Life @ SHC

Sacred Heart College offers a very comprehensive range of extra curricular activities designed to cater for the needs of all students.

 

Mission  and  Cultural  Activities
Cultural pursuits include Computing, Debating, Choir, Drama, Mock Trials, Music, Public Speaking and the School Musical.  A Mission Experience program involving travel to India and the Philippines is also included in the extra curricular program.  From time to time various overseas sporting and cultural exchanges also take place.  These are all an added cost for parents and students.

Students also have the opportunity to join Remar, a National Youth and Leadership Group, as well as the Social Justice Group, which engages in arrangement of community service activities.

 

Sport
Sports offered include cricket, tennis, badminton, softball, athletics, rugby, soccer, netball, football, basketball, swimming, touch football, hockey, volleyball, surfing and water polo. 

Sacred Heart is affiliated with the Sports Association for Adelaide Schools (SAAS) and the SA Catholic Secondary School Girls Sports Association (SACSSGSA) and subscribes to the high standards of competition and code of sportsmanship consistent with membership.

Each year many Sacred Heart students represent South Australia in various sports and also gain selection in the representative teams for the above Associations.  Our students compete against teams from all areas of the State in many of the State-wide knock out competitions.

No elite sporting student is disadvantaged in any way by representing Sacred Heart College.  The College is supplied with all information from affiliated bodies when the various state and representative team nominations are due.  Sacred Heart College students are well respected by outside sporting bodies.

All teams are well coached by members of staff, selected old scholars and other suitably qualified parents and friends of the college.

 

Students in many of the top teams, are frequently involved with Interschool competitions and various Marist competitions.  The College also participates in a large inter-school sporting and cultural exchange with Assumption College.  The interstate activities incur an extra cost for parents and students.

 

All students are expected to represent the school as their first priority and in preference to other clubs.  The College liaises with clubs for the holiday breaks and the Physical Education staff are able to assist students in the transition from school to club sport.

 

Sports Day
Sports Day is an Athletics Carnival held each year. This is an Inter-house Carnival at which student attendance is compulsory. It is held on the Main Oval, and coordinated by the Director of Student Welfare supported by the Sports Administrator and the Heads of House.