Trinitarian Term 4 Week 10 Trinity Catholic Primary School Ph: 02 6386 2111 Fax: 02 6386 3053 Website: www.trinitym.nsw.edu.au Email: [email protected]Date: 15th December, 2017 May your advent season continue to be one of faith, hope and love and may you all have a safe and Holy Christmas. It is hard to believe that another year is coming to an end. Trinity is such an exciting and energetic learning environment where a diversified curriculum is offered, catering for the needs of all our children and their individual learning styles. In the past week there have been many opportunities to celebrate the students of Trinity. The Year 6 children have been wonderful leaders for Trinity and we wish the graduating class of 2017 all the best at High School. We are so fortunate to have had wonderful staff who assisted with the organisation of the Graduation Mass and supper along with the Year 5 parents. A special thank you to Penny Lucas for the amazing graduation cake which she made and donated to Trinity. Tuesday night was an opportunity to celebrate the children and their achievements throughout this year, at the presentation night. It was lovely to see so many of our families enjoying a picnic in the school grounds. A special thank you to Charlie Lucas, Mark Sumich and Brendan McKay for cooking the barbecue dinner and Penny Lucas for providing her beautiful coleslaw. We also announced our leadership positions for 2018. Congratulations to the following students and we look forward to the wonderful leadership skills you will bring to your roles in 2018: Minister Positions for 2018 Canteen Minister- Hunter Minson Library Minister- Brody Schofield Celebrations Minister- Georgia Squire-Wilson IT Minister- Josie Davis-Chard and Oscar Phillis Sports Minister- Ty Leitner and Jonnie Barnes RE Minister- Kurtis Schoppema Prime Minister- Bella Cooper and Zarlie Quinn House Captains for 2018 RED Murray House- Oscar Phillis and Bella Cooper BLUE Hennessy House- Ty Leitner and Josie Davis-Chard GOLD Roberts House- Zarlie Quinn and Brody Schofield Yesterday we had our special Mass to say thank you to our many parents and grandparents who have volunteered their time throughout the year to support Trinity. This was followed by a beautiful morning tea. A special thank you to our staff and parents for providing the morning tea and for our parents and grandparents for their help on many occasions throughout the year and our wonderful class parent representatives: Amy Clark (K/1), Lauren Oakley (Year 1/2) and Tamara Starling (Year 3/4) and Mrs Amy Mergard for coordinating many of our school events. This year we have been focusing on quality teaching in every classroom and a commitment to professional learning. Improving Literacy and Numeracy outcomes for all students has been our major focus. We have been fortunate to
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Kite colouring competition winners: First Prize: Angel L- Year 6
May your advent season continue to be one of faith, hope and love and may you all have a safe and Holy Christmas. It is hard to believe that another year is coming to an end. Trinity is such an exciting and energetic learning environment where a diversified curriculum is offered, catering for the needs of all our children and their individual learning styles. In the past week there have been many opportunities to celebrate the students of Trinity. The Year 6 children have been wonderful leaders for Trinity and we wish the graduating class of 2017 all the best at High School. We are so fortunate to have had wonderful staff who assisted with the organisation of the Graduation Mass and supper along with the Year 5 parents. A special thank you to Penny Lucas for the amazing graduation cake which she made and donated to Trinity. Tuesday night was an opportunity to celebrate the children and their achievements throughout this year, at the presentation night. It was lovely to see so many of our families enjoying a picnic in the school grounds. A special thank you to Charlie Lucas, Mark Sumich and Brendan McKay for cooking the barbecue dinner and Penny Lucas for providing her beautiful coleslaw. We also announced our leadership positions for 2018. Congratulations to the following students and we look forward to the wonderful leadership skills you will bring to your roles in 2018:
Minister Positions for 2018
Canteen Minister- Hunter Minson
Library Minister- Brody Schofield
Celebrations Minister- Georgia Squire-Wilson
IT Minister- Josie Davis-Chard and Oscar Phillis
Sports Minister- Ty Leitner and Jonnie Barnes
RE Minister- Kurtis Schoppema
Prime Minister- Bella Cooper and Zarlie Quinn
House Captains for 2018
RED Murray House- Oscar Phillis and Bella Cooper
BLUE Hennessy House- Ty Leitner and Josie Davis-Chard
GOLD Roberts House- Zarlie Quinn and Brody Schofield
Yesterday we had our special Mass to say thank you to our many parents and grandparents who have volunteered
their time throughout the year to support Trinity. This was followed by a beautiful morning tea. A special thank you
to our staff and parents for providing the morning tea and for our parents and grandparents for their help on many
occasions throughout the year and our wonderful class parent representatives: Amy Clark (K/1), Lauren Oakley (Year
1/2) and Tamara Starling (Year 3/4) and Mrs Amy Mergard for coordinating many of our school events.
This year we have been focusing on quality teaching in every classroom and a commitment to professional learning. Improving Literacy and Numeracy outcomes for all students has been our major focus. We have been fortunate to
Kite colouring competition winners: First Prize: Angel L- Year 6
have extra classroom support and specialist consultants working closely with teachers and in classrooms with the students. We have seen incredible growth with our student performance in Literacy and Numeracy which has been awesome to witness. Instead of achieving one years’ growth in their learning, which was our goal, many of our students have achieved a year and a half. Trinity students are focused and engaged in their learning and the implementation of goal setting and daily feedback for each student, has had an incredible impact on their learning. Through collaborative planning and data analysis supported by learning support the teachers are able to provide tailored and strategic learning for every student. This focus will continue in 2018 along with the extra assistance provided this year. We will continue to provide Mighty Maths and Lustrous Literacy sessions before school commencing early in Term 1, as these sessions have been pivotal to improving student learning and this will be supported with enrichment programs to extend our students who are achieving above and beyond academically. We will continue to be supported by Professor Kaye Lowe with Literacy and Leonie Anstey with Numeracy. These consultants will continue to provide 1:1 professional development for all teachers and will work in classrooms with the students modelling best practice.
Our school would not be the schooI it is without the support of our amazing Community Council. We are very fortunate to have a Council who are so dedicated and willing to support initiatives and assist in many ways with the running of the school. Thank you: Brendan McKay-Council Chair, Sam Lenehan-Shadow Chair, Mark Sumich Secretary, Charlie Lucas-Treasurer, Amy Mergard-Events Organiser, Leanne Davis and Helene Boller as staff representative. I'd especially like to acknowledge Sam who has been on the Council for 6 years and has given so generously of his time. There have been many, many occasions when Sam has assisted at the school and has been a huge support to me. We thank Sam as he is stepping down from Council but will still be volunteering and doing things for our school as the need arises.
We are so blessed to have such a dedicated and committed Staff. I would like to thank Rebecca Cooper our Assistant Principal who works tirelessly behind the scenes as well as in class, Donna Wade who arrived in Semester 2 and has taken on the additional role of REC in 2018, Kaitlin Pieper, Helene Boller, Penny Lucas, Julie Doolan, Anne Glover and Carmel Babos. Alongside the teachers we are very fortunate to have such hard working and skilful Classroom Support Assistants- Ann Burns and Jo Birks and of course Leanne Davis our wonderful office Secretary supported by Bec McCorkindale.
This year we say farewell to Helene Boller who is retiring, Anne Glover and Bec McCorkindale who has been accepted into the Police Academy. We wish them all the best and thank them for their contribution to Trinity.
Finally, where would be without our children! We are so very blessed to have such beautiful children who are extremely capable, talented, well-mannered and always work hard to give their best. As mentioned previously, since moving into the new learning spaces and adopting the Inquiry approach to learning, we are seeing substantial growth in the academic progress of all of our students.
On behalf of the staff and students, I would like to wish everyone a very holy and happy Christmas and a safe and relaxing holiday. I look forward to seeing you all back here in 2018 and encourage you all to get involved and support our school.
God Bless
Marylou Gorham
Kite colouring competition winners: First Prize: Angel L- Year 6
