Last week, the year 6’s welcomed the preps and their parents to the school community with a delicious buddy breakfast. Lots of people got to enjoy a yummy sausage in bread and the adults got some tasty coffee.
Buddy Breakfast is a great opportunity for everyone to welcome the preps and parents to our school community.
Here are all the Year 6’s and Preps with their buddies, friends and family.
Yesterday (25th of February) 19 students from the years 4-6 went to Kilsyth Centenary Pool to compete in the Knox District Interschool Swimming championships.
Each Tuesday and Thursday morning since the beginning of term students went to Knox Leisureworks pool to tryout and practice our swimming so we were ready to compete.
Overall, it was an excellent result with Holy Trinity and St. Mary’s getting third place. Everyone swam amazingly and displayed great sportsmanship to the other schools. 18 of our students did such a good job that they will move onto the next level of competition – Division Swimming that will take place on 3rd of March.
Thanks to Mr D, Mrs Rickard and the parents who helped set up and supported all the swimmers.
These were the Final Results for all the students
This week the year 5/6’s were lucky enough to go to Waratah Bay Beach Camp for an amazing 3 days. Some of the activities we participated in were surfing, the giant swing, aeroball, dolphin dodge, rockpooling and the disco. The food was delicious (particularly the of pancakes where we got to play the pancake frisbee game), the staff were nice and the beds were comfy. But I think everyone most enjoyed surfing and the disco most of all!
Thank you to all our wonderful teachers and the HT and St. Mary’s staff for their organisations and for helping to make camp such a memorable experience.
Here are a few pictures from our camp experience.
Hi everyone,
After three awesome days at Waratah Bay including getting one final session down at the beach the 5/6 students have departed camp and are on their way back to Holy Trinity. The buses will stop off at Leongatha for lunch and for everyone to stretch their legs before the final journey back to Wantirna South.
At this stage the buses should arrive back at school between 2.30 and 3pm but if this timing changes we will notify you via Operoo.
Thanks for your support of the 5/6 camp!
After an ‘action packed’ first day at Waratah Bay the 5/6s enjoyed a night walk together on the beach where they learnt about some of the star constellations that are difficult to see in Melbourne and shared some good stories around the campfire whilst toasting some delicious treats. After such a big day everyone had a ‘restful’ sleep (except the teachers who forgot to bring their teddy bears).
This morning we enjoyed ‘the Great Waratah breakfast’ then everyone participated in some more ‘rotational’ activities including surfing, ropes course and rock wall climbing. After lunch everyone took a walk along the beach to Chicken Rock where the students explored the rock pools and discovered some of the beautiful creatures that live in this part of Victoria. They were encouraged to use all their senses during the rock pool ramble and many students noted the interesting ‘smells’ that were discovered in this area.
This evening everyone is looking forward to the disco and tomorrow morning we are really excited to participate in the beach games.
We will try to update everyone once we board the bus and return to school but at this stage we are planning to depart at approximately 12.30pm (the journey takes about 2 and a half hours).
Here are a few photos from our recent activities …… (more will be posted once we upload the photos from the iPads).
This morning (Monday 22nd February) our 5/6 campers departed Holy Trinity at about 8.45am destined for Waratah Bay for their beach camp adventure. After a short stop off at Leongatha for recess the happy campers arrived at the Waratah Beach Camp at just before 12pm.
The students have familiarised themselves with the beautiful surrounds of the camp, settled into the dorms and will this afternoon participate in group activities including giant swing, nitro crossing and surfing.
By this evening the students will all be ready for a delicious dinner.
Keep posted for future updates including some photos over the next couple of days.
Today the 2021 school captains were announced and were presented their badges by our current school captains.
This term the year five students have been preparing themselves for their upcoming leadership roles and part this preparation involved having a leadership day where they learnt about some of the different types of leaders we find in our world, the leadership qualities we admire as well as the different leadership roles available when the students are in year six. Each student was required to write a letter to Mr. Downie informing him of the leadership qualities they display as well as the leadership roles they would like to undertake in 2021. Some students applied for the role of school captain and it was pleasing to see how well the students did in their applications. Well done to our new school captains who have big shoes to fill when Jess, Josh, Sienna and Aiden move onto year seven.
Here is the video of today’s announcement.
Congratulations to Jordan, Aiden, Charlotte, Claire, Hannah, Ruhani, Jess, and Pip for taking the extra time to research and present an Australian who has shaped our country.
Here’s what they had to do:
Task:
Research an individual who has impacted on the history of Australia and discover how their actions continue to be a part of our lives in Australia today.
Please enjoy two videos from Jess who researched John Howard and Pip who researched Steve Irwin.
Welcome back everyone to term 3 and to remote learning 2.0. I hope everyone had an enjoyable school holiday break and are refreshed for another great term of learning.
Below is the Google Meet Timetable for classes (including Specialist Google Meets). As you will notice the times for class Google Meets should be the same each day.
There is also a specialist Google Meet time for each class during the week where you will to some learning with the Specialist teachers at the allocated time. It is important to remember that no matter what specialist lesson you have it will always be the same code, You will also stay on your Google Meet throughout the session and your specialist teachers will swap over half way through the session. Most class teachers will explain how to access their specialist Google Meet but here is a quick summary …..
Since we have all come back from online schooling the Year 5’s have been participating in DFL (which stands for Dice Football League). At the start we were all randomly given our own football team but it was not the football team that we barrack for. To play the game were each given two different coloured die and we had to choose one dice to be the goals and one to be the behinds. At the moment the Demons (me) are on top after we defeated the Swans in a classic. We are looking forward to continuing the DFL next term.
Here is the current ladder positions in our class.
Hi Year 5/6 families.
Here is the learning that the Year 5/6’s are planning to explore over the coming week. The best way for your child to touch base with their class teacher is via Google Classroom which they will be able to access in their Google account. The teachers will be online at regular times during this week to support the student’s learning so please continue to regularly visit the school blog for ongoing updates.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Year 5 or 6 teachers at the following addresses …..
mnevin@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Blue)
mbellofiore@htws.catholic.edu.au / lcascianelli@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Yellow)
bjohnson@htws.catholic.edu.au / jlocantio@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Blue)
lmcewan@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Yellow)
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Hi everyone,
Here is this week’s Google Meet timetable for whole class sessions.
In addition to whole class Google Meets some students may have smaller group sessions as well and may be asked to use the Google Meet app to enter their session. If you are asked to enter a special code or meeting name you may need to check in your emails for what the code is. This video may assist you with how to use the Google Meet app to do this ……
Hi Year 5/6 families.
Here is the learning that the Year 5/6’s are planning to explore over the coming week. The best way for your child to touch base with their class teacher is via Google Classroom which they will be able to access in their Google account. The teachers will be online at regular times during this week to support the student’s learning so please continue to regularly visit the school blog for ongoing updates.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Year 5 or 6 teachers at the following addresses …..
mnevin@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Blue)
mbellofiore@htws.catholic.edu.au / lcascianelli@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Yellow)
bjohnson@htws.catholic.edu.au / jlocantio@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Blue)
lmcewan@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Yellow)
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Hi everyone
Today we have an online school assembly at 3pm.
To access the school assembly all you will need to do is to click onto the following link a couple of minutes before 3pm just to make sure you are on time.
Enjoy!
https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/403347b5-0b07-4089-b43a-392fbbc4034f
Hi everyone,
Here is a short video with how your child can access Google Meet sessions from their Google Classroom. All whole class sessions (except the Prep Level) will be eventually accessed from the Google Classroom via the link on the page.
Thanks to Mrs. Wahrenberger for putting this informative video together.
Hi Year 5/6 families.
Welcome to the new world of learning from home!
Here is the learning that the Year 5/6’s are planning to explore over the coming week. The best way for your child to touch base with their class teacher is via Google Classroom which they will be able to access in their Google account. The teachers will be online at regular times during this week to support the student’s learning so please continue to regularly visit the school blog for ongoing updates.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Year 5 or 6 teachers at the following addresses …..
mnevin@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Blue)
mbellofiore@htws.catholic.edu.au / lcascianelli@htws.catholic.edu.au (5 Yellow)
bjohnson@htws.catholic.edu.au / jlocantio@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Blue)
lmcewan@htws.catholic.edu.au (6 Yellow)
Please feel free to leave a comment that follows our online protocol of keeping all comments positive and keeping student’s personal identities off the Internet as much as possible.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
Hi everyone,
One day down without hopefully too many meltdowns or technical issues. Thankfully, we all survived and we lived to share the story. Thanks to all the families who shared their photos from during the day. If only we could have a similar document for how the parents looked at the end of the day. …..
Feel free to keep sending your photos in to me at smullavey@htws.catholic.edu.au and I will update this document as they come through.
Cheers and keep up the great work!