Welcome To Sacred Heart School

We want to make this website as useful as possible. Please let me know if you have any ideas or want any news, announcements or requests posted here. I can cut/paste from email submissions or you can send me a Word .doc file for more complicated submissions. If you have no access to email, you can send comments through the Alumni submission form.

We need everyone's help. Think WEBSITE. If you type something up for general distribution around school, email a copy for posting on the website. My wife Colette was re-typing everything that came home that was web-worthy. This was a huge duplication of effort. So if you want it posted, email the file. If something can be re-typed with two fingers in two minutes, I'll post it, otherwise it needs to be emailed. If people get into the habit of thinking about the website and mailing in submissions, we can have a great dynamic website with a minimum of effort. So please, while you are waiting for your school flyer to print out, take a few seconds to click 'send to' and email a copy for the web. It only takes a few seconds.

A number of people have asked if documents can be scanned in. They can be scanned in and posted as imaged based PDF files, but it doesn't work well for smooth browsing. If you are dialing -up or have a slower computer, PDF's are a cumbersome to view. They also do not become part of the web's text data base, so they will not turn up on a search of the site. Scanned in PDF's do work well for single page documents that are to be printed out, like sign-up sheets and things like that.

Lack of communication is an issue that comes up often. Please keep the website in mind and use it freely to enhance our communication and show off our school enthusiasm to all those that visit our site. With more and more families moving to 'always on' internet connections, the web is becoming a first line source of information for many people.

Here is an interesting article about the merits of a school website. Please read it, it was written almost 10 years ago.

Thanks for your support. - Nick Torraca

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