The Ignatian Award

Each week at our Monday morning gathering, a student is awarded The Ignatian award

by Mr Rodrigues for demonstrating one or all of our school values:

Community Excellence and Respect

Congratulations to Alicia in Year 3/4VA. Alicia is always friendly to everyone and is respectful to her peers when working in pairs or in groups.

Well done Alicia!

Class Awards Week 5 Term 1

Class awards are presented to students who have demonstrated great effort and achievement in their learning, collaboration and initiative as well as resilience, and kindness in their classroom this week.

Grade	Student’s Name	Awarded for...
Prep SC	Maddy	For being a fantastic friend to everyone in class.
Prep AD	Ewan	Being a responsible learner. Well done for always trying your best and asking for help when you need it!
1 / 2 EA	Genesis	for being a great Maths leader and teacher
1/2 DG	Isabel	For your hard work as our class representative and leading by example.
1/2 KT	Leo	For always doing his best work and cheering his classmates on. Well done Leo!
3/4 TR	Zara Quentin	For great sharing of her work. For a great effort in completing his home learning tasks.
3/4 ZC	Archie	For fantastic effort put into his work and being a really focused learner. Well done Archie !
3/4 VA	Maxwell	For his great work in Numeracy! Max strives to do his best all the time. Keep up the super effort Max.
5/6 FA	Hannah	For displaying great community spirit towards her classmates. Well done Hannah.
5/6 BOC	Casey	We are so proud of how hard you are working Casey. You are always putting your learning first!
5/6 JJ	Mary	For her outstanding attention in class discussions and for always answering questions to show her knowledge and understanding. Well done Mary!
Visual Arts - Ms Denise	Goldie 3/4VA	Congratulations to Goldie for her enthusiasm during Visual Arts. Her model of an imaginary creature is creative and original.
Performing Arts- Ms Stanton	Marco 5/6BOC Nahier 5/6JJ	For your entertaining acting during warm up and performances. Keep being brave and unique!
Sport- Mrs Mcleary	Tim 3/4TR	For working hard and showing community spirit by working cooperatively in Tennis
Mandarin- Mr Su	Akur 3/4 TR	For showing very good listening during the lesson, and making great efforts in the learning activity.
Science- Ms Jai	Amelia 3/4 VA	For always going above and beyond in her Science lessons. Well done Amelia.

Student Leaders and SRC Meeting

Term 1 Week 6

Present: Evie Lily Isabel AJ Daniel Olivia

Humphery Clem Tie Anthony Akur Thomas

Sophie Isabel Maple Lucas

Date: Monday 3 March 2025

Teacher Present: Mrs Antonella

Class Leaders please remind your class -

We have some students outside without a hat. ‘NO HAT NO PLAY’ rule now applied by all teachers
NO lunch boxes outside
When you hear the music outside, STOP playing and get yourself ready to line up
Quiet area/ deck area to be kept clean please

On a scale of 1-10, how has our school been learning this week?

Prep AD - 7 learning letters, investigations, counting

Prep SC - 10 science and sport

1/2 KT - 7 writing our weekend recounts

1/2 DG - 10 really working well in our maths groups

1/2 EA - 10 spelling , writing recounts, reading and drawing from a text

3/4 TR - 7 literacy, reading class novel Matilda

3/4 ZC - 7 we are trying our best, in math we are learning about regrouping

3/4 VA - 7 some people are not working their best in class because they are distracted

5/6 BOC - 8 literacy and writing has improved

5/6 FA - 10 identity crosswords

5/6JJ - 7 how our world was made, reading

On a scale of 1-10, how has our school been working together this week?

Prep AD - 8 helping each other

Prep SC - 8 we need to tidy up and keep our room clean

1/2 KT 6 remember to say nice things and don’t say you’re wrong

1/2 DG 8 being fair

1/2 EA - 7 speak politely and not shout at others

3/4 TR - 9 most students working well, group work needs to improve

3/4 ZC - 8 helping each other solve problems

3/4 VA - 8 group work, listening to each other

5/6 BOC - 9 reading our class novel

5/6 FA -10 we talk to each other about our learning

5/6JJ - 6 more listening and less talking in class

Learning and events at Trinity this week:

Shrove Tuesday - Pancake breakfast- please makea donation to Project Compassion
Ash Wednesday Mass at 10 am
PREPS are here for their full week
First Aid in school program for P to 6 students
FITCLUB on Thursday

What can we improve on this week:	Class	Actions
Throwing sand and tan bark	everyone	Everyone wants to have fun when they play
Manners - how we speak to each other, waiting our turn, not pushing through the door/line/collecting our things	everyone	This is really important to make our school a safe and happy place for learning and fun play outside
Wearing the correct socks, uniform and sports shoes	everyone	Grey socks and black school shoes or all black runners white socks with runners for sports day

Suggestions from the SRC

More seats in the shade

Safety issues from the SRC

Please do not play inside the black boxes- they are for the wooden blocks.

Please call a teacher

If the floor in the bathrooms is wet please tell a teacher or the office

School Wide Positive Behaviours for Learning

At Trinity Primary School we follow the school wide Positive Behaviours for Learning approach to manage student behaviour. The premise of this approach is that if we teach and reinforce positive behaviour then students know what is expected of them and what good behaviour looks like.

There are three key focus areas to positive behaviour at Trinity:

I am Respectful In Prep: I am a respectful rhino

I am Responsible I am a responsible rabbit

I am Safe I am a safe sloth

Positive Behaviours for Learning at Trinity

For each positive behaviour, we explicitly describe and teach what the positive behaviours look like. Examples listed below give you some idea of what we are teaching students about the desired positive behaviours. Some examples are:

I am safe when I inform an adult of anything that may worry me

I am respectful when I keep my hands and feet to myself and speak appropriately

I am responsible when I work through friendship issues with my classmates and take care of my belongings.

The School Wide Positive Behaviour for Learning framework recognises that for 80% of students this approach will work, whilst

15 % of students need extra assistance to manage their behaviours. The final 5% of students need some extra adult support to manage their behaviour and often a Behaviour Management Plan is developed to support these students. The school introduced a School Counsellor in 2015 to provide some of the extra support needed for some of our students to manage emotions and behaviours.

School Wide Positive Behaviours for Learning also recognises that when students are unable to manage their behaviour, consequences need to follow. Children need to know boundaries as this actually helps them to feel safe. In our whole school response to student misbehaviour, we recognise two levels – major and minor.

If a student is involved in a major incident at school, a reflection sheet will be written up and parents will receive a phone call from the class teacher or a school leader providing details of what has happened. An reflection sheet will be sent home outlining the details of the incident, as well as the consequences the school has implemented. It is expected that in partnership with the school, parents will also have a conversation at home and if thought appropriate, implement a consequence at home.

If a student is involved in a minor incident, then this is usually dealt with at school. As a follow up to the minor incident, the student may be asked to write a reflection sheet and take part in a restorative conversation with those involved in the incident.

Junior reflection sheet

student reflection sheet

If at any time you would like to chat about Student Wellbeing at Trinity, or you have any questions or concerns about your child, please do not hesitate to see your child's teacher or myself.

atsakmakis@tcs.catholic.edu.au

Antonella Tsakmakis

Wellbeing Leader

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