When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were all sitting. 

Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability’. (Acts 2:1-4) 

As the friends of Jesus gathered in one place, we gather here, waiting for the Spirit to fill this house and enlighten, as with tongues of fire, the minds and hearts and lives of our young people; and to renew this flame in all of us as well. 

Spirit of God, Seal our hearts with the Spirit of your love.

Give us the courage of the saints to love when it is easier to hate, to see beauty beneath what is ugly, and to bring hope to our world. Teach us to have reverence and respect for all of life and to look for ways to respond to the gifts you have given us. Keep us always open to the Spirit’s presence in our world. We ask this for your Kingdom’s sake. Amen

Dear Friends,

Today's newsletter begins with the prayer used at Confirmation Retreat Day today.  Please keep all our Confirmation candidates in your prayers as they prepare for this Sacrament to be celebrated next Tuesday night. Today's newsletter follows with our Year 6 Leadership groups reporting on all the responsibilities and events they have been involved in during this term!  Enjoy their voices and I look forward to seeing many of you tomorrow for Grandparents Day,  Learning Journeys and the Working Bee.

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

Philippa

Members: Veronika R, Georgia N, Abby VB, Sophie R, Valentina G, AJ S

During this term, the Service group have been having such a great experience carrying out the various jobs we have had to do. So far, we have helped out with class and prayer assemblies, showed many visitors around the school, and have had a brilliant time with Sts Peter and Paul on Transfiguration day. During transfiguration day, we helped out the Sts Peter and Paul students by showing them where to go. It was a great opportunity to meet students from another school and show them how friendly Holy Trinity can be.

With the support of our teacher facilitators we have identified extra opportunities for how we can be of service in the future. We are looking forward to continuing to assist with special days such as, Father’s Day, Grandparents Day and Learning Journeys.

Members: Audrey H, Hannah B, Emily Ro, Amy W, Ava S, Liam P

Well-Being leadership community has been researching, sharing, explaining and talking about different social skills. During Weeks 1-5 we have been talking about decision making and being balanced and Weeks 6-10 we focused on being cooperative and open minded. We hope that students will apply the knowledge they now know about these social skills and use them at school and at home. Throughout this term we have noticed that kids have been using these social skills correctly at school. They have been open-minded when hearing other people’s perspectives and ideas in the playground - what games to play and how to make good decisions, and in their classrooms - in group work how we can involve sharing each others ideas together. For the remainder of the term we will be continuing to share presentations and continuing to work on making our school a better place were these social skills are involved. This term the Well-Being student leadership group has been busily devising interactive presentations to share with classes to provide support and teach younger students about the importance of making good decisions and how they can demonstrate cooperation daily. We wanted this to boost positivity around the school and hopefully help students to create positive friendships with one another.

SUSTAINABILITY GROUP

Term 3 was the start of Waste Free Wednesdays, run by the Sustainability Leaders. We began the process with a waste audit from ACT Smart Schools came to Holy Trinity to support us with our waste audit. The waste audit showed us that many children are throwing away food that has not been touched, such as whole sandwiches, pieces of fruit, yogurt pouches and yakults.  We discovered that our paper waste was not contaminated with other waste, well done everyone on keeping our paper bins clean! Waste Free Wednesdays have been a success, with most children bringing little to no waste to school, and taking their waste home.

With the start of spring, the gardening club has been busy planting new veggies such as potatoes, silver beets, beans, sweet peas and capsicums. We now have some beautiful cabbages, broccoli and spinach growing too. A huge thank you to Moya, our dedicated gardening expert who freely gives her time to support us in our Kitchen Garden. If any other parent of grandparent would like to join us you would be welcome. We meet on Wednesdays at 11:10am.

Please continue to support us with keeping our school as waste free as possible.

The Sustainability Team

The Sports Committee : Ruby A, Sophie H, Maddie D, Ava F, Ava M, Christian G, Oscar H

Obstacool course

Setting it up:

When we first heard about Obstacool the first thing we did was find out the theme song. We figured that it should be a song that everyone likes and after looking at a bunch of songs we chose ‘The lion sleeps tonight’ from the Lion King movie. After we chose the song we started to make posters saying what day it was on, what type of clothes to wear and more. Then we would come up at morning assemblies to remind everyone. So finally after a lot of planning a bunch of raffles and lots of fundraising the fun day came and everyone had a blast.

The day:

As being part of the Holy Trinity sport committee we helpedtheObstacoolll course. On the day we helped and supported the students participating in the Course. As a team we set up and helped run the course with the younger students. 

Handball Competition

Mrs Punyer has organised a handball tournament for the students of Holy Trinity Primary School. The year 6 students of the sports committee helped run the competition during lunch. The games are in partners, in 2 vs 2 matches. The teams are very even and are very competitive.

Holy Trinity is having a talent show on the 20th of September. We are having a talent show so we can raise money for for Camp Magic. Camp Magic is an organisation which helps kids who have lost someone close to them like a parent or sibling. Camp Magic helps kids understand grief and supports them to deal with how they are feeling. The kids use the seasons as a guide and they connect their feelings to them. The camp helps teach them the grief cycle and how to deal with it.

The talent show will be a bit different this year. It will only be Years 1-6 who will preform. Year 5/6 will have have five acts. Year 3/4 will have four acts. Year 1 and 2 will each have 2 acts. There will be a time limit of two minutes that the students will have to show everyone their talent. In the talent show the students can do a dance, a skit, sing, magic, jokes, comedy, gymnastics, musical talent and show off anything that they can do. The students must have their act ready by the end of week 8. It’ll be a gold coin to watch the talent show and five dollars per person to enter. We will have prizes. We are going to have a very special guest judge!

We cannot wait to see the talent Holy Trinity has to share!

Written by Jessica G, Emily R, Erin S, Ella S, Claire O, Rachel H