First Eucharist Parent Information Night

Thank you to the parents and Year 4 teachers for joining the Parent Information Night last night. Your child should bring home their First Eucharist book over the next 2 weeks. Please email me, if you do not receive your book.

First Eucharist Steps:

1. Enrol online via Qkr App! North Woden
2. Select a family group/group session
3. Select a mass to receive the Sacrament
4. Attend the group sessions
5. Attend one of the Presentation Masses
6. Attend Reconciliation at Holy Trinity on a Saturday night.

Feast of the Transfiguration - Friday 4 August 

On Friday Week 3, Holy Trinity and Sts Peter and Paul will gather to celebrate the Feast of the Transfigutation. The Feast of the Transfiguration, recalls and celebrates Jesus’ revelation of his divinity to three of his friends—Peter, James, and John—on a high point on Mount Tabor. According to the Gospel accounts, Jesus took the three disciples onto the mountain to pray. While they were praying, his appearance was changed by a brilliant white light that radiated from him and his clothing. Moses and Elijah, the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, appeared with Jesus, and a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

Each year we mark the occasion by gathering together as a Parish Community, this year it is Holy Trinity's turn to host. We will be providing all students from Holy Trinity and Sts Peter and Paul a sausage sizzle lunch.

I am looking for any volunteers to help with the BBQ and be available from 9:30 - 11:30am to help cook and serve students. If you are able please send me an email - emily.capper@cg.catholic.edu.au

Seasons for Growth

Change and loss at any time can be challenging. We recognise that when changes occur in families through separation, divorce and bereavement, young people benefit from learning how to make sense of these changes. To support the children at Holy Trinity Primary School, we are offering an evidence-based education program called Season for Growth in Term 3 for students in Year 1 – Year 6.

What is Seasons for Growth?

• Seasons for Growth is a small group education program about change, loss and grief
• Developed for children aged 6-12 years (Year 1 - Year 6)
• Based on a belief that change, loss and grief are part of life
• Explores a range of issues associated with change and loss – what we may experience and ways we can respond and adapt.

What does Seasons for Growth do?
Seasons for Growth helps children to:

• Learn about how the death of a loved one, parental separation/ divorce, or other significant loss event may impact on their lives
• Learn the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to understand and respond well to such experiences, including:
• understanding the grief process
• recognising their feelings and other reactions to loss are normal
• developing skills for coping, problem solving and decision making
• building a peer-support network
• restoring self-confidence and self-esteem. 

The story of the seasons.
Using the metaphor of the four seasons as a framework to explore the experience of change, loss and grief participants recognise:

• no season lasts forever
• each season is unique and important for our growth
• each season has its own story, there are easy days and
  difficult days
• individuals experience the seasons differently
• we find different ways to adapt to changes within each season
• seasonal change is often silent, gradual and unseen.

Please email me if you would like your child/children to participate in the program or if you have any questions about the program – Emily.capper@cg.catholic.edu.au

Emily Capper 

Religious Education Coordinator