Team Trinity Leader

Around the Classrooms in RE

This week we visit the Year 3/4 classroom to see the wonderful work they have been doing in RE. 

3/4 have been exploring the different ways we can pray. We have delved into the difference between traditional and formal prayers, likening the idea to squares and rectangles. All traditional prayers are formal prayers, but not all formal prayers are traditional prayers. While exploring this concept, we created our own formal prayers on Pic Collage. We shared our prayers with our peers and are very proud of what we have created. We know that praying is our personal 'phone line' to God and we can talk to him whenever we want. We are going to continue looking into different ways that we can pray to God by ourselves or as a community, including singing, movement, and spontaneous prayer.  

Prayer

Lord our hearts desire is to live in harmony and unity with each other.

Bind your love to our hearts so we can live in perfect unity together.

Teach us to care for our family members and share in the beauty of life and love.

https://www.loyolapress.com/3-minute-retreats-daily-online-prayer/ 

The Assumption of Mary

Last Friday, Year 3/4 led our school community in a beautiful Prayer Liturgy to celebrate the Assumption of Mary.

The Assumption is when we honour Mary's journey into heaven. The Feast of the Assumption is the main celebration of Mary's life and ministry. God assumed Mary into heaven, Catholics believe, because of Mary's special relationship with God. All of Mary's roles - Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, Lady of Sorrows - are tied in with her position in heaven, guiding, watching, and caring for God's children.

Thought of the Week

Interschool Public Speaking

This week Trinity hosted the Interschool Public Speaking Championships via MS Teams.

The judges for this event were Mr. Barry Wooldridge, and Ms. Therese Clancy. The quality of the sixteen finalists’ speeches was of an exceptionally high standard. The manner in which they delivered their speeches is to be commended, making the judge’s decisions an extremely hard one.  The judges congratulated the students on their polished delivery of speeches and offered sound words of advice for further development in Public Speaking.

 The students who participated in the Championships were:

The Champions and Runners-up were announced at the conclusion of the Public Speaking. Congratulations to:

Year 3 Champion Will Cross and Runner up Dakota Medley

Year 4 Champion Jack Scott and Runner up Claire Corkhill

Year 5 Champion Phoebe Bassingthwaighte and Runner up Ivy Taylor

Year 6 Champion Beatrice Lucas and Runner up Ryan Sumich

Western Region Inter-School Public Speaking

The Champions from this event will now represent Trinity and St. Joseph’s at the Western Region Public Speaking competition hosted by St. Anne’s, Temora via MS Teams on Friday 16^th September.

National Science Week 

Year 5/6

This week we celebrated National Science Week in our Year 5/6 classroom. The theme for Science Week this year is Glass: More than meets the eye. It celebrates the many roles that glass plays in our lives – from phone screens to optical fibre to glassware in labs – plus investigating glass as a part of our sustainable future.

In Year 5/6 we tapped into a Virtual Science Lesson called ‘Street Science’ where we learnt about some cool things to do with liquid nitrogen and some of the properties of glass, through virtual experiments. A highlight of our lesson was when the presenter asked the audiences if anyone knew the temperature of liquid nitrogen. Our very own Dara Olotu said – “I’m pretty sure that is -196 degrees Miss Wade”, so we typed the answer into the chat channel. The presenter was amazed anyone knew the answer so quickly. Just goes to show, our students at Trinity have a wealth of knowledge to share with the world. We were all very proud of Dara.

After our virtual lesson, we all had the chance to make our own Lava Lamp as an experiment to look at chemical reactions and the property of reflection in glass. This was a great learning experience which we all enjoyed. Here are our responses:

I liked our science day because I learnt so many new things and I loved making the Lava Lamp. (Charlie)

I found science so much fun today. I enjoyed it. (Aidan)

I think it was amazing to see how many learning opportunities there are in science. (Melanie)

I liked science today because it was cool to see the reaction of the Bi-carb soda, oil, and vinegar to create the lava through light. (Somer)

I had so much fun making my Lava Lamp today. (Bella)

I liked making the Lava Lamp and watching for the reactions to occur. (Bea)

I really liked watching the food colouring form bubbles when the vinegar and bi-carb soda mixed. (Phoebe)

Today I learnt a lot about liquid nitrogen, and I found out so many ways you can experiment with oil, vinegar, bi-carb soda, and food colouring. It was great. Thanks Miss Wade. (Thomas)

Today I really enjoyed learning about how the Lava Lamp works and how different liquids react to different substances. (Billy)

I really enjoyed learning about how chemicals mix and react. It was fun experimenting to see what happens if certain substances are mixed, even sometimes resulting in a ‘BANG’. (Ryan)

I think science is interesting. I liked making our Lava Lamp and I think it is great because we can do some of these experiments at home with ingredients from the pantry. (Jade)

I had a great day learning about science today. I loved making the Lava Lamp. (Hamish)

For more fun science news and experiments students might like to do at home on a rainy day, visit the link below.

https://www.scienceweek.net.au/latest-news/

Kinder/1/2

During National Science Week, K/1/2 investigated solids and liquids and created some stained glass windows in line with this year's theme of 'Glass'.

We turned lollipop solids into liquid by melting them down and used salt dough to construct window frames.

Trent Barrett Shield

On Thursday the 11th of August, 3/4 joined local schools to play in the Trent Barrett Shield Rugby League competition. The girls played 4 league tag games and in each game they showed major improvement. It was great to see as the day went on, more confident play in attack and defense leading to lots of tries for both teams. The girls and I would like to thank Ash Corkhill for coaching on the day. 

The boys were split between the two St Joseph Boorowa teams and played 4 games of tackle Rugby League. The feedback from both coaches made me extremely proud. I was told the boys played hard every game and every time I saw them, they had massive smiles on their faces. 

Though there were some bumps and bruises, the kids had a fantastic day and the rain held off just long enough to get our final games in and a warm hot chocolate from the Terracotta on the walk back to school.  

Mr Niddire

Archdiocesan Athletics Carnival

Best of luck to Lana Sumich, Dakota Medley, Somer Oldfield and Aidan Summerfield, who will be travelling to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra next Tuesday, 23 August to participate in the Archdiocesan Athletics Carnival. We wish all these students the best of luck at the carnival and look forward to hearing about their experiences upon their return.

These students will be participating in:

Lana – 800m

Dakota – 100m and 800m

Somer – 200m

Aidan – Shot Put

Archdiocesan Cricket Trials

This year some sport trials, from earlier in the year, were postponed due to Covid restrictions. These trials are now beginning to take place. Today, Spencer Betts and Billy Corkhill will be travelling to Queanbeyan to participate in the Archdiocesan Cricket Trials. Our Trinity community wish both boys the best of luck. This is a great experience to be involved in and we look forward to a report from the day in the next newsletter.

Future Sport Trials

There are several trials coming up next term. Please add these to your calendar. If you wish to register your child in any of these events, you will need to visit the sports portal https://csnsw.sport/  

For further information about nominations and trials, visit https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/nominations

CRICKET

• The Canberra Goulburn Cricket Trials for the 2023 teams will be held on Friday 4^th November 2022 with a closing date of the 28^th of October (have attached parent note) – Open to boys and girls from Year 3 to Year 5 in 2022
• The MacKillop Cricket trials for 2023 will also be held in 2022 – Boys November 30^th and December 1^st and Girls November 30^th.

TOUCH FOOTBALL

• Canberra Goulburn trials Friday 9^th December – Open to boys and girls from Year 3 – Year 5 in 2022

TENNIS AND BASKETBALL

• 2023 Canberra Goulburn Tennis and Basketball trials will be held on Friday 2^nd December 2022. This is open to students from Year 2 to Year 5 for TENNIS and Years 3 to 5 for Basketball.

Notes about each of these sports are also available from Miss Wade upon request.

All trials will be advertised through the school newsletter and Compass; however, parents are encouraged to check the C & G sport website and the Facebook page for information about upcoming events

There are currently many trials open for 5/6 students on the sport cg page. Please monitor the page so you are aware of what’s on

Canberra Goulburn Sport Website: https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/

For more information or to register, please go to https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/nominations.

If any parent/guardian needs support with this, please contact Miss Wade.

Term Three Sports Calendar

Thank you for your support of sport at Trinity.

Miss Wade

Week 4

Class Awards

Kinder/1/2: Basil Russell, Henry Johnson

Year 3/4: Fletcher Betts

Year 5/6: Dara Olotu, Phoebe Bassingthwaighte

MJR Awards

Kinder/1/2: Basil Russell

Year 3/4: Whole class award, Dakota Medley

Year 5/6: Thomas Edwards, Dara Olotu

Staff & Parents: Mr Niddrie, Ash Corkhill

Week 5

Class Awards

Kinder/1/2: Parker Betts, Bella Pollard

Year 3/4: Lana Sumich, Zoe Miller

Year 5/6: Thomas Edwards, Jade Mottley

MJR Awards

Kinder/1/2: Monty Lucas

Year 3/4: Timmy Olotu

Year 5/6: Aidan Summerfield

Trinity school community staff and friends would like to wish the following people a wonderful birthday.

This year all students from K-6 have been given a Home Reading Log where they are to record their reading each night.

It has been great to see the number of ‘Reading Nights’ children have recorded in their home reading log.

Once children reach a reading goal of nights they are rewarded with a sticker for their book from Mrs Perryman.

Keep up the great reading!!