Dear Friends,

We have had a wonderful and settled week with all of our students from ELC to Year 6 back at school.  Seeing the smiles on their faces and their gratitude at physically being with their teachers and friends has been heart warming. Thank you so much to all our parents and families who have supported this smooth transition and continued to place  great trust in us. 

As well as the safety procedures put in place at Holy Trinity,  discussed in previous correspondence,  we have now made some adjustments, with the new road map introduced on the 1st of November as follows: 

• masks will no longer be required outdoors but must continue to be worn indoors subject to any exemptions.

• Students from individual classes or cohort groups can participate in a school choir, band, or orchestra. Singing and playing wind instruments can resume indoors, with appropriate physical distancing to be maintained.

• Students from individual classes or cohort groups can participate in a dance class indoors.

• Specialist tutors (e.g. music tutors) are permitted on site with any additional risk mitigation measures in place where required.

• Community use of school facilities (e.g. hall hire) can resume outside of school hours with COVID-safety measures in place and cleaning of high touch surfaces between bookings.

• Canteens can resume counter services with a COVID safety business checklist in place, and one person per four square metres.

Please note there are no changes to visitor restrictions and checking in requirements.   Further easing of restrictions ti occur after the 28th of November will be detailed in the coming weeks.

This week were able to finally present our Term 3 week 5 an 10 award recipents with their certificates.  Tomorrow we will present outside (with COVID safety procedures in place and weather permitting!) our Week 5 awards  for this term.  We will publish these recipients in next week's newsletter. 

As discussed in last week's newsletter we have begun planning for 2022, with staffing and class structures.  When considering class compositions there is many factors to take into account. As  a PYP school, collaboration is an essential component of your child's learning, and although students are placed in home rooms with a specific teacher, there are many occasions throughout the day or week, where classes are mixed or opened for differing groupings, based on the learning occurring. If a parent has a particular concern regarding the placement of their child/ren in classes, this should be written in an email to me by this Friday Week 5, 5th November, and this concern will be considered seriously. However, there are no definite guarantees regarding parent requests as there is much to consider as stated above.  Please note, teacher requests are not to be included in these emails.

Today we launched our school facebook page. At a School board meeting, last term this was discussed and a decision was made to commence a school page.  This page provides our community with a wonderful platform to share and celebrate all the wonderful learning experiences and achievements of our school community.

Please log on and follow us!

HOLY TRINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ELC CURTIN

Enjoy a relaxing weekend with your loved ones, after a big couple of weeks transitioning back to school learning. Please do not hesitate to reach out for anything at all and continue to stay safe. 

Warmest wishes,

Philippa 

Term 4 Celebrations

Due to current restrictions families are currently unable to attend any of our upcoming celebrations. We will keep the community updated with any changes to gathering restrictions. 

Week 6

• Thursday 10:30am - Remembrance Day Prayer Celebration

Week 8 

• Monday 9:15am - Advent Prayer Celebration - Hope 2G

Week 9

• Monday 9:15am - Advent Prayer Celebration - Love 2W
• Friday - L'Arche Summer Disco 

Week 10

• Monday 9:15am - Advent Prayer Celebration - Joy 1W
• Monday 2:30pm - Year 6 Assembly

Week 11

• Monday 9:15am - Advent Prayer Celebration - Peace 2R
• Monday 2:30pm - Leadership Ceremony  
• Wednesday 12pm - Graduation Mass

Emily Capper

Religious Education Coordinator 

As we draw towards the end of the year, the P&F would like to sincerely thank all the families who have contributed to school fundraising activities or assisted with the delivery of key services over the course of the last 12 months. It has been a strange year, but the P&F committee are extremely proud of what has been accomplished under difficult circumstances. In particular, a big shout out to the parents who sit on the P&F committee and provide their wisdom and time to guide all the wonderful services offered by the P&F to the school community.

Gingerbread House Kits are now on sale! 

This is the only P&F fundraising activity for Term 4 so please get your Christmas cheer started early and participate in our gingerbread house sales drive!!

Unleash your inner builder and decorate your very own gingerbread house. Our gingerbread house kits are a great family activity – egg free product includes 4 walls, roof & chimney baseboard + royal-icing mix, piping bag and instructions. The kits also come with a small bag of lollies for decorating. Assembled house approx 16cm (h) x 15cm (w) x 12cm (d).

• made in Australia
• vegan
• nut free
• palm oil free
• no added colours or flavours
• no added preservatives
• compostable wrapper
• kosher

Regular Kit $39.99

Gluten free kit $39.99

Orders can be made on QKR and close 5pm, 9th November.

Kits will be delivered in Week 9 (sent home via students).

World Teacher Appreciation Week

On behalf of the school community, the P&F have arranged a lovely series of hampers to be delivered to the staff room over the coming weeks. Many parents have expressed to me how grateful they are for the extra effort the teaching staff made over the lockdown period and the P&F want to acknowledge just how extraordinary the Holy Trinity teaching staff are!

So, to the Holy Trinity Teachers, please know we truly appreciate the effort you have made this year and we thank you for being so creative and adaptable in your teaching practices throughout the COVID chaos.

Postponed activities

Unfortunately, due to the COVID lock-down, the P&F were unable to operate the Father’s Day Stall and we have had to cancel our booking for Obstacool this year. Whilst this is very disappointing, I am sure that we will be able host both of these events next year, so we have something to look forward to in 2022.

Screen time habits for good eye health

At Holy Trinity, we understand that the NAPLAN results are but one sample of how a school’s students are performing and that good schooling is about a lot more than scores on a single test, held on a single day.  The NAPLAN assessments are designed to provide schools with ongoing feedback about the effectiveness of their teaching practices and the impact of the curriculum and, as such do provide some good longitudinal data on school wide development.  The individual student reports also give parents and teachers a ‘snapshot’ of how each child is performing compared to those around the country in each of the five areas tested.  It is important, however, for parents to remember though that the test examines a fairly narrow band of concepts and our school reports combined with parent teacher interviews provide a much richer picture of each students’ overall development.

Individual Student Reports and Additional Student Reports for all NAPLAN students were mailed home during lockdown. 

Please contact your child's class teacher if you wish to discuss this report. 

How fabulous to have the Tuckshop open again from this week, with The Merchant's Feast delivering lovely lunches and snacks for the children. Don't forget they also do take home meals that you can order through Qkr.

Please remember to place lunch orders before 7pm the night before. You are able to place orders for the next week too.

Volunteer Roster

This Term we are continuing with the class assigned roster. Below are the dates, classes and volunteers for each shift. In addition to the volunteer list, there wil always be an experienced volunteer at every shift, so please don't worry that you will be alone! As you can see, all positions have been filled, thank you! If you can no longer do your shift, please find a replacement from your class group. Your class coordinator may be able to assist in finding someone. 

Tuckshop Volunteer Roster

COVID safe

All volunteers must update their details at the Front Office with proof of being double vaxxed.  The Front Office will record your vaccination date on your volunteer register.

Please ensure you enter the school through the Front Office where you will also need to check in (Check in CBR and also the school Compass).

While in the Tuckshop, please ensure you wear a mask, wear gloves, use sanitiser, and social distance.

 If you have any questions about the Tuckshop please feel free to email Kirsty and Cath at htpstuckshop2021@gmail.com, or Kirsty 0455 733 960 or Cath 0413 319 899. 

 Thanks for your ongoing support of the Tuckshop.

We’re sad to announce that the CommBank School Banking program will not be returning to schools in 2022.

Commonwealth Bank School banking is closing nationally.

For 90 years, the Commonwealth Bank's School Banking program has helped children learn about money, reinforced the importance of regular savings and provided structure for parents to support their children to save.

We would like to take this oppurtunity to thank our wonderful school banking volunteers from over the years for their time and commitment to the program, especially our current volunteer Carrie who has also had to battle through the changes and trials that COVID added to the role as well.