Holy Trinity Primary, Wantirna South

On Wednesdays at lunchtime the Year 6 Technology leaders have organised a game designing club for our 3/4 students using the Gamestar Mechanic website. The students are very engaged during this time and happy to use their lunch time in this club. This is some of the 3/4 students thoughts about this club ……

Nik: It is really good because I love gaming and learning about how to create our own ones.

Patrick: I think it is really cool how you can create your own games for others to play.

James: I think it is really creative and fun to be a part of this club.

Cooper: I think it is fun to be able to play other people’s games that they make and the quests are cool too!

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!

 

Signora Formichelli

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.