Dear Friends,

Welcome to Week 3!! Another great week at Holy Trinity, beginning with class visits to our Healthy Harold Van, our weekly Fete meeting, our first Community Council Meeting and our Year 6 Retreat "Journey with Jesus".  It was wonderful to finish Week 2 with our opening school Mass where our Year 6 students were presented with their leadership badges, blessed by Fr James, and where our school staff were commissioned into our Parish for 2025.

In the professional learning week at the end of January, our staff reviewed and reflected on our three strategic goals for 2025, based on the following beliefs;

Our catholic identity transcends

How we act,

how we connect,

and who we are

We nurture an environment that continues to reflect just how much every minute, every lesson, every child, MATTERS.

Thus our annual improvement goals  for 2025 are:

• Establish a cohesive, knowledge-rich approach to literacy instruction across K-6 through systematic teaching practices and consistent implementation of evidence-based strategies. 

• Create a coherent K-6 well-being culture through systematic implementation of the PERMAH framework where both staff and students flourish. 

• Ensure continuous cycles of assessment practices effectively enhance teaching and learning growth through responsive practice.

During Parent Partnership meetings  parents and teachers had the opportunity to share their own hopes and goals for their child -  I urge families who have not yet had the opportunity to participate in a parent partnership meeting with your child's teacher to make contact with them as soon as possible.  Through our teaching and learning platform, TODDLE, parents will also  be able to access each year group's curriculum overview for the first Unit of Inquiry. Parents/Carers will also have opportunity to engage in a PYP Information night on the 25th of March.  

Thanks to those in our community who attended our first Community Council meeting for 2025 on Tuesday night.  Our meeting focussed on setting up calendar dates of events for this year and acknowledging that our main focus for this term is the fete. In Week 9, our next Community council meeting will unpack the various roles and functions of the council, to assist parents who may wish  to be involved, more of an understanding about how they can do this.  We will then have our Community Council AGM early Term 2.   In the following weeks, there will also be correspondence from the Community Council around what current roles need some immediate help-  in particular we are asking families for donations of emergency meals, and we are also needing a coordinator for this.  Please contact me via email (see end of this article for the address), if you would like to know more bout this role. 

Staff have noticed a few safety concerns with drop off and pick up at school over the last few weeks.  I encourage  you please to be mindful of the following reminders to ensure we are able to keep all our children safe:

• Pick up (other than Kids Biz, walkers and bike riders) is in the car park area.  Children are fully supervised there- other pick up arrangements on the ring road or on the streets surrounding Holy Trinity is not a safe pick up area. Parents are asked to park and come down to pick up from the supervised area.
• Please us the pathways to walk to parked cars once you collect your child, especially on Theodore st- some children are walking through the scrub area up and down, which is not a safe thoroughfare.
• Dogs and pets, other than our school therapy dog, Maggie, are not permitted on school grounds, especially at pick up and drop off when there is many children on site.
• Supervised duty in the morning begins at 8:30am.  Parents are invited to access our before school care program with KidsBiz- children  should not be sitting outside from 8am unsupervised.