This term the year 5’s have been doing Lego sessions with Mr Mullavey. The year 5’s had loads of fun building a variety of Lego models including an electric mixer, a helicopter and a chronoscope. We even built a wind power plant that we coded using the Wedo program on our Chromebooks. Lots of groups even got the power plant to work automatically!
Here are some pictures from our Lego sessions this term……
Recently, the year 5’s had a special day together where we learnt about leadership. This is in preparation for the year 5 students soon becoming the new year 6 leaders in 2023 and the additional responsibilities that come with this. We were lucky to have Miss Humphris and Mr Scutt come to speak to us about leadership and some good examples of who leaders are. We learned how leaders can be good at reading others and Mr Scutt showed how good a leader he is by outsmarting everyone.
The school also provided food for us during the day which was amazing! We got muffins, pizza, juice and icy poles. We also played games related to leadership.
Overall, it was the best day ever.
Here are some of the photos from our recent leadership day…..
On Wednesday the 7th of December the Year 5 were lucky to have the opportunity to do some Christmas cooking. Ms Lauritsen taught us how to make some coconut ice (Christmas style) and some of the ingredients included rice bubbles, condensed milk, sugar, coconut and food colouring. The year 5 students had a lot of fun with the cooking activities and we all got one slice of coconut ice to give to our family as well as a card that we wrote for them.
This is what our Christmas cooking looked like after it was wrapped …..
On Monday 17th October, two teams of students from year 5/6 represented HT at softball in the Knox Division Championships at Gilbert Park. As you can imagine the competition was very strong when competing against all the other district winners but we held our own winning two of the three games that we played. Unfortunately, we just missed out on making it to the regional championships where just missed out on percentage and finishing third overall.
Overall, we all had lots of fun and represented HT with great pride and displayed great sportsmanship throughout the day. Thanks to Mr. D for helping to train us throughout the last couple of months and for helping us to participate in the day.
During week 3, the year 6’s were fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in a Metro transport incursion. Matt, a community education officer from Metro transport, talked to us about the different ways we can travel on PTV, (Public Transport Victoria) so that we have experience for next year when we go to high school. The year 6’s learnt how to use a MyKi, the rules of public transport and the safety precautions we should take to ensure we have the best experience each time we travel. At the end of our excursion we took a test to see how much we had learnt and got the best score out of any school that Matt had worked with (a whopping score of 1,201).
Overall, we learnt a lot from our excursion and we all feel confident that we will have no trouble taking public transport once we begin attending secondary school.
Thank you to Matt for providing this opportunity for the year 6 students to learn about different ways we can travel around our city.
Last Friday (14 October), the year 5/6 students went on an excursion to Hampton Beach to learn about beach safety. We learnt what to do in a emergency (DRSABCD), how you should act at the beach and the rules you should follow at the beach. We also learnt some great beach games such as Giants Treasure and Capture the flag.
Overall, all the 5/6 students were thankful for the opportunity to participate in this day and it was a very fun and helpful for us.
Late in term 3 and early in term 4, the grade 6 students have been continuing to develop their STEM skills through participating in the Lego Engineers program. We have built made caterpillars, battle tanks, self flipping cars and a wind power plant. In addition, we have developed our coding skills by using the Wedo program on our Chromebooks to program the models to undertake different processes such as to spin faster, make a relevant sound and change colour.
Overall, our Year 6 students have thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Lego program and have learnt a lot of scientific skills and engineering knowledge that will hopefully help us with our learning as we move into secondary school.
Here are some photos of our recent Lego sessions ….
October marks World Mission Month which celebrities the global work of the Church who support those in need around the world. As a Catholic school we are responding the call of Pope Francis, to be a witness of love in the world.
Mission in action is never confined to a single person or to the present moment, but extends through communities, across generations, and eternally.
The Year 5 students have spent time in class learning about mission.
The Catholic Mission agency contributes funding and provides project support to critical church-run initiatives in Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America, as well as remote dioceses within Australia.
After learning all about mission the students have planned and organised a fundraiser to acknowledge and support the work of Catholic Mission. The fundraiser encourages the students and our school community to think not only of what they will do to help, but why they will do it.
Our Year 5 students have demonstrated teamwork, fairness, compassion and effort when planning and preparing the fundraiser. There will be three activities which students can participate in. The activities are a “silly sock” design competition, a soccer goal shootout competition and of course wearing “Silly Socks“! All activities are happening on Friday 4th November.
On Wednesday 24th of August and Tuesday 6th of September, the students from Years 5 and 6 students represented HT and St. Mary’s at tennis at Mountain Gate.
The students chosen to play tennis were divided up into 2 boys teams, Team A and Team B, as well as one girls team. Team A consisted of mainly Year 6 boys whilst Team B consisted of mainly Year 5 boys. The girls team consisted of both students from Years 5 and 6.
Some of the schools that we played against included Boronia K-12, Kent Park, Wattleview, St Judes and Scoresby. When Team A was playing games on court Team B would be cheering, counting the team’s points or practising and getting ready for their upcoming game. Then Team A and Team B would swap and it was great to receive encouragement throughout the day. Everyone was very enthusiastic even when the other schools were winning.
Overall, it was a very successful and well organised day with all teams winning some games. Well done to all students for their great behaviour and for representing our school with such great sportsmanship.
Here are a few photos of us in action at our games ……
On Wednesday August 24th and Tuesday 6th September the years 5’s and 6’s represented Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s at Interschool Cricket. The other schools that we played against included Wattleview, Scoresby, St Judes, Kent Park and Bayswater West and all games were played at HV Jones Reserve at Mountain Gate. We were divided into two team with team A being an all boys team and team B being a mixed team.
We were the first school to arrive at the ground so we had some time to practise our bowling and batting skills. Once all the schools arrived we ate some food and went to our assigned cricket pitches to play our games. Each school had an A and B team and for the first day the A teams played against the B teams.
On day 1 our A team was ‘on fire’ and won all their games while our B team played well but missed out on achieving any victories. However, on day 2 all the B teams played against one another and the A teams played the other A teams from the other schools. The B team showed how much they had improved throughout the competition by winning half of their games and once again our A team won all of their games meaning they were they were the champions of the entire tournament. As Division champion our A team will play against the winners of other Divisions at the cricket District Championship next term.
Overall, it was a highly successful two days for our cricket teams and they represented our school using the same TORCH values that they use at school.
Here are a few photos of our Interschool Cricket teams ….
On Wednesday the 24th of August and Tuesday the 6th of September the year 5/6 students represented Holy Trinity & St. Mary’s in Interschool Sports for Softball. The competition took place at Gilbert Park where we competed against teams from Knox Park, Bayswater West, Kent Park and Wattleview. Our school had two teams compete with one team being an all girls team and another a mixed team.
Both HT teams were very successful during the competition with both teams winning all of their matches on the first day except for the game between both Holy Trinity teams where the HT mixed team won.
On the second day of competition we were equally successful with Holy Trinity defeating Knox Park in the grand final by 8 runs. Both teams were premiers of the Scoresby district and will play against the other district winning teams in the Division Interschool Softball competition in term 4.
Overall, everyone really enjoyed the representing HT & St. Mary’s in softball and consistently demonstrated the TORCH values throughout the competition. Well done to everyone and thank you to Miss Tubby and Mr. D for helping to coach and prepare us for the competition.
Here are some photos of our softball teams ….
On Wednesday 24th of August and Tuesday the 6th of September the year 5 students represented Holy Trinity and St Mary’s in Interschool Sports for Volleyball. This competition took place at Boronia K-12 College and we played against teams from Knox Park, St Judes, Kent Park, Scoresby, Bayswater as well as Boronia K-12.
Our school had two teams play with one team consisting of all girls (Team 2) and one team being a mixed team (Team 1). Both teams played brilliantly in making it to the finals.
In the finals Team 1 won their match against Boronia K-12 but unfortunately Team 2 lost their match against Scoresby.
Overall, we had a couple of great days and everyone learnt so much about playing the game of Volleyball.
Here are a few of the photos from the days …..
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.
On Friday the 12th of August, the 5/6’s went to Dandenong Stadium to represent Holy Trinity at the Hoop Time competition. During the day each team played at least four games and many won enough games to qualify for finals. Our All Star girls team made to the grand final but sadly they just lost by 2 points in overtime. This meant that they were able to make it through to the next level which is a fantastic achievement. The All Star boys made it to the finals as well but they lost in the semis against Kent Park.
Each of our Hoop Time teams had at least a win during the day and they were very excited about it. Everyone had a great time and represented our school with the usual pride in the Hoop Trinity uniform.
Here are some photos from the 5/6 Hoop Time day …..
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.
On Wednesday the 10th of August, players from the South East Melbourne Phoenix NBL club came to HT. This visit was part of an RRRR incursion for the 5/6 students about managing emotions and feelings. The Phoenix players included Dane Pineau, Ryan Broekoff and Kyle Adnam who came to HT to talk to us about how they deal with the stresses of being professional basketballers as well as taking some time to play games with us on the basketball court. One of the highlights of the visit was that students could bring items for the players to sign. These items have become extra special now that they are autographed by famous NBL players and I’m sure the students will treasure forever.
Here are some photos from our recent NBL visit.
On Monday, the Year 6’s began working in groups to create their own ‘maths related’ board game. We have been working together on these games during Maths sessions throughout week and tomorrow (Friday) we will get an opportunity to play some of these games in our class. Some of the games included Monopoly, Wordle and Calculate to the top.
Overall, making our own maths board games fun and we are looking forward to reviewing and playing these games with one another.
Here are a few of our groups making the games this week ……
Last Thursday a team of 5/6 students were chosen to represent HT in football at Lewis Road Oval. We played three games. In the first game we played against Boronia K-12 where we won by about 6 goals. In the second game we played against Bayswater West where we played well but were beaten by about 30 points. In our final match we played against Scoresby and played a great game where we won by 45 points.
Overall, everyone had a lot of fun representing HT and wish we could have played more matches together.
Here are a few photos from our day ……
In Year 6 this term we have been focussing on developing our narrative writing skills. As we wrap up our narrative writing unit this week we had the opportunity to showcase our skills by writing a narrative as a group. Each group got a prompt and a story starter then as a group we worked together to compose a detailed narrative. Some of the topics we wrote about include a boot in a forest that miraculously took a step forward, a girl named Astrid who was holding an imaginary light and four friends who got stuck in a jungle with a portkey.
Overall, everyone has had lots of fun working in their groups and enjoyed the opportunity to combine our great ideas together.
Check out some year 6’s working in their groups.
