2023 Term 4 Week 2

From the Principal - Term 4, Week 2

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Term Four!  I hope all families enjoyed a restful break and are feeling energised for what is always a busy period as we head towards the end of the year.

Last week our intensive swimming program began for students in Years 2 and 4. The students have completed 6 of their 8 sessions and are to be commended on their excellent behaviour, their beautiful manners, their enthusiasm, and their willingness to give new challenges ago. The swimming program is an important part of the school’s sports curriculum and a valuable opportunity for skills to be reinforced and water safety addressed. Our Year 6 students will swim in November and our Foundation and Year 1 students will complete a water safety session at the pool in December. Next week students in Years 3 and 5 will participate in a Life Saving Victoria incursion which focuses on the important theory aspects of water safety. Thank you to Mrs Cahill and Mrs Woolf for their organisation of the program and to the staff and parents for the support of the program.

Term 4 also begins the planning and preparation phase for 2024. The teaching staff are in the process of creating the 2024 class lists and your children have had the opportunity to select a number of children that the believe they work well with. A lot of time and effort goes into creating a new class and we aim to provide every child with at least one person on their list. Sometimes this is not possible if parents have put in a formal request, accompanied by a genuine reason.  The teachers are best placed to know who your child works best with and what possible scenarios will work best for a cohort of students. Whilst the idea of finding out their 2024 class is exciting; it also naturally comes with some anxiety. Who will be my teacher/s and who will be in my class.  As parents how we respond and prepare our children for these changes can determine if its smooth sailing or rocky.  Our own anxieties can often interfere with this process, so I invite you to begin these conversations in the coming weeks and always make sure they a positive.  Life is not always fair, and we don’t always get what we want. Knowing how to cope when this happens is important. The teachers will also focus on this later this term when they begin the transition process.

Grandparents / Special Friends Day

On Friday, the 10th of November, we will celebrate our Grandparents / Special Friends Day. This is a highlight of the school calendar, and we look forward to seeing as many grandparents / friends attend as possible.  Full details of the day will be sent home to families shortly.

Congratulations – Baby News!

Congratulations to Miss Farrelly on the birth of her precious baby girl Addie and Mrs Machado on the birth of her precious baby boy Santiago. Both ladies and babies are doing every well.

Congratulations!

Congratulations to our wonderful robotics teams who performed exceptionally well at the Nationals at MSAC over the weekend. Every student competing is to be commended on their commitment, enthusiasm and support for each other throughout the 3-day competition. They certainly did Trinity proud. More details on how they went can be found within this newsletter. Thank you to Mr Dannaoui for his dedication to preparing the students.

Save the date – Trinity School Carnival Sunday 17^th March 2024

The next planning meeting for the 2024 School Carnival will be held on Tuesday 17^th October, in the School Office at 8.45am. If you are interested in assisting with the planning of the event, we would love to have you on board.  If you are interested and cannot make the meeting, please contact the school office with your expression of interest.

Seasons for Growth

Seasons for Growth is an innovative, evidence-based change, loss and grief education program that draws on the metaphor of the seasons to understand the experience of grief. It builds the knowledge and skills necessary to strengthen social and emotional wellbeing following significant loss by: 

• Exploring the impact of change and loss
• Learning about effective ways to respond and adapt

We will be running our Seasons For Growth Programs for students aged between 6-12 years this term. It is recommended for greatest effectiveness, that students participate in Seasons 6-12 months or more after the experience of loss. If you believe that your child will benefit from this program, please contact your child’s teacher detailing why you believe your child will benefit from the program by this Friday.

More information regarding this program can be found on the MacKillop Institute Website.

https://www.mackillopinstitute.org.au/programs/seasons-for-growth/children-young-people

Staffing Updates

Mrs Shelton will be on Long Service Leave from the 23 October until the 20 November. During her absence, Miss Rogers, Miss Lamb, Mrs Burke and Mr Watty will be available should you need to speak to someone on their rostered day out of the classroom. I encourage families to always speak to the class teacher first as they are best placed to provide you with information regarding yours child’s progress. Parents are also welcome to make an appointment through the school office with myself. 

This term we warmly welcome Mrs Michelle Tweedale and Mrs Desiree Ostroff as part time Education Support Officers onto the Trinity Staff. Both Michelle and Desiree will be covering Mrs Machado who is currently on parental leave. I know that they will be made to feel very welcome.

School Fees

A reminder that we ask that all school fees are finalised with the Office by the 31st of October.  If you have any concerns regarding the school fees, please contact the Office.

Families Leaving Trinity

If your family situation is changing, we would appreciate you letting the Office know.  An accurate indication of student numbers assists us enormously.  We have a waiting list and if we know you are leaving, we can offer your spot to another family.

2025 Foundation (Prep) Enrolments

We have now begun the process of enrolling 2025 Foundation students.  If you have a child coming in 2025, or know of someone else who does, please contact the Office for an application form or you can download one from the school website.

Important Dates – Whole School Events Only

Monday 6 November                   School Closure Day

Tuesday 7 November                    Melbourne Cup Holiday

Thursday 14December                Year 6 Graduation

Friday 15 December                     Last Day of School for 2023

Friday 15 December                     End of Year Mass 9am and Christmas Carols 1.45pm

Please check PAM for Year level excursions and incursions. 

Kind regards

Kathryn Pepper

eSafetyCommissioner Webinars

The eSafetyCommisioner website has some valuable resources available to parents. Over the courses of term four, they will be hosting a number of webinars that you may find informative and useful. 

These live webinars give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.

Please refer to the flyer below for the topics being covered this term. If you would like to register for one of these webinars, click on the link below. 

Day For Daniel

On Friday 27 October,  Trinity will be helping to raise awareness of child safety, protection and harm. 

Day for Daniel is about educating children through child safety and protection initiatives and helping empower children to ‘Recognise, React and Report’  if they feel something is not right.

The objectives of Day for Daniel are:

• To raise awareness about child safety and protection while promoting a safe community for children.
• To educate children regarding their personal safety and empower them to ‘Recognise, React and Report’.

• To honour the memory of Daniel Morcombe.
• To raise funds to produce and distribute free educational resources.

As part of this day, our students are asked  bring a gold coin donation to support the foundation.

Day for Daniel is the Daniel Morcombe Foundation’s biggest fundraiser each year. Our school's support through fundraising will help them to continue developing free resources and programs for parents, carers, and educators to teach children how to stay safe.
We look forward to sharing a day together which focuses on keeping everyone safe.

Religious Education - Term 4, Week 2

Dear Families, 

Parent Prayer Group
We warmly invite parents and families to attend our Parent Prayer Group beginning Wednesday 18th October. In the busyness of our lives it can be a real challenge to take time to be present, to take time for prayer, faith and meditation. Let us take an opportunity to make a small change, a step towards prayerfulness, making space for God in our lives. 

We will be alternating venues for the Parent Prayer Group between Trinity Catholic Primary School chapel, Mary MacKillop Primary School chapel and Don Bosco Primary School Library. We encourage parents to visit the different schools to get to know our wider Parish school community and engage in moments of prayer together. Below is the planned roster of dates and locations for Term 4. The facilitation of the sessions will be shared among the clergy from the Parish, Fr Brendan, Fr Ajin, and the Schools RELs - Emily, Tahlia & Lize.

The chapel will be open from 9am for all those interested in attending with sign in sheets available. Trinity's Chapel and Don Bosco's Library will be open from 8:50am. We are looking forward to seeing you all soon! 

Altar Server Workshop
Next week the students who have received their First Communion are invited to become an Altar Server for the Trinity level masses. Fr Brendan will join the students in the Trinity Chapel on Tuesday 17th at 2:15pm to train students in this important ministry. It’s a wonderful opportunity to engage in the mass and be a role model for other students. 

Level Five - We Can Make a Difference
This week the level five students celebrated the success of their Starlight Foundation Fundraiser as a part of our Term 3 ‘We Can Make a Difference’ Religion Inquiry. The students explained that they wanted to raise awareness for sick children, but also be a part of making a difference in their world to grant one of their wishes. The students and their families raised an incredible $1227 for these sick children and their families.

What’s In a Name?
As we begin Term 4 we also begin our new focus on Triune God with the inquiry question; ‘What’s in a Name?’ We have begun to explore this question and make some personal connections to the topic. Here are our foundation students exploring some things they know about their names! 

Kind regards, 
Emily Rogers

https://www.olhc.org.au/ 

National RobCup Competition

Over the weekend, 12 year five and year six students took part in the National RoboCup Competition at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Albert Park.  Our four teams were competing in a group of 41 times vying to be national champions. 

Across two and a half days, our students (Aaliyah A. Aariel, Miranda, Aaliyah S., Anaya, Simon, AJ, Joel, Kiaan, Annelle, Jasmin and Lauren) have been collaborating with their teams to solve a variety of programming challenges using our Lego Mindstorm robots. Overall, our teams placed 4th, 7th, 9th and 15th.  A stunning effort by all, not just over the weekend, but in the 3 school terms of preparation.

From the bottom of my heart, we thank our RoboCup parents for being so supportive.  This program would not have been possible with their support and dedication across the three competitions.  

A special thanks to Mrs. Darwish for her support as a volunteer.  This allowed me to support our students throughout the weekend.  Also, thanks to Kathryn Pepper for her support throughout our journey from the regional competition back in July all the way to Nationals on the weekend.  Her support has made running the program with our students a lot smoother for all of us.

 So what's next?  You'll have to wait until 2024 to find out more.  Stay tuned.

Mr. Dannaoui

Visual Art-Term 4,Week 2

Our Foundations students have learnt about the Impressionist painter-Claude Monet , they created these amazing frogs on the lilypads inspired by his paintings

Congratulations to the following students whose work has been published in the Ozkids magazine

Aiden and Ava M in 5B

OzKids is a magazine which  distributes on a national basis and publish online through the website. Its purpose is to promote and support children’s literary and artistic talents and to provide a vehicle for children to appreciate and develop their skills and encourage them to continue in the arts, especially when they see their work published.

If you would like to read our students work please click on the following link and find their work

https://ozkids.com.au/magazine/2023_03/

If you would like to enter their story writing competitions or even your Artwork, please log into the website and submit your work, you never know you may win.

OzKids provides a platform for you to enter your work and have it assessed by a panel of experts. All approved entries are published here on the website. Some are selected for publication in our OzKids Magazine and at the end of the year, the Winners are Announced.

Dear Parents,

The next book club of the year is here, it is due back at school on the 20^{th of} October.

All orders are now to be processed online; no cash orders will be accepted by the school.

To place an order, please log on to https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/Parent/Login.aspx

Follow the prompts to register your child. Then click on the tab to order.

This process is called book club loop. Your order will be delivered to the school and there is no need to send the order form to school. If you are already ordering online, there is no change, continue to order as you have previously been doing.

If you have any inquiries, please contact the office.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Samantha Moss

Physical Education -Term 4, week 2

REGION ATHLETICS - WEDNESDAY 18TH OCTOBER

We wish the following students all the very best on their upcoming event/s at the School Sport Victoria South Metro Region Athletics Carnival next week.

AWARDS & BIRTHDAYS

ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL

In the case of illness/absence please call the school office by 8.30am or login to PAM to send a notification no later than 9.00am  on the day of absence.

An SMS will be sent (daily) to Parents after 9.30am for any unexplained student absences.

If no contact can be made or no absence is reported the school may phone emergency contacts to ensure student safety.  

If you are going away on holidays you must advise in writing to the Principal BEFORE you leave.  

Thank you.

CHILD SAFE STANDARDS WORKING WITH CHILDREN

Trinity has zero tolerance towards child abuse and is therefore committed to complying with the Ministerial Order No. 1359 – Implementing the Child Safe Standards – Managing the Risk of Child Abuse in Schools and School Boarding Premises. All parents/guardians wishing to help in the classroom, canteen or attend excursions MUST have completed the PARENT HELPER WORKSHOP and hold a current WORKING WITH CHILDREN CARD.

Further details are available from the school office or the Justice Department website.  All parent/guardian helpers must sign in at the office before proceeding to the classrooms.  Your current Working with Children card must be displayed at all times when working in the classrooms and attending excursions.

A reminder to all Parents/Carers, supervision by School Staff begins at 8.30am before school and after school only at the drop off area until 3.30pm.

Trinity Car Park Etiquette

• For greater safety and visibility, we are requesting that all drivers reverse park into the marked bays.
• Thank you all who use the pedestrian crossing area.  You are demonstrating to your children correct road safety practices.  Once children cross the pedestrian crossing into the parking area, they, for their safety, need to be placed into vehicles promptly.  The car park is NOT a meeting area.
• The lane around the edge of the car park (closest to the oval) are for vehicles waiting to pick children up from the Pick-up Zone ONLY.
• The two parking bays closest to the office path are the PICK-UP ZONES.  These are NO STANDING zones.  If your children are not ready to get into your car as you pull up to the pick-up zone, you must continue on and rejoin the end of the pick-up queue.
• There is NO RIGHT TURN when exiting the car park.  All vehicles must turn left for the safety of others and to maintain traffic flow.
• THE GATES CLOSE AT 8.50am. They will RE-OPEN AT 3.00pm. The gates close for the day at 3:30pm. Occasionally they might reopen slightly later due to school activities.
• The Staff Car Park is for STAFF PARKING ONLY.  Please do not use it as a drop off/pick up for students.

Thank you for your patience and consideration of others