Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

This week all our 3/4 students built a sailboat as part of our Lego Engineering unit in Digitech. The students learnt that there are forces working both above and below the boat to help it to move. We also learnt that sailboats can still sail forward even when there is a headwind. Here are some of our students in action …..

In 1/2R this term we have been learning about information reports. We have had lots of fun researching and learning lots of new facts about new animals. When we write our information reports we first put our information into a fact file which helps us to organise our information into the correct headings. We can then start putting our facts into sentences to write our report.

 

   

Exciting Yarn Bombing Project

We are about to begin an exciting art project for the Vege Garden. Mrs McLean found a fabulous vintage style bike on the council throw out and has bought it to school. As a way of brightening it up we are going to cover it in yarn.  

In term three we will begin a Crochet/Knitting club on Tuesdays at lunchtime in the Great Space and would love any students who can knit or crochet to join us. Of course students keen to learn to knit or crochet can also join us. I will limit it to Grade 5 and 6 students to begin with and once we know how many keen students we have we can invite the Grade Three and Four students to join us.

We would welcome any donations of scraps of wool and old crochet or knitting needles.

Looking forward to warm Tuesday lunchtimes creating colourful yarn bombing beauties.

Caroline Laming

Visual Art Teacher

This Week has been all about our portfolio pieces.

The Grade one and two students have just completed a unit on Paper skills and collage and this week they created some amazing collages of imaginary creatures. Check them out in the Great space.

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Students in Grade Five and Six have been investigating creating tints and shades and this week they painted an Abstract artwork.

 

At the end of last week, we had a very exciting delivery of new furniture.

Some brand new tubs were bought for the Prep rooms to replace the tubs that are getting very worn, and to match the rest of their furniture.

 

 

 

We also have some ‘Intensive Teaching Tables’ which are going into some classrooms to help teachers with small group work and student conferencing.

       

This specialised furniture has been purchased with funds raised by the PA at the end of last year.

Thank you Parents’ Association for all of the amazing work that you do to make sure that our students have access to fantastic resources.

Today the Year 3/4 classes spent time in groups playing maths games which enabled them to practice their mental and written computation strategies. The games involved elements of chance, data and strategy. They incorporated solving algorithms using addition, subtraction and multiplication.

 

The flowers the Grade 3/4 Students as Artists in Schools created have been displayed in the HT Vege Garden and they look awesome😀❤️  Well done 👍

Today on the 11/5/18 we celebrated an early Mothers Day. We had a Mothers Day stall from 9:00am-11:00am where we got to buy special gifts for our mums. We also did some Mother’s Day activities and after lunch we had a special Mother’s Day afternoon tea. Last year and few other years before we had a Mother’s Day breakfast and this year we have decided to have a Mother’s Day afternoon tea instead. We hope our Mums enjoyed the afternoon tea and have a good Mother’s Day this Sunday. Here are some photos that have been taken at our Mother’s Day afternoon tea ……

 

Last Friday (4th May) our Friendship Groups had a paper plane making and flying contest to build our understanding of the meaning of OPTIMISM. Optimism means to look on the bright side of things such as if I don’t come first this is still good because I still tried my best. It is okay if someone else was better and I should be happy for them as well.  Lots of students created some very original designs and many of these flew a long way in our competition. There was one competition for the plane that flew the longest, another was for the plane that stayed in the air the longest and another was for which plane flew in the straightest line. Congrats to all the people who got an award!.

Here are a couple of pictures from our paper planes contest.

This is a report written by two of our Year 6 leaders about the recent District Athletics event.

On Wednesday the 2nd of May the Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s students ran around the school to raise some money so that we can have a new athletics track. This event was organised thanks to a great idea of Mrs. Emily Christison who has done a lot of work ‘behind the scenes’ in helping the event take place. Our schools have been able to raise over $10,000 thanks to our wonderful fund raising events. Prep L won the competition for the raising the most money as a class with over $3000 and Isabella (Prep L) raised over $1000 by herself.

The students wore a white shirt for the event and then they ran through an explosion of colour. Overall, we had lots of fun and we are very proud of our fundraising efforts.

Here is a few photos of the day.

On April 26th at 12:45 pm all of Holy Trinity gathered together to celebrate an ANZAC DAY ceremony. For about 10 minutes everyone listened to the ceremony and we also bowed our heads in silence. The whole school including ST Marys listened quietly to the Anzac song whilst the teachers and some students read out some emotional lines about ANZAC DAY and how the soldiers risked their lives for us. It was a very special ceremony that none of us will forget.

Grade 5/6 R artists and the Art Leaders have made magiclay poppies and created a beautiful ANZAC wreath for our whole school Anzac ceremony on Thursday.

We will remember them.❤️

In the lead up to the Easter season, the Grade 3/4s have been learning about the importance of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday as part of the Easter Story. We reflected on Christ’s actions in the lead up to his crucifixion and also considered what Jesus’s resurrection means for us. We enjoyed watching the Holy Week Reflection drama presented to the whole school by various students. We thank Mrs Cascianelli for organising this special learning experience for us as well as all the students involved. We have also prepared our Easter baskets ready for the Easter Bunny to hop into our rooms!

We wish you all a safe and blessed Easter break. We look forward to learning lots again next term!

The Grade 5/6 ‘Students as Artists in Schools’ group is almost ready to reveal the amazing banner they have designed and painted for ‘The Creative Space’. I can’t wait to hang it outside the art room, it looks incredible .