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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.
- 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.
Philippa Brearley
Email: pbbrearley@gmail.com
Opening Mass
Last Friday we gathered as a school community to celebrate the beginning of the 2025 school year. We came together, asking God to bless our school community as we began another year growing in faith, hope and love.
Our school’s spiritual theme for this year is 'Pilgrams of Hope. Pope Francis has asked us to celebrate this year with a deep faith, lively hope and active charity. This means he wants each one of us to celebrate this year by trusting in God, looking forward with hope, and showing love to others through kind and caring actions
We also welcomed our Year 6 families, as our Year 6 leaders received their leadership badges. We asked God’s blessing on our new school leaders, praying that they will lead us with strong, empathetic, generous, and loving hearts.
Thank you Father James for leading our school in a beautiful Mass and to our Year 6 teachers for their on going support and guidance of our Year 6 leaders for 2024.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Thank you to our Year 3 parents who attended the Reconciliation Parent Information Night last week. It was a great information session and we look forward to the Home Groups starting soon. Workbooks to be sent home tomorrow if you have registered and signed up for a home group. Any further enquiries can be directed to the Parish Office ( 6281 3999/ wodennorth@cg.org.au )
Parent Sacramental Learning Opportunity
A reminder to our parents of students in Year 3 or above who are making their First Reconciliation this year, that there is an opportunity, next Tuesday night at 6pm, to learn more about the Sacrament that your child will be receiving this year. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is one of the two sacraments of healing, and therefore it is helpful if there is a good grounding and understanding of the sacrament. I encourage all parents to attend. If you are interested please email - emily.capper@cg.catholic.edu.au
Emily Capper
Religious Education Leader
Looking for a new home...
Our ELC have three trikes looking for a new home. Do you know of a local community group or organisation that we can consider gifting our yellow trikes to? Reach out to Damien Montesin if you have a suggestion!
Stay and Play
Stay and Play will start again in Week 5 of this term (5 March 2025), to allow our new ELC children to settle in to their new year. We look forward to welcoming pre-preschoolers, toddlers and babies with their parent or carers for this community playgroup.
ELC Facebook
Holy Trinity ELC has a Facebook page, which we encourage you to follow. It is a space where we share important news about our ELC and some of the wonderful learning experiences that our children get up to.
Click here to follow us.
| Week 3 | |
| Tuesday 18th February | Journey with Jesus Retreat - Year 6 |
| Tuesday 18th February | Community Council 630pm |
| Wednesday 19th February | Kinder Rest Day |
| Week 4 | |
| Tuesday 25th February | Parent Sacramental Learning Opportunity |
| Wednesday 26th February | Kinder Rest Day |
| Friday 28th February |
Year 6 Awards at Morning Assembly School Prayer Celebration - 230pm |
| Week 5 | |
| Wednesday 5th March | Ash Wednesday |
| Wednesday 5th March - Friday 7th March | Year 6 Camp |
| Friday 7th March | Year 5 and Music Awards at Morning Assembly |
| Week 6 - NAPLAN | |
| Monday 10th March | Canberra Day Public Holiday |
| Thursday 13th March | Year 4 Awards at Morning Assembly |
| Friday 14th March | Swimming Carnival (2-6) and Water Fun Day (K-1) |
| Week 7 - NAPLAN | |
| Friday 21st March | Year 3 and Library Awards at Morning Assembly |
| Friday 21st March | Harmony Day - Wear Traditional Dress or Orange |
| Friday 21st March | Harmony Day Prayer Celebration - 230pm Church 4R |
| Saturday 22nd March | School Fete |
| Week 8 | |
| Tuesday 25th March | PYP Parent Information Night - 530pm Library |
| Friday 28th March | Reconciliation Retreat Day - Year 3 |
| Week 9 | |
| Tuesday 2nd April | Community Council Meeting |
| Friday 4th April | South Weston Swimming Carnival |
| Friday 4th April | Year 1 Awards at Morning Assembly |
| Friday 4th April | Palm Sunday Prayer Celebration - 230pm Church 4W |
| Week 10 | |
| Tuesday 8th April | Sacrament of Reconciliation |
| Wednesday 9th April | Kinder Awards at Morning Assembly |
| Thursday 10th April | Holy Thursday and Good Friday Prayer Assembly - 2pm Hall and Church - Year 5 |
| Thursday 10th April | Cross Country Carnival 12pm |
The countdown to our Holy Trinity 2025 Fete is on!!
Raffle
The Holy Trinity raffle for 2025 went live on Monday this week! There are some incredible prizes to be won to the value of $22,250, including:
- Interior home repaint - $12,500
- Luxury Escapes voucher - $4,500
- Bannisters Mollymook Voucher - $2000
- Private tasting event at Prohibition Curtin - $800
- Weekend with a BMW and winery lunch for 2-4 people - $800
- EightySix South restaurant voucher - $600
- Hotel Realm accommodation + breakfast, Hayman Partners Monopoly Boardgame & Prohibition voucher – Total value $550
- Canberra Centre Voucher - $500
This year the raffle is online, and each class has been assigned a unique tracking code that give you access to purchase tickets electronically. The class who sells the most raffle tickets will receive a special lunch treat the week following the fete!
The money raised will go to the refurbishment and renovation of the two play equipment spaces used by the school and members of the local community on weekends.
Stall Coordinators
The Fete Committee has assigned stalls to grades this year as follows:
ELC – BBQ
Kindergarten – Snow Cones and Fairy Floss Stall & Book Stall
Year 1 – Garden stall
Year 2 – Cake and Icecream
Year 3 – Tombola Stall
Year 4 – Showbags Stall
Year 5 – Mad Hair/Nails/Tattoo/Face Painting & Obstacle Course
Year 6 – Haunted House & Chocolate Wheel
We are asking for volunteers to coordinate each stall on behalf of the grade. Given the short time we have before the fete, it would be really great if we could please have nominations for this quickly. Parents can absolutely be a stall coordinator with another parent – it’s a great way to meet people in our school community and socialise. Please send your nominations to:
Fete Rides
Pre-purchase wristbands for unlimited Fete rides – now available on QKR!
Save $5 by pre-purchasing your wristband for $25 via the QKR! app.
Unlimited Fete rides from 10am to 2pm include:
Supa Cha
Giant Slide
Cup and Saucer
Each child will receive a hard copy receipt for their wristband on Friday 21 March. This receipt must be brought to the Fete on Saturday 22 March and exchanged for a wristband at the Durkin Amusements Ticket Box. Please note, if your child is unable to collect the receipt on Friday 21 March, they can pick this up from the Information Stall on the day of the fete.
Wristbands will be available to buy on the day from the Durkin Amusements Ticket Box for $30
Individual tickets can also be purchased for the rides and Laughing Clowns game:
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Supa Cha |
$10 |
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Giant Slide |
$8 for 3 slides |
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Cup and Saucer |
$8 |
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Laughing Clowns |
$8 |
Showbags
Be the first to get your fete showbags!
We will have showbags for sale at the fete again this year, but if you get in quick on QKR you can be guaranteed to get the bag you want, for less!
You can choose from a range of novelty and confectionary bags including our favourite dog Bluey, our favourite cat Pusheen, or our other favourite cat Hello Kitty. Ultimate fidgets, or some Squishy things, for those that like to - well fidget! There is BBZ body for those who want all the skin care goods, or an NRL bag for some footy action. Otherwise, you can find something sweet with a range of confectionary bags too, like Jelly Belly beans and Chuppa Chups!
Get in quick and order yours before they sell out, as there is only a limited number of each bag. They are available for pre-sale before the fete, with novelty bags for $25 (RRP $35) and confectionary bags for just $10. Order yours now via QKR!
Volunteers
We are also seeking volunteers to assist with the set up and pack down of the Fete. The more volunteers we have for this – the easier it is on everyone. This will include setting up of marquees, tables and chairs at different points around the school, and then the return of the same items to school hall. Please send your willingness to help out to:
Chocolate Wheel
We are also requesting donations for the Chocolate Wheel. Donations can include gift vouchers (suggested value of $100, however we would happily accept vouchers of other values that can be put in a hamper with other donated items) and other items that would usually be given as a gift. Please send any offers of Chocolate Wheel donations to:
Other donations
Lastly, a reminder that we will be seeking donations of the following items in the coming weeks. Please feel free to start that book clear out you have been planning! Donations we will be seeking are:
- Marquees (to be used on Fete day only and returned)
- Meat, bread, onions
- Books
- Plants – any variety
- Tombola (glass jars with goodies such as treats, little toys, fidgets and other miniature stuff that kids generally like.
Please mark 22 March 2025 as Fete Day in calendars!
Holy Trinity Fete Committee
Email: holytrinityccfete@gmail.com
Welcome to 2025. I hope that you all had a lovely break and are ready for a big and busy year full of lots of good books and exciting adventures.
Just a few things to get the year started…
- Library lessons are once a week. Please take note of your child or children’s library day and send them in with a library bag and books to return.
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Monday |
Year 3 ELC- GP’s |
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Tuesday |
Kinder Year 1 |
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Wednesday |
Year 6 Year 4 ELC – RW’s / BC’s on alternate weeks |
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Thursday |
Year 2 Year 5 |
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Friday |
Library Administration Day |
- The library is open every day during the 2nd half of lunch - If the library crocodile is out, we are open.
Please remind your children to come along as it is a great place to read, sit, draw, talk quietly or play a game. - Each year, I look for parent volunteers to act as “Book Coverers”. If you have a spare hour or two, I will send home a bag of 10 books, per volunteer, per term. It’s not a hard job and I try to match the books to your family. If you feel up to the challenge, please email me at kate.mertz@cg.catholic.edu.au or send a note via your child. Get in quick as it’s a highly sort after position and the contact is the best!
On another note..
Term 1, Book Club Catalogues were sent home last Friday.
Every order will earn resources and books for our school.
All orders need to be submitted through the Scholastic LOOP online platform which is also explained to you on the last page of the catalogue. The LOOP app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.
Please submit any orders by Friday 28th February (Friday, Week 4). We got an extension on the due date as the catalogues were delivered to another school in our street and resided there for a week.
Online orders are sent to Scholastic every Friday (as they arrive) and books are be delivered to the school and handed out to the children as they arrive. It’s a staggered process as we get so many books.
Happy Reading,
Mrs. Mertz J x
FUTSAL NEWS- Coaches wanted!
We are entering teams in the ACT School Futsal Titles. The teams will be Year 3/4 Boys and Year 3/4 Girls and Year 5/6 Girls and 5/6 Boys. We will require the support of parents to coach the teams on the day to ensure the smooth running of our teams. Once we have established coaches we will invite students to nominate their interest in playing in this day. The competition dates are 5/6 Boys and Girls April 3 and 3/4 Boys & Girls April 7
The event will be held at MPowerdome Stadium, Fadden. If you are interested in coaching or managing a team please contact Krystal.Coker@cg.catholic.edu.au
Warm regards,
Krysta
Congratulations Milla!
Milla competed in the NSW OZtag Junior State Cup in Sydney, representing the ACT
Cougars U10 girls team. The girls played extremely well winning five of their six games,
in very hot and humid conditions, making it all the way to the semi finals.
Unfortunately they lost the game in the last five minutes with a well deserved try to the
opposition.
Congratulations to students celebrating their birthday this week: Samuel G, Isabella W, Harvey D, Angel A, Bridget G, Madeleine W, Eleanor S and Harry E. Wishing you all a fabulous birthday.
