Forgiving God, your mercy and compassion brings freedom and hope to our world.  In this season of Lent turn our hearts to you.  Lift us up when we fall.  Restore our broken, fragile world, and give us confidence to live and love again.  Amen. 

We cannot use our faith as an excuse to be uninvolved in our world. Where am I challenged to assist those in need?

Dear Friends,

It was wonderful to celebrate our first awards Assembly for 2021, with parents of recipients present for the first time in 12 months.  Children from Kinder to Year 6 were recognised during the assembly for showing acts of faith, hope and love, academic effort and for high academic achievement. We also congratulated the age champions from our Swimming Carnival in Week 3. 

 Swimming Age Champions

Each year our staff  spend time reviewing our Pastoral Care and Well Being Policy and classroom and playground behaviour expectations. 

Part of this review looks 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 consistent procedures being used across the school (included in the policy)  are outlined in the following link:

Behaviour Support procedures

One strategy we have noticed that some students use when questioned about negative behaviour, is that of denial or blaming others.  It is really important that children can own behaviour and be accountable for their actions.  This will then help them learn from their mistakes and take responsibility.