Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

Congratulations to our awesome Softball teams who today competed at Gilbert Park in the Knox Division Softball Summer Sport Finals.

Both our Boys and Girls teams had a win in their first round match and so progressed to the Grand Final. Both teams competed against St Jude’s.

The boys played really well in the final however lost in a very exciting match where they came up against the Victorian State Softball pitcher. Tough job to get a hit off such a fast pitcher. Well done boys on a great season of Softball, runners up at Division is an excellent achievement.

Congratulations go to our girls team who easily beat St Jude’s in their final and so progress to the Eastern Metropolitan Finals in two weeks time on 3rd November. Well done. Go HT.

This term our class is learning about and reading books by Roald Dahl.

We have been working on a range of activities which help us to better understand elements of narratives, sentence structure, descriptive language and character traits. We spend time discussing his books in weekly classroom book club sessions.

Did you know that Roald Dahl created his own language called “Gobblefunk”?!?!?! We have found many of his made up words throughout the books we read. If you happen to read one of his books you might find some too!

We really  enjoyed drawing our favourite characters.

It is great to see so many of our students participating in the Walk to School Month of October. Each class from Year 1/2 – Year 5/6 has a chart for recording each time the students walk to or from school. The school has some great prizes to be awarded at the end of October, not just for the regular walkers but also for students who are making the extra effort to participate. Families can also enter for some other great prizes through Facebook on the link below.

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What a fun start to term 4!! The grade 3-6 students had a great time playing a modified Italian version of the TV show The Big Music Quiz. The students had  fun working in groups and trying to work out the Italian versions of popular songs from the radio. The grade 1/2 students are learning about the days of the week and played instruments to the beat of an Italian song about the days of the week. The students had fun playing the maracas, egg shakers and bells. The Prep students learnt how to say their names in Italian and made a poster about it.

All in all a great start to term 4!

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Over over the last few weeks of Term three, the Grade Five and Six students have been focusing on the Art elements- Form and Shape. Using strips of paper they learnt the skill of quilling and applied this skill to make a small art piece. This was very fiddly and time consuming and many students are still working on their design. They also constructed a figure of an athlete using two pieces of wire, foil and modroc. These were a lot of fun to make and the students should be very proud of the work they have done in the art room during Term three.

In the the art room, Spring has sprung!

The Grade One  and Twos used drawing and paper skills to make beautiful Japanese inspired Cherry Trees.

The Preps used the new water colour paints to paint a wonderful wise owl that they had drawn. These look amazing and we are so lucky to have a fabulously practical brand new drying rack for all of our paintings.🎁🎨

Last Friday, the students, dads/special friends and teachers enjoyed a magnificent Father’s Day breakfast. It was great to see so many attending and enjoying a social chat with others over breaky. Congratulations to all those who won a raffle prize, especially to Benjo Panlilio who won the hamper organised by the PA committee. We hope that all dads and special friends had a wonderful Father’s Day on Sunday!

To finish off the Literacy, Numeracy and Book Week  many dads/special friends and children enjoyed reading together at the “Blokes and Books” session. It was great to see families enjoying time together reading. Thanks to all who attended to make the day such a success.

The final preparations are underway for the concert. Everyone is excited and ready for the big performance next Tuesday night. Here is a sneek peak of the ‘behind the scenes’ action….

News from the Art Room

For the Olympic Games in Rio the Grade5/6 and Grade3/4 students made posters that were used to decorate the athletes rooms in Rio. The posters were bright and colourful and had messages of encouragement for the athletes. Go Aussies!!

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The 5/6s have been using art with their fractions. We learnt about Wassily Kadinsky and his passion for art, he believed that shapes and colours alone could be art. Take a look at what we did…

Preps have been reading “Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas” this week. We have been doing various activities about the book including a piece of Art work.

We made the background using tissue paper, then we decorated Brian the piranha by rubbing pastels. We then gave him a tail and a fin.

The Grade 1 and 2 students were asked to bring their favourite books to library to share with each other during Literacy week. The students recommended books to each other to learn about new authors and book titles.   – Jacinta Haynes

This morning we had our dress up parade as a part of Literacy and Numeracy & Book Week celebrations.  It was great to see students, parents, teachers and toddlers join in on the fun. Students costumes looked amazing! Thanks to all parents who assisted their child in preparing for this day. Maths and reading are a part of children’s daily lives and it was a great opportunity for our students to embrace these in a fun and enjoyable way! We look forward to doing this again next year.

On Wednesday 31st August the Year 3-6 students were fortunate to be visited by a guest speaker. Matt Stevic is an AFL umpire and he kindly spoke to the students about his job. All of the students found the information he shared to be very interesting. They were also given the opportunity to ask questions.

Matt spoke about his journey from playing sports as a child to becoming an AFL umpire. Although he played football as boy, at the age of sixteen he stopped playing and focussed on umpiring. He also loved playing basketball when he was younger.

When asked if he had another job aside from umpiring Matt said that he used to be a teacher of Year 7-10 students and he now works in finance. Matt shared lots of details about his umpiring job. He was fortunate enough to umpire AFL Grand Finals in 2012, 2014 and 2015! To get to this elite level he had to progress through the ranks, starting with local footy, followed by regional. He then worked at VFL level and currently umpires AFL

Matt gave the students an insight into why playing sport with a positive attitude is vital. He encouraged the students to try a range of sports to build their confidence and skills. He spoke about the importance of hard work and perseverance to achieve their best in any endeavour that they are passionate about because if they love what they do it makes it a pleasure, not a chore!

As an umpire he trains each week by participating in a range of activities (running, swimming, gym work and bike riding). The umpires train for most of the year. When speaking to the students about their approach to sport he highlighted the value of sportsmanship regardless of the result or individual performance of team members. The focus is enjoyment and being a supportive team member who avoids negativity. Being an effective team member who achieves their goals and dreams does not involve negativity. Sport is hard and disappointment is part of the experience which can be used as motivation. When motivated, skills practice and team encouragement builds team spirit.

We are grateful to Matt for his insights and advice and wish him well as the footy finals draw closer!