WELCOME TO WEEK 7
Dear Holy Trinity Community,
Welcome to Sabbath Week. We hope you have managed to find the time to slow down and enjoy some extra time with your family and friends.
This week, the wonderful Year 1 Team lead the staff in prayer focussed on Pope Francis' Gaudete Et Exsultate and the five great expressions of love for God and neighbour.
1. Perseverance, patience and meekness
2. Joy and a sense of humour
3. Boldness and Passion
4. In Community
5. In Constant Prayer
We were encouraged to identify in members of our Holy Trinity community examples of where these five expressions are lived.
Gracious God, as we reflect on holiness, give us new insights into ways of living our lives that lead to a fullness of life. Jesus, you showed us with your words and actions what a holy life looks like. Give each of us the courage to follow your way.
Holy Spirit, flow through us and bring renewal and newness to our faith lives so
that we can grow in holiness and be the people we were created to be.
Amen.
Despite it being Sabbath Week, the daily life of the school continued with much learning, joy, perserverance and passion. A highlight was our Year 5's Mini Exhibition.
Mini PYPx
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea - Experience influences self expression and perception
Lines of Inquiry
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How biases shape perception (Perspective)
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What influences our self expression (Causation)
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Why connections vary depending on the audience (Connection)
Student Reflection
We explored these concepts through dance, music, visual art, media art, drama and poetry.
Throughout the unit, we demonstrated Inquiry skills by investigating how bias and perceptions are formed.
We acted with integrity, honesty and responsibility when creating, performing and sharing feedback on creative pieces of work.
We collaborated by sharing about how we express ourselves through the Arts.
We took risks when creating performance based pieces of work.
Amelia R
In this unit we have done many things to express ourselves. We started dancing with Ms Simpson, dance allows you to meditate in motion form. We have explored many different forms of dance, such as Japanese sailor dances and bush dancing, we have been using elastics recently. Elastics allow you to create amazing shapes that you have never seen before, dance allows you to be the centre of your own world and let go of all stress.
Another thing we explored was art. We had art classes with Mrs Lategui once a week where we learnt about all the different aspects of art. From value to contrast we learnt that art is an amazing way to express ourselves even with just a led pencil.
We also have had a guest speaker and journalist, Andrew Probyn come and tell us examples of how to seize the audience's attention. And from that, with those tips we recorded our media arts videos for our mini exhibition. There were many strategies and we included them in our videos. Mini exhibition is just a way for us to show our learning experience throughout this unit, but of course it’s not as big as the year 6’s exhibition. We produced an artwork plus a rationale, two poems, a ballad and an ode and a news report, all based on a human rights issue. We have had lots of fun throughout this unit and overall, it has just been a thrilling experience to us all. We hope you enjoy our mini exhibition.
Heidi, Ella and Raff
We look forward to seeing many of you at the P&F Wine and Cheese gathering in the Parish Centre, while the school disco is on next Thursday.
Congratulations to the Austin Family (Thomas 2G) on the recent arrival of their baby girl, Isabelle. We also welcome to the Holy Trinity community the Napier Family (Tilly 3/4G), Hewton (Eddie 1W) and Cavanagh Family (Wilf 3/4R, Finn 5G).
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.
Katie