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Father's Day Stall
Thank you so much to our Year 6 group who sorted the gifts and made sure each class and the ELC received enough gifts for each student. Thank you also to all the families that kindly donated money to help cover the cost of gifts. We will still be making our charity donations this year and your generosity is very much appreciated.
Please email me if your child was not at school and we will get a gift to you htpspfpresident@gmail.com.
If you didn't get the chance to view our beautiful Father's Day Prayer celebration from our ELC family to all last week, please click on this link.
Colour Run
Next Friday 18 September is Colour Run! Will be a great day. Please remember a change of clothes or towel for the car ride home just in case, and a white t shirt to be worn on the day if possible (not mandatory but colour will show up better). We now have more than enough parent helpers thank you everyone.
Cath Day
Email: htpspfpresident@gmail.com
Sacrament of Confirmation
As a community we all join in praying for our year 6 students as they prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation to be held in weeks 9 and 10 of this term.
Global School Partners Fundraiser
TOMORROW!!! Don't forget to bring along a gold coin and students are invited to dress as teachers and teachers will be dressing up as students!
Children’s Liturgy and Youth Group is on this Weekend!
This Sunday at the 9:30 am Mass there will be children’s liturgy in the parish centre. All children are welcome to attend!
Also, on Sunday afternoon our Youth Ministers Grace and Maddie will be holding our monthly Youth Group. For more information please read below.
Walk to School Day’ (& dress up) TOMORROW 11/9/20.
This Friday is National ‘walk safely to school day’. The day aims to promote the healthy benefits of walking but also reduce pollution and traffic congestion by going without the car.
There will be parents walking (and parking and walking) and positioning themselves at key entry points to the school to help and encourage children as they arrive. Some groups walking are as follows:
- Sarah Collins will be walking from Deakin around 830am and will enter the school via the carpark entry
- Anne Hitchings and Co. will be meeting at North Curtin Oval (Baseball field side) from 8am and will help kids walk up McCulloch Street.
- Cass Glass and Emelia Bailey will be walking up from the underpass from around 840am and enter the school from around the back of the basketball courts
- Kate Lategui will be positioned at the front of the school from 830am (across the road on Carruthurs St) to help children cross over.
- And finally….. Mrs Casey will be up near the veranda with music by DJ Feerick handing out stickers, treats and the like.
Please feel free to join the groups walking to the school or meet them at the various entry points.
Friday is also dress up day where kids dress like teachers and teachers dress like students. This will no doubt add to the walk to school fun! Children are asked to bring a gold coin to join in the fun with all money donated to our Global School Partner school in Kenya.
Beck Casey
Email: rebecca.casey@cg.catholic.edu.au
Wellbeing strategies for parents
The coronavirus pandemic and its associated disruptions are beginning to take a toll on our mental health and wellbeing. You don’t need to look far in your community or social networks to identify a worrying trend of people experiencing a range of challenging emotions including mood swings, despair, anger, sullenness and lack of motivation.
People who usually pride themselves on being able to manage most difficulties that come their way now find themselves suddenly unable to cope, leading to a profound sense of disappointment. A number of people have spoken about feeling guilty for being a less than perfect parent, partner, teacher, work colleague or friend during these times.
This inability to cope is understandable. Our capacity to adapt to acutely stressful situations such as natural disasters has been severely depleted by the long-term nature of the pandemic. It’s common in situations of great uncertainty to feel exhausted and experience periods of burnout. Coupled with this is a sense of loss that many people feel – loss of connection to friends and family, loss of freedom and a loss of a way of life.
There is no handbook for functioning in a pandemic however it’s apparent that we need to accept that our lives will be different for some time. It also helps to expect less of yourself, which is the opposite to how high-achievers and perfectionists ordinarily operate. Feeling comfortable with uncertainty takes some getting used to as most of us have an innate wish to feel in control.
Daily wellbeing treats
Self-care is a proven remedy to most wellbeing ailments, but it’s ironic that for many of us our self-care activities have been restricted by the coronavirus. Coffee with friends, a massage or a visit to the gym and other such activities are out for many people. However, this doesn’t mean that we should neglect our mental health and wellbeing. Instead we need to look closer to home for our regular wellbeing treats. Things that help include regular deep breathing to start the body’s relaxation response, practising moments of mindfulness to shut down mental chatter, finding hidden exercise opportunities to promote mood-enhancing endorphins and spending time each day in calm-inducing green space.
Resilience bank account
During my conversations one person described living in this era as “always feeling a little off balance, like standing in a dinghy in a rough sea and not knowing when the storm will pass.”
Our mental reserves are constantly been called upon, so it’s necessary to build regular practices into our lives that build our resilience. Hopefully, most of us had bulging resilience bank accounts before the pandemic hit but it’s never too late start. Attending to areas such as sleep, good nutrition, regular exercise, relationship-building and self-care help keep our resilience buckets filled up.
Humans are adaptive and can get better at anything with practice, including living through a once in a century pandemic and all the changes it brings to our lives.
(Source: Parentingideas.com.au)
Heidi White
Email: Heidi.white@cg.catholic.edu.au
Welcome to the launching of the Holy Trinity Podcast-
'Holy Trinity Highlights...'
Each week, I will interview members of our school community about the latest student inquiries, community happenings and news. Tune in to hear the wonderful voices of Holy Trinity.
(Each episode lasts no longer than 5 mins so perfect for the drive to and from work).
Please access and or download it here:
or here:
https://holytrinitycast.podbean.com
or...
Today I have submitted the Holy Trinity podcast to Apple. Once it has been reviewed and confirmed, you will be able to download each episode within this app.
Happy listening! If you are interested in being interviewed for this podcast, please flick me an email:
Regards,
Rebecca Casey
Floriade: Reimagined will bloom at over 130 sites across Canberra from 12 September to 11 October 2020. Holy Trinity is part of the Floriade Community of sites and displays can be seen in the front if the ELC, kitchen garden and at the front of the Church.
We recommend viewing the website for information, maps and interactive activities.
Below are our emerging blooms this week:
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Students celebrating their birthdays this week: Emilia M, Lilliana G, Carlo V, Felicia C, Abigail G, Johan J, George F |
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