School Tours!
Throughout the year (particularly in term one) you may find many of our Year 6 leaders showing interested parents around HT about different elements of our school. This is an important responsibility for the year 6 students as many visitors make their decision after taking the tour.
Taking parents on a tour is something that the leaders have practised a number of times. Often we are called on to perform a tour in the middle of a lesson so we are thankful that we have practised conducting tours as sometimes it can be difficult to adjust our minds from concentrating on a Maths or RE lesson to be ready to lead families around our school.
We hope as year 6 leaders we are doing a good job at setting a good example for the younger students as well as to showing parents about all the wonderful parts of our school.
Amazing artists create Beautiful Birds
Grade 3 and 4 artists have been learning a variety of paper construction skills over the last few weeks.
This week they designed and created their own original birds. They solved problems as they encountered them by trying different things or asking someone for help.
I am very proud of them and they were proud of themselves. Well done everyone.
GARDEN CLUB
Over the last few weeks we have harvested our corn, cucumbers and eggplants!
The children enjoy helping to water the plants, especially on a hot day!
The pumpkin patch has sprawled out and over into other garden beds and as you can see from the photos there are lots of pumpkins growing! There are two different types growing, Kent and Butternut. I saved the seeds from pumpkin that I had bought and cooked at home. I then planted them into a homemade planter and then planted 3 of the best seedlings into the garden at school. I’m so pleased with how well they have grown and am looking forward to harvesting and cooking lots of delicious soups and roasted pumpkin.
Friday Games Club
Students have lots of fun playing board games, card games, noughts and crosses and enjoy getting tied in knots with twister.
This is a good opportunity for students to meet others and socialise, also to learn to share and take turns.
Grade 6 leaders have introduced their prep buddies to the club and they have thoroughly enjoyed the fun!
Cooking with Kids
The Year 1/2’s have been learning about how to keep their mind and bodies healthy! Some 1/2 students and parents were lucky enough to be involved in Cooking with Kids last Wednesday afternoon. Cooking with Kids is a parent and child cooking class, celebrating and encouraging cooking with children at home using fresh vegetables. Families prepared a simple dish together and children had the opportunity to taste some different veggies!
Believe in your dreams and work hard
Grade One and Two artists learnt about Mae Jemisen who dreamt of being an astronaut, she believed in her dream and worked hard and she achieved her goal.
The clever artists drew a self portrait of themselves floating about in space.
Students also shared their dreams for the future, there were a few dreaming of being Art teachers.😊
Prep ‘P’ Day!!!!!
Today the Preps celebrated ‘P’ day! It is our letter focus for the week and students came to school dressed up in anything starting with the letter P! We had pizza for lunch and popcorn for afternoon snack and we even did a parade for parents. All in all it has been a positively fabulous day!
Check out the video of our great day!
Miss Rooney and Miss Rodrigues
Prep teachers
Remarkable Robot sketches in Grade 3
District Swimming
On Tuesday 22nd February, selected students from Year 3 to Year 6 were chosen to represent Holy Trinity & St. Mary’s at the Scoresby District Swimming carnival at Kilsyth Centenary Swimming Pool. This was after students had been participated in some swimming trials at Knox Leisureworks swimming pool over the past two Tuesday mornings.
Our school also had some big achievements including Wyatt who got first in 1st in freestyle, 1st in the 4 by 50m freestyle relay and 2nd in backstroke. He swam so well that he also was awarded age group champion for 9/10 boys which is a massive achievement. Some of the other year 4 winners were Liam who won his freestyle race, June and Grace who both came 2nd in breaststroke. June, Charlotte, Grace and Liam also helped to win the freestyle relay for the year 4 students. Hamish W also did a great job with coming first in his backstroke race for the Year 3’s.
The Year 5 students also had some really strong performances with some of our winners being Darcy who came 3rd in freestyle, Tyler G who won his backstroke and came 3rd in breastroke and Cara G who came 2nd in breaststroke. Chantal, Zac, Maddie, Eden and Siana also has strong results in their chosen events. In Year 6’s Zeke swam a great race to come 1st in butterfly and Belle was impressive with coming 3rd in backstroke. Mia got 3rd in freestyle, Ella D and Lucas got 1st in their breastroke races and Matt got 3rd in backstroke. Jordan and James also swam well to round off a great day for our swim team.
We had other students who may not have earned a ribbon in their race but still contributed to our school’s overall result with earning points in their race.
Overall, as a result of our fantastic efforts Holy Trinity & St. Mary’s were able to achieve 2nd place which is an amazing effort. Congrats to everyone for their participation and hard work!
Overall, it was all heaps of fun and everyone did a great job at consistently displaying the TORCH values whilst representing our school.
You be You in 2022
Students in the art room began the year by contributing to a whole school art display ‘You be You’. They used paper, pastels or clay to create their own original fish.
After reading the story ‘You be You’ by Linda Kranz students discussed what this would look like, sound like and feel like at school.
They shared some really thoughtful insights.
Be confident enough to be yourself
Stay true to yourself
Be your own best friend
Stand up for things you believe in no matter what others say
Enjoy the things you like doing
Here’s a snapshot of the wonderful, colourful fish they created.
Well done to all the Awesome Artists
Learning Leaders of H.T
In Year 6 the students of H.T all earn a leadership role. I am one of the Learning leaders for 2022 as well as Bec, Elliott and Melissa. Together we will help to support with many of the learning initiatives around the school.
The Learning leader responsibilities entail helping out in the library whether it’s helping the younger students with choosing books borrow or helping Mrs Honeysett put books away. The Learning leaders also will help with organising book week, numeracy week, the book fair and much more.
We are all excited to be the learning leaders of the school and we look forward to helping out around the school this year.
Here were our Learning leaders busy at work in the library today …..
Friendship Groups
Last Friday (19 February) all classes began participating in Friendship Group activities for this year. Friendship Groups is where a mix of students from Prep to Year gather together with their Friendship Group teacher to learn about our TORCH values. Unfortunately, due to COVID restrictions with not mixing students between different levels too much we are not participating in these activities in our Friendship Groups but instead in our own classes.
This year, Miss Humphris, our Wellbeing leader is working with the Friendship Leaders to be make videos to explain the activities that each class will do in their group. Last Friday’s activity was based around the theme of Belonging where we worked on the TORCH values of Optimism and Confidence. During the session we played a game called the Ah Umm game where students needed to talk about a topic for as long as they can without saying ah or um. We also did an activity during this session where we brainstormed what four words meant about four different topics based around the theme of belonging and write what they mean to you.
Overall, it was nice to begin Friendship Groups particularly as we are helping with the activities and we hope to be able to gather together in our mixed groups soon.
Here are some pictures of two of the different activities we completed.
Friday Assembly Term 1 Week 4, 2022
Welcome to our first online assembly for 2022. Today’s assembly was held as a Google Meet and recorded on an iPad.
Congratulations to all of our award winners – some amazing accomplishments! Keep up the great work girls and boys!
Wishing everyone a restful weekend particularly all the students who participated in their first swimming session today.
The Leaders of 2022
This year I am one of the lucky students to be selected to be a school captain for 2022. I am so excited to be a school captain but I also understand what an important role it is.
To be chosen as a school captain each person was required to complete a number of steps. Firstly, we had to to write a letter to Mr Downie (last year’s principal) outlining why we would make a good school captain and then we made a speech to the students in our year level about our qualities. As there were a number of great candidates for this role it was narrowed down to a top 8 then we had to demonstrate our leadership skills by taking Mr Downie on a school tour as if he was a new parent making a decision about whether HT would be a good fit for his child/ren. Ella, Zeke, Nathan and myself were the lucky students chosen as the school captains and our responsibilities began even before the beginning of the new school year when we had some new photos taken with our new school principal, Mr. Scutt.
So far the responsibilities we have undertaken as school captains have included leading Monday morning assembly, meeting with Mr. Scutt and Mr. Harvie on a number of occasions and this Friday will help lead our first online assembly with Mr. Scutt and I am very excited about this (and a bit nervous as well). Soon we will be leading the school tours for new families that would like to enroll their child to our community.
I can’t wait for all the leadership opportunities that all the year sixes will have in their leadership roles for 2022.
Here are our year six leaders …..
School Captains: Mia (Me), Ella G, Zeke and Nathan.
House / Sport Captains: Belle and Abbey (Green), Mark and Finn (Blue), James, Liv and Ava (Gold) Mya and Jordan (Red).
Art Leaders: Tazio, Xavier, Divyani, Bailee and Chloe.
Digitech Leaders: Spencer, Roman, Lucas, Jacob and Matt.
Environmental Leaders: Charlotte, Izzy, Liam and Nathan.
Liturgy Leaders: Zeke, Mia, Leonardo and Ella G.
Friendship Leaders: Poppy, Ella D, Curtis and Angel.
Learning Leaders: Elliott, Melissa, Abigail and Bec.
P-4 Swimming
The students in Prep to Year 4 are very excited at the moment because this Friday they will all be starting our school swimming program at Swimworld Aquatic Centre in Glen Waverley. Each Friday in term one the Prep to Year 4 students will dressed in their PE uniform (students wear their swimming costumes underneath their uniform) and they will bring everything they will need to be able to swim including their goggles, towel and a bag to carry their wet clothes in afterwards.
Each year level has a set time to catch the bus from school, participate in their swimming lesson and then catch the bus back to school after the lesson. The first students to leave are the year 4s who will depart school at about 9.10 am and the final students (Preps) will return to school at about 1.15 pm.
I spoke to a couple of year three students about their thoughts with the upcoming swimming lessons and they said that they will looking forward to practising how to dive, learning the different strokes such as freestyle and backstroke and also all the fun safety activities you do such as treading water with extra clothes on.
We will keep you posted with our swimming lessons over the next few weeks.
GARDEN CLUB NEWS
Yesterday we had our first Garden Club for the year and we had lots of children coming to help pick all the delicious cherry tomatoes! They were enticed by the opportunity to not only pick them, but to take a small bagful home! I hope they weren’t squashed in the bottom of school bags! Over the Summer holidays the corn, pumpkin and cucumbers grew like crazy! As you can see from the photos the corn is almost ready to pick and the pumpkins are growing.
Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Class of 2021
2022 Y6 Leaders and Term 4 TORCH Bearers of the Term
On Monday morning, we gathered for the passing on of the Leadership Batons and announcement of the Year 6 Leadership positions for next year.
We also presented the TORCH Bearers of the term with their certificates.
Click here to view the video of the assembly.
Congratulations to all of our Year 6 2022 students on your positions, and thank you to Year 6 2021 for your leadership of the school this year.
Congratulations to the Prep to Year 5 TORCH Bearers. The Year 6 TORCH Bearer will be announced at Graduation.
Buon Natale – Merry Christmas!
As we come to the end of 2021 I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our HT and St Mary’s families – Buon Natale! It has been a jam packed year but we made it!! The link to our Festa di Carnevale production was sent to all families via Operoo yesterday. There has been some lovely feedback from parents and students.
Best of luck to our graduating class of 2021 – Buona fortuna! Wishing you all the best as you go to secondary school.
From my famiglia to yours – Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
Ciao Signora Formichelli
