PRIMARY NEWS
From the Assistant Principal
Award Recipients
Congratulations to the students who received awards at the Infant’s and Primary assemblies last week: Samantha Blanck, Charlotte Cook, Meleah Swadling, Maddison Campbell, Mitchell, Olivia Selig, Ella Fitler, Kody Kasper, Caylin Swadling, Luke Readett, Zara Butcher, Michael Jiang, Flynn Ellis-Brien, Oliver Sutton, Bauhinia Wolfenden Woods, Ben Munro, Ryan Calman, Bethany Pearse, Georgia Wilson, Monty Watchirs, Tahlia Slee, Lidiya Varghese, April Neppl, Matilda Thompson, Sarah Duffy-Bauer, Jacob Campbell, Will de Gunst, Claudia Kemp, Austin Taylor, Lucy Willard and Hamish Ford.
Legacy Poster Competition
Congratulations to all of our Year 1 and 2 students who entered the Legacy Poster Competition. They received a total of 484 entries from 12 schools, so every student who has received an award deserves to be proud of their effort. The following students received awards at our school: Brooke Martel (Highly Commended) and Sasha Bryant (1st Place).
Peer Support
This is the last week of Peer Support. The Year 6 students have done a fantastic job of leading groups. In this week’s Peer Support session the children will be exploring how to join groups and how to accept others into their friendship group. The activities will give the children a chance to practise these skills, as well as how to say no in a respectful way, cope with being told no and inviting others to join them. The children will also participate in various activities and discuss how to accept the outcome of a game, no matter what it is, in a friendly way in order to maintain those friendships. Please encourage your child to discuss with you the importance of saying no to people in a respectful way so that they don’t lose friends. Also discuss with your child various options they have at school if they should find themselves without anyone to play with during break time.
Father's Day Breakfast
Thanks to all of our Dad’s, Grandfather’s, Uncles, Carers and friends who came to our Father’s Day breakfast last Friday. It was a beautiful morning to bring in the first day of spring and it was fantastic to see so many of our families present. We hope you all had an enjoyable day on Sunday.
Kindergarten Transition
It was great to see so many of our new 2018 Kindergarten students attend their first Transition Day this morning. There were very few tears, but lots of happy, smiling faces.
da Vinci Decathlon
Better late then never...
On Thursday 24 Augsut, The Armidale School hosted a Year 5 and Year 6 regional da Vinci Decathlon. The 2017 theme was 'Imagination,' so with enthusiasm, our teams entered the academic challenge ready to take on eight opposing teams each and the ten tasks ahead; Mathematics, Code Breaking, Engineering, Cartography, Art & Poetry, Science, English, Ideation, General Knowledge and Creative Producers. With equal enthusiasm, students devoured donuts and fruit for morning tea and a huge buffet lunch! The teams came away proud of their days effort with placings in several areas. Year 6: 2nd Mathematics, 3rd Creative Producers and 3rd General knowledge. Year 5: 3rd Code Breaking and 3rd Engineering.
Congratulations to Alen Vargese, Will de Gunst, Kiara Borrowdale, Beccy Thomas, Jack
Calman, Madison Smith, Jackson Harris, Frank McCosker, Isaac Hutchings, Anita Thivakon, Alice McInnes, Jasper Newton, Lil Rainger, Charlotte McInnes, Campbell Walsh and Lauren Martin for their participation on the day and the way in which they represented Holy Trinity proudly and with confidence.
