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Lego Engineering Program

Lego Engineering Program

This term in Digitech the students in years 3 to 6 have been participating in the Lego Engineering program. The students work in groups to build the Lego model whilst learning about the forces that help to make it work. Most models require a motor and some use a special bluetooth motor that can can be controlled using the Wedo program on our Chromebooks.

The 3/4 students have built a variety of models including a crane, railroad barrier and a towing vehicle. The 5/6 students have built a forklift, battle-tank and a caterpillar robot.

We are all learning lots of skills and knowledge about how different machines work in our world as well as having fun with building the different Lego models.

Here are some photos of models that we have built recently.

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District Cross Country

District Cross Country

On Friday 19th of May 58 students from years 3 to 6 participated in the Scoresby District Cross Country. The event took place at Jells Park. Despite the cold and wet conditions, these students represented our school with pride and tried their best. We are very pleased to announce that HT were the overall District champions, which is a wonderful achievement following our recent success at the Athletics District event. We are very proud of all the students! A number of students have also qualified for the Division Cross Country on the 2nd of June.

A big thank you goes to Mr. D and all the parents who have helped to train us to be ready for this cross country event.

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Cross Country at HT

Cross Country at HT

On Monday (8th of May) all the students at HT and St. Mary’s participated in our school’s annual Cross Country event. The students walked to Egan Lee Reserve to complete the run. Even though the weather wasn’t ideal everyone tried their best & had fun! The younger students ran 1 lap of the track (1km long), the students in the 3/4 level ran two laps and the older students ran 3 laps.

The preps were lucky enough to run with their buddies. Even though many students felt quite nervous leading up to the event it was great to see so many students doing their best and ‘getting active’.

Thanks to Mr D for organizing this day and for all the parent volunteers for helping with running the event!

Here are some pictures of a some of our ribbon winners after their events ….

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3/4 Lego Sessions

3/4 Lego Sessions

Late in term 1 and early term 2 the 3/4 classes have been participating in Lego Engineering sessions as part of our Digitech program.

The program helps to develop the students’ skills and knowledge in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) whilst building a variety of models. Some of the models that the 3/4 classes will build this semester include a ferris wheel, conveyor belt, blender, car lift and trailer. We even coded a high speed fan using our Chromebooks.

Here are the students in action from some of our recent Lego sessions …..

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Year 4 St. Joseph’s College Taster Day

Year 4 St. Joseph’s College Taster Day

At St. Joseph’s we did lots of sport in the big hall, we also did science, STEM and music lessons. It is a really good school, every time we went into a room someone new would greet us! Jackson.

Last week we attended St. Joseph’s College, we did STEM and sport classes. In sport we played basketball games called Golden Child and Popcorn. In STEM we made rockets and tested them in a rocket contest, Harrison and I came in last place. We had a great time! Brodie.

When we attended St. Joseph’s College we attended the science class and learnt about elements and we also looked through a black light box to see how light is broken into different colours of the rainbow. Then we looked into different tubes which contained elements like sodium, neon and hydrogen gas. The teacher also showed us how he could shoot a laser into a mirror and then it bounced off onto the target. Owen.

 

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Year 4 Camp

Year 4 Camp

On the last week of term one our Year 4 students travelled to Yarra Junction for their camp at ADANAC.

It was a very exciting camp for everyone with great weather and lots of fun activities.

Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves particularly as it was the first overnight camp for many of our students.

Here are a few pictures of our year 4 students in action at camp ….

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Prep – Yr4 Swimming

Prep – Yr4 Swimming

Each Friday this term there has been lots of excitement amongst our Prep to Year 4 students as they have been have been participating in swimming lessons at Swim World in Glen Waverley. Each week the students dress with their swimming costumes underneath their school clothes. At their allocated time each class gets ready by putting on their swimming caps and goggles and then they go on the bus to Swim World.

During swimming lessons the students have been learning a variety of skills including floating, water safety techniques and practising the different swimming strokes.

Last Friday, the students brought along some old clothes to wear in the pool to practise what a person should do if they were to fall into the water. The students seem to really enjoy this adventure!

Overall, the students are having a great time at their swimming lessons and are looking forward to the last fun lesson this Friday.

Here are a few photos of the students in action …..

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Harmony week in 3/4 Yellow – Everyone Belongs!

Harmony week in 3/4 Yellow – Everyone Belongs!

As part of Harmony week celebrations this week, Daniel Mobtadi from 3/4 Yellow shared part of his Iranian culture with his classmates during morning prayer. He shared his family traditions around celebrating Nowruz (Persian New Year) which was on the 21st of March. Daniel created an informative slideshow about Nowruz and prepared a Sofreh Haft-Sin, which means ‘The cloth of seven dishes’. He explained the significance of each of the 7 symbols and why they are used to celebrate the beginning of the Iranian new year. Daniel finished by giving everyone a red apple that symbolizes beauty and health.

Daniel showed great courage as he shared insights about his culture which was well received by the class. What a great way to embrace diversity and show respect towards others at HT!

#loveoneanother

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School Athletics Day

School Athletics Day

On Monday 20 February the students from Grades 3 to 6 went to the  Bill Sewart Athletics track in Burwood to participate in our school athletics day.

Students participated in a range of athletics events including the field events of long jump, discus, high jump, shot put and the running events of 800 m, 200 m and 100 metre sprint.

There were so many impressive results with lots of students achieving personal bests and some even participating in events that they had never participated in before.

Everyone had a great time and many students were chosen represent the school in district athletics championships in May.

Our Age Champions for this year were ….

Year 3 – Patrick S & Peyton

Year 4 – Owen V & Audrey & Asha

Year 5 – Josh R & June

Year 6 – Lizzie & Darcy

The winning house for the day was Dominic (Red) with Bunurong (Yellow) – 2nd, Mackay (Blue) – 3rd and MacKillop (Green) – 4th taking the remaining places. Congratulations to everyone in Dominic House!

Here are a few of the photos of some of our age champions and Oliver displaying holding the shield as the winning house captain.

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School Production – The Land of Dance

School Production – The Land of Dance

There is lots of excitement around HT & St. Mary’s at the moment (particularly around the Italian room) as 2023 is going to be a School Production year. The theme for this year’s production is The Land Of Dance and our school concert will take place towards the end of term 3. Each class is learning their choreography songs and theme and over the coming months they will learn about the dances and costumes they will be using.

The auditions of the different parts of our production have been taking place over the past couple of weeks. The 5/6 students were given the opportunity to audition for these parts.  Seniora Formichelli is filming each auditioning character and then these videos will be shown to the Italian Production Committee to decide on who will be the different characters. Some of the different characters in the production include nonna, nonno, the mayor and the bus driver.

Seniora Formichelli has been working on putting the whole production together since last year and we are very lucky to have her helping to create so much excitement for the concert.

There will be lots of different posts on the school blog over the coming months as the production gets closer.

Here are a few photos from the recent auditions …..

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Year 3 Enchanted Adventure

Year 3 Enchanted Adventure

On Thursday, Year 3 set off to Enchanted Adventure as part of our unit on bridges.
We had so much fun exploring the canopy walk that had wobbly wooden and mesh bridges.
We also saw concrete and pebble bridges in the amazing mazes.
Though most of all we loved the tube sliding, where we also explored force by sliding very fast down plastic tubing which was like a bridge.
We had a fantastic day exploring different types of bridges and how they can be used in something so fun!!!

 

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3/4 Regional Hoop Time Championships

3/4 Regional Hoop Time Championships

On Wednesday the 19th of October, two teams of 3/4 students were chosen to participate in the Regional All Star Hoop Time Championships at the State Basketball Centre. This was after our Future Star team also played in the Future Star Competition  a week prior. Our All Star boys team won all their matches including the grand final against Monbulk Primary. Our All Star girls team also won all their games including a close win in the grand final against Scoresby Primary where they got the job done in the final few minutes.  Our Future Star team also was successful in their grand final which is an amazing result for HT where our All Star Boys, Girls and Future Star teams made it through to the State Hoop Time Championships later on this term.

Well done to our 3/4 students and not only making it through to the State Championships but also using the TORCH values throughout the day as they represented HT. We can’t wait to hear what happens in a few weeks time.

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Year 3 Lego Sessions

Year 3 Lego Sessions

During term 3 the students in the Year 3 classes participated in the Lego Engineering Program as part of our Digitech curriculum at HT. The program helps to develop the students’ skills and knowledge in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) whilst building a variety of models such as a catapult, racing car, pantograph and carousel. During these lessons we learn about some of the different forces that help these machines work and students work with a partner to follow a series of instructions in order to build the model. We also look for ways to innovate our designs to help them to go faster, safer or work with greater accuracy. In our final session we learnt to use the Wedo program to code our machines to do a series of moves including changing speeds, changing the colour of the LED lights and even changing direction.

Overall, the year 3 students learnt from participating in the Lego Engineering Program which will serve them well in their learning throughout the curriculum. We look forward to continuing this program with these students in years 4 and beyond.

Here are some pictures of our students working during our Lego Engineering lessons.

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The Emmaus Production

The Emmaus Production

Earlier this term the students in years 4 and 5 were lucky enough to attend the production of Anastasia at Monash University performed by the students of Emmaus Collage,

So many of our students were amazed by the costumes, the lights, the storyline. Overall most of us thought the Production was amazing and the cast were brilliant!

This is what a couple of our year 5 students thought ….

Alexa: The production was amazing they did so quick with the dressing and did really well with the singing/lines.

Ethan: Amazing, no mistakes, clean and auto was very good.

We thank Emmaus College for the opportunity to attend the Anastasia Production and many of us will aspire to perform in productions like this in the future.

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Mater Christi and St Joseph’s Taster Day!

Mater Christi and St Joseph’s Taster Day!

It was a very exciting day for our year 4 students last Tuesday (30th of August) as they had an opportunity to go to secondary school for a special taster day.  This was a chance for the year 4 students to learn about what life is like at high school as the girls attended Mater Christi College, Belgrave and the boys went to St Joseph’s College, Ferntree Gully.

At Mater Christi the girls made some slime with rubbing alcohol in a science lesson and they learnt how to open a padlock which will be a skill they will need to use when using their lockers in secondary school.

At St Joseph’s the boys made elephant toothpaste and tested out a Tesla coil as part of their science lesson and they  tried out some of the musical instruments which is part of the music program at St. Joes. A few boys commented about the size of a ‘real life’ grand piano.

This is what the students thought about their experience of their secondary school taster day ….

“It was very fun, entertaining and I really like the sport activity.” Liam

“It was an amazing experience and the girls were happy to have us into their community.” Madison

“I liked the science lab and St. Joes was very spacious” Chavez

“It was really fun and the students and teachers were really nice. It was great to see all the art there.” Bella F

“I liked the canteen and indoor basketball court.There as a lot of varieties of musical instruments there.” Sam

Overall, the year 4 students really enjoyed their experience at St. Joseph’s and Mater Christi and are very thankful to the schools for this wonderful opportunity.

Here are a few photos from the day ….

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ICAS @ HT

ICAS @ HT

ICAS has begun and is well underway with students in years 3-6 completing the English assessment today and Writing and Digital Technologies last week.  The ICAS assessments will take place every Tuesday for the next 2 weeks. The assessments in the coming weeks will include Spelling Bee, Science and Mathematics. These are fantastic assessment opportunities which allow learners to challenge themselves and be recognised for their academic efforts.

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3/4 Hoop Time

3/4 Hoop Time

On the 28th of July, all of the 3/4 students went on a very cool excursion to the State Basketball Centre to participate in the Knox Hoop Time Competition. The students from Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s competed against teams from Mountain Gate and Knox Park Primary schools.

For many students this was the first time they had participated in a competitive basketball match.

This is what a few students thought of the 3/4 Hoop Time day ….

Grace: “I thought the day was very fun and it was nice to come first with my team.”

James: “I  thought it was an amazing day (even better than I thought I would be).”

Hamish: ” It was exciting to be able to play against other schools and I thank Mr. D for organising this for the 3/4 students.”

Charlotte: “Everyone really enjoyed the day and I had a lot of fun playing the games against other teams.”

Holy Trinity had a very successful day winning both the All Star boys and girls competition as well as the Future Star boys and girls taking out the titles in their competitions. More importantly, it was great to see how so many students gained so much confidence as they played more games and how everyone displayed the TORCH values throughout the day.  Overall, the 3/4 Hoop Time was very cool for all the students.

We would like to say a big thank you to all our wonderful parents who volunteered their time with coaching and scoring during the day. Also, another thank you goes to Mr. D for all of his organising of this day and for the 3/4 staff who assisted on the day.

Here are a few photos from 3/4 Hoop Time day.

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Downball

Downball

On Friday the 27th of May, the 3/4’s and 5/6’s participated in a downball competition. The team from Downball Australia came to HT to teach us the game including giving us some expert tips and we all learned how to play officially play downball (old school edition).  It was a very fun day where we were able to have a epic grand final for each year level.

Congrats to the winners who were Brody, Sam, Joshua, Sean, Matthew, and Elliott.

Here is a video from our day ……

Written by Angel and Finn

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District Cross Country

District Cross Country

On Wednesday, May 25,  a group of students from Years 3 to 6 were selected to represent HT and St. Mary’s at the District Cross Country around Knox Athletics Centre. These students were the ones that were in the top places from our school cross country races in March.

The students in Years 3 and 4 were required to run 2km and the students in Years 5 and 6 ran 3km. As always it was a tough event but HT & St. Mary’s performed very well.

These are the students that qualified for the next level of Cross Country representation …..

Luke W, James W, Wyatt C, Lachlan G, Liam D, Jackson R, Brodie R, June B, Grace S, James G, Avery W, Olivia H (Years 3 & 4) Darcy B, Oliver W, James G, Eden W, Amelia F, ( Ella D, Nathan P, Abbey G, Mya D, (Years 5 & 6)

Overall, Holy Trinity came first at the District Cross Country which is an awesome result and a credit to everyone for their hard work.

Here are a few photos from our the event ……

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