Dear Families,

As we come to the end of our third full week, it is pleasing to see how quickly our children have adapted to new classes, new teachers and making new friends. It is not always easy for many children managing this change but as we know, life for all of us is full of change and new challenges. It would be great to speak to your children about how they are feeling in their new classes and to keep encouraging them to be positive and accept all the challenges this brings.

Trinity School Vision

'Trinity Primary School is a welcoming catholic school that, fosters diversity and promotes innovative, high quality learning. We ensure that every student strives for excellence and engages in our global society.'

Every school and most organizations have their own Vision Statements which give direction and purpose to all they do. At Trinity our Vision Statement, which I have included above, has successfully guided us for a number of years now. This year, however, as part of our ongoing school improvement focus, we will be reviewing our Vision and Mission statements to ensure they still fully reflect our beliefs about what we want our school to be. Of course an essential part of this is to hear from our parents and children to ensure all our stakeholders have input and ownership of our Vision.

Over the coming months we will be using Google Forms and calling for parents to be involved in discussions, to gather input for our revised Vision Statement.

Prep Playdate

One of the highlights of last year was our Prep Playdate afternoon which were fortunate to be able to have early in the year before the lockdown restrictions. We are once again excited that we will be able to have all our new Prep Families attend this special afternoon. We will send home the flyer I have attached here also with all of our Prep children next week so that you can RSVP and lock in the date.

Welcome Morning Tea

for our volunteer parents

Do you currently volunteer or would like to volunteer during the year in our wonderful school community? Please join us for a welcome morning tea to find out about the many different ways you can contribute this year. A very large portion of our parents and carers work and have other commitments however any small amount of assistance during the year is so greatly appreciated. Together we can achieve great things for our school and the students.

Join us for a coffee, morning tea and a chat. Everyone is welcome!

Thursday 10th March starting at 8.30am - 9.30am in the Library

Please email Jenny Gill jennelles007@gmail.com

President Parents & Friends

Antonella Tsakmakis atsakmakis@tcs.catholic.edu.au

Family Engagement Leader

for any further information.

Term Overviews

At the beginning of each term we will be sharing each classes' Learning Overview to give parents an insight into what will be covered in each of our curriculum learning areas. I have included links to our first term overviews here. I have also included Ms Plackett's Art Overviews separately as they include some lovely images of the type of works children will be exploring.

Visual Arts Overviews

Prep 2023 Enrolments & Marketing

Over the next few months we will be busy meeting with new families enquiring about school for their children in 2023. Many of our existing families may also have children in Kindergarten which is where we would love our Trinity message spread.

"Every day is Open Day at Trinity and we would love prospective parents to come and see for themselves what makes our school the perfect choice for their children."

Parent Information Meetings

Thank you in advance to all parents who will be attending our Parent Information Sessions this evening. If for any reason you are unable to attend online please email your child's class teacher and I am sure they will be able to share any important information with you.

A reminder that an email was sent yesterday with the links for each classes online ZOOM meeting.

Prep: 5:00-5:30

Year 5/6 5:00-5:30

Year 1/2 5:30-6:00

Year 3/4 6:00-6:30

Fr Trung Mass of Installation

Sunday, 27 February 2022 commencing at 9.30am at St. Ignatius Church

326 Church Street, Richmond, 3121.

Light refreshments will be served in St. Ignatius Hall at the conclusion of Mass.

Families of Trinity Primary School are warmly invited to attend.

Parent Talking Circles

This Year at Trinity we are seeking input from our parent community via Google Surveys and Parent Talking Circles, in regard to what elements of a school vision and mission are important to their family.

Please click on the GOOGLE form HERE so that you can have the opportunity to make suggestions about topics which may be important to parents.

Community News

Music Lessons

ABC Music are back with us and would love to recruit even more students this year. Many of our children have already taken up these private and group lessons and love their time learning an instrument of their choice. To make it easy for you parents can enrol online at www.abcmusicgroup.com.au

Monday Morning Gathering

Our School Leader badges have finally arrived so we will presenting these to our student leaders at our Monday Morning Gathering.

Kind Regards

Mr Nigel Rodrigues

Principal

Trinity Primary School Newsletter

Week 3 Term 1 2022 · 17 Feb 2022

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