is in line with our Marist values of family spirit, presence and reaching the marginalized.  Why this focus is important is because we are very conscious of the impact of the various lockdowns on our ability to connect with one another, and therefore our need to create opportunities to reconnect and create the sense of community that SHC is renowned for.

We are excited to announce that the Chinese Association has asked us to be the venue for this year’s Chinese New Year celebrations, which take place on Saturday 12 February, from 15:00 to 21:00.  The event is an important part of our community building projects.  Sacred Heart College has a long association with the Chinese community, and we are delighted to reconnect with them for such an auspicious occasion.

We will communicate further details regarding this event as we are aware of the impact on you, our neighbours and on the events published in our calendar. As neighbours please see the additional letter we are required to communicate as part of the Health and Safety Protocols that are needed. We have given permission to the Chinese Association for fireworks which will be limited to 15 minutes at 8.00pm. We appreciate the sensitivity towards celebrating using fireworks because of their impact on animals. However we are also aware that this event will be an opportunity to celebrate New Year with fireworks in a controlled and safe environment.

Please be aware that this event will also impact on the traffic in and around the school. We will endeavour to park as many cars onsite and given the limit on numbers to 1000 we hope that we will not need to use all the streets for parking.

Please pencil in the date of 11 February for e High School Valentine’s dance, our second community celebration which we have traditionally held around Valentine’s Day as well as the blood drive. The Pre-Primary School picnic is still scheduled to take place on the morning of the 12 February.

The rollerblade disco will take place on the 18 February.  As the planning for all these events require substantial attention to detail we may need to change or postpone one of these.  

Please email the school with any concerns or queries. info@sacredheart.co.za or heatherb@sacredheart.co.a

Yours sincerely

Heather Blanckensee

Head of College & High School Principal

Download the letter here.