Student Learning
Annabelle Marinelli - Deputy Principal | Learning and Teaching Leader
Daily Reading
It is just so wonderful to see our Year 1/2MB students as they engage in their morning daily reading. They independently record their reading in their journals and share their love of reading and learning with each other.
Book Week is only a few days away!
Next week on Monday, we will be celebrating Book Week.
Dress Up Day- Parade
Wednesday 21st August at 9am
We have some exciting events planned for the week including our annual Dress Up Parade. Students might like to dress up as their favourite book character or dress as something related to this year's theme 'Reading is Magic'. The whole school parade will be held on Wednesday 21st August at 9am.
Guest Speakers
We are also very fortunate to have two guest speakers during Book Week:
Andrew Plant (Author and Illustrator) Years Prep- 2
Wednesday 21st August
Prep 9:45am - 10:20am
Year 1/2’s 10:25am - 11:25am
Sher Rill Ng (Illustrator) Years 3 -6
Friday 23rd August
Year 3/ 4’s 9am - 10am
Year 5 /6’s 10:15am -11:15am
Students will also participate in other exciting events across the week:
- Classes will explore the Children's Book Council of AustralIa's (CBCA) shortlisted literature during their literacy time each day
- Students will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite shortlisted book in the library
- There will be a daily 'Surprise Reader' each afternoon across the week
- We will also have an exciting day of 'Art and Craft' related to the CBCA shortlisted books
- We will have our Annual Scholastic book Fair- Friday 30th August to Wednesday 4th September (Parent helpers needed to help in the library before and after school- please contact Barbara at the office if you can help).
For more information about the CBCA Book Week Shortlisted Books you can visit:
https://cbca.org.au/shortlist-2024/
NAPLAN Update
You may have heard that there was a NAPLAN media release during the week. The National Report was released with key highlights regarding how students across the country performed in NAPLAN this year. Whilst this preliminary information has been released to the media, schools have not as yet received the National and State data. We have been notified that this will be released shortly. When we have this data we will share it with our school community.
Religious Education Learning in Prep
In Prep this week, the students were inspired by the Bible story where Jesus performs a miracle, enabling a blind man to see. They were encouraged to share ideas about how they use their sense of sight every day and they were challenged to draw without being able to see. They also created their names using braille, which are raised dots on a surface which makes it easy for blind people to read. The children realised how fortunate they are to have the sense of sight given to us by God.
Xavier College Dress Rehearsal Performance - Monty Python's Spamalot Young@Part
This week our Year 5/6 students attended the Xavier College Dress Rehearsal for their school production of Monty Python's Spamalot Young@Part. It was wonderful to see one of our past students in the production!
Year 3/4 Book Week Literature Fun
This week 3/4VA enjoyed the Children's Book Council of Australia's (CBCA) shortlisted book 'Gymnastica Fantastica' and brought this book to life as they created an array of gymnastics activities in the MPR! It looks like they had a lot of fun!
Staying in touch...
If at any time you would like to chat about the learning at Trinity, or you have any questions or concerns about your child's learning, please do not hesitate to see your child's teacher, or myself.
Annabelle Marinelli
Deputy Principal | Learning and Teaching Leader
amarinelli@tcs.catholic.edu.au
94287180