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There is an air of excitement in the art room as work begins on creating some of our pieces for the Art Show. Keep Tuesday, 5th September free as that will be the opening night of the art show. Students will be working hard next term to create some amazing art works to go into the show.
Last week 5/6s were busy studying the etymology of words. They were all engaged looking into etymology of their names and any other words of their choice.
What a great activity – engaging and fun learning!
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=holiday
Harmony Day celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. Orange is the colour chosen to represent Harmony Day. Traditionally, orange signifies social communication and meaningful conversations. It also relates to the freedom of ideas and encouragement of mutual respect.
Year 5/6 students spent the afternoon roleplaying a variety of scenarios focusing on social and emotional learning. During the session the students discussed how it feels to be unsafe and why it is important to develop empathy for people in a difficult situation. The students shared their opinions regarding what is meant by rights and responsibilities when we are talking about bullying. They also brainstormed ways young people being bullied can be supported. The students were reflective learners who shared their thoughts and opinions with respect and honesty. They worked collaboratively on the task, demonstrating tolerance and inclusion.
“Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten fundraising and awareness-raising appeal is an extraordinary, ongoing demonstration of the faith, love and generosity of the Catholic community and caring supporters throughout Australia to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. Project Compassion demonstrates ho
w love for our neighbours can transform lives this year.”
Caritas Australia website – End poverty, Promote justice, Uphold dignity
The Year 5/6 students have composed persuasive pieces relating to the Caritas Project Compassion appeal. They were given the opportunity to choose how they would like to share them with the school community. Students could make a PA announcement at recess or lunchtime or make a brief speech at Monday morning or Friday aft
ernoon assembly. Students could also opt to include their persuasive pieces in a newsletter or here on the blog.
Please support the Year 5/6 students as your contributions to Project Compassion will help people build better lives for themselves, their families and their communities.
Do you ever stop and think about how lucky you are and all your delicious food and your warm cosy bed. Some people don’t have any of that and if you donate some money to Project Compassion you will be helping so many people. Just $10 will provide one day’s worth of food for a woman staying in a shelter in asia. (Lizzie Dunn)
Are you tired of your parents getting really expensive stuff? Because you could donate to Project Compassion with the money you got and $10 is enough to feed a woman for 1 day. Every cent counts! So go now and donate to Project Compassion, what are you waiting for! [James Z]
Everybody needs help but some people need more help than others. Caritas is a charity that created Project Compassion by helping people in need in different countries such as Australia, Philippines and Fiji. Imagine if you needed help and you had no food or anything. There are a lot of people that have nothing so donate to Project Compassion for those in need. Only $10 can provide one day’s worth of food for a woman staying in a shelter in Timor Leste. Every cent counts! (Cooper.G)
Do you ever go to your fridge and say there is nothing to eat when there is a lot of food? Poor people don’t have anything at all! You can help them by donating money, food and clothes. 10 dollars can provide one day’s worth of food for a woman in Timor-Leste. Every cent counts! (Vincent. G)
Are you going to a restaurant tonight while kids in third world countries are dying of hunger and living in houses the size of cardboard boxes? Donate to Project Compassion to change this. You can change lives, you can be a hero… Donate now to help. Only $10 can feed a woman for a day. Every cent counts. (James.K)
Are you annoyed at your mum for not not buying the clothes you want well, that money could be donated to Project Compassion because they don’t have many clothes, unlike us. Many people in the world strongly agree that Project Compassion is the best project by Caritas because of where they help and how they help. You should donate today because countries like Fiji, Vietnam and even Australia need money. Even 10 dollars could buy clothes for a week for the less fortunate! Go to Caritas.com to find out more, and remember, every cent counts. (Josh.T)
Do you have quite a bit of money but not know what to do with it? Why don’t you give some to Project Compassion? They need the money for poor countries so that people that live there can live better lives. I strongly encourage you to encourage others to donate into the Project Compassion box in your classroom. Just $10 can help someone have 3 full meals! You don’t just have to donate money! You can also donate old clothes you don’t need or don’t want, you know. Remember, every cent counts with Project Compassion! (Daniel.K)
There are many organizations and charities around Australia that help people living in poverty, such as Project Compassion. Project Compassion relies on people like us to donate, helping others all around the world, living in poverty. Donating just a little bit of money can make a difference. So by helping and giving to Project Compassion, you are helping many others around the world, who may not be in the best living conditions. Every cent helps for those who need it the most. Even $10 can provide a whole day’s worth of food for someone. So, please, donate today. (Holly G.)
Do you always find a few cents at home, or get some pocket money, well if so, you don’t need those shoes you’ve always wanted because you can give that money to Project Compassion to help the less fortunate. Project Compassion helps those less fortunate people. They give the money they gain to help in some countries like, Fiji, Timor Leste and the Philippines and they help the less fortunate live better lives. For only 10 dollars you can supply a day’s worth of food for a woman living in Timor Leste. Now that’s a donation! (Ella H)
Think of people who need help! Think that you can be the one who helps them. Project Compassion helps people in need of a better life. Let’s make a difference in their lives by donating money to Project Compassion ,so they give the money to countries in need. Only $50 can provide a three day first aid course for one person to help protect their family and neighbours during a natural disaster in the Philippines. Instead of buying a block of chocolate put the money in the Project Compassion box. Every cent counts. (Bruce Vaihu)
Have any clothes that don’t fit? Donate them, they’ll be of great use. Those clothes will be sent to the people suffering from poverty. Where do you donate, you ask? Caritas Australia sets up a campaign called Project Compassion every year. There are lots of boxes around the school that you can put money in, or you can visit their website and see more details of donating, how much money they need for specific things, and more! Any amount of money would help, even one dollar! Caritas Australia (link) (Keira L)
Don’t you want to donate some money and make a kids life better? Well if you donate some money you could make a whole family’s life better. All the people that don’t have any money are struggling to get food, you can donate some money and in your class there is a box that you can donate to and make a life better. Every Cent Counts!!! (Perry W)
Think of all your money. Do you have a lot or not a lot? If you have a lot, you should think about donating some of it to Project Compassion. You might not realize but you a rich to other kids in poorer countries. Even if you have 10 cents, EVERY CENT COUNTS!!! Even when you are in a poor country like Fiji and Vietnam you can buy some good water with that money instead of buying junk food for yourself.
Do you ever just get annoyed at how your parents have to repeatedly remind you of how lucky you are? Don’t be, and start taking less and giving more. Project Compassion may sound like just another normal campaign, but the campaign organized by Caritas works every year to end poverty in different locations that are in need. If you donate money, it could be used to buy clothes, food and shelter. Only the little things make a big difference. (Beatriz P)
The Holy Trinity community are working hard to raise money for those less fortunate through Caritas Australia’s annual Lenten fundraising appeal. 3/4H have been enthusiastically raising money and will continue to do this throughout Lent. So far they have raised a total of $50.10 – fantastic effort!It has been a great start to the new year. The students have been enthusiastic and engaged in their learning. Our new Preps have made a great start to learning Italian. We have been learning some new songs, how to introduce ourselves and how to say how we are feeling in Italian. They have also been learning a new hip hop dance to a song called Facciamo Banz.
Ciao a presto!
Signora Formichelli
Art pieces for the Catholic education office Visual Art Exhibition all framed and looking amazing. Congratulations to the following students whose artworks have been accepted into the Exhibition.
Jasmine Stocks (Grade 5) for her artwork ‘Vase of Flowers’
Bianca Richards (past student 2016) for her artwork ‘Frog’
Keira Lam (Grade 5) for her artwork ‘Toucan’
Elliott Eilenberg (Grade 1) for his artwork ‘Owl’
The artworks are judged on Friday 10th March and the students and their families are invited to view the Exhibition on Saturday 18th March.
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It has been a big start to ICT in all levels.
It begun over the holidays with the installation of some new computers onto the round tables of the lab.
We also purchased some more Chromebooks and moved the Chromebook Trolleys into the Tech Lab. Our Chromebooks are used by students in Years 3 to 6 to support their learning.
In ICT Years 1 to 6 have been learning about the importance of always using our emails in a responsible and informative manner. We have developed an Emailing Protocol that all Holy Trinity members aimed to undertake. These include making sure we have a welcoming statement in every email, writing in full sentences and making sure we only send emails during acceptable hours between 7am and 9pm.
The Prep level have already become experts with logging onto the computer and many students are getting very good at using the mouse to create fabulous pictures using Microsoft Paint. Today they created pictures about what they enjoy doing at school.
It’s been a busy start of Tech for the year and we have already learnt so much.
Congratulations to our HOLY TRINITY Swimming team
SSV SCORESBY DISTRICT CHAMPIONS 7 Years in a row.
What another awesome performance by the entire swimming team last Thursday at Kilsyth Centenary Pool. So many swimmers receiving Age Group medals, 1st, 2nd or 3rd place ribbons, swimming PB’s and swimming in competition for the very first time. Well done everyone.
Special mention to;
Caitlin who was awarded the District Championship Medal for 9/10 Year olds Girls
Cooper who was awarded the District Championship Medal for 11 Year olds Boys (achieving the ‘3peat’ winning his Age group for the third year in a row).
Jade who was awarded the District Championship Medal for 11 Year olds Girls (for the second year in a row).
Charli who was awarded the District Championship Medal for 12 Year olds Girls (for the second year in a row).
All 24 students have qualified to compete at Aquanation, Ringwood in the upcoming SSV Knox Division Swimming Championships.
Good luck. GO HT.
The Year 5/6 students have just returned from Waratah Beach Camp. Read to find out about some of the activities they have done.
Jayden Grima “I really enjoyed camp because we all got a turn on everything.”
Cooper Barron “We all experienced a wonderful time by taking part in the activities. We can’t wait to do it again!”
Amy Mitcham “We all enjoyed our fun experiences. I especially loved all of the use of teamwork that was involved in our fun risk-taking activities.”
Joshua Hart “5\6 camp was a blast of a time, we did a lot of fun activities”.
Sienna Mallia “Everyone had so much fun on camp and loved looking for soldier crabs.”
Natalie Apostolopoulos “Camp was such an enjoyable experience especially since we were all together.”
Claudia Dell’Orso “We all had so much fun, it’s a good experience for everyone because you learn lots of new things, like how to surf.”
Michael Comber “Everyone had lots of fun and was super tired at the end.”
Julius Palmer “The food was really good and the staff were really nice.”
Welcome everyone to a new year of blogging at HT. It is exciting to see everyone’s happy faces after a restful break. The students are very enthusiastic and ready to learn.
We welcome our Preps and other new students and hope you are settling into school well.
Keep a look out for more posts to our school blog in the coming days and weeks.
September and October have been a special time for some of our younger St. Jude’s parish members.
CONFIRMATION:
On September, 9 2016, a number of our year 5 and 6 students celebrated their Sacrament of Confirmation. The effort that the students put into their preparation for their sacrament was very evident and Fr. John and Monsignor Greg Bennet, who confirmed our students were most impressed by them. Great job Confirmation Candidates and congratulations on taking on the next step in your faith journey.
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EUCHARIST:
On two of our weekends throughout mid October a number of our Year 3 students celebrated the Sacrament of First Eucharist. The First Communicants did a wonderful job and looked great. So many read and participated in their masses beautifully. Congratulations First Communicants.
BAPTISM:
Sunday, 23rd October was not only a morning of First Communions, but early in that afternoon St. Jude’s Parish welcomed some new members into our parish community. Among our newest parish members was Pippa. Congratulations to Pippa on choosing to become an active member of our St. Jude’s Parish.
Congratulations girls. Go HT.
The girls softball team went really well this year. We are District and Division champs and since Thursday runners up in the Eastern Metropolitan Region. We started the day with a draw against Milgate PS with the score being 10 – 10. The second game we played was against Hartwell PS which we ended up winning in a very close match. The final Pool game was also a win against St. Judes 14 – 4. After a little break the girls prepared for the grand final. We faced a very good team, which included the SSV Victorian State Pitcher, and lost 4 to 9. We all played really well, learnt lots about Softball and improved with each game.
By Emily
On Wednesdays at lunchtime the Year 6 Technology leaders have organised a game designing club for our 3/4 students using the Gamestar Mechanic website. The students are very engaged during this time and happy to use their lunch time in this club. This is some of the 3/4 students thoughts about this club ……
Nik: It is really good because I love gaming and learning about how to create our own ones.
Patrick: I think it is really cool how you can create your own games for others to play.
James: I think it is really creative and fun to be a part of this club.
Cooper: I think it is fun to be able to play other people’s games that they make and the quests are cool too!
Please click on the following link to view all of the exciting learning we are doing in Library.
During our maths lesson today we focused on capacity. We looked at different containers and estimated how many millilitres/litres were in each container. We then checked our estimations using measuring jugs to see how accurate we were. We love hands on learning and have started to become quite good at estimating the capacity of containers!
The 1/2 Level was lucky enough to have a very special presentation with Akuach & Mach Yout’s parents today who taught us about how life in Sudan is different from that in Australia. It was really interesting learning about how children learn in the schools of Sudan, how the people of Sudan don’t celebrate birthdays each year like we do in Australia and also about how children can work in Sudan from as young as 5 years old. Mr. Yout even served in the army at just 11 years old! Sudan sounds like an amazing place to live.
We thank Mr. and Mrs. Yout for coming to share their wonderful experiences with us.
