Leadership Communities
This term we have be super busy fundraising for our partner school Evaland Hekima in Kenya. Every two weeks we had a different frundraiser - Footy Fever, Crazy Hair, Crazy Sock, Coin Heart and Lolly Guessing Competition.
Coin Heart Day has been our most successful fundraiser. Students had to bring in coins to make the most valuable heart. Congratulations to Kinder Green who were our winners!!
One of our successes this term was getting every fundraiser done on time, sticking posters around the school and advertsing to the community. We also hope to reach our goal of $3000 for Evaland Hekima. We have had success throughout the fundraisers because we worked as a team and helped each other out. Teamwork did make the dream work!!!
Raising money for Evaland Hekima is so important as they are not as fortunate as us. They still are very much in the middle of the pandemic and still require PP equipment to keep them safe. They also need new toilets for the school. We hope our fundraisers help Evaland Hekima!
This term the ICT team has focused on support the younger students at coding club each week. We have enjoyed the company of the students who are willing to come at lunchtime to play with our robots and our newest addition to the robot team 'Apollo the drone'. Everyone loves him and a lot more people have been coming more than ever thanks to Apollo.
Our highlights and successes were coding club at lunchtime and preparing technology for NAPLAN with the keyboards and iPads.
We have been focusing on coming up with procedures for the new outside sports shed for the students to follow and supporting the teachers when organising sport carnivals. We have also focused on making sure the inside and outside sport sheds are clean.
Our highlights of this term was being able to come up with procedures on how the students borrow and return the equipment that we supply from the sports shed. Another success of ours was the new sports shed and being able to be the sports leaders that get to use the shed first and figure out what works for us.
Throughout Semester 1 the sustainability group has been working hard to make sustainable changes around Holy Trinity. For example, every morning we give sustainable tips to our school on how to make changes around Holy Trinity and our community. We have also worked in our gardening club to grow fruit and veggies for our canteen and for school families to take home. We encouraged waste free Wednesdays which was successful, so we now encourage to be waste free every day. Earlier this term we celebrated Earth Hour, with an afternoon of activities without the use of lights, aircon or technology. Thank you to the parent helpers who make cupcakes for the classes.
Our progress has been successful and has been shared with the founded of Plastic Free July, Rebecca Prince Ruiz. We were lucky enough to be invited by Rebecca to morning tea at Government House to celebrate the launch of Plastic Free July with Their Excellencies, and representatives of other organisations and schools.
We are now challenging teachers around our school to ditch disposable coffee cups in July and reduce the amount of single use plastics being used.
We also challenge families to join in with Plastic Free July. Find out more info here:
https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/
Thank you to John (grandfather of Laura 2G and Sam KW) who has been volunteering his time at Gardening Club each week. Please enjoy the photos of our students who attend Gardening Club. If you wish to help out at Gardening Club on a Wednesday at 11:10am, please contact Caitlin Meany - caitlin.meany@cg.catholic.edu.au
The wellbeing group met fortnightly with Mrs Casey to discuss ways to improve the wellbeing of all students. Unfortunately, many of our plans overlapped with other groups or had technical difficulties. However, we enjoyed restocking the duty bags which helped all the teachers and students. We also helped at the school canteen. Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we had 3-5 wellbeing leaders help by handing out lunch orders and helping bag the lunch orders ready for collection. We tried to implement a chill out zone where people who were overwhelmed by anything can go to, well, chill. Unfortunately, we were not able to find an appropriate place to put this zone so we were not able to set the plans in motion. We also began making posters of stickers to put around the school to direct students how to properly use the playground equipment, we were in the progress of making them but we did not finish them in time.
