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This week we had Leonie Anstey a Numeracy consultant from ‘Elevating Learning’ working with teachers on challenging learning and professional development focused on teaching and learning in numeracy. Leonie conducted a Zoom lesson with a group of Year 2/3 students in the Library on fractions whilst staff observed the lesson. Leonie is astounded with the student’s progress and they manner in which they challenge each other. This has resulted in a huge shift in growth mindset with students and the manner in which they approach Maths and apply mathematical knowledge to solve tasks. The teachers have been focusing on dialogue, questioning and feedback during Mathematics lessons. Leonie has attributed much of the student progress and shift in growth mindset to the hard work and consistent efforts by all our teachers. We thank our teachers and look forward to continuing academic progress for all our students as they delve in and out of the ‘Learning Pit’.
NAPLAN Testing: On Monday, the Year 3 and 5 students will be participating in online practice tests in Reading and Numeracy. These tests will provide useful data for the teachers for ‘where to next’ and student progress data will be provided for the Year 5 students. These tests will commence at 9:30am. Please ensure your child arrives at school with a water bottle and a piece of fruit to eat for fruit break. As only Reading and Numeracy tests are being conducted, they will conclude by lunch break.
Updated COVID-19 advice: As advised by NSW Health and CE, students with flu-like symptoms must not attend school or they will be sent home. Students with even mild flu-like symptoms must be tested and can only return to school upon a receipt of a negative test result that must be provided to the school. Where COVID-19 testing has occurred due to flu-like symptoms, and not due to close contact with a positive COVID-19 case, the person being tested must self-isolate until they receive a negative result. Should the result be positive, they are required to self-isolate for 14 days. Family members are not required to self-isolate until the test result is received, although we encourage them to do so. The school must sight a negative test result before students return to school. Students must be symptom-free before returning to school.
Father’s Day Breakfast: Next Friday we will be conducting a drive-by breakfast for our wonderful fathers. Unfortunately, this year with restrictions around COVID-19, fathers are unable to come into school, but we will provide donuts for our dad’s instead. We hope to see as all our dad’s at school next Friday from 8:30am at drop-off time.
A wonderful way to keep updated with school events is to go to our Trinity Facebook page and our YouTube channel. We endeavour to share regular classroom learning resources, activities and significant key events. The students and staff love to see your comments and hitting the like and share buttons provides an opportunity for people outside our school to see it too.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
God Bless and keep well,
Marylou Gorham
Trinity Recipe Book
As a fundraiser for our school, we are putting together a Recipe Book. This is a great way for all members of the family to get involved and everyone always loves a great country recipe book. So, we’d like you to email us your favourite recipes in a word document to fiona.bassingthwaigh@cg.catholic.edu.au - Anything from Slow cooker recipes, mains, desserts, cakes, slices, salads etc. Every recipe that comes to school will have the senders name in the book and will earn 10 house points. More information will be sent home in the coming weeks regarding sponsorship of pages, but it is envisaged that the cookbook will be ready before the end of the year just in time for Christmas.
Fundraising
A very special thank you to all our Trinity families for selling the wood raffle tickets. We have had an amazing group of parishoners selling tickets outside Cooper’s Butchery this week and they will be selling tickets again next Wednesday. A special thank you to Julie Doolan for organising the street selling roster. Please return all ticket butts and money to the front office by Friday, September 4, so the raffle can be drawn that day. The result will be published in next Friday’s newsletter.
The chocolate fundraiser is now completed. Please return all monies raised and any chocolates that are unsold, to the front office as soon as possible.
COVID-19
The pick-up and drop off arrangements which were put in place last term, still continue. Please park your car in front of the presbytery so the children can exit and walk to the gate. A teacher will be on duty at the front gate from 8:45 to 9:10am as well as after school. We request that parents maintain social distancing practices at all times when coming to and from school. If in the event your child/children are late to school or being picked up early, you are still required to sign them in and out with social distancing practices in place at the front office.
Congratulations
Congratulations to the Tindall family on the arrival of a new baby girl - Amarlee. We are hearing lots of gorgeous stories from Violet about her brand new baby sister - so cute!!
Mini Vinnies – Footy Colours Day and House Challenge
Next Friday (4th September), our Mini Vinnies representatives from Year 5/6 will lead a mini fund-raiser to coincide with Footy Colours Day. This fundraiser is a national fundraising campaign that helps kids with cancer. Footy Colours Day is a fun and easy way to bring our school community together while teaching our students the importance of helping others by raising much needed funds for this foundation.
Students are encouraged to bring along a gold coin donation to be out-of-uniform and some spare change to enter the ‘Guess the Dots on the Footy Jumper’ competition. This will cost 10c to enter a guess. There will be a first, second and third prize announced for the closest three guesses to the number of dots on the footy jumper – which has been expertly designed by the budding Year 5/6 artists. Year 5/6 will also lead the Term Three House Challenge on this day.
Making Jesus Real Focus
RESILIENCE
When a problem comes our way, very often we can drop our bundle and give up, or get our parents or another adult to solve it. Sometimes you hear the expression “accept a challenge”. You can feel a lot better about yourself if you can build a bridge and get over a problem. It there are really big problems you need help from parents and teachers but for the small things that can upset us, such as not having our joggers, hat or pencils where you might have to miss an activity, try and manage them yourself – ‘build a bridge’ and get over the small problems. This is called resilience.
Prayer for Growing Faith
Dear Lord, help our community to find faith in the midst of the chaos. Give us the desire and ability to see You, hear You, talk to You, and give thanks to You. And as we do, we pray that we will draw nearer and nearer to You, and that our faith will multiply exponentially as we understand in new, deeper ways that You are everything we ever hoped You would be. And so much more. Amen
Thank you
We kindly thank Gemma Irving who donated a number of Rosary Beads to our school. These will be distributed and used throughout the month of October (month of the Rosary).
Readings this Weekend – Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time A
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2016:21-27&version=NIV
Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself.
Living the Gospel
We are invited, by Jesus, to see the burden of suffering in our lives as an opportunity to be faithful to his example. It also gives us an opportunity to be in solidarity with all those who suffer in our world. This is easier said than done. When we suffer in our daily lives, thoughts of others rarely come to mind easily, but it can be consoling to keep our suffering in context and know that we are not facing it alone.
We are encouraged to see that suffering can be an opportunity to grow in love. If we understand our crosses as our schools of love, then we learn more about ourselves and God and are able to help others carry their crosses as well.
Carrying our cross, however, is not just about bearing our pain; it can also be in the sharing of our gifts and talents, our love and compassion. In every gift there is a burden. Following Christ’s example, we are called to share our gifts with anyone in need.
And while we are invited to take up our cross and follow Jesus, we never do it alone. If we have the eyes to see it and the humility to accept it, Christ, literally, hangs in there with us every step of the way.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reminds us that to be one of his followers we must be prepared to pick up our cross – whatever our particular cross might be – and still follow his example. To be a Christian means that we don’t fall in a heap when difficulty comes our way; we take up the burden – our cross – and continue to look forward with hope.
Thought of the Week
Wishing everybody a wonderful weekend.
God bless,
Donna Wade
Footy Colours Day
Next Friday (4th September) the Year 5/6 Mini Vinnies leaders will run a Footy Colours Fundraiser Day. Come along in your favourite team colours or House colours for a day of fun and games and team challenges.
What Children Really Want from Sport
Sport provides many valuable learning experiences, but for most children enjoyment is the most important outcome. If they don’t have fun, they will not want to play. Ask children and you’ll discover the scoreboard, trophies and winning are not really that important. While they may not remember the score from a game played just two weeks ago – they will recall a funny incident or who they played with after the match.
In fact, one of the most satisfying things about sport for children comes from being with their friends and being part of a team. All adults involved in children’s sport – parents, spectators, coaches and officials – can help children get maximum enjoyment from sport by focusing on what they like most about the game. Emphasise the importance of effort and having fun, rather than the score.
Top tips
✓ Talk about trying hard and having fun, not just winning
✓ Don’t pressure children – it’s their game not yours
✓ Never criticise or ridicule children
✓ Discuss with children what they enjoy about a game.
The development of camaraderie and team spirit is a great by-product of participating in team sports.
Trinity Sports Calendar
Footy Colours Day |
Friday 4th September |
Trinity Athletics Carnival |
Wednesday 16th September (Week 9 – Term 3) |
Donna Wade
Trinity Sports Co-ordinator
Year 5/6
Some of the activities we included this week were:
- Design a new Commemorative Australian Coin.
- Research and build a Timeline on the development of money in Australia.
- Build a budget.
- Creating a Day in the Life of a Gold Miner Recount
- Investigating Currencies Around the World
- Complete a Canteen Order
What a wonderful week of learning!
Class Awards
Kinder/Year 1: Timmy Olotu & Marlie Oakley
Year 2/3: Stevie-Rain Ford & Zoe Miller-Logue
Year 4: Melanie Beal & Grace Metcalfe
Year 5/6: Tilly Bowman & Sammy Daken
Inspirational Learners Awards
Digby Clark, Ben Pollard, Michael Oakley & Chaz Cooper
MJR Awards
Kinder/Year 1: Digby Clark
Year 2/3: Ruby Lucas, Phoebe Bassingthwaighte, Somer Oldfield
Year 5/6: Sammy Daken, Jaslyn Killick, Angus Oldfield
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!!
Reading Nights |
Congratulations to…. |
25 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Basil Russell, Bella Pollard Year 3/4: Toby Stevenson Year 5/6: Raph Summerfield, Spencer Betts, Shannon Kerrison, Hamish Summerfield |
50 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Bella Pollard Year 3/4: Harry Edwards, Ben Pollard Year 5/6: Michael Oakley |
75 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Parker Betts, Poppy Medley Year 3/4: Ayeisha Atallah Year 5/6: Thomas Edwards |
100 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Monty Lucas, Keeva Mottley Year 3/4: Fletcher Betts Year 5/6: Phoebe Bassingthwaighte, Bella Betts, Charlie Jackson, Jade Mottley |
125 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Ivy Corkhill Year 3/4: Marlie Oakley Year 5/6: Melanie Beal, Ryan Sumich |
150 Nights reading |
Kinder/1/2: Henry Johnson Year 3/4: Jack Gadd, Claire Corkhill, Georgia Jackson, Tilly Jackson, Lawrence Johnson, Ruby Lucas Year 5/6: Bea Lucas |
175 Nights |
Year 3/4: Lana Sumich Year 5/6: |
200 Nights |
Year 5/6: Zoe Lenehan, Billy Corkhill |
225 Nights |
Year 3/4: Dakota Medley, Tilly Olotu Year 5/6: Dara Olotu, Somer Oldfield, Zoe Lenehan |
DATE |
EVENT |
LOCATION |
START TIME |
Tuesday 13 December |
Nativity Play Performance |
Trinity |
12.30pm |
Wednesday 14 December |
Year 6 Big Day Out |
Wagga |
All day |
Thursday 15 December |
Last day of Term 4 |
Trinity |
3.10pm |
Wednesday 1 February 2023 |
First day of Term 1 |
Trinity |
9am |
Women's Reflection Afternoon
All women are invited to participate in an Archdiocesan Women’s Reflection Afternoon which will be livestreamed to all corners of the Canberra Goulburn Archdiocese this Saturday 29th August from 2.00pm to 4:30pm. Gather with friends at home, in the parish or at school to hear inspiring talks and participate in short guided prayer experiences. Register for free at www.bit.ly/WomensReflectionAfternoon More info at https://www.catholicvoice.org.au/event/womens-reflection-afternoon/
Enquiries email catholic.women@cg.org.au or ring/text Lara on 0429 192 869
This event is hosted by the Archdiocesan Women’s Taskforce https://womenstaskforceacg.org/
Canteen Roster Term 3
As you can see we are very light on for volunteers - if your (or know of anyone) willing to help, please let Jen McKay know.
Date |
Helper1 |
Helper2 |
19/8/2020 |
Jen McKay |
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20/8/2020 |
Penny Lucas |
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21/8/2020 |
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26/8/2020 |
Jen Mckay |
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27/8/2020 |
Amy Mergard |
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28/8/2020 |
Fiona Bassingthwaighte |
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2/9/2020 |
Amy Clark |
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3/9/2020 |
Penny Lucas |
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4/9/2020 |
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9/9/2020 |
Jen McKay |
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10/9/2020 |
Wendy Bowman |
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11/9/2020 |
Fiona Bassingthwaighte |
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16/9/2020 |
Jen McKay |
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17/9/2020 |
Amy Mergard |
Mary-Anne McKay |
18/9/2020 |
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21/9/2020 |
JenMcKay |
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22/9/2020 |
Penny Lucas |
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23/9/2020 |
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