Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

Last Friday we celebrated all things Italiano! In the morning the students participated in a parade, a dance showcase and got to see a Fiat car on display.
The Prep/1/2 students danced il ballo di qua qua, the grade 3/4 students danced the tarantella napoletana and the grade 5/6 students danced the tarantella calabrese.
The grade 5/6 students were part of an Italian Poetry Drama Competition. All students did a fabulous job and the poetry judges were very impressed! Congratulations to the following students:
1st place: Brodie, Sienna and Ava
2nd place: June,Taya and Harper
3rd place: Gloria, Parthvi and Madison
Encouragement awards: Emily M and James G
Many thanks to Isabella Lepore, Kim Baxter and Erika Lagatta that came to HT to be the poetry judges.
In the middle block of the day the students participated in lots of fun games and craft activities. This included things such as: Pin the ‘naso’ on Pinocchio, Mario pop game, bocce, make the Leaning Tower of Pisa challenge, Italian flag cup stacking game, Pick up pasta game, paper plate Italian flag art, paddle ball designing and scratch art masks.
In the afternoon the students were entertained by Michelle from Spectacular Spettacolo. The bilingual show was called “L’ingrediente segreto” – the secret ingredient.

Synopsis of the show:
Giacoma Bonda is just an ordinary girl. She goes to school, walks home and most nights, she helps her Nonna make dinner. But there is one thing that her family doesn’t know…she’s also a secret agent, recruited by “L’agenzia” when she was just 12 years old.
Luckily she’s very good at her job, as Nonna has wandered off again. Giacoma’s mission is to find Nonna ASAP, as she’s the only one who knows the secret ingredient to the bolognese sauce they are making for dinner. Without it, the sauce is doomed…… Giacoma needs your help to solve the riddles and follow the clues. Only you can decide where we go next.
It was a very entertaining show and very interactive as well. The students had lots of fun!
All in all it was a wonderful day!
Check out some highlights of the day: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuqZQ1e7tqkpUe4poXazQZ4g77WtSvwP/view?usp=sharing

Viva l’italiano!
Signora Formichelli

What a spectacular Art Show our students showcased this week! Please find below a link to the music video that the Performing Arts club put together for the Art Show opening night and a link to some of the highlights of the evening.

Well done to Mrs Laming for another amazing Art Show!

It is my great pleasure to share with the school community our very own school song! The song was written by a group of amazingly talented students. I am so proud of each and every one of them for all the time and effort that went into putting this together. In 2021 these students had the opportunity to be part of a lunchtime Performing Arts club. During these sessions they did some singing and songwriting workshops. During the singing workshops they learnt about different singing techniques and breathing techniques. During the songwriting workshops they learnt about how to structure a song and write song lyrics. We decided to write a song about our fantastic school! 

The students worked in small groups and brainstormed ideas for our song lyrics. They also had a go at coming up with different melodies  for the song. Once we were happy with the lyrics and the melody, the students were lucky to have Jordan Glanville, a professional musician and sound engineer, make the music into a real song. I was hoping that we could go to a professional recording studio to record our song – unfortunately because of COVID we had to put these ideas on hold. 

In 2022 we continued to work on our song and even though we didn’t get to go to a real recording studio, with the help of my very patient husband – we set up our own recording studio here at school! Check out the music video that we created!!

What a wonderful tribute to our amazing school!

Josie Formichelli

Italian/Performing Arts Teacher

On Thursday 23rd June we were very lucky to have Tim Mason from the Melbourne Magic Academy come to our school to entertain the students with his magic show! It was lots of fun and the students had a great time. We are hoping to get magic classes started at HT  -more information about this will be coming soon. Check out Tim’s website for information about his classes and shows: https://www.magicacademy.com.au/

Click on the link below to see highlights of the magic show:

Have a great break everyone!

Ciao a presto

Signora Formichelli

On Thursday 9th June we celebrated Italian day and Trinity Feast Day. It was a great day with many wonderful activities including a parade, Roman bulla making, Ancient Rome escape room, bocce, Trinity feast day activities and mass. Check out the video link showing highlights of the day!

This week the students have been learning about what people wore in Ancient Roman times. They worked in small groups and had lots of fun trying to work out how to put on a toga! Check out the photos in the video below:

The students are very excited about our upcoming Italian Day/Trinity Feast Day celebrations. We will be celebrating this day on Thursday 9th June. The theme for Italian day this year is Ancient Rome. In class the students have been learning about life in Ancient Roman times. It would be lovely to see all the students dressed up on the day. Some costume ideas would be: Roman God or Goddess, Roman Emperor, Roman soldier, Roman man, woman or child or a Roman gladiator. A simple toga can be made out of a bed sheet or a costume could be put together simply with an oversized t-shirt, belt, rope or scarf.

Here are some examples:

Here is a youtube link showing you how to make a toga using a bedsheet:

Toga for boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gN3YiMZn

Toga for girls link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hWqIW–rQ

It is only optional to dress up as a Roman, students can also dress up in the Italian colours – green, white and red if they prefer.

There will be many fun activities organised for the day! We will be having a parade in the morning starting at 9.10am – parents are more than welcome to stay and watch the parade. The parade will be out on the basketball courts. The students will be entertained by the amazing Tim Mason from the Melbourne Magic Academy and will also participate in activities in their classrooms which will be centred around the Ancient Rome theme. After lunch we will celebrate Trinity Feast day mass in the community hall – parents are more than welcome to attend mass. This special mass will commence at 2.10pm.

Looking forward to a great day!

Viva l’italiano!

Signora Formichelli

Today the Preps celebrated ‘P’ day! It is our letter focus for the week and students came to school dressed up in anything starting with the letter P! We had pizza for lunch and popcorn for afternoon snack and we even did a parade for parents. All in all it has been a positively fabulous day!

Check out the video of our great day!

Prep P day.mp4

Miss Rooney and Miss Rodrigues

Prep teachers

As we come to the end of 2021 I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our HT and St Mary’s families  – Buon Natale! It has been a jam packed year but we made it!! The link to our Festa di Carnevale production was sent to all families via Operoo yesterday. There has been some lovely feedback from parents and students.

Best of luck to our graduating class of 2021 – Buona fortuna! Wishing you all the best as you go to secondary school.

From my famiglia to yours – Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!

Ciao Signora Formichelli

It has been another wonderful week in Italian/Performing Arts! This week we had a bit of a “masterchef’ challenge! The Prep/1/2 students had the opportunity to bake some bear cookies, if they were unable to do the baking they had the option of making an origami bear and the 3-6 students made ‘una pizza rustica’ – an authentic rustic pizza.

Our stars of the week for week 9 are:

The Prep star of the week is: Ashan

The grade 1/2 stars of the week are: Yianni, Madelyn, Oliver T, Samantha C, Lakshmi and Lauren.

The grade 3/4 stars of the week are: Gloria, OliviaH, Pierre, Cara G, Chantal and Ella V.

The grade 5/6  stars of the week are: Liv, Mya, Tazio, Sunny and Lucy.

Check out some photos that students sent in:

Ciao Signora Formichelli

It has been another fantastic week in Italian/Performing Arts!

This week the Preps revised the numbers 1-10. The Prep star of the week is: Anishka

The grade 1/2 students listened to a story called Orso marrone cosa vedi? – Brown Bear what can you see?  and learnt a new dance. It was great to see the videos of them dancing! The grade 1/2 stars of the week are: Ria, Yianni, Courtney and Chiara.

The grade 3/4 students continued working on an online investigation about Italy – this week they listened to a story called La macchinetta rossa – the little car. The car went on a race around Italy and visited lots of different monuments . Our stars of the week from this level are: EmersonD and LachlanG.

The grade 5/6 students have continued with their online study about Leonardo da Vinci. This week it was all about his inventions. Our stars of the week for this level are: Nathan,Liam, Noah and Holly.

Keep up the fabulous work everyone!

Ciao Signora Formichelli

It has been another fun week in Italian/Performing Arts! The Prep students learnt a new chant called Signor Pollice – Mr Thumb. They recorded themselves saying the chant and doing the actions. It made my day to see the videos and I was very impressed with the way the students acted out the chant! Fantastico lavoro!

The Prep stars of the week are: Jordan and Kaya!

The grade 1/2 students revised the body parts and learnt a new dance. It was great to see the videos of them dancing!

The grade 1/2 stars of the week are: Aarav and Ruby in year 1 and Thomas in year 2.

The grade 3/4 students have been working hard on an online investigation about Italy and completing some more modules in the Languagenut program.

Our stars of the week from this level are: Taya and Zoe B in year 3 and Chantal in year 4.

The grade 5/6 students have continued with their online study about Leonardo da Vinci. This week it was all about the Mona Lisa. Our stars of the week for this level are: Ella G and Charlotte in year 5 and Scarlet, Sunny and Ryan in year 6.

The grade 3-6 students have continued completing modules in the Languagenut program. The class that is leading the charge at the moment is – (insert drum roll here)  – 4 Yellow with an outstanding score of 443,200 points! Eccellente!

Our total medal tally:

3551 Gold

540 Silver

233 Bronze

And our world ranking is – 69.

Keep up the AWESOME work everyone!

Ciao Signora Formichelli

It is not too late to sign up to the after school magic classes at HT! Classes will be starting in week 2 of term 3 run by the very talented Tim Mason from the Melbourne Magic Academy. Classes are suitable for all students from Prep to year 6.

Click on the link below for more info!

Holy Trinity PS Term 3 Magic Classes (1)

Last term I placed a picture of the Mona Lisa on my classroom door. I waited all term for someone to notice that there was something a little different about this Mona Lisa. Finally on the very last day of term 1 Thomas in 6 Yellow said “Signora is that you?!!” Well done to Thomas you are our winner for finally noticing that it was Signora’s face on the Mona Lisa painting! Bravo!

Hello everyone! We are looking for donations of items for this year’s ‘Festa di Carnevale’ whole school production. Please have a look at the list below and if you can help in any way please email me and let me know ASAP:

jformichelli@htws.catholic.edu.au

Red tutu skirts: for Preps x 9

Vests:  to fit grade 6 boys any colour x 6

Bright coloured neon or fluorescent fabric/tops/skirts: etc…. (80’s look items.)

Baby onesies – sizes 2-4: x 6

A box will be left at the front office for all donations. 

Grazie Signora Formichelli

It with great excitement that I share with you the theme for this year’s whole school production! Our production will be all about Carnevale time in Venice! At this stage the production will be in term 3 on Thursday 9th September at Crossways – more information will be available in term 3 once we know more with regards to numbers at the venue etc..

Last term the grade 5 and 6 students had the opportunity to audition for a main role in the production – the auditions were absolutely fantastic! The production committee will be announcing the main characters very soon!

The grade 5’s theme for the production will be ‘Magia’ – Magic! They will be particpating in magic workshops with Tim Mason from the Melbourne Magic Academy. Their first workshop was on Friday 23rd April. The students had so much fun and are very much looking forward to learning some magic tricks.

Check out the video below:

Ciao a presto!

Signora Formichelli

It is my great pleasure to share with you the site link to the year 6 has got talent virtual showcase! There are also some graduation videos.

https://sites.google.com/htws.catholic.edu.au/graduating-class-of-2020/home

Enjoy!

Josie Formichelli

Italian/Performing Arts Teacher