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The Best Day EverSharon Bennet “This is the best day ever!” These words are music to the ears of any educator who puts considerable time and effort into thinking about and planning for the daily success of the children in their care. In our Junior Primary program, we...

Inspired by a homily from Sr. Donna Dolan, RSCJ Smartphones. These days, we all have them. They ring, ping, sing and generally control some of the smallest details of our lives. Back in the day, we never went anywhere without our wallets; now our phones are our...

By Renée Fournier Community. It’s a simple word; only nine letters, but it has so many meanings and implications. It can be a place; a group; a collective; a concept. It can be big and small all at the same time. It can be local, national, or global; or a combination...

By Alison Comeau October means beautiful fall colours, crisp, cool mornings, and of course Thanksgiving here in Canada. And while Thanksgiving has recently come and gone, many of us are still basking in the glow of family, friends, and the spirit of gratitude in which...

By Dennis Phillips Imagine yourself back in the mid-19th century, specifically 1849. A group of Religious of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ) have arrived in Halifax. They’ve just established a small school in a residence in the heart of Halifax entirely devoted to the...

By Jared Griffiths Watching our recent Elementary School Musical production of Matilda JR. this month, I was struck not just by the incredible show of talent, but by how far the more than 70 students had come since the day they auditioned. And by that, I don’t mean...

By Kathleen Groves In September, when the days are still long and the sun bakes into my classroom during the late afternoon, one of the first lessons I teach is based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story”. It is important that my...

By Patricia McMullen Pre-pandemic, the biannual trip to Europe with a group of students was one of my favourite school activities. As an ardent traveller, I am intimately familiar with the joys of travel and the excitement of discovering a new destination. To share...

February is just about over, which theoretically means Heart Month is too. Of course, you shouldn’t stop thinking about the importance of your cardiovascular health, or for that matter, love. Isn’t it a shame that we “formally” celebrate love — one of the most...

That global diversity is what makes our Exchange Program one of the most unique in the world. What adds to the appeal is that when our students travel to another country, or an exchange student travels to Canada, they stay with another Sacred Heart family, one which has been drawn to the same mission, creating a powerful, loving continuum for any student leaving home.

If I have come to depend on my phone for one thing more than any other, it would be the calendar app. The days when the phone gets forgotten on the kitchen counter are frustrating because I never quite feel on top of my day, or the least bit confident that I haven’t missed some commitment or other.

In team sports, success can be equated with good strategy. As the World Cup got underway rest assured that Team Canada spent hours on the practice pitch running through a full playbook of specific techniques and tactics — their strategy. Each player strives to improve their individual skills but more importantly, it’s how those individuals come together as a team using their strategy that will have the most impact.

Outdoors, the sky is blue, the air is clear, and the trees are on fire with red, orange, and yellow leaves. Fall is in full swing, and that means a season of abundance. If you head out of the city there are fields full of pumpkins and trees full of apples, ripe and ready for picking. All over the province, our farmers’ markets are bursting with all kinds of fresh produce, the result of long hours of sunlight and even longer hours of hard work by farmers and farm workers.