Art Show 2022
Book Week
After many weeks of anticipation the wait was finally over as HT & St. Mary’s celebrated Book Week for 2022. We celebrated with many fantastic events including teachers reading sessions in the library during recess, an exciting scavenger hunt based on characters in classic stories that we all know and the students writing a book of their own based on the major milestones of their life.
One of the major highlights of Book Week was on Thursday when everyone dressed up as their favourite characters. Everyone paraded around the assembly area and the colours of all the costumes along with the cheers of the community was amazing. The parade concluded with each student getting to read their milestone book to a student from another year level.
Another highlight of the week was when the students participated in an exciting scavenger hunt. Posters with clues about main characters in popular books were displayed around the school for everyone to find. Everyone who completed the scavenger hunt had their name put into the draw for a Dymocks book voucher. Kyan from year one was the lucky winner.
Overall, Book Week was a massive hit at HT and St. Mary’s and a big thank you must go out to our amazing literacy leader, Mrs. Dowling, who organized this exciting week.
Here is a video created by Seniora of the Book Week parade.
Art Show
CBCA BOOK WEEK WINNERS FOR 2022!
AND THE WINNERS ARE!
BOOK OF THE YEAR-YOUNGER READERS
A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS
BY SHIRLEY MARR
Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN: 9781760899547
BOOK OF THE YEAR-EARLY CHILDHOOD
JETTY JUMPING
Andrea Rowe
ill. Hannah Sommerville
ill. Hannah Sommerville
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
ISBN: 9781760500658
BOOK OF THE YEAR-PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ICEBURG
Jess Racklyeft
text. Claire Saxby
text. Claire Saxby
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760526047
BOOK OF THE YEAR-NEW ILLUSTRATOR
THE BOY WHO TRIED TO SHRINK HIS NAME
Michelle Pereira
text. Sandhya Parappukkaran
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
ISBN: 9781760509361
If anyone would like more information about these or any of the honour books here is the link: https://cbca.org.au/winners-2022
ICAS @ HT
ICAS has begun and is well underway with students in years 3-6 completing the English assessment today and Writing and Digital Technologies last week. The ICAS assessments will take place every Tuesday for the next 2 weeks. The assessments in the coming weeks will include Spelling Bee, Science and Mathematics. These are fantastic assessment opportunities which allow learners to challenge themselves and be recognised for their academic efforts.
NBL Players Come to HT!
On Wednesday the 10th of August, players from the South East Melbourne Phoenix NBL club came to HT. This visit was part of an RRRR incursion for the 5/6 students about managing emotions and feelings. The Phoenix players included Dane Pineau, Ryan Broekoff and Kyle Adnam who came to HT to talk to us about how they deal with the stresses of being professional basketballers as well as taking some time to play games with us on the basketball court. One of the highlights of the visit was that students could bring items for the players to sign. These items have become extra special now that they are autographed by famous NBL players and I’m sure the students will treasure forever.
Here are some photos from our recent NBL visit.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Both Prep Blue and Prep Yellow classes( Prep Green!!!!) had a hands on Maths experience learning about Volume. Everyone had a turn to measure water into different containers and identify which ones were empty, half empty/half full and full. There were few steady hands and not so steady hands and lots of little helpers to clean up the mess.
We Are Australian – 2022 Art Show
Here are some of the excited faces you will see at the 2022 Art Show – We Are Australian.
The clever artists at Holy Trinity and St Mary’s used red, white, yellow and black paint to create their own unique skin colour.
They used this painted paper to create a portrait of themselves.
I can’t wait to display these at the art show.
BOOK WEEK COLOURING IN THE LIBRARY
HT School Song!
It is my great pleasure to share with the school community our very own school song! The song was written by a group of amazingly talented students. I am so proud of each and every one of them for all the time and effort that went into putting this together. In 2021 these students had the opportunity to be part of a lunchtime Performing Arts club. During these sessions they did some singing and songwriting workshops. During the singing workshops they learnt about different singing techniques and breathing techniques. During the songwriting workshops they learnt about how to structure a song and write song lyrics. We decided to write a song about our fantastic school!
The students worked in small groups and brainstormed ideas for our song lyrics. They also had a go at coming up with different melodies for the song. Once we were happy with the lyrics and the melody, the students were lucky to have Jordan Glanville, a professional musician and sound engineer, make the music into a real song. I was hoping that we could go to a professional recording studio to record our song – unfortunately because of COVID we had to put these ideas on hold.
In 2022 we continued to work on our song and even though we didn’t get to go to a real recording studio, with the help of my very patient husband – we set up our own recording studio here at school! Check out the music video that we created!!
What a wonderful tribute to our amazing school!
Josie Formichelli
Italian/Performing Arts Teacher
Prep Blue Palaeontologists
This week Prep Blue is learning about the unit “length” for Maths. So they spent the afternoon today being palaeontologists looking for dinosaur fossils around the room(oh yeah! we found lots!!!!). They searched, they measured them using their fossil rulers, recorded them on a sheet and of course coloured them at the end.
Holy Trinity and St Mary’s Art Show 2022
Exciting times in the Art room this term as we begin to get creative in preparation for our
2022 Art show
‘We are Australian’
Opening night is Tuesday 6th of September. There will be a parent wine and cheese on before the show begins, more details about that will follow shortly.
The show will also be open for viewing on Wednesday 7th September 830-9am and 3.30- 4pm Thursday 8th September 830-9am
its going to be a wonderful community event so please keep the dates free.
The amazing Holy Trinity and St Mary’s artists have begun working on a variety of Here’s a few sneak peeks at some of their work.
Solar System Projects Have Begun in Yr 5!!
This Term the Year 5 students are learning all about the Solar System. One of the learning tasks is to create a model of the Solar System. The student were very excited to begin creating their Solar System projects this afternoon. They will continue to work on their projects at school next week and we are looking forward to the finished result.
Magic at HT!!
On Thursday 23rd June we were very lucky to have Tim Mason from the Melbourne Magic Academy come to our school to entertain the students with his magic show! It was lots of fun and the students had a great time. We are hoping to get magic classes started at HT -more information about this will be coming soon. Check out Tim’s website for information about his classes and shows: https://www.magicacademy.com.au/
Click on the link below to see highlights of the magic show:
Have a great break everyone!
Ciao a presto
Signora Formichelli
Winter sports (Football)
Last Thursday a team of 5/6 students were chosen to represent HT in football at Lewis Road Oval. We played three games. In the first game we played against Boronia K-12 where we won by about 6 goals. In the second game we played against Bayswater West where we played well but were beaten by about 30 points. In our final match we played against Scoresby and played a great game where we won by 45 points.
Overall, everyone had a lot of fun representing HT and wish we could have played more matches together.
Here are a few photos from our day ……
Narrative Writing Groups
In Year 6 this term we have been focussing on developing our narrative writing skills. As we wrap up our narrative writing unit this week we had the opportunity to showcase our skills by writing a narrative as a group. Each group got a prompt and a story starter then as a group we worked together to compose a detailed narrative. Some of the topics we wrote about include a boot in a forest that miraculously took a step forward, a girl named Astrid who was holding an imaginary light and four friends who got stuck in a jungle with a portkey.
Overall, everyone has had lots of fun working in their groups and enjoyed the opportunity to combine our great ideas together.
Check out some year 6’s working in their groups.
Winter School Sports (T-Ball)
On Thursday 16 June, two teams were chosen to represent Holy Trinity at T-Ball against other schools in the Scoresby District at Gilbert Park. Team A had mainly Grade 6 students and Team B had mainly Grade 5 students. Team A won all of their games (3 out of 3) against Kent Park, Scoresby and the other HT team and this meant that they will go to the next level of competition. Team B also played well winning 2 out of their 3 games against Kent Park and Scoresby and only losing to Team A.
Overall, both Holy Trinity T-Ball teams played really well and displayed the TORCH values throughout the day.
Here are a couple of photos from the day ….
Winter School Sports (Soccer)
Last Thursday (16 th May), two teams of 5/6 students were chosen to represent HT & St. Mary’s at soccer. We all travelled to the Knox Park grounds by bus and each team played three games of soccer against the other schools.
In the boys games they scored 3 goals against Bayswater West, no goals in their match against St. Jude’s and 2 goals against Boronia K-12.
In the girls games they scored 1 goal against Bayswater West, no goals against St. Jude’s and 1 goal against Boronia K-12.
Overall, both teams played really well and represented our school with pride. Well done girls and boys!
Here are a few pictures from the day ……
