Holy Trinity School students in 7th Grade held a Medieval Feast as the culminating event of their English Language Arts (ELA) Unit. The students have been learning about the customs and manners of the Middle Ages, what life was like, conducting research, and reading works of literature related to that time period. A job well done by all!
NED's Mindset Mission (The NED Shows) is a character education program that centers around three important messages that have lifelong relevance: Never give up Encourage others Do your best During an assembly today, students learned about the importance of these three life skills while also enjoying storytelling, magic, humor and yo-yo tricks.
Last week, 8th grade students competed against St. Michaels and Holy Family in the annual Conwell-Egan Catholic High School Rocket Launch competition. Students worked over the last several weeks learning about rockets, designing, and testing their builds. Holy Trinity placed first overall. A special congratulations to Elizabeth N. who won overall first place with a distance of 95 feet! Thank you to Mr. Wurtz at Conwell Egan for taking the time to come to HTS and helping us with this great event!
3rd graders worked together to solve Thanksgiving word problems. They had to use their responses to solve clues to where the key to the locked box was hidden. They had so much fun, and the winners unlocked the treat for the whole class.
As a weekly morning meeting activity, 7th grade made paper pumpkins just in time for Thanksgiving! At Holy Trinity, we utilize Morning Meeting from Pre-K through 8th grade as a way to check in, come together, and prepare for learning.
Our CEO Lucas Ostrowski visited one of our schools today and got to see some of the students working on our Piper Kits! The Piper Kits touch upon a few skills such as engineering, coding, and learning about computers
Last Friday, in recognition of Vocation Awareness Week, students in Grades 3-8 attended a Vocation Panel, organized through the efforts of Mr. Loeffler from our Advisory Council. Students listened to stories from Fr. David Friel (Director of the Vocation Office for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia), Sister Lesley Draper (Principal of Villa Victoria Academy), Deacon Richard Arcari (a graduate of Holy Trinity School), and Mrs. Karen McMenamin (a parent of three HTS graduates and former Home and School President). Following the talks, there was a Q and A session, and our guests also visited our Kindergarten, First, and Second grade students in their classrooms. We are grateful for our special guests sharing their vocation stories with us!
Last week, Mr. McCusker joined other Bucks County Administrators, local representatives, and Waste Management - Fairless Landfill personnel to say "thank you" for providing scholarship funds to our families made available through the Bridge Educational Foundation this school year.
Please join us in congratulating our young Confirmandi of Holy Trinity Parish as they made their Sacrament of Confirmation. A special thanks to Archbishop Perez for joining us on this special day!