On Wednesdays during this term the 5/6’s have been learning about Ozobots and how to use them. We created a track to accomplish some tasks where the Ozobots follow some colour commands. We even got to play a game of Bowling with them where the Ozobot knocked over some pins like in the real ten pin bowling game. We also learnt about using a website called Ozoblocky.com where you can code the Ozobots to do different things.
Here are some pictures and videos of our lessons.
On Wednesday lunch times the Tech Leaders have been teaching interested students about different parts of ICT. Lately we’ve been learning about hardware and the parts of the computer. The students have been taking apart some of the older computers in the school and learning how they fit together.
The students think it has been ‘really cool’ learning about some of this stuff.
Here is a few photos of the students in action.
Today the 1/2’s used the Chromebooks to read a story on Sunshine Online called My Sad Skeleton. Sunshine Online is a website with a huge range of interactive books at different reading levels. It also has activities about each book which the students find highly engaging and secretly they learn a lot from.
This term all grades have been learning about Carnevale time in Italy. The Preps & 1/2 classes have been learning about Arlecchino and his costume of many colours, the 3/4 classes have been learning an Italian tarantella dance and the 5/6 students have been learning about La Commedia dell’Arte – the Comedy of the Arts and creating ‘lazzi’ – which are short comedy skits. The students have been creating their ‘lazzi’ to music.
We are looking forward to our Carnevale themed Italian day and Holy Trinity Feast Day celebrations on Friday 9th June.
We congr
atulate all of our year three students who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time last week: Charlotte Harrup, Chanelle Meelky, James Kambouris, Jessica Gazik, Michael Chen, Dominica Lampa, Tasmin Ferdinands, Jesse Modica, Delinda Modica, Trent Green, Remy McCoy, Kasey Maloney, Tyrone Van Ravenstein, Cooper Warrin, Joshua Ferdinands, Catherine Habjan, Hannah McBurney, Thomas Evans, Aston Michel, Pippa Wilhelmsen, Monica Dell’Orso, Sienna Hunter, Marlee Williamson, Charlie Mawdsley, Riley Wood, Liv Bilston, Ava Bilston, Joshua Aguado, Nicholas Fisher, Aiden Barker, Annaliese Beggs, Gabriella Gazzini, Alexander Bondini, Dakotah Schwarze, Jordan Apostolopoulos, Ryan Rinnovasi.
Father John celebrated two beautiful liturgies with families on both Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Thank you to Mr John Downie, Mrs Becky Breen (from St Jude’s), Mrs Sally Campbell, Ms Jayneen Howes, Miss Liz Humphris and Mr Zac Natoli, for planning the celebrations and preparing the children to receive this important Sacrament. In October, these children will receive the Sacrament of First Eucharist.
Mothers were treated to a sumptuous breakfast in the hall this morning, which was decorated beautifully with fresh flowers, fairy lights and candles. Children were also provided with a smorgasbord of toast, fruit and cereal.
Dedicated staff of Holy Trinity were up early in order to provide the well deserving mums their opportunity to be waited on.
By the look of all the smiling faces everyone enjoyed their ” cuppa and danish”. The sound of the chatter was a good sign the community had come together and were ready to share a few stories.
A huge thank you to all involved for making such an effort in celebrating “Our mums.”
The 5/6 students began learning about our new Ozobots which we have purchased thanks to a generous donation from our Parents Association. An Ozobot is a small robot that can be programmed to do different actions such as go faster, turn left or change colour according to the commands (or codes) the user gives them.
Here is a picture of an Ozobot.
Today the students drew coloured lines into codes that they hoped moved the Ozobots in a certain ways.
Here is the 5/6 students hard at work.
Many groups had success with their Ozobots and more importantly learnt lots of new skills that they will use in future lessons.
Here is one successful attempt.
In 1/2M we are learning how to write an information report and we have been learning about lions. We have done lots of research about lions. We have learned that lions live in a group called a pride and they are carnivores which means that they eat meat. The male lions have manes and they eat first because they need energy to protect their family. Lions are mammals and they feed their cubs milk. Some of the keywords we are using in our information reports are habitat, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, breeding and endangered. The photo of the lions was taken in Africa by Miss McGing and we labelled it with their features. We are having lots of fun taking turns labelling photos on the Interactive TV.
Written by 1/2M
On Friday, 28th April, the year 5 and 6 students participated in an engaging “Heat and Energy Workshop” incursion. Throughout the workshop the students explored the properties of heat and other energies in a fun way. They were able to produce useful heat energy through friction, motion, electrically and chemically. They also explored transferring heat through conduction. The students enjoyed the opportunity to explore the amazing ways in which heat can generate change!
On Thursday, 4th May, the level fortunate to have a visit from Fr. John who shared his knowledge of chemical science. He showed the students the periodic table of elements and discussed how and why changes occur to matter in its different states.
The students from 5/6R presented their new knowledge to the school community at assembly this afternoon!
On Monday our school closure day centered around our involvement in the University of Melbourne Network of Schools. We had the opportunity to develop a whole school focus that directly aligns with our School Improvement Plan. Part of the day involved staff viewing and discussing a presentation by John Hattie. We will inform the school community about the outcome of our day through our school newsletter in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Congratulations to our TORCH Bearers for Term 1. Holy Trinity’s TORCH Values are Tolerance, Optimism, Respect, Confidence and Honesty. This is a very special recognition that only one person from each level receives because they regularly show these values both in the classroom and around the school. They should be proud of being such good examples of our school.
The Year 5/6 students were fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in an engaging, hands-on learning experience today. They used Young Engineers lego kits, including battery operated motors, to create ferris wheels!
Thank you to Devna and Nav Nagpal for supplying the kits for today’s sessions.
Visit the Young Engineers website here for more information on this fantastic program.
On Friday afternoon the students from 5/6W lead the school community in a reflection as they gathered to commemorate ANZAC day. Every student in the school contributed by making a poppy which were displayed in the community hall. We gathered, not to glorify war or praise victors, but to remember those who have served our country during times of conflict and crisis, and to reflect upon their selfless sacrifice. We also acknowledged the losses and sacrifices of their families.
ANZAC day is set aside for us to collectively give thanks to all those men and women who have put their lives at risk and in many cases paid the supreme price.
God of love and liberty, we bring our thanks this day for the peace and security we enjoy, which was won for us through the courage and devotion of those who gave their lives in time of war.
We pray that their labour and sacrifice may not be in vain, but that their spirit may live on in us and in generations to come. That the liberty, truth and justice which they sought to preserve may be seen and known in all the nations upon earth.
This we pray in the name of the one who gave his life for the sake of the world, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
We thank Mrs. Liz Storey for making the wreath used in today’s reflection.
