News Archive

Dear Holy Trinity Students and Families,

I hope your distance learning is going well to this point.  First and foremost I want you each to know that you and your families remain in my thoughts and prayers.  Also, please know that you can contact me via email with any questions and/or for additional resources and support (lprobus@ht-school.org).  

Below are some videos, resources, and tips that may be useful to you for self-care and social-emotional needs. As I said, feel free to reach out should you need anything.  Please see below a few websites as well as YouTube Videos to serve as resources for you and your family (please know this is by no means an exhaustive list – thankfully there are so many great online resources during this time to offer additional insight, information and support).  Specifically, the  Calmakids website and some of the Youtube videos are great mindfulness videos for calming, relieving stress/anxiety, and it can help give our mind a break from academic tasks.  I have also included other resources as well.  These are simply resources to serve as a support.  Please let me know if I can be of assistance.  

Helpful resources for students and parents: 

https://emergency.cdc.gov/coping/selfcare.asp?fbclid=IwAR3_O5iXt0fA2vm9MpiANemjUW6SR9tGTH8RQMcFxCMcw668iVGqUCuAJ2M 

https://www.calm.com/blog/take-a-deep-breath?utm_source=lifecycle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=difficult_times_nonsubs_031720&fbclid=IwAR2XlUyJj96eFlPgUngakD8OMItxb8VanqD7cGAXfkp90vrnyuhF07xKZhU 

Helpful resources more geared towards 6th-8th grade students and parents:

More resources:

www.youtube.com great resources for mindfulness, yoga, and just dance videos

www.gonoodle.com brain break activities

A few tips:

 

If you need anything, feel free to reach out to me and I will do my best to help you. Keep up the good work.

Blessings,
Laura Probus

 

Laura Probus, MSSW, C-SSW

School Counselor

 

423 Cherrywood Rd.

Louisville, KY 40207

(502) 897-2785 ext. 150

Good Morning,

As sent yesterday, due to the COVID-19 virus Holy Trinity Parish School will be closed until April 6th. I know this temporary closing is going to provide hardships for many of our families. I thank you in advance for your patience and partnership as we make decisions to protect our students’ safety and our staff’s safety.

At our faculty meeting on Wednesday, we went over best practices when it comes to digital learning/distance learning with our entire faculty. We discussed the need to keep providing dynamic and meaningful instruction during these days. Please know that all teachers are required to provide quick responses to emails/questions from students and parents from 9:00 am - 2:30 pm during digital learning days.

For Grades Pre-K-2nd grade - We have sent home at least three packets this week, and we have/will send out five additional packets for our students by dismissal today.

For 4th and 5th Grade – We have sent out an iPad release to all parents. If you want your child to have access to an iPad during these two weeks, please sign the form and return it to us. We anticipate using many of the apps on the iPad for digital learning the next two weeks.

For 3rd through 8th grades - Please check myHTPS daily. Teachers are required to have assignments posted on myHTPS by 9:00am of that day. When it is your Resource Day, the Special Area teacher will provide the digital learning lesson for that day.

Below is the calendar for our digital learning/distance learning

Below are the off-campus learning steps for students in grades 3-8 (included in the email, not posted here as it includes email log-in and password guidelines).

Please know of my prayers for the health and well-being of each student and family here at Holy Trinity. If anything changes in regard to returning to school on April 6th, we will let you know immediately.

Respectfully,

Jack Richards

From the Counseling Office of Ms. Probus: We are pleased to announce and welcome Mrs. Beth Hicks, retired counselor from Assumption High School with her M.A. in Educational Psychology and Counseling and a Mindful Mentor, who has so graciously volunteered once again to teach Mindfulness to some of our students. We are excited that she is sharing her time and talent with us to teach Mindfulness to our first and fourth grades. 

For the 4^th grade group, she is excited to partner with Nellie Springston, the founder of Calma (www.calmakids.org), with an M.Ed. School Counseling & Psychology, who has spent years working in Psychology research learning about trauma, stress, and the brain before making her way back to a school setting as a behavior interventionist where she used mindfulness techniques with her students, and saw incredible results.

We also have Mattie DeAngelis, the Holy Trinity Counseling Office Intern (University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work) who is a registered Yoga teacher and she will share her gifts as part of the Mindfulness classes.  Thanks to Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. Springston, Ms. DeAngelis for teaching the Mindfulness Classes for four weeks, beginning March 4. 

Congratulations to our 8th graders recognized recently for their High School Placement Test scores that earned them Scholar recognition at local high schools:

We are celebrating Everybody Counts Week March 2-6, 2020. Everybody Counts Week is an interactive and educational awareness program that is designed to allow our students to experience both the feelings and challenges of the diverse groups of people within our community and foster awareness and understanding of people of all abilities. It is our prayer that each student will walk away from this week knowing God has purposefully designed each of us and has blessed us with unique gifts that we can use to glorify Him.

The focus of Everybody Counts Week this year is Down syndrome. We are so fortunate this year to have actor, David Desanctis, coming to speak to our students. David, cast as Produce in the movie Where Hope Grows, was the first actor with Down syndrome to play a leading role in an English-language feature film. We can’t wait for our students to meet him!

The following is a breakdown of grades, dates, and times of each speaker. Parents are invited, and encouraged, to attend the presentations!

GRADES PRESENTER DATE TIME
Pre-K—K David Desanctis Monday, March 2 9:00am
1st—3rd David Desanctis Monday, March 2 10:00am
4th-6th David Desanctis Tuesday, March 3 9:00am
7th-8th David Desanctis Tuesday, March 3 10:00am
*All presentations will be in the Multi-Purpose Building

In addition to presentations, a daily prayer and short video on related topics will be shared on WHTS.

If you have any questions, please feel to contact me. Thank you!

Kylee Hoelscher
nic_kylee@yahoo.com

As the culminating activity following their study of Realistic Fiction, fifth grade students designed and created board games based upon novels read in their Literature Circles. Each game had to include the characters, setting, and plot of the books. Directions were written based upon guidelines learned in class.

This year the students integrated technology into the project! Guided by Mrs. Thompson, the students each used the 3-D printer in Technology Class to create their own playing pieces.

After presenting their projects to their classmates, the fun began when groups exchanged and played each other's games!

Congratulations to our KYA (Kentucky Youth Assembly) team that earned the designation of being a Premiere Delegation during their conference in December. This takes the whole team meeting all of the expectations and deadlines while preparing for and attending the conference!

The Bluegrass team, made up of 6th and 7th grade students experiencing KYA for the first time, presented a bill on legalizing sports gambling in Kentucky. The Commonwealth team, made up of experienced 7th graders and all 8th graders, presented a bill on increasing the amount of funding for childhood cancer research. 

As part of their preparation, they invited parents, guests, teachers, and elected leaders to join them for their mock presentations and debates. They were honored to welcome both former KY/US Rep. Anne Northup and KY Rep. Bob Heleringer. A HTPS grad herself, Mrs. Northup spent extra time with the students talking to them about her work in Frankfort, as well as Washington, D.C. She talked to them about their work to support their neighbors and continuing to use their God-given voices for positive change in the local, national, and international communities. 

During the conference, the team had the honor of being invited into Speaker of the House David Osbourne's office at the Capitol. He spoke specifically with them about their bill ideas and where the House of Representatives currently was regarding their bills. The bill on sports gambling was actually in committee conversation that day, as the Representatives had brought in a national lawyer to consult them on the Kentucky Constitution in regards to gambling! He also spoke to them about continuing to be involved - whether that's as a volunteer, good neighbor, elected leader, or professionally in another career (referencing educators and community mentors). 

A special congratulations to our Commonwealth bill sponsors Abby, Ava, Amelie, and Ben, who had their bill signed into KYA law by their peers. 6th grader, Griffin B, was named an Outstanding Delegate!

We appreciate Coaches Beck, A. Davenport, R. Davenport, Emberson, Hammer, and Scobee for making these teams possible. A special thank you to HTPS graduate, Jack Siebnaler, who returned as a senior at Ballard High to mentor our teams, too!

Students interested in a similar experience, but in regards to the work of resolution writing for the United Nations should sign up for our KUNA team. Once the team is formed, students will adopt a country to represent and write a resolution for the UN as elected leaders of that country. For example, if you were the United Nations representative for Rome, what proposal would benefit your country, as well as other countries to increase it being adopted by the UN as policy? Applications are due to Mrs. Davenport Thursday, January 9.