Last week the students from years 3 to 6 participated in a Mini Olympics Incursion. Daniel and “Dozza” came to our school and taught us many facts about the Olympics from a variety of countries that we didn’t know. We also did many fun activities involving balance, aim, kicking and throwing.
Overall, everyone really enjoyed the day and we are thankful that the teachers organised this day for us.
Here are some photos from the day…
At the end of last term the 5/6 students participated in Teeball Interschool Winter Sports. We played well against all the schools in Scoresby District competition winning most of our games and making it through to the Divisional champtionships.
In the Division competition we played against 12 different schools and we won most of our games which showed how much we had improved as a team. Unfortunately, we were unable to win enough games to make it through to regionals champtionships but were very proud of our efforts.
Thankful to Mr. O’Brien for his guidance throughout the Teeball competition.
In Digitech during semester one the 5/6 students worked in groups to create their own promotional videos about our school. Groups were required to think about the highlights of our school and to plan a script to put into a two minute video. Students learnt to use the Open Shot video editing program to put together all of their photos, music and videos including those taken in front of the green screen to create their promo video. It was a huge project and most of us appreciate how difficult it is to create movies.
Here are some of the promo videos for you to view and hopefully enjoy. Please like or leave a comment if you get a chance …..
Over the past few weeks the 5/6 students have been designing their own zoos during Maths lessons. We have been applying our knowledge of perimeter and area of shapes to design a zoo that can fit different animal enclosures including giraffes, bears, seals and hippos. The design required us to use our problem solving skills to consider the different amounts of space each animal requires. As some animals use more space than others this impacts how many animals we could include in the zoo as well as influencing which animals we chose to use. We also had to think about which animals are more popular for visitors to our zoo.
Overall, everyone really enjoyed being the desingers of a new zoo.
Here were a few of the designs from 5/6 Blue.
🏉 On Thursday 23 May a team of 5/6 girls were chosen to represent HT at footy 🏉 at Kings Park. Some of the schools we played against included Bayswater West, Kent Park, Karoo and the Basin.
It was a very fun experience to play against other girls and we all learnt lots of new skills. Overall, we won 4 out of 6 games with most games being quite close.
Here is a few photos from the day ….
In 5/6 Italian this term we have had a poetry competition. The students have had to learn an Italian poem off by heart and present it to an audience using correct pronunciation, expression and drama skills. The students were all great and it was amazing how well they went! The students with the highest scores will go to the second round of the poetry competition which will be performed in front of the school.
Here are a few photos of the students presenting their poems ….
Two weeks ago on May 1 – May 3 , the 5/6s went to Alexandra for camp! We had an amazing and fun time over there! Here are some things that we did:
After all those activities, students got a chance to shower and changed for dinner. Other students also went to the basketball and tennis court before it was time for dinner.
Dinner started at around 5:00 – 5:30 and many of us were very hungry after such a big day of activities. On the first night we had pasta, garlic bread and a choice of salad. Our drink options were green and orange cordial. For dessert we had ice cream with a syrup of our choice (strawberry, chocolate and caramel). Most kids enjoyed dinner and we were all pretty much full!
The next thing on the first evening was to take a night walk. The teachers encouraged the 5/6s to talk with someone new and get to know different people. We looked for star constellations in the night sky including the emu in the sky (the 5/6s are learning about this at the moment). In order to see the emu in the sky we had to find the Southern Cross first. Most of us did manage to the Southern Cross but I’m not sure if many of us found the emu in the sky constellation.
After our first night walk the students had a choice of another night walk or play a game (charades or another guessing game) with Mrs Cowie.
After the other students came back from their night walk we all got into our PJs and grabbed a stuffy toy and pillow in order to do a meditation session together. This helped us to feel a little calmer and ready for bed. After this we went back to our cabins to unwind and talk about the day. Some cabins may have talked well into the night and others were lucky enough to sleep the whole time.
On the second morning most kids woke up at 5 – 6 am or even earlier! Children got called at 7am to go to the dining hall to eat breakfast. The kids had cereal and toast with a choice of eggs and spread. Most of us chose butter or jam. The drink selections were apple juice and orange juice. After breakfast student continued to do more of their rotational activities and we had eating breaks between them. For morning tea and afternoon tea we had cake and fruit.
At 4:30 pm after another day full of activities we got to ‘do our think’ (change, shower or play). At 5:30pm it was time to eat again. This night we had chicken schnitzel with a side of potato and veggies. For dessert it was chocolate moose which was yummy! During the evening instead of a night walk we had a trivia night! There was tied between tables but but at the end table 7 ended up winning tie breaker. After another big day we had another meditation session and went to our cabins for a restful night of sleep …. hopefully!
On the last day most cabins woke up at 5:30am and packed their stuff. After we were done packing we put our belongings outside ready to pack on the bus. We saw some cool Australian animals before getting on the bus for the journey back to school. Half way back we stopped at a a park to eat our lunch and play for a little break. At around 1:50pm we arrived back at the school feeling to meet our parents/ grandparents feeling tired but happy to have such a great camp.
Overall it was an amazing experience and we had so much fun on camp. We really appreciate all the 5/6 teachers (and the other HT & St. Mary’s staff) for giving up so much of their own time to both organise and be with us throughout our 5/6 Camp (including their own family time).
Here are some of the photos from our 5/6 Camp experience …..
On Tuesday 7th of May the students in all grades participated in our annual cross country. This year the cross country took place around the school as Egan Lee Reserve is currently under renovations. Our Prep students ran one whole lap of the school including running through the car park and the basketball court whilst the 1/2 students ran two laps, the 3/4’s ran three laps and 5/6 students ran four laps. It was great seeing so many students being active whether it was walking or running all the way around the course. The Grade 6’s were luck enough to run an extra lap with their buddy which was really cool.
There were lots of amazing efforts throughout the school and the top ten students for each year level will get to represent HT in the district cross country.
The overall places for the house championship are as follows ….
Mackillop (Green house) won for spirit points which were earnt in sport class and at sporting events.
Dominic (Red house) came in 2nd place, Bunurong (Gold house) came in 3rd place and Mackay (Blue house) in 4th place.
Congratulations to everyone for your efforts with preparing and participating in our school cross country!
A big thank to Miss Humphris for all of her efforts with organising this event for our school.
At the end of last term our TORCH bearers of the term were awarded to one special person in each year level who displays each of our TORCH values. Our TORCH values of tolerance (T), optimism (O), respect (R), confidence (C) and honesty (H) are at the heart of what we teach at Holy Trinity and provide our students with practical examples of how to live out of school motto of ‘Love One Another’.
Congratulations to Aila (Prep), Kurshna (Yr 1), Audrey (Yr 2), Zach & Lily (Yr 3), Mila (Yr 5) and June (Yr 6) for being such fantastic recipients of the TORCH Bearers for term 1.
On Tuesday 20 February the students from Grades 3 to 6 went to the Bill Sewart Athletics track in Burwood to participate in our school athletics day. The students participated in a range of athletics activities like high jump, long jump, triple jump, discus, shot put as well as the running events including 100m, 200m and 400m.
Everyone participated well in the different athletics events and the spirit shown throughout the day was excellent.
Overall, it was a great day for everyone.
A big thank you to all of our wonderful helpers and to Miss Humphris for all of her hard work in organizing the Athletics Day. Great job everyone!
On Friday the 23rd of February, twenty one students for years 3 to 6 were chosen to represent HT at Croydon Memorial Swimming Pool. The pool is an Olympic sized which means it is 50 metres long and at least 8 lanes wide.
HT had lots of successful swimmers that participated in a range of events including backstroke, freestyle, breaststroke and relay. Some of our swimmers did so well that they were chosen to participate at the next level of competition.
Overall, HT came 3rd but we were only a few points from first so it was a fantastic result. Most importantly all the students represented HT with great sportsmanship positively supporting all the students swimming even those that were not from our school.
One of our year 5 participants commented how he really liked being part of the day and gave it a rating of 10 out of 10.
Here are a few photos from the day of competition.
This term in Digitech the students in years 3 to 6 have been participating in the Lego Engineering program. The students work in groups to build the Lego model whilst learning about the forces that help to make it work. Most models require a motor and some use a special bluetooth motor that can can be controlled using the Wedo program on our Chromebooks.
The 3/4 students have built a variety of models including a crane, railroad barrier and a towing vehicle. The 5/6 students have built a forklift, battle-tank and a caterpillar robot.
We are all learning lots of skills and knowledge about how different machines work in our world as well as having fun with building the different Lego models.
Here are some photos of models that we have built recently.
At the end of last term nineteen girls were chosen to represent Holy Trinity in netball for Winter Interschool Sports.
We had been practising hard for a few weeks and it was great to see how well each teams improved throughout the competition.
This is how our teams went during the competition ….
A team
Game 1: Played St Judes and WON
Game 2: Played Bayswater West and WON
Game 3: Played Wattleview and WON
Game 4: Played Boronia K-12 and WON
Final: In the final HT played against Bayswater West and we needed to go into overtime to find a winner. We ended up WINNING which meant that the A Team is the Champions of the Scoresby District.
B team
Game 1: Played Wattleview and WON
Game 2: Played Scoresby and LOST
Game 3: Played Knox Park and WON
Game 4: Played Kent Park and TIED
DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS
In the Division championships we played against
Game 1: St. Andrews and WON
Game 2: Bayswater West and WON
Game 3: Regency Park and LOST
In the final match we played against Templeton and we needed to win by one goal to make it through to Regional Championships.
Overall, we won 5 out of the 7 matches which is an amazing effort.
Overall, we did a great job to come third in the Division Championships. We are thankful for Mrs. Rocha, Mr. D and the parent helpers for your fantastic support.
Here are a few photos from our netball days….
On June 7th 2023 the year 5/6’s participated in Interschool sports soccer at Knox Park.
Each game was about 30 minutes long with a break in the middle. We also had a 20 minute break between each game.
Here are our Day 1 scores
HT Boys Games:
1st game HT Vs Saint Judes 0 – 1 Loss
2nd game HT Vs Kent Park 3 – 0 Win
3rd game HT Vs Knox Park 1 – 0 WIn
4th game HT VS Boronia K-12 6 – 0 Win
HT Girls Games:
1st game HT Vs Scoresby Mixed 2 – 0 Win
2nd game HT Vs St Jude’s 1 – 0 Win
3rd game HT Vs Knox Park 0 – 2 Loss
4th game BYE
Division Competition:
HT Girls played in the soccer division championships as well.
These are the overall results ….
HT Vs Mount Waverley 0 – 6 Loss
HT Vs Heritage College 1 – 4 Loss
HT Vs Knox Park 0 – 1 Loss
Overall the 5/6s really enjoyed representing our school in soccer and had a great time!
Here are some photos from the day!
On Friday 19th of May 58 students from years 3 to 6 participated in the Scoresby District Cross Country. The event took place at Jells Park. Despite the cold and wet conditions, these students represented our school with pride and tried their best. We are very pleased to announce that HT were the overall District champions, which is a wonderful achievement following our recent success at the Athletics District event. We are very proud of all the students! A number of students have also qualified for the Division Cross Country on the 2nd of June.
A big thank you goes to Mr. D and all the parents who have helped to train us to be ready for this cross country event.
On Wednesday 7th June and Friday 16th June our Year 5s and 6s represented Holy Trinity in Tee Ball. The boys and girls were separated into two teams for their T Ball games.
In the first match the HT boys played against the Scoresby boys. It was a hard fought match and in the end the scores were 17 – 16 which meant the HT boys won by 1 run!
In the first match for HT girls they played against Knox Park girls. Unfortunately for the girls lost even though they learnt a lot from the match.
After their first games the next match that each team played was against each other! HT boys Vs HT girls. At the end of the interesting match the scores were very close but the HT boys won the match.
For the boys, their third game was against Scoresby mixed. The match was fair but there was a big gap in the scores and HT boys won once again!
The HT girls third match was against Knox Park boys. Against all odds the scores ended up being the exact same that means the match was tied.
The fourth match and final match for the HT boys was against Bayswater boys. This match ended up in a tie but then the two teachers decided to do a sudden death round to decide on the result. In the end HT boys ended up winning by 2 points.
The fourth match for the HT girls was against Scoresby. The game scores ended up losing in a close fought match.
Overall, both the boys and girls represented HT with pride and played really well!
Thank you to all the teachers and parents that helped support us with our games.
The year 6’s this year have been doing lots of activities with their buddies. Once every two weeks the year 6’s go over to be with the preps and have lunch together. We also have done lots of different activities with them that include showing them around the school to teach the school rules, learning about different emotions and once we even just got to play together during a buddy session which was fun.
Overall, it has been so much fun being with our buddies and we are so proud of how well they are doing at school.
Here are some photos of what we have done…
On Monday (8th of May) all the students at HT and St. Mary’s participated in our school’s annual Cross Country event. The students walked to Egan Lee Reserve to complete the run. Even though the weather wasn’t ideal everyone tried their best & had fun! The younger students ran 1 lap of the track (1km long), the students in the 3/4 level ran two laps and the older students ran 3 laps.
The preps were lucky enough to run with their buddies. Even though many students felt quite nervous leading up to the event it was great to see so many students doing their best and ‘getting active’.
Thanks to Mr D for organizing this day and for all the parent volunteers for helping with running the event!
Here are some pictures of a some of our ribbon winners after their events ….
On Monday 15 May, the 5/6’s were lucky enough to go to the Immigration Museum in the city for an excursion as part of our Inquiry unit. In Inquiry we have been learning about different people who migrated to Australia and how they have influenced life as we know it today. The museum was very fun and interesting. We learnt about all different types of things including giving us a fake passport to fill out with questions about the museum.
There were very cool and detailed designs throughout the museum including the long room which was built to be the grandest building in Melbourne at the time. It definitely looked like the grandest building in Melbourne with the giant ceiling and massive pillars!
Our excursion to the Immigration Museum was a amazing experience and everyone had a lot of fun and learnt lots of very interesting facts.
On the way back to school our second bus was a little bit late – but we all arrived back safely.
Overall, it was a fantastic day and we are thankful to our 5/6 teachers for organising this day for us.
Here are some photos!!
On the 17th of March, ten Year 6 students attended the St Patrick’s Day Mass at the St Patrick’s Cathedral with Mr Harvie. It was a good opportunity to meet up with lots of other catholic schools around Melbourne. We also had a chance to explore the huge cathedral after mass including all the different chapels throughout the building. Many people choose a pray in one of the chapels for a particular cause such as the Holy Souls chapel. The statues of saints in the Cathedral were also very detailed and really helped to make the chapel so special.
We also had the special honour of getting to meet ArchBishop Peter Comensoli. We even got to take a photo with him which we put into the newsletter. Father Mark was one of the celebrants during the Mass which was also very cool.
After mass we got to enjoy a special concert where the high school students performed together with all the other students who attended mass. It was a really nice experience watching all the high school students perform.
Here is the link to the the website about the event.
Overall, our St. Patrick’s Day celebration was an amazing experience and we are very thankful to Mr Harvie for organising this excursion and Kylie for assisting us!
Here are some links with our thoughts about the day…..
Here are some photos from the day …..