Dear Families and Carers,

Next Monday May 27, we will be celebrating Reconciliation Day as part of National Reconciliation Week. At Holy Trinity we held our Reconciliation Action Plan meeting this afternoon, with members of the working group coming together to set goals and priorities for our school community. We are committed to ensuring all students will experience explicit opportunities to learn from First Nations people and prioritise embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures across the PYP Units of Inquiry.

Reconciliation Day and Reconciliation Week are an opportunity to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and our national story. We are looking forward to the events our Year 6 Reconciliation group have planned for the school across next week. 

The beautiful art work above was created by proud Ngunnawal and Ngambri man, Budda Connors, for the St Vincent de Paul Society Canberra/Goulburn, this piece is titled 'Caring for Others'. As described by Budda: The large circle represents both Ngambri and Ngunnawal peoples.The smaller circles represent our neighbouring nations: Wiradjuri, Yuin, Ngarigo, Gundungurra and Walgalu. The dotted painting that looks like mountains and represents the Brindabellas. The background is the ancestors of our neighbouring nations, and the lines represent the Murrumbidgee.

Year 2 Assembly

Year 2 Red shared their learning at assembly last Friday. The learners presented their Sharing the Planet inquiry, where they inquired into

• Earth's place in the solar system
• The impact of human activity
• Our responsibility to be stewards of Earth’s resources

The students were able to share ways we can all be stewards of the earth, protecting our resources and taking care of the environment. Their storytelling of "Alone" was both entertaining and informative. 

Cool Kids

Holy Trinity will be running the “Cool Kids” support program again this year for students in Year 2 to Year 6. The Cool Kids Program is a world renowned cognitive behavioural therapy program developed to teach children and parents skills that address anxiety.

The program helps children to recognise emotions such as fear, stress and anxiety. As well as helping them to challenge beliefs associated with feeling nervous and encourages them to gradually engage in fearful activities in more positive ways.

There is an additional component for parents that informs them of these principles and teaches alternate ways of interacting with your child.

The program will run for 9 weeks (1-hour session per week) and will take place during school time. There will be around 6 - 8 students in a group.

If you think your child would benefit from this program, please email Emily Capper Emily.capper@cg.catholic.edu.au  We have also asked teachers to nominate students in their class, who they think would benefit from the program.

Special Tuckshop Day

Our wonderful Community Council have planned a Special Tuckshop Day on Tuesday June 4. Please order your delicious lunch on QKR.

Year 6 Initiatives

As part of the Year 6 Inititaives, the Sustainability Group have sourced 2 Purple bins for recycling bottles and cans. The group have spoken to our students about placing any cans, bottles or juice poppers that have the recycling logo into the purple bins. Each week the group will empty the bins and we will be depositing the cans to raise funds to continue sustainable projects around our school. If you would like to collect cans from home please send them into school in a garbage bag for our bins. 

2025 Enrolment

We are coming to the end of the enrolment period for our 2025 ELC and Kindergarten intake. For more information and application, visit the Holy Trinity school website.

Current ELC families are required to submit an enrolment for Kindergarten.

All enrolment applications must be submitted by the end of May 2024.

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.

Leaves, leaves, leaves!

RE News

Mini Vinnies Leadership Afternoon

On Friday afternoon four of our Year 6 students – Hugo, Romeo, Clara & Rachel attended the Mini Vinnies Leadership Workshop. The theme of this workshop was harmony. Students were able to connect with other schools and discover what we can be doing to give a ‘hand up’ to people in the community. We look forward to implementing some of these outreach initiatives at Holy Trinity.

Global Schools Partners Fundraising – Coin Heart

We have a very exciting fundraising event happening next 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 next Friday!

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.

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

Parish of the Transfiguration Newsletter – Summer & Autumn 2023-2024

Please see attached the Parish Pastoral Council Newsletter. PARISH_OF_THE_TRANSFIGURATION_NEWSLETTER_SUMMER_AUTUMN_2024.pdf

Catherine Joy

Acting Religious Education Coordinator 

Yesterday, Wednesday, 22nd May, the Holy Trinity Community gathered in the hall and participated in the 2024 National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). 

Aura Parker welcomed us all, then read aloud her book ‘Bowerbird Blues’… 

Bowerbird Blues stars a beautiful bowerbird on the search for (you guessed it) BLUE!  It’s a moving story of longing and connection, that unfolds as the bowerbird’s search sends him soaring across the sea, sky and city. He swoops and snatches vibrant treasures for his collection, and soon his bower – a mix of natural and unnatural objects – attracts something greater and more fulfilling than he could ever have imagined…Love xx 

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We finished up the NSS with some fabulous bowerbird activities which included the kids racing around the hall using a pair of tongs to collect blue Mentos and we then pinned the blue lollies to the bowerbird’s mouth. It was hysterical and very loud. We also watched a short bowerbird information clip and found out that there is actually a Satin Bowerbird living in Curtin. 

Thank you to all those who wore blue and brought in a small bird to hold, the kids looked great, and the stuffed birds made us all smile. 

This year there were 2 341 490 registered participants in the NSS, from over 59,088 locations. Every year the event numbers increase by 1000’s. 

At the conclusion of the event, classes went back to their rooms and completed a range of activities based on the book. 

Please click on this Book Creator Resource to connect to a fabulous resource that has a wide range fun activities related to ‘Bowerbird Blues’. 

Happy Days, 

Kate M x 

Students and staff celebrating their birthday this week are: Olivia C, Grace T, Alice G, Emily G, George B, Ted D, Sebastian R and Mrs Lee. Congratulations, wishing you all a fantastic birhday.