St Paul said:

Love is kind; it does not burden another person with harmful words.

Love is patient; it waits until it is the right time to speak and act.

Love does not keep a record of wrongs; it leaves the past behind.

Love is not jealous; it celebrates good things that happen.

Love is not happy with evil: it asks us to practise happiness.

Love never gives up: love offers us hope.

Love is faithful and hope-filled; negativity does not drag it down.

Love is eternal: it is not seasonal and never takes a holiday.

For God is love. 

Dear Friends,

Holy Trinity's vision is to be a faith-filled Catholic learning community of faith, hope and love, where all are welcome and inspired to grow to their potential.  I look forward to sharing our goals and initiatives for 2020 at our Parent Information Night tomorrow, in the hall at 5:30pm, followed by the P and F Welcome BBQ. Child minding will be available for students Kinder - to Year 2 in the Kinder classrooms (after the 5pm Kinder meeting) and the ELC will also provide this for their students.  All students Year 3-6 are invited to sit in the hall at the front on mats.  Thank you again to the P and F for organising the BBQ afterwards-  this is a great opportunity for us to celebrate together the beginning of the new year and for new families to meet our community. Teachers will also be distributing Curriculum Overviews and other important information for the year at the end of the information session, before the BBQ. 

At the end of January, the Holy Trinity staff met for a few days to prepare for the year, celebrate a Retreat with Fr John and the Sts Peter and Paul staff and attend professional learning.  During our staff administration meeting we spent time reviewing our Pastoral Care and Well-Being policy. Part of this review looked at agreed practices across the school, to enable consistency in our approach to pastoral care of all students and to ensure restorative practices are used across the school for students to better understand and learn from their behaviour.  Holy Trinity staff will ensure this school wide approach occurs by:

• Consistently applying positive school wide behaviour practices throughout the school 
• The implementation and employment of whole school strategies for Behaviour Management 
• Embedding restorative practices when helping students, parents and teachers to resolve issues with relational conflict
• Collaboratively developing action plans to support positive educational and behavioural outcomes 
• Developing essential agreements, collaboratively establishing a whole school and classroom agreements outlining responsibilities that align with the IB Learner Profile 

The questions children will be asked when reflecting on inappropriate behaviour are in the following link:

Restorative Questions

The consistent procedures being used across the school are outlined in the following link:

Behaviour Support procedures

These will be added to our Pastoral Care and Well Being Policy on our website in the following week. 

Congratulations to Nicole & Stephen Carberry (Audrey 2 G and Violet) on the safe arrival of their daughter and sister Florence. 

With every best wish for a holy and peace-filled week ahead with your beautiful families,

Philippa