Dear families and carers,

Welcome back to term 4, it has been a pleasure to see all our students return eager to share stories about their break and ready to settle into our final term of learning for 2024. This term we welcome 2 new families to our community, the Kent family in 4 Green and the Roxburgh family in Kinder Green, we know they will love being a part of our community.

This term will fly by with so many exciting events to look forward to, please check below in the Term 4 key dates to ensure you have saved the date to join us for the celebrations ahead.  

It has been lovely to welcome back Ms Shaw from her maternity leave, she has joined us in our classroom support team for this term and we welcome back Liam Cashion from his term 3 European adventure. 

Swimming Program - Weeks 6 and 7

Today a hard copy Student Enrolment Form will be coming home with your child. This must be completed and returned to your child's classroom teacher ASAP. This is a requirement from Stromlo Leisure Centre, where our swimming lessons will be conducted. Thank you for doing this quickly, so that our swimming lesson admin can be organised.

Archdiocesan Assembly

This weekend the leadership team and members of the parish will be participating in the Archdiocesan assembly where the themes of Encounter, Discipleship and Mission will be explored through conversations of the Spirit. We are looking forward to the discussions and opportunities to collaborate as a Catholic community.

Fete

This week we have begun the preparations for the our Fete in March 2025. This evening the Community Council is holding the first Fete meeting. We would love to have as many people join us in the planning and preparation of this event. The funds raised at our Fete allow the school to purchase a variety of resources and equipment for all our community to share and enjoy! Please join us either in person in the staffroom or via MS Teams at 6:30pm 

Save the date

Our Community Council will be hosting a Colour Run fundraiser on Friday November 15. More information will be available next week. The funds raised will go towards purchasing 2 sets of sports shirts for representative teams at gala days and sporting events. 

We look forward to a wonderful final term of teaching and learning.

Prue 

Day for Daniel – Friday 25 October (Week 2)

This year Holy Trinity will be participating in Day for Daniel next Friday 25 October 2024 (Week 2).

Day for Daniel is the Daniel Morcombe Foundation’s National Day of Action for child safety awareness and education. If you would like to find out more about the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, please visit their website: https://danielmorcombe.com.au/

Next week, our students will partake in child safety lessons about how to stay safe in physical and online environments.

Students are asked to wear a red piece of clothing to school next Friday (t-shirt, socks, hair ribbons etc.) No donation required.

Catherine Joy

Acting Religious Education Coordinator

Communities

Our next Unit of Inquiry will focus on the concept of communities and the ways that communities help and support each other. An integral aspect of this inquiry will be to invite community members (parents, grandparents and friends) into our ELC to share with the children about how they are connected to the community - either through their work, volunteering or community group. We warmly invite you to make contact with us to chat about the possibilities of you or someone you know sharing some time and insight with us this term.

Materials to foster curiosity and creativity

We are keen to increase our supply of loose parts items, for use in our inside and outside environments. Perhaps you have something at home or from your workplace that is not needed anymore... but, could be of great use to us? Something that we are particularly interested in is scrap paper (of all shapes, sizes, colours). Here are some ideas:

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.

It is that time of the year and the ELC is participating
in the healthiest fundraiser around!

The crop is looking great and is shaping up to be a good season. Trays of Bowen Kensington Pride mangoes, direct from tropical North Queensland will be delivered to the ELC in Term 4, Week 8 (week beginning 2 December 2024).

Trays cost $29 and are approximately 7kgs
(between 12 and 20 mangoes).

Orders are now open and close on 28 October 2024.

Get in now and order your tray of mangoes on Qkr!

Congratulations to the following children on winning a Scholastic Book Club voucher for their efforts (at an individual level) in the 2024 Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge. 

Year 5/6 - Juliette F, Sophie B and Pia L 

Year 3/4 – Antonio J, Molly W and Ayra R 

ELC to Year 2 – Zara Z, Arnhem P and Maia R 

We had over 60 children complete the 30-book challenge in the 12-week time frame. Some children read over 100 books. A fantastic effort. 

Last but not least (and to tie in perfectly with the CMRC individual prize winners) -  Scholastic Book Club Catalogues were sent home this week. All orders need to be in by Friday, 1st November (Friday, Week 3).  
This will be our final book club catalogues for the year. 

God Bless Good Readers, 

Kate Mertz. 

Tennis

Congratualations to Odin who has been selected among the best 10/u player from around Australia to compete in the prestigious AO super 10s camp at the Australian Open 2025!!

Odin is also selected to represent ACT at 10s Championships this coming weekend in Bathurst from 18th- 20th October.

Futsal

Congratulations to Aaliyah, Emily McCann and Emily Gaykema attended the National School Futsal Championships on the 27-30 September in Brisbane. The girls did extremely well winning 5 out of 6 games putting them through to quarter finals. Unfortunately we were beaten by Tasmania.  

Aaliyah was also selected in the top ten all stars team for her age to represent the Australian futsal team in Barcelona in 2025.

Taj, Sam and Ben also all played extremely well just missing out on a spot in the finals. 

Please notes dates can change

Congratulations to staff and students who celebrated thier birthday in the holidays: Thomas M, Daniel B, Isabelle M, Kai W, Anastasia V,Dylan J, Annmeryn J, Max L, Reuben I, Lianna M, Ethan N, Xavier N, Stella J, Juliette F, Mrs Gerbich, Mrs Brearley and Mrs Sheargold. Wishing students a very happy birthday who are celebrating their special day this week: Evelyn B, Jayden W, Oliver T and Ben D.