Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

The Book Week theme for this year was: READ GROW INSPIRE!

The students wrote on a leaf a character from a book or person that inspired them or that they admire and it was lovely to see our ‘tree’ grow! Some of their inspirations were: Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ahn Do, Matilda, Taylor Swift, Ella Diaries, LeBron James, Messi and many more…..

The students enjoyed many activities throughout the week organised by Mrs Dowling, with the highlight being the book week parade! Here are some of the photos…….

Year 3 and 4 students have been working diligently every week to create small woven wall hangings. They all persisted through any difficulties and achieved great results. They also learnt how to make a Pom Pom (or two, or three) using their fingers. 
I’m super proud of all their hard work!

Father’s Day is a day for people to show their appreciation for their fathers, father figures and grandfathers. This special day reminds us how much we love our fathers, grandfathers and those who are like fathers to us. We take the opportunity to say THANK YOU for all they do for us.

Below is the Prayer Service I planned for Father’s Day. Teachers and students used this Prayer Service in their classes on Monday afternoon. We understand that not all the significant men in our lives could be with us. Families are encouraged to pray together as a family using the Father’s Day Prayer Service to recognise and thank the fathers, grandfathers and father figures in their lives.

On the 24th of July, the 5/6 level went on an excursion to Scienceworks as part of our current Science topic about Matter. Matter is everything around us that exists as a solid, liquid and gas.

We went to the planetarium and learnt about how physics would allow a aeroplane to fly in space and how a black hole behaves.

We also got a really cool demonstration on how things can boil when they become incredibly hot or cold by pouring liquid nitrogen onto a squeaky duck.

Overall, our Scienceworks Excursion was really fun and we enjoyed learning about all the different states of matter.

Here are some photos from our excursion to Scienceworks …..

On Wednesday 7th June and Friday 16th June our Year 5s and 6s represented Holy Trinity in Footy . The boys and girls were put into one big team for their footy games.

In the first match the HT played against Kent Park. It was a hard fought match and in the end the scores were 23– 26 which meant HT  won their first match.

After HT’s  first game the next match that HT  played was against Bayswater West. At the end of the  match the scores were very close but in the end HT  won the match.

The next game, HT’s third game was against Boronia K-12. The match was once again super close but in the end HT took the game home & was undefeated for the whole day 1.

Overall, both the boys and girls represented HT with pride and played really well!

Big thanks to Mr D for coaching & Belinda for helping out!

Another batch of amazing Dreamtime Dioramas and some very proud Year 3/4 artists.

Some more  3/4 artists with their amazing finished Dreamtime story Dioramas.
So proud of their hard work!

The amazing Year 3 and 4 students have created Dreamtime Dioramas based on a Dreamtime story they wrote during their class literacy sessions.
After investigating the art work of author and illustrator Gregg Dreise the students created the diorama and then made the animals in the story using magiclay.

These look sensational, they should be very proud of their hard work.
This is just a few of the ones that have been completed.

This morning, the students in 3/4 Blue learnt about Sorry Day and National Reconciliation. The students had a fantastic discussion about the rights of the indigenous and the stolen generation. The students decorated a hand to acknowledge the responsibility they have as our future generations to ensure all Australians are treated equally and with respect. 

This links the curriculum area: Identify how understandings between culturally diverse groups can be encouraged and achieved (VCICCD008)

This was the question the year 3/4 students explored during their prayer unit this semester.

They were invited to deepen their understanding of ‘what prayer is?’ and ‘what it looks like?’ through authentic dialogue and experiencing various types of prayer. Students came up with responses such as ‘prayer is communicating with God’, ‘prayer is tuning into God’, ‘prayer is loving God’ and/or ‘prayer is waiting on God’. Students learnt the skill of locating and reading scripture (Luke 11:1-5) from the Bible and made connections to how it relates to their own lives (The Lord’s Prayer).

As part of this unit of study, the year 3/4 students set up prayer spaces in their classrooms by designing and creating a class prayer cloth. Some classes even took them home to design with their family members as a way of praying and sharing their learning.

Check them out below!

In year 5/6 we have been learning about writing different persuasive pieces. We learnt about persuasive techniques such as exaggeration (hyperbole), rhetorical questions, groups of three and alliteration. We organise our ideas into paragraphs and as we are getting used to using the different techniques we have learnt to compose our persuasive pieces in a smaller time frame. We also did a post assessment and wrote a full persuasive piece. 

Some of the different topics we wrote about included why foods that are high in sugar should be banned. We learnt a variety of different sentence starters such as ‘the fact is ……’, ‘it’s easy to see why’, ‘this will cause….’ , ‘the time has come to …..’, ‘you must know …….’ , ‘did you know …..’ , ‘can’t you see …… ‘ and much MUCH MORE!

Not long after we finished our topic of persuasive texts we learnt about author’s purpose. The three of the author’s purpose are persuade, inform and entertain.

Here are a couple of samples of our persuasive writing …..

Wednesday 24th May is National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS)!  Our book this year is The Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young and Health McKenzie. Watch the slide show to learn more about NSS and some interesting information about sloths!