2024 Term 4 Week 1

From the Principal

Welcome back to Term 4!

I hope you all enjoyed a restful break and are ready to embrace the final stretch of the 2024 school year. As we step into this term, I encourage everyone to reflect on the growth and achievements we’ve all made together so far.

This term brings a variety of activities and events that foster our sense of community, collaboration and learning. This includes the swimming program that has started this week for Grades 2and 4. The 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. During  week three, students in Years 3 and 5 will participate in a Life Saving Victoria incursion focusing on the important theory aspects of water safety. 

As this is the last term for our Grade 6 students, we want to make it especially memorable. We have exciting events planned to celebrate their journey and achievements at Trinity. Our Grade 6 students will be going on camp in November, having a day at URBANSURF in December and their Graduation. This year’s Grade 6s have been wonderful role models and leaders within our school. We look forward to celebrating with them and supporting them through this important transitional phase in their educational journey.

One of the key activities this term is the creation of class lists for next year. This process is crucial for ensuring that every student is placed in a learning environment that supports their growth. Shortly your children will have had the opportunity to select a number of fellow students who they believe they work well with. We aim to provide every child with at least one person on their list, however this is only one of the factors teachers consider when planning classes.

This is a time of both excitement and uncertainty for your children as they begin to think about 2025. To help make this process as smooth as possible, we kindly ask for your support by framing conversations around change in a positive way. In the  coming weeks the teachers will also be preparing our students for physically changing learning spaces and for the change of classes and classmates they will experience.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education.

Staffing Updates

We welcome Mrs Sarah Wedlock back from maternity leave, as she becomes Grade 5A’s teacher on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. Brooke Farrelly will be working in 5A on  Thursdays and Fridays.

Miss Shannon Crispe has accepted a position at St Josephine Bakhita’s for the 2025 school year. We wish Shannon congratulations and luck for the future.

Parking

We have had reports that people are parking in the Community Kids Narre Warren carpark. Please be aware that this carpark is only for families who have children attending the centre.

Family Portraits- Vision Photography Fundraiser- Sunday 17 November

Family Photos will be available for interested families on Sunday 17 November. These will be facilitated by Vison Portraits.

They will take place in the school hall at scheduled intervals throughout the day. If you are interested, or you know someone in the community who is,  please click on the following link :

www.visionportraits.com.au/fundraise and use the password raisefunds. 

There is also a flier included below.

Uniform

Summer uniform is now to be worn, there is a 2 week change over period during which they can wear either. Hats, however, will be needed from the start of the term.

Grandparents / Special Friends Day

On Friday, 1 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.

Updating Personal Details

Have your details changed?  If any of the details below have changed, can you please update them by emailing the school at: info@trinitynarre.catholic.edu.au PAM/SIMON app will not allow you to update these details.

• Has your phone number changed?
• Has your address changed?
• Have your emergency contact details changed?

If your child’s medical details have changed, these can be updated on PAM/SIMON. This is critical so that we can keep your child safe.

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. Any families experiencing financial difficulties are invited to email for some assistance on principal@trinitynarre.catholic.edu.au

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.

Term Four Assembly Dates

Week 2: Thursday 17 October- Grade 4 hosting

Week 4: Thursday 31 October- Foundation hosting

Week 6: Thursday 14 November- Grade 3 hosting

Week 8: Thursday 28 November - TBC

Week 10: Thursday 12 December- TBC

Term Four Important Dates- Whole School Events Only

Please check PAM for Year level excursions and incursions. 

Kind regards,

Ged Shelton

Vision Photography Fundraiser

Religious Education - Term 4, Week 1

Dear Families, 

Triune God - Inquiry Statement
This Term we begin our new Religious Education Inquiry, but what is our statement that will guide our exploration? Staff had an oppurtunity to solve this mystery during our PLT Meeting on Tuesday. Students will be working in their classrooms to crack the code and solve the mystery this week duirng their Religious Education lessons. What will our focus be? Watch this space!

Sacrament - Congratulations! 

Kind regards, 

Emily Rogers
Religious Education Leader

Visual Art-Term 4, Week 1

Grade Three Art

Grade Three students created these amazing Bees in their hives by following directions successfully.

Grade Four Art

Grade Four students created these shaggy dogs inspired by the artist Robin Anne Cooper and Stan DuBose

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO THE TRINITY SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Day for Daniel - October 25th

Now in its 20th year, Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day. In recent years, more than 2 million Australians have united with the Daniel Morcombe Foundation (DMF) to protect children and remember Daniel. Day for Daniel urges Australians to Wear Red, Educate and Donate as we take action and conduct child safety activities focused on Keeping Kids Safe. This year Day for Daniel will celebrate the Daniel Morcombe Foundation’s 20 years of keeping kids safe.

At Trinity we will be acknowledging the day with age appropriate activities to complement what they already learn about safety, as well as what they learnt in Australia's Biggest Child Safety Lesson. More information to come early next term. 

OLHC Parish News

Save the Date - OLHC Christmas Carols

Invitation from Fr Michael

Pope Francis has dedicated 2024 as the Year of Prayer, in anticipation of the Jubilee Year of 2025. To celebrate the Year of Prayer, I would like to invite all families from Trinity Catholic Primary school to pray the Rosary together with your Parish family on the 30th of October 2024 from 7pm to 7:30pm.

The Parish Rosary is prayed every Wednesday night online via Zoom and you are invited to join in from the comfort of your own homes. My hope is that this will encourage many of our school families to pray together in the month of the Rosary in a way that could lead to regular family prayer, which always bears much fruit in those relationships.

If anyone participating has a particular intention that they would like to be prayed for, please feel free to put them in the chat room once logged in.

The ZOOM Link will be shared via PAM/email this week, as well as the week of the 30th of October to ensure it is kept private. 

Thank-you for considering this request.
Fr Michael

Why do we Pray the Rosary 
By Emily D’Sylva (OLHC Parish Pastoral Associate)

As John Paul II explained, the repeated prayers in the Rosary help us get more in touch with the deepest desires in our souls for God. The Rosary provides us with a time and place to connect with our inner self. The Rosary is a meditative prayer. This simple prayer, in fact, helps us to contemplate all that God in his love has done for us and allows us to understand that our life is united to that of Christ. In prayer, we bring everything to God, our struggles, our wounds, our fears, but also our joys, our gifts, our loved ones … all to God. By praying, we allow God to enter our time, to welcome and transfigure all that we experience.

Think of the Rosary as being like the ocean: there’s something in it for everyone. The deep- sea explorer and the child making sand castles on the beach can fully enjoy the same ocean while playing at different levels. And this is true with the Rosary… just a two-and-a-half- minute break and you can pull out your Rosary beads and pray a decade in order to regroup with the Lord and be nourished spiritually. That’s all a decade takes: one Our Father, ten Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.

Mass Times

Sacramental Booklet 

Parish Bulletin Link

Parish Website

AWARDS & BIRTHDAYS

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.

SAFE AROUND Trinity Catholic Primary

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