Hi everyone,
I hope you are all doing your best with learning from home, and managing all the changes at the moment.
Today’s assembly has been postponed until next Friday, as we think it will be a great opportunity to celebrate successes next Friday, when we return to school.
Have a great weekend and stay safe.
Hi everyone,
Here is the Google Meet timetable for this week.
9:30 – 10 am – Preps
10.00 – 10:30 am – Year 1
10:30 – 11:00 am – Year 2 & 3
11.00 – 11:30 am- Recess
11:30 – 12.00 pm – Year 4
12.00 – 12:30 pm – Year 5
12:30 – 1:00 pm – Year 6
The post below this one provides everyone with some further instructions on how to access Google Meets via their school Google account.
More information about the student’s home learning can be accessed via Class Dojo (Preps), Google Classroom and their emails.
We welcome any photos of the students during home learning. These can be sent to newsletter@htws.catholic.edu.au (for the school newsletter) and smullavey@htws.catholic.edu.au (for the school blog).
Good luck and we look forward to seeing everyone back at school soon.
On Wednesday the 19th of May each class at Holy Trinity stopped to enjoy a short story read by an astronaut in outer space! It was really cool how people from all around the world joined in this amazing experience.
Here is a link to the world wide simultaneous reading session.
Everyone enjoyed the experience and the story was quite cool too!
Here is the Year 4’s in action (thanks to Mrs C for sharing this great poster) …..
On Friday 7 May the kids from years 3 to 6 participated in a house cross country at Egan Lee Reserve. Everyone did really well considering that it was a warm day. In PE lessons everyone had been preparing for weeks and many students were was really nervous.
The year 3’s and 4’s had to run 2km which was 2 laps around the track and the year 5’s and 6’s had to run 3km which was 3 laps around the track.
Some of the results were:
From year 3 Luke W got 1st for the boys and June got 1st for the girls.
From year 4 Darcy won it for the boys and Eden won it for the girls.
From year 5 Nathan won it for the boys and Ella D won it for the girls.
From year 6 Luke A won it for the boys and Sunny won it for the girls.
Sixty students will represent our school at the district country on 28th May.
Thank you to Mr D for organising the day very well and to all our wonderful parent helpers that assisted with running the event.
Here are some photos taken by our wonderful parent and teacher helpers from our recent cross country event……
Over the last couple weekends students from year 4 and a couple from grade 5 and 6 have celebrated their first Eucharist at St Jude’s Church. Eucharist is one of the three sacraments of initiation which are important steps in the journey to becoming a full member of the Catholic Church (Baptism and Confirmation are the other two sacraments of initiation). Eucharist is when you receive the bread (Body of Christ) from the priest reminding us of when Jesus shared the last supper with the Disciples. With such an important occasion it was natural that many students were nervous about receiving the host for the first time but were happy once they had the ceremony was completed.
Many students had their families come along to the First Eucharist Mass to support them during this very special event. Afterwards many families had a celebration to recognise this important occasion.
Here are a few photos from some of the recent first Eucharist masses.
Yesterday (18/5/21) the students in years four and five had a Taster Day at secondary school. A Taster Day is an opportunity when primary students can experience what it is like at high school, as they are choosing which high school to go to. The boys were lucky enough to go to St. Joseph’s in Ferntree Gully and had heaps of fun completing activities.
There were 4 different activities were drama, science, music and sport. My group got to do drama first and I was very excited when I won the first two rounds of the first game. Afterwards, my group did science and wow …… that explosion was huge!!!! We were amazed by what science could do.
We also go to experience what a recess is like by having snack and brain food.
We are all very thankful to St. Joseph’s for the chance to be part of the secondary school taster day.
Here are some photos from our day at St. Joseph’s ……
Last Friday (7th May) Holy Trinity celebrated Mother’s Day by having a Devonshire Tea and Mothers Day stall.
All the kids had a blast choosing out what their mums would like at the Mother’s Day stall and everybody loved the candles. In fact the candles sold out in the first 5 minutes!
The Devonshire Tea is a new part of our Mother’s day celebrations but one of the most fun things that we did. Scones with jam and cream were served together with a hot drink for the mums (and grandmothers) and a juice for the children and everyone commented about how nice the scones were. All the mums loved spending some extra time with their children and the kids loved showing their mum’s some of their learning at school.
Thank you to Mrs. Whelan for her fantastic cooking and to all the staff who helped to make this a special celebration for our wonderful mums.
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
At the end of last term, Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s had a very exciting Easter Picnic. It was a great opportunity for many of our families to return to our school for a community event for the first time since COVID. Lots of fun activities took place including a crazy hat parade, a ‘guess the number of cotton balls in the container’ and an Easter egg hunt. There was plenty of great food for us including a sausage sizzle, gelati truck, donuts as well as a few Easter eggs once we completed the Easter egg hunt. It was wonderful to see so many happy faces and it showed how much our community enjoys gathering for special events like this.
Thank you to our wonderful Parents’ Association who came up with this new event and for their hard work in putting the Easter Picnic together.
Here are a few photos from the Easter Picnic.
On Tuesday 27th April, a group of students from years 3 to 6 were chosen to represent Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s at the district athletics carnival. Our school competed against different schools in the Scoresby District at the Knox Athletics track.. Students were chosen to represent HT & St. Mary’s based on who came first or second during our school athletics day last term.
Some of the highlights of the district athletics competition were the performances of June (800m), Darcy (800m), Amelia F (1500m), Amelia W (shot put), Nathan (200m), Sunny (800m) with many, many more.
Amazingly, we had 17 students who came first or second in their selected events (A Division). These students qualified to compete at the next level where they will represent the Scoresby District at the Division Athletics Competition.
Overall, HT & St. Mary’s came fifth in the Scoresby District which is a a credit to everyone’s hard work.
Overall, Mr. D was very proud of the HT team in their wonderful efforts and particularly the outstanding encouragement they displayed towards both HT students and other competitors.
At Monday’s Assembly we celebrated Anzac Day. Anzac Day is a very special day where we remember all the people that fought and died for the freedom that we have in Australia.
Our Anzac Day ceremony was very special where we prayed for the sacrifices that our have soldiers made, we listened to the Ode, Reveille and the National Anthem, and followed the one minute silence out of respect for those that have served for our country.
Here is the video of our ceremony from Monday:
This term in 5 Blue has been learning about narrative writing and how to make it interesting for audiences of different ages. Some of us are even publishing our stories for kinder kids and preps!
Mr B has taught us about using an engaging start, having a dramatic problem and a cracking ending to leave the reader wanting more.
Some of the topics we have written about so far include a big fight in a high school, a magic pool, kids that get sent to Jupiter and a Magic Tree that has a wormhole to a whole new land.
The following chart helps to keep everyone on track during our writing sessions and well as to inform Mr. B where each student in up to.
Overall, we are very excited to publish our narratives and we are hoping to put some of our narratives on the school blog in the coming weeks.
Here are some photo of us at work!
In the 1/2 level at the moment the students have been working really hard on their reading skills. The focus is on reading with fluency where the students read in class for 20 minutes each day as well as choosing ‘good fit books’ that use the five finger rule. The five finger rule involves the students choosing books that are not too easy or too hard.
In addition, the 1/2 students have been developing their understanding of spelling sounds, 2D shapes in Maths as well as learning about the Easter season.
Here are the 1/2 students hard at work …..
