Dear families and carers,

This week we welcomed our teaching and learning coach, Sharyn Angel, from Queensland to share her insights around teaching and learning at Holy Trinity. As life long learners our staff are continually growing in knowledge and understanding of how students learn, and how we can support our learners to achieve their potential. Sharyn has been working with Holy Trinity over the past few years and we continue to embrace her knowledge and guidance for our school. It was wonderful to welcome Mrs Brearley back for the day, the students were very excited to see her in their classrooms and share their stories of the past 2 terms. 

Father's Day Breakfast

Last Friday we held our Fathers Day breakfast, these events do not happen without the wonderful support of our Community Council. A huge thank you to the organisers, Michelle & Steph, and the many volunteers at breakfast and for our Father's Day Stall. It was beautiful to watch the students select a present that they believed their Dad would love! We hope all our dads had a wonderful celebration of love and appreciation. 

Tennis ACT Awards

Last weekend Mr Roweth and Mr O'Rourke were invited to the 2024 Tennis ACT Awards Presentation. Holy Trinity were awarded the Most Outstanding School, this is  only possible with the dedication and enthusiasm of our teaching team, a well deserved award for our school! 

Tournament of Minds

This weekend we have 6 teams representing Holy Trinity in the Tournament of Minds.Tournament of Minds is a problem solving program for teams of 7 students. They are required to solve demanding, open-ended challenges from one of the following disciplines:

• The Arts
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
• Language Literature
• Social Sciences

We wish our students well for their presentations over the weekend.

Learning Journeys

Next week we will open our classrooms for Learning Journeys. This celebration of learning involves students taking parents and carers on a visit to their classrooms before or after school, on Monday September 9 and Wednesday September 11.  Learners will celebrate their growth and showcase their learning across the curriculum, providing a window into the learning experiences and opportunities for meaningful conversations.

Learning Journey Open times:

Monday September 9 8.30am-9.00am & 3.15pm-4.00pm

Wednesday September 11 8.30am-9.00am & 3.15pm-4.00pm

Have a wonderful weekend when it arrives. 

Prue

Father’s Day Prayer Celebration

On Friday afternoon we honoured all the fathers and father figures in our lives with a Prayer Celebration in the Church hosted by Year 2. Thank you very much to Mrs Gerbich, Miss Hart and their talented students for teaching us about the gift of all fathers. Those who are birth fathers, adoptive fathers, foster fathers, stepfathers and father figures. We hope all the wonderful Dads in our Holy Trinity community were spoilt on Sunday!

 

Please see below a video montage paying tribute to the Dads of Holy Trinity!

Sacrament of First Eucharist

We look forward to our First Eucharist Retreat Day on Friday 6 September (tomorrow). All our Year 4 students from Sts Peter & Paul, Holy Trinity and candidates from other parish schools will participate in this Retreat Day. Year 4 students are invited to wear free clothes to school for this special day. No lunch orders please.

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

Catherine Joy

Acting Religious Education Coordinator

The Great Book Swap

There was a heart-warming buzz in the air this week, as we welcomed all Holy Trinity students and staff into our ELC for the Great Book Swap. We were very impressed with the generosity of families in donating good quality books for the swap - thank you. It was a joy to see so many young learners excited about books and to see everyone walking away with a 'new' book to explore and enjoy.

Our ELC team are keen to express their gratitude for the gold coins and donations that have been made. We are extremely proud of our collective efforts in raising over $860 for the important work of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

Click here to donate!

Mountain of Mulch

As many would have seen, the ELC has a mountain of mulch that needs to be moved into our playground... and we need a hand. 

Contact Damien Montesin if you have 30 minutes to gift to our mulch project.

** Thank you to the Dempsey family for their committed effort
over the weekend to move our new sand into the sandpit. **

 

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 Friday we concluded our Book Celebrations for 2024 with our very first ‘HT Magic Show’. It was fabulous fun and after our live sessions with THE Magic Mike lots of kids were eager to show off their magic skills. Some of our up-and-coming magicians even watched Mike’s YouTube channel and copied his tricks. All in all, we had 15 registered magicians plus judges, security, a running order, music, props set up and entertainment between acts.

The magicians were spectacular and kept us all entertained for a good hour. The cards tricks were impressive, the magic wands and hats kept us all guessing, the teleporting cups, the disappearing coins, the pokers faces, and mystery guests all added to a wonderful experience.

Thank you to our brave magicians from Kinder to Year 6, Mrs McDevitt for assisting and our security guards for keeping the crowds in line.

 Last but not least, it was also really lovely to see the volunteers just nod and smile if a trick didn’t actually work – God Bless thoughtful kids.

That’s a wrap – Book Week 2024 is done, Amen.

Kate M

Congratulations to Audrey, Holly, Aaliyah, Rachel and Emily who won their AFL under  12's Grand Final on the weekend! Extra conngratulations to Aaliyah who was name player of the match! Go Girls!!!

Please notes dates can change