This Week’s Gospel                               

Mk 12:28-34- The wise scribe asks Jesus which is the greatest commandment.

Jesus does not command us to love ‘God’ in  the abstract. Teaching Jew to Jew he says:  ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

THANK YOU!

We were absolutely delighted with Fete day last Saturday. We were blessed with good weather, wonderful crowds and so many helpers on the day.

The best part of the day was the 2pm Raffle ticket draw – thank you for purchasing so many tickets. Over 4000 tickets were sold. We are delighted to announce the winners:

1^st Prize:           CHRISTINE STEWART

2^nd Prize:          ANDY FAIRFULL

3^rd Prize:           LOUISE PAGE

We know you are all waiting expectantly for the final tally of funds raised. This will still be a week or two away as we finalise invoices and costs. We will keep you posted. Also, a survey will be sent home to all families in the weeks to come. We would love your feedback to help with future fete planning.

Fetes don’t just happen on their own and we’d like to take this opportunity to especially thank some people who have given a lot to make the day a success.

Thankyou…

Annette Cannell for the huge amount of behind the scenes financial fete work you did for us.

Shan Strugnell for ensuring the raffle ticket was organised so smoothly.

Maria Gagetti and Impress Printers for all the fete graphics and printing work.

ALL our stallholders that did so much to ensure their stall ran smoothly but especially to Jo Hamilton, Lana Eldridge and Lucy Mossop who spent countless hours in the months prior to make their stalls such a success.

Craig Wagstaff and Dave Pembroke – MC Extraordinaires; David Todd for giving up his day to staff the 1^st Aid station and Dan McKellar for being a trooper on the dunking toilet.

Steve Nano – for providing and running the sound component of the day.

To the many, many parents and grandparents who gave up time prior to the fete plus on fete day itself (led by Mark Bauer) helping with general tasks, in stalls, counting money, set up, pack up and more. You were terrific!

Year 5/6 students who worked so hard selling raffle tickets, creating craft and working in the stalls on fete day. You should be so proud. You were great leaders for your school.

All of our many sponsors and businesses who donated money or products to ensure we could cover as many costs as possible. Please continue to support them.

Phil, Katie, Beulah and all of the staff at HT for supporting us in so many ways.

And finally, fete day was all about our beautiful Holy Trinity children and we hope that you had a blast on the day. For us as a Fete Committee what made it so worthwhile, was knowing that everyone’s hard work was going towards getting new and exciting equipment for the robotics program, as well as a nicer play area for you to have fun on during your breaks between learning. Thank you for coming along and making it a great day.

Thank you Holy Trinity.

Lisa, Penny and Carmel - Fete Team 2018

P.S. Leftover food from fete day was donated to the wonderful Charity OzHarvest.

I can only reiterate what Lisa and the committee have said above-  Last Saturday was not only a most wonderful day for our community, but also a testament to what a committed community we have here at Holy Trinity.  I feel very privileged and blessed to be a part of this and days like last Saturday not only strengthen us as a community but also enable us to enjoy and celebrate together.  It was also wonderful to see so many of our ex- students come back and for many of our community groups around Curtin and the wider area present. 

Om Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, we have had the pleasure of conducting orientation mornings for our new families coming to Kindergarten and the ELC in 2019.  It is always such a thrill to introduce new families and welcome more of our existing family members into the Holy Trinity community. We have been very fortunate to have many enrolments come not only for Kindergarten but also other year levels throughout the school.  This has enabled us to have a 14th class next year, which will be in the 5/6 year group. 

We are also coming to that time of the year where staff are considering new avenues or their circumstances are changing.  It is with great sadness that we will be farewelling Bridget Welfare for 12 months, as she ventures on a temporary transfer to one of our country schools at Braidwood and Kristy Everding, who has spent almost the last 10 years here at Holy Trinity.  Kristy will be moving to St Clare of Assisi at Conder for a permanent teaching position. We wish both these staff members every success and thank them most sincerely for all they have given to our school over their time here.

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

Philippa

Remembrance Day Liturgy 

This Monday morning at 9.30am Holy Trinity will participate in our Remembrance Day Liturgy. Thank you to Ana Guterres, John Owens, Rob Gray, Lieutenant Commander Kevin Whiteside and Commander Michael Miller for leading us in such an important national and international day of remembrance. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. The liturgy will be held at the flagpoles at the front of the school, weather permitting. 

Orientation in the ELC

Congratulations to our preschoolers who have attended their orientation to their 2019 Kindergarten classes or who are soon to do so. As a regional preschool our children will be moving on to Holy Trinity, Sacred Heart, Sts Peter and Paul and St Bede's primary schools and other primary schools in the area.

The 2019 preschool children have attended their orientation this week over two mornings. It has been wonderful to welcome both new and returning families to the ELC.

2019 Before and After School Care 

The ELC is now taking enrolments for 2019, for Kinder and Year One students. Priority is for preschool children, siblings of preschool children and then Kinder and Year One students if space is available.

Tea Towels

The preschoolers have created a gorgeous tea towel as a memento of their time at the ELC. The tea towels feature each child's drawing of themselves. A sample image of the tea towel and order form will be distributed next week, $15 per tea towel or 3 for $40 or 5 for $65. The tea towels make great Christmas gifts for family and friends too.

Stay and Play

Every Wednesday morning from 9am-10am in the ELC Playground during school term. Pre-preschoolers and their parents, grandparents and carers all very welcome.

Why developing empathy in your child matters

by Michael Grose

Parenting is a socialisation process during which parents develop in their children and teenagers the skills and attitudes that will enable them to fit into the different groups they encounter. These groups will exist inside the classroom, in friendship groups, during sports and leisure activities and elsewhere.

This socialisation process needs to begin from a young age.

Initially, most kids believe that their world and everyone in it revolves around them. “I want” is their mantra. Patient, firm parents will continually remind children that they need to think of others. “It’s your brother’s turn.” ”Nanna doesn’t feel comfortable listening to that language.” “Think about how your behaviour affects others.” These are the types of appeal to a less self-centred approach that many parents make.

The socialisation process operates on two levels. On one level its focus is on teaching and helping kids to follow social rules or conventions that exist to help them get along with each other. At a deeper level successful socialisation develops empathy in a child or young person.

Empathy – the ability to understand how another person is feeling or how they respond to a behaviour or an event – is the basis of all respectful relationships. Without empathy it’s impossible for someone to enjoy a relationship based on respect and equality. It’s easy for a person who doesn’t practise empathy to reject, bully, intimidate or hurt someone else.

Empathy learned in childhood carries on to adult life

Empathetic adults enjoy better personal relationships and experience less stress. They also make better leaders who are more likely to get the best out of people than self-centred, result-focused leaders.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that empathy, if neglected in childhood, can be difficult to develop in adulthood. In some adults it takes a traumatic event or a ‘road-to-Damascus’ moment for them to adopt an empathetic perspective.

So, rather than wait until adulthood, let’s focus on developing empathy in your children and adolescents. There is a good chance they will benefit very soon in terms of enjoying better friendships, improved wellbeing and more success at school. Here are five ideas to get you started:

1. Model empathetic behaviour. Be kind even though the person in front of you in that queue is slow.
2. Read fiction stories to kids or encourage them to read fiction. People who read fiction score highest on tests that ask them to infer other people’s thoughts and emotions.
3. Praise kind and compassionate behaviours. The behaviours that parents focus on, even with teenagers, are those that tend to expand, so bring their empathetic behaviours to the fore.
4. Validate your child’s feelings. When a child shares difficult stories or emotions let them know you understand, without offering solutions or advice.
5. Invite your child to walk in someone else’s shoes. Occasionally ask your child a question like, “What would it be like to be feel tall like Tanya?”

Empathy is too important to wait until adulthood so make it a priority to develop a sense of ‘other’ in your child from an early age.

(Source: Parentingideas.com)

Swimming Program

A reminder that registration and permission forms are now due. If you have yet to fill in these forms can you please action this immediately.

Permission forms and registration links have been pushed out through SZaap. Please check the feed for the links.

Holy Trinity is excited to give students the opportunity to acquire essential life skills in water safety and survival through Royal Life Saving ACT. This is for all students in Kinder to Year 5.

The Royal Life Saving ACT Swim and Survive program is a series of 8 practical lessons which will ensure that every participating student has the opportunity to access structured aquatic activities during primary school day.

       TERM 4, WEEK 5 - WED 14 NOV

Team Leader: Paul Graham, Matthew Trinca, Johnny Tran, Jennifer Hinchcliffe, Michael Jurd

Last week we had the pleasure of having Sue from Bunnings Majura Park work with some of our Year 5 and 6 students in the Kitchen Garden. Bunnings Majura Park generously donated over $500 worth of plants and material to assist us to bring our kitchen garden back to life. The Year 5/6 students worked hard to ensure the soil was prepared. The learnt all about water beads, the benefit of straw and so much more. 

We also thank Moya K, a wonderful grandparent in our community who has worked weekly with our students in our garden. 

We look forward to sharing the produce from our kitchen garden in our classes and community. 

There have been 2 amendments to the Holy Trinity Cookbook.  If you have already received your Cookbook please note the following amendments:

Robyn's Chicken and Macaroni Bake - p87:

Please add 125gms bacon, diced to the list of ingredients

Hummingbird Cake - p151: Instead of the current measurement of pineapple and coconut - please correct the ingredients to :

440g can of crushed pineapple, drained  and

50g desiccated coconut 

Books that have not yet been distributed have had the amendment inserted into the front inside cover.

Well done to Rosie Norton who correctly answered the upper primary problem from week 3!!!

Week 4

Lower:

Pizza Place has just two big tables. If 7 people can sit around each table, how many people can be seated altogether?

Chicken N Chips also has two big tables. If 16 people altogether are seated, how many people are at each table?

Middle:

There are 2 pirates and 4 treasure chests on an island. The pirates have 1 small boat to take the treasure to their ship. The boat can take 2 pirates or 1 pirate and 1 chest of treasure. How many trips do the pirates have to take to get all the treasure and both pirates onto the ship?

Upper:

On Monday, RPS, Rosie and Mava share lollies that they've been given. Rosie has been given twice as many lollies as RPS, and Mava has three times as many lollies as RPS plus two lollies. They are given the same number of lollies each day up to (and including) Friday. Altogether, they are given 70 lollies.

How many lollies did RPS get on Monday?

New School Banking rewards now available!

Exciting new Term 4 rewards with a Super Savers theme are now available,
while stocks last!

                     

For every deposit made at school students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for exclusive School Banking reward items in recognition of their regular savings habits. There are two new items released each term so be sure to keep an eye out for them!

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program and remember, School Banking day is every Wednesday.