Dear Families and Carers,

We've had another wonderful week of teaching and learning in this short week. With many excursions adding to the experiences in our Units of Inquiry. Year 2 visited MOAD, Mount Ainslie and Parliament House strenghtening their understanding of significant places. As part of the How We Express Ourselves inquiry, Year 1 attended the Tuggeranong Library. They are inquiring into different ways of storytelling and had an opportunity to share stories with the Library Storytelling Dogs. Year 6 are attending MOAD tomorrow, visiting the Behind the Lines exhibition.  They will be considering how different authors and illustrators create their images and use quality evidence to create an imapct through their art. We are very fortunate to be able to attend a wide range of places in Canberra that enhance our learning experiences. 

Students vs Teachers

Year 6 have been focusing on specific skills development over the past term in PE lessons, as part of their development and to showcase their skills, they have challenged the staff to games during lunch time. So far we have played touch football, basketball and yesterday we had a soccer game. The games are always exciting for the whole school community, with many students cheering and encouraging both the Year 6 team and the teachers. Yesterday saw the students run away with a victory! Their skills and ability to dribble and score goals was too much for the teachers! Well done Year 6!

Celebrations

We are celebrating the birth of 2 new babies in the Holy Trinity Family. Ben Davis (4 Green) and his wife Sylvia welcomed a gorgeous baby girl Gabriella last week, and Caitlin Waslin (2Red)  and her husband Brett welcomed a beautiful baby boy, Louie Michael. We hope they are both enjoying this precious time together as a new family.

Rostrum Public Speaking Competition

The Rostrum Primary Schools competition is a public speaking competition for all ACT and surrounding NSW schools. The students from Years 3-6 listened to nine students present a rostrum speech on set topics ranging from a new Olympic sport to Thinking Big. All competitors engaged the audience through effective use of voice, gestures, and eye contact. Congratulations to Romeo (5G) who will represent Holy Trinity at the Quarter Finals. Congratulations also to Pia (6R) who is our runner up. Thank you to our two judges, Mr O’Rourke (PYP Coordinator) and Mr Montesin (ELC Director) who had the difficult decision to choose our winner. The Quarter Finals will be held in June and we wish Romeo the best of luck!

Lisa Binutti-Wilson

Child Safety

Did you know that Catholic Education and our school has a Child Safe Policy which outlines our approach to child safety? This can be accessed on the Catholic Education Safeguarding Page. We encourage you to visit this page and review the policy. As part of our approach to child safety Emily Capper is our nominated Child Safety Advocate who works closely with our school regarding our approach and response to child safety matters. This involves pro active strategies to safeguard our students as well as responding to areas of concerns. Child safety encompasses many parts of a schools operation such as day to day activities, school events and school camps. We encourage you to contact us should you like to discuss this further. 

Special Tuckshop Day

Our wonderful Community Council have planned a Special Tuckshop Day on Tuesday June 4. Please order your delicious lunch on QKR, the last day for orders is tomorrow.

Trinity Sunday Feast Day

On Friday our Holy Trinity community celebrated the feast of the Holy Trinity, which honours the family of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We attended a special mass in the Holy Trinity Church and listened to the Gospel. Fr John asked us to think about the unconditional love of the Trinity and how it inspires us to deepen our love for one another. Students were also treated to a trinity themed ice cream to mark this happy occasion for our school community.

Global Schools Partners Fundraising – Coin Heart (Tomorrow)

We have a very exciting fundraising event happening on Friday (31st May)……our very own Coin Heart! As in previous years, we are asking students to please bring in any coins from home to make a Coin Heart, the more the better! There will be a prize for the class with the Coin Heart of the greatest value. So, start looking for that loose change and bring it to school on Friday! We are looking forward to being able to continue our support of our partner school in Kenya, Evaland Hekima.

Sacrament of Confirmation

Please ensure that your child is signed up for a home group and select your date preference for your child to make this sacrament.

We look forward to seeing Confirmation candidates at one of the Presentation Masses this weekend (Saturday 1st June 6pm, Sunday 2nd June 9:30am or 5:30pm).

If you have any questions, please contact Catherine Grinsell-Jones at the parish office on 6281 3999.

Catherine Joy

Acting Religious Education Coordinator 

Feelings can be expressed in different ways.

Our ELC classes have been exploring the concept of feelings and the varied ways that people express how they are feeling. Outcome 2 of the Early Years Learning Framework seeks to foster and develop children who have a strong sense of wellbeing. Integral to this, is the need for children to have opportunities to understand and develop their emotional wellbeing. This development becomes evident when children confidently communicate their emotional needs, share humour and happiness, take risks in their play and learning by seeking out new challenges, self-regulate and manage their emotions, as well as recognise the feelings and needs of others. Emotional development is both important and complex. 

ELC Facebook

Holy Trinity ELC now has a Facebook page, which we encourage you to follow. We will post updates, reminders and share some of the wonderful learning experiences that our children get up to.

Click here to follow us.

Last week, the Year 5 and 6 classes each had a session with Canberra author Stephanie Owen Reeder. Stephanie is an Ambassador of the Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge for 2024. Holy Trinity was awarded a visit from her because of our fabulous efforts with the CMRC this year.

Stephanie chatted to the classes about the books she has published, and the process involved. She has published many picture books, older fiction books and nonfiction books. Stephanie particularly loves historical fiction and factual books. She is an avid researcher and explained to the classes the importance of citing sources used and the importance of cross-referencing information sources.

Stephanie was really impressed with the children’s beautiful manners, questions asked and the number of her books we had in the library. Please check out her website here: https://stephanieowenreeder.com/

Happy Days,

Katherine Mertz x

Students celebrating their birtday this week are: Ethan D, Joey K, Marcus M, Madeleine T, Rosie R, Jurme S, Emme M, Sebastian C and Savio R. Congratulations, wishing you all a fabulous birthday.