Trinity Times Edition 2 2013

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Welcome 30th Birthday Preparations Success Rural Studies Community Dads at school Arts Calamity Jane Sports Mentoring Foundation Panda Fun STARplex Innovation Winner

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Welcome

This edition celebrates dynamic staff, engaging students and a wonderfully supportive community.

Trinity has long thrived as a community of faith. Passionate and committed people can achieve some remarkably positive things as has been the case at Trinity. This edition of Trinity Times again celebrates dynamic staff, engaged students and a wonderfully supportive community. Feature articles outline our further expansion into agricultural opportunities for students, success in the field of arts and some affirming acknowledgements of current students and old scholars. The richness and diversity of the opportunities available come to life across the following pages. Students are our number one priority and our best feature. It is tremendous to see their positive interactions with the world and they continue to inspire all at the College.

In 2014 the College turns 30 and you are all invited to be a part of the celebrations. Our key events will have a 30th birthday focus with Open Day being an even more significant event. All former students will be invited back for a series of exciting happenings on the day and to be part of a very large photo to celebrate the first 30 years. We hope to have old scholars involved in art displays, music and sport throughout Open Day. Our fabulous Year 11 Presentation Balls are as popular as ever and will move to a larger venue and occur on a single night from 2014. This will enable all Year 11 students and their parents to celebrate together. Trinity Sunday celebrations will be more prominent in 2014 and other exciting events featuring the arts, sport and music will all feature strongly in 2014.

Academically, this has been a year where many students have been inspired to do their best.

Excellent attainment in traditional academic subjects, newer practical subjects and VET based courses has proved once again there are many ways to achieve personal academic success. We are proud to enrol and support students from all walks of life.

I thank every member of the Trinity Community for their strong support of the students of Trinity College.

30th Birthday Celebrations

Nick Hately

Saturday 13 September 2014 Presentation Ball Dinner

Head of Trinity College

As the 2013 academic year comes to a close we have much to look forward to in 2014 as Trinity College turns 30. We invite you to mark these key events on your 2014 calendar.

Thursday 6 February 2014 Celebrate the first day of Trinity College St George’s Parish Hall Sunday 6 April 2014 Open Day and 30th Birthday Celebrations We encourage all old scholars to come back to school for a roll call.

August 2014 (date to be confirmed) Foundation Dinner - Hilton Hotel ‘Diamonds are Forever’ Sunday 15 June 2014 Trinity Sunday Staff Reunion at Trinity College

ABOVE ABOVE 2012 VET Awards presentation ceremony.

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Top: St George’s Parish Hall 1984.

Middle: Chapel opening 1991.

Bottom: Log cabin school room construction 1984/’85.

ABOVE Year 11 Presentation Ball A, 2013, Saturday 31 August.

ABOVE Year 11 Presentation Ball B, 2013, Saturday 14 September.

ABOVE Presentation Ball 1991 (22 years ago).

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Success

The Rural Studies Centre covers an area of nearly 30 hectares, producing many commodities.

French Adventures Trinity College was represented superbly in France by students from all four Middle Schools during the biennial visit to Macon and Paris. For the first time, families were able to join in with the excitement through the French Trip Blog.

There are always two very important parts to an exchange visit to another country. The first is the linguistic benefits to be gained. The students who were willing to take a chance in speaking French were greatly rewarded.

For many, this was their first opportunity to practise French with a native speaker of the language in situations which do not arise in the classroom.

ABOVE Co-ordinating Chaplain Ruth Mathieson with Rebekka Bayly (Year 8) at the Blessing of the Animals prior to the Gawler and Royal Adelaide Shows.

Regional Skills Training Partnership Trinity College Senior has recently embarked on a partnership with Regional Skills Training (RST) to deliver a range of rural studies vocational programs on site at the Trinity College Rural Studies Centre. To date 26 students have commenced the course.

RST, located at Arthurton on the Yorke Peninsula, offers quality vocational training across the regional areas of South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales. Trinity College Senior will be the centre of training for the metropolitan and mid northern region.

The Trinity College Rural Studies Centre encompasses an area of nearly 30 hectares and produces many commodities representative of local enterprise. The Centre produces hay, grain, grapes, award-winning wines, fruit and vegetables alongside the animal husbandry operation which focuses on sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and poultry. Students at Trinity College are exposed to the operation of these enterprises along with much of the underpinning theory and financial education. Students in Years 9 to 12 also have the opportunity to learn more about the training and exhibition of animals through engagement with the Trinity College Show Team.

Vocational programs in agriculture, horticulture and rural operations will be available to Year 11 and 12 students. The majority of practical training will be delivered on site at the Trinity College farm or at local venues. Students also gain further experience through on-farm work experience and/or part time work in local and regional areas, utilising the College’s expanding network of rural community contacts.

Students or parents wanting more information on the Rural Studies Programs should contact: Aaron Fechner (Agricultural/Horticulture teacher) fechneaa@trinity.sa.edu.au or Claire Goble (VET Pathways Coordinator) goblecl@trinity.sa.edu.au on 8523 8703.

Robocup Rules - Students Have Great Success at Junior Championships Trinity College Blakeview students achieved their best ever results at the recent SA Robocop Junior Championship winning Junior Dance and Junior Dance Theatre categories and coming a close second in the Premier Rescue category.

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Just as important is the cultural aspect. It is fascinating to observe the way in which other cultures live, and to compare with our own. Host families spoiled our students.

Nobody left a table hungry without trying local specialities and many of our travellers were taken to exciting places such as Chamonix in the Alps, where they could ski, snowboard and toboggan, the Cote d’Azur and Normandy.

Next year, we will host students from our partner school during February and March for two weeks. We are looking for students who wish to exchange, which means they will be able to travel to France in 2015.

If you would like any further information about future French trips, please contact Mr Ian Ward at wardia@trinity.sa.edu.au.

Ian Ward

French Trip Co-ordinator BELOW Students visit Notre Dame de Fourvière Basilica in Lyon.

Trade success Since completing his Certificate I in Engineering at the Trinity Trade Centre, Kyle Richards has never looked back. He continued with his Certificate in Engineering (Specialising in Fabrication) at TAFESA and within weeks, gained an Apprenticeship as a Welder Fabricator at PipeTech Australia.

Kyle believes the Trinity Trade Centre “was a great place to learn” and thought “it was a fun working environment.” The Trinity Trade Centre was an excellent place to commence his trades based career.

Testing the Limits with Duke of Ed

The Trinity Trade Centre offers a unique trade training opportunity.

Students maintain their SACE curriculum at Trinity College, thereby ensuring their learning opportunities are maintained at high academic standards. The trade students have access to the full pastoral and cocurricular supports of the College.

“The horse I rode was an orphaned Brumby. We passed wide dams, open fields and mountains. We slept in a tin shed with iron ‘beds’ and swags, refreshed with a cold shower (which was essentially just a bucket with holes in it hung from a tree) and cooked dinner on open camp fires. The ride was tough ………..I don’t have any photographic evidence because I was too busy dodging branches and pushing my way through bushes. At times, the hills were so steep you had to lie on the horse’s neck to keep yourself at the same angle as when riding on the flat. We covered an average of 40km per day, it was 204km in total and of course the hottest day ever whilst I was there of 42 degrees…………but I loved every minute!”

ABOVE Kyle Richards (2012).

International Science Travellers BELOW Year 12 students Lachlan Arthur (top) and Catisha Coburn (fifth from left) travelled to Boston and Alberta respectively to participate in International Youth Science Forum events.

Faye Darlington (Year 12) recently achieved her Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. She will be presented with her badge at the formal award ceremony at Government House, in November. To achieve this Faye has shown great commitment. The gold award requires a minimum of 12 months working on a physical activity (badminton), a skill (face painting), service/volunteering (Joey scout leader) and a four day and three night adventurous journey (horse riding through the Snowy Mountains). Here is an excerpt from her diary during the Snowy Mountains ride.

If you think you can achieve the GOLD Duke of Edinburgh Award, please email Mr Matt Bailey at baileyma@trinity.sa.edu.au. The above photo was taken by Faye.

Preschool Build a Farm It was fun to visit the Trinity farm and as well as seeing the animals there, to look at how enormous their vegetable patch is. Students were very excited to be able to pick their own broccoli, cauliflower and carrots to take back to preschool and cook up into soup for lunch.

Archie’s grandpa has kindly made three raised garden beds and donated them to the preschool. This term the planting has begun and the children are watering, weeding and watching all sorts of new flowers and vegetables begin to grow.

Michelle Heath

Montessori Preschool

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Community

Parents in our community heard some excellent insights into nurturing healthy relationships.

ABOVE Slum Survivor students sleeping rough.

ABOVE Mrs Reynolds as her favorite book character ‘Wally’ in the North Book Week parade.

Slum Survivor

Book Week Adventures

On the afternoon of Friday 30 August, rather than heading home for a comfortable weekend, 11 Blakeview students went to Blackham with little more than the clothes they were wearing ready to participate in Slum Survivor.

The theme this year was “Read Across the Universe” in the Roma Waite Library.

To celebrate, we invited Phil Cummings as our guest author for students in Years 1 to 4.

Mrs Stone’s Year 1 class shared their thoughts……

This is a simulation game that fosters students’ understanding of third world poverty by experiencing it first-hand. It ran for nearly 24 hours and students needed to construct shelters out of cardboard boxes, participate in challenges, listen to stories, reflect and perform manual work to earn enough food for a basic meal. This opportunity complements learning about social justice and ethical behaviour in the Year 10 Religion and Values Education classes. The concept comes from TEAR, a Christian movement that works in partnership with churches, relief and development agencies and community-based organisations to respond to the needs of poor communities around the world. The aim of this program is to help students gain an understanding and awareness of the struggles of those living in third world poverty and the social justice issues around that, and to encourage a passionate response to them. Liza Dodsworth, Chris Haskard, youth chaplains, Tim Littleford and Jordan Gauci prepared this Slum Survivor experience for students who were sponsored for how long they could survive in simulated slum conditions.

Rev’d Ruth Mathieson

Co-ordinating Chaplain

Archive Visit Year 3 North students recently visited the archive room to learn more about Trinity College as it prepares for its 30th Birthday in 2014. The students had many questions after viewing the original scale models for the school grounds, roll books, photographs, previous school uniforms and old report cards.

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“He really, really likes writing books” by Ava “He wrote a book about the chicken and the snake” by Dakota “Phil Cummings said he had to write down his ideas really quickly before he forgot the story” by Caitlin “He told us about his dog Misty” by Siena “He showed us what Misty looked like with some photos” by Liam “He told us about the book he wrote about the Pandas” by Milla “He wrote a book about his dog’s friend” by Fox “He scared us when he told us about the story about the snake” by Noah M “He loved his dog Misty even though he didn’t want a dog again” by Holly “He was silly and funny when he spoke to us” by Jake

Angela Forwood Librarian

LEFT Charlie Gibbens-O’Hara (Year 3) explores the Trinity College archive.

ABOVE L-R Dr Lisa Kettler, Mrs Liz Hinrichsen, Rev’d Dave MacGilliviray, Mrs Melinda Hately and Mr Craig Winning.

Growing Healthy Families The first Growing Healthy Families event was a great success. In partnership, St Francis Parish, Trinity College and STARplex presented a question and answer style forum hosted by Rev’d Dave MacGillivray. Parents in our community heard some excellent insights into nurturing healthy relationships and building communication within families.

The panel openly shared their successes and struggles as parents and shared the wisdom they’ve gained over the years.

College Psychologist Dr Lisa Kettler shared both her professional insights and personal experiences about different ways to communicate love to our children.

Craig Winning (parent of six) shared his wish for his teenage boys to learn what it means to lay aside their own desires so that they can serve and bless people around them. Melinda Hately (parent of three) introduced ways of being a peaceful and calming influence within her busy household and Liz Hinrichsen (Head of North Junior School) spoke about her trust in God’s goodness, especially during the tough times and the importance of a positive home-school partnership with growing our children.

Rev’d Craig Loveday St Francis Parish

As a special Fathers’ Day treat the North Reception to Year 2 children invited their dads to join them in the classroom for the morning. We were overwhelmed by the enthusiastic turnout with around 100 dads (or grandads or uncles) joining their children in classrooms.

Not only have I learnt many new skills, my own personal development has benefited from living away from home.

The experience has allowed me to realise my strengths and potential.

The staff, students and parents have been very welcoming and I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience so far. I’m looking forward to my final three months of work before I return back homes.”

The Receptions focussed on some reading about dads and did some writing too.

Many dads left wearing very large paper ties which they had helped construct.

One of the challenges in Year 2 was to make a paper plane which the children then flew, measuring the distance of the flight. They also shared their reading and writing. In Year 2 the dads were shown how effectively their children can work with laptops.

Hannah Holton (2012)

Literacy and numeracy activities took place in the Year 1 classrooms with the dads assisting the children. They even made paper plate crabs.

Head of Junior School North

“This year I have taken on the role as a GAP student at St Martins Ampleforth (SMA) in the United Kingdom.

The role of a GAP student at SMA varies from day to day. My duties include coaching and umpiring games, supervising mealtimes, attending excursions, running the tuck shop, assisting the teaching staff and supporting the matrons with boarding duties for girls aged between 7 and 13 each night.

Dads at School

Liz Hinrichsen

Gap Year 2013

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Hannah with Reception students.

ABOVE Top: Grant and Abbey Fielke.

Bottom: Luke and Taj Wormald.

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Arts

Here students revelled in the opportunity to learn from one of the worlds’ finest jazz singers.

ABOVE Trinity South Advanced Band (overall Champion Band of the Balaklava Eisteddfod).

Music to the Ears

Dancer in Residence

ABODA SA School Band Festival

A number of dance students from North and South schools are currently participating in a 10 week dancer in residence program. Working with professional dancer Kirsten Burt from Pure Funk Dance, students are learning about the power of dance as well as exploring influential styles of dance throughout history. Their key focus during the program is urban dance, a particular area of passion and expertise of Kirsten.

Trinity College continued to feature in several sections at the annual ABODA SA School Band Festival held at Westminster School. Our concert bands performed exceptionally well in a large field of competitors. This festival is highly regarded and the adjudicators gave our concert bands excellent feedback. Congratulations to all the students and band directors.

College Senior Band - Silver South School Advanced Band - Gold North School Advanced Band - Gold South School Junior Band - Gold Blakeview Advanced Band - Bronze

Balaklava Eisteddfod A number of Trinity College Ensembles participated in the Balaklava Eisteddfod in August. Trinity College dominated the concert band section, taking out first place in the Advanced Concert Band and Open Senior Concert Band sections and winning the overall Champion Band trophy. Several small ensembles were involved this year in the Instrumental Ensemble Section and several students performed as soloists in the individual solo sections.

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South School Advanced Band - 1st Place in the Senior Band Competition Trinity College Senior Band - 1st Place in the Open Band Section South School Advanced Band - Champion Band of the Festival Clarinet Ensemble - 2nd Place in the Instrumental Ensemble Division Saxophone Ensemble - 3rd Place in the Instrumental Ensemble Division

SENIOR MUSIC NIGHT The Senior School presented its second and final Music Night for the year in August. The concert was used as the second school based assessment for the Stage 2 Ensemble Performance students and was also used as a fundraiser for the Heart Foundation raising over $1300. The students all performed exceptionally well to an appreciative audience.

Mr Bruce Raymond

Director Bands and Ensembles

RIGHT Kristen Burt instructs students as part of the dancer in residence program.

Over the 10 weeks students will explore the history and roots of urban dance to provide a foundation as they work towards the creation of a choreographed dance routine.

Students will perform their routine at a showcase evening in Term 4. A troupe of professional dancers, of which Kristen is the principal choreographer, will also perform.

Jayan Mace

Dance Teacher

Puppet Workshop The Arts Faculty is committed to providing all students with unique opportunities and this term we did just that. All Year 8 classes from across the College participated in a puppet workshop run by Sue Harris.

Sue Harris is one of South Australia’s premier puppeteers. Her original and imaginative works have brought the joy of puppets and storytelling to children and adults since 1978.

With Drama now incorporated into the English curriculum our aim was to emphasise the potential links between the two learning areas, in this case it was through the use of puppets, performance and script writing.

Students learnt how to devise and perform a short piece using a range of puppets provided. The sessions included glove puppet manipulation, using props, performing two puppets simultaneously and how to create a script for the puppets.

The students came away very inspired by the project and are keen to develop their script writing skills using puppets.

ABOVE Liz Tobias with Glee Club members Zoe Johannes (Year 11), Astra Vadoulis (Year 8) and Julia

Wolfindale (Year 8).

Comments from students I liked watching Sue use the ball head puppets.

A Music Night to Remember

I enjoyed watching Sue’s own puppet play at the end of the day.

Trinity North students took to the stage in June with three sensational internationally acclaimed performers Liz Tobias, Michael Mayo and Caio Afiune for the 2013 Cabaret A Variety Gala. Liz Tobias is an acclaimed jazz singer from Adelaide who has entertained audiences around the world with her incredible voice and endearing stage presence.

Michael Mayo from Boston, is a talented artist who has performed and recorded alongside many musical greats including Michael Jackson and Barry Manilow, and Caio Afiune is an innovative Brazilian guitarist.

I liked that we got to learn something new and that it involved both English and Drama to tell stories.

The night included performances by the North Concert Band, year level bands, Trinity College Stage Band, student solo performances, graceful dance pieces, musical theatre and choral performances. In one parent’s words, “…It was AMAZING, I had many tears in my eyes - and they weren’t all for my children. The pride I have for our College just grew an umpteenth amount overnight!” The student performers, emcees, stage crew, setting, atmosphere, fluency, organisation and quality of performances delivered by students from all year levels were most impressive.

Liz Tobias, together with Caio Afiune and Michael Mayo, provided inspiration and support to our performers prior to the evening. Liz coached and encouraged student solo performers and choral groups, working with individual students and choirs in a series of master classes.

The workshop was great fun, I really recommend it for next year.

My highlights were the demonstrations and the improvisation.

I learnt that English and Drama combined makes theatre come alive.

I learnt about the use of body language between different puppets and characters.

I would like my English teacher to incorporate this type of activity into our English lessons more.

BELOW All Year 8 students from across the

College had the opportunity to attend a workshop with renowned puppeteer Sue Harris.

Luke Gray

Music Teacher

Book Launch: Michael Hewitson Friday 25 October, 4.00pm.

The Chapel, Trinity College.

Former Head of Trinity College Michael Hewitson will launch his new book ‘How Will Our Children Learn?’

Signed copies of the book will be available for sale with proceeds going to the Trinity College Foundation Scholarship Fund.

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Arts

Students raised a $1,000 they donated to Wall of Hands Foundation for literacy and numeracy.

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Year 9 mixed media drawing and painting completed during the artist in residence workshop, on display at The Space Gallery as a part of SALA: Figures in Space Exhibition.

ABOVE Sarah Lucyk (Year 11) 2013 Gawler Show Art winner (Best Exhibit Junior, Senior and First Prize painting).

Figures in Space – 2013 SALA This exhibition was the culmination of work produced by students, staff and invited guests who attended workshops run by Fran Callen. This project was jointly funded by Carclew Youth Arts* and Trinity College. Fran worked one day per week with one class from each site, to develop, extend and reinterpret our students’ understanding of what they see and draw through observational drawing and painting with the theme Figures in Space.

‘Blind contour means to draw without looking. Drawing by looking harder than you have ever looked before. At your subject not your paper. Lines curl, uncurl, tangle and flow. Boxes unfold. Text is snipped. Feathers, sticks and fingers dip and flutter, scraping scavenged surfaces.’ Fran Callen The SALA exhibition was officially opened on Friday 9 August by Mark Fischer, Education Manager Art Gallery of South Australia. The work in the exhibition explored process and enabled students to build confidence and develop experimental drawing techniques. All work was for sale on the night and the students raised over $1,000 which will be donated to the Wall of Hands Foundation for literacy and numeracy for Indigenous students.

We thank parents and staff who attended to make the opening night such a festive occasion.

Kylie Neagle Head of Arts

*Artist in Schools is a project of Carclew Youth Arts supported by the Department for Education and Child Development and Arts SA.

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Blakeview Mural Year 10 Blakeview Art students appropriated an image by Hans Heysen and painted each section of the mural in the style of one of four Australian painters: Grace Cossington Smith, Howard Arkley, Jeffrey Smart and Dorrit Black. The aim was to display the skills of the students but also to inform. A plaque next to the mural is designed to encourage creativity and questioning in the younger students.

College Musical Trinity College has completed another successful College musical production with Calamity Jane. This was an energetic and fun show set around the romance between Calamity Jane and the legendary Wild Bill Hickok. With two sold out shows over 1200 members of our community saw the production. The students involved both backstage and on stage as well as in the band, showed what a group of dedicated and talented young people can achieve and they should be extremely proud of their hard work. This year the College musical team included a group of old scholars who worked backstage. Our current students and production team would like to thank them for giving up their time to make the show the best yet. The musical production team would also like to thank all the members of the community who helped to make this production not only successful, but also an amazing opportunity for our students to flourish and show their talent. Rehearsals for 2014 musical start next term.

Jayan Mace, Audrey Somerville, Melanie Harding and Anthony Cini Staff Musical Production Team

ABOVE Top: Stephanie Antonopoulos (Year 12) as Calamity Jane sings in Act 1.

Middle: Madison Taylor (Year 10), Holly Thompson (Year 8) and Olivia Reeman (Year 9) highlight the solid ensemble skills of the cast.

Bottom Left: Liam Combridge (Year 11) and Stephanie Antonopoulos (Year 12) in the awkward moment before the friends realise they are in love.

Bottom Right: Adriano Barilla (Year 11) as Lieutenant Danny Gillmartin and Sophie Robinson (Year 9) as Katie Brown, love at first sight.

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Sports

He never missed a chance to learn something from everyone he met.

ABOVE Teacher Mr Tyson Greenwood (North School) and Mitchell Dean (Year 12).

ABOVE Top + Bottom: Joshua Claridge (Year 11).

Trinity to Mount Hotham During the July school holidays 40 excited students from Years 9 to 12 and six just as excited staff, boarded a bus for the long trip to the Australian Alps. Mount Hotham was the destination for yet another fun filled Trinity Snow Trip, and Mother Nature had been kind. A decent dump of snow prior to our arrival allowed good terrain to be open for the majority of our trip. Whilst conditions were challenging on the first day spirits amongst the group were high, with everyone embracing the elements, just to get that first slide of the trip in.

This year we stayed on the mountain and enjoyed the spectacular views across the Bogong High Plains from our

accommodation at the Pegasus Alpine Ski Lodge. Staying on the mountain allowed us to maximise our time skiing and snowboarding and it also provided us with the opportunity to take shelter and relax in comfortable surrounds when the conditions were tough. Mount Hotham provided us with a variety of conditions; you name it we had it; rain, hail, snow, sleet, whiteout and even some glorious sunshine. To everyone’s credit, our group of snow extremists embraced it all and came out smiling.

Days were filled with improving our skills through lessons in the morning and consolidation of learning through practice and some humorous trial and error

during our afternoons of free skiing and snowboarding. Everyone finished the long days on the slopes back at the lodge with a fantastic filling meal and many laughs by the fire, or around the pool table.

Thanks to the staff, Lee Cockerill, Scott Charlton, Tyson Greenwood, Carmen Gaskell and Melanie Harding for their hard work and great company. Thanks also to our student snow trippers for their positive attitude and exemplary behaviour, making this year’s trip another memorable experience. Stay tuned for information regarding next year’s journey.

Matthew Bailey

Ski Trip Co-ordinator

Expert Advice AFL legend Kevin Sheedy held a roundtable chat with some lucky Trinity students recently; in Gawler as a guest speaker at Gawler Racecourse. Ten students were treated to the wisdom that only 1000+ AFL games can bring.

ABOVE Kevin Sheedy talks with a select group

of footballers.

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The boys, ranging from Years 6 to Year 10, sat wide-eyed at the feet of the master, as he warned them ‘don’t miss learning.’ He stressed that even though he had spent a lifetime in the AFL, he never missed a chance to learn something from everyone he met.

Another powerful and repeated message was having the courage to take risks.

Sheedy, an innovator on and off the field, has certainly risked and gained much throughout his career. Originally slated as a 15-minute window, the Australian Sports Hall-of-Famer held the students riveted for 45 minutes, answering questions and sharing a treasure trove of experience from his storied career.

The College would like to thank ‘Sheeds’ for his time and particularly, Lyndon Zobel for making it all happen.

World Champions Samantha Pascoe (Year 10) recently returned as World Champion from the World Youth Appaloosa Championships in Fort Worth Texas. Samantha was one of only four Australians to compete at the event and remarkably, she is one of only five non-Americans to win in the history of the championships. Samantha competed against 53 other competitors.

Callum Scotson (Year 11) was crowned World Junior Cycling Champion in the team pursuit at the world championships in Glasgow, Scotland during August. He also achieved a silver medal in the individual pursuit.

ABOVE Left: Samantha Pascoe (Year 10) at the World Youth Appaloosa Championships.

Right: Callum Scotson (Year 11) was recently crowned World Junior Cycling Champion.

Sports Shorts Bec Aldridge (Year 9) played in the Australian U14 World Inline Hockey Team Championships in Anaheim, California, USA winning a silver medal against 16 teams.

Bec will play ice hockey in the Australian U18 women’s team in New Zealand in December. Congratulations to Bec’s sister Holly (Year 4) who has made the South Australian U11 inline hockey team.

Travis Brookes (Year 8) was invited by Tony Franken (National Goalkeeping Coach at Football Australia) to attend a goalkeeper development camp at the AIS in Canberra during August.

Hannah Hank (Year 7) won a gold medal at the recent national SAPSASA Basketball titles in Perth.

Trinity College sent seven teams to the 2013 Netball SA Specialist Schools Playoffs, with three teams winning finals.

Trinity athletes broke records at the recent Co-ed Cup athletics meet. Biar Garang (Year 8) broke records in the Under 14 400m and 1500m and Alec Stimson (Year 10) in the Under 16 Javelin.

In athletics, congratulations to our intermediate boys and junior girls on winning the SA Team Championships recently at SANTOS stadium. They have qualified for National Championships in Townsville in December.

Congratulations to the Open Boys Soccer team who finished runner up in the State Open Boys Knockout Competition. The final was a fantastic match against St Michaels College. This is the third year in a row the team has made the state final.

ABOVE Trinity’s 1st XI Soccer Team 2013 runners up in the State Open Boys Knockout Soccer Competition.

Well done to the U13 Hockey Team winning the local premiership.

Congratulations to our State Primary Knockout Basketball Champions who won 15 games in a row to achieve this title.

ABOVE State Primary Knockout Basketball Championship winners.

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Foundation

Pledging to the Foundation helps endorse our motto ‘From Little Things, Big Things Grow.’

Pandas Steal the Show

ABOVE L-R Guests from Peter Kittle Toyota enjoy the Chinese theme at the National Wine Centre. The Trinity College Lion Dance Troupe opened the Dinner proceedings in an energetic fashion.

The National Wine Centre was converted into a dazzling Chinese cabaret venue for the guests who attended the 2013 Annual Foundation Dinner on Saturday 3 August.

“From Little things, Big Things Grow”. Small contributions over time will be permanently acknowledged on a Donor Board if contributions exceed $1,000.

The evening opened to the sound of firecrackers as the Lion Dance Troupe energetically commenced proceedings.

Special guests, courtesy of AGL, were “Wang Wang and Funi” from the Adelaide Zoo (really Year 12 students Conor and Faye) who helped Mr Hately unveil hand crafted Foundation benches for donors.

The Donor Board located in the Common will have new names added to it at the annual thank you event for donors on Wednesday 13 November 2013. If parents, old scholars, previous parents and staff are interested in making a donation to the Foundation they should contact Director of Development, Ms Kay Fyfe on 8523 8725 to establish monthly pledging or donation by credit card.

With three major auction items up for grabs including; 1. A Corporate Box for 10 people at the last AAMI Stadium Crows Game (donated

by ISS).

2. A Houseboat on the River Murray for a week (donated by Foxtale Houseboats and the Ashenden Family).

3. An exclusive stay at Jacobs Creek for 2 nights including lunch for 4 people. (donated by Jacobs Creek). the night was sure to raise substantial monies for the Foundation Scholarship Fund. A table raffle which included a bottle of Grange and an iPad to win, generated $4,330.00.

The guest speaker was Year 11 student Christine Ong who is the 2013 Foundation General Excellence Scholarship winner.

Chair of the Foundation, Dr Rupert Thorne reminded guests that pledging to the Foundation helps endorse our motto

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The Foundation Board is pleased to announce that the ‘Great Foundation Wall Dinner’ raised $45,539.45. We thank all donors and volunteers who made the night such a success and we also thank the Trinity families who donated items towards the hampers and baskets that generated over $1000 in the silent auction.

Sincere thanks to our Year 12 volunteers lead by College Captain Joanna Tryfopoulos; Tammy Lamont, Claire Hornsby, Danielle Floyd and especially Conor Roche and Faye Darlington (AKA Wang Wang and Funi) who delighted guests. To our special singers ‘Morning Song’ comprised of Maggie Bland, Kesenya Taylor, Sarah Adams and Christine Ong. Special mention to Linda Hood, Tash Phillips and Linda Armstrong for their dedicated work on the night.

To graphic design firm Mitousa Creative for designing our auction catalogue free of charge.

The 2014 annual dinner is called ‘Diamonds are Forever’ to acknowledge the success of the College in its first 30 years of operations.

Our night was a success due to the generous support of corporate donors.

Exclusive Platinum Silver Sponsors Campion, Cleanaway and DATACOM. Bronze Sponsors Konica Minolta, Peter Kittle Toyota, Jacobs Creek and William Buck.

Table Sponsors AGL, AMCOR and Academy Photography.

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Special guest Wang Wang helps unveil a hand crafted Foundation bench.

Film Night Fun

2013 Donors The Foundation would like to publicly acknowledge the following donors to our 2013 programs including Scholarships, Library and Building funds. Your generous support is greatly appreciated.

We look forward to personally saying ‘thank you’ to our donors at a special event scheduled for Wednesday 13 November 2013 6pm - 8pm.

Donors have been reconciled and have given a donation during the period 19 September 2012 until 16 September 2013.

A total of $58,254.59 has been donated.

DONOR NAMES Mrs A & Mr R Arbon

Mr P & Mrs L Hayman

Mrs D & Mr D Russell

Mr S & Mrs T Arthur

Dr K & Mrs M Heath

Mr M & Mrs C Russo

Mrs C & Mr R Atkinson

Mr M & Mrs R Hewitson

Ms T Ryan

Mr A & Mrs J Baker

Mr B Hobby

Ms M Radford & Mr P Organ

Mrs N & Mr A Balayance

Mrs R Hogg

Mr R Sapwell

Mr A & Mrs S Barreau

Mr R & Mrs J Jarman

Mrs D Saunders

Mrs J Baxter

Mr R Johnstone & Ms L Collins

Dr M Slocombe

Rev’d B & Rev J Bonifant

Dr L Kettler

Mr C Sheath

Mrs A Borchard

Mr T & Mrs H Kelly

Mr M & Mrs L Simpson

Mr D & Mrs L Brook

Mr G & Mrs S Keylock

Mr R Smedley

Mr J & Mrs L Cannizzaro

Mrs S & Mr M Klappers

Mr W Smith

Foundation Performing Arts Scholarship: Stephanie Antonopoulos (Year 12)

Mr J & Mrs H Centenera

Ms B Klinkoski

Miss A Somerville

Mrs J & Mr K Chappell

Mr A Larner

Mrs J & Mr R Statton

2013 Operation Flinders participants were: Robbie, Jayden, Heath, Mitchell, Jakob, Andreas, Jack and Jaydn.

Mrs K Cabras

Mrs M Lewis

Mr D Stimson

Mr A Cini

Mrs E Long

Mrs W & Mr J Stimson

Middle School Certificate of Academic Merit Winners:

Mr M & Mrs C Clayton

Ms J Mace

Ms J Stone

Mr P & Mrs T Cole

Mrs E & Rev’d D MacGillivray

Mr T Stone

Blakeview

Mr S Dale

Dr D & Dr J McPhail

Dr R & Professor H Thorne

Year 7

Brodie Mollet Dylan Gregory

Mr M & Mrs T Dancer

Mr C Maiolo

Mrs M & Mr N Tsimiklis

Year 8 Year 9

Alexandra Kittle

Mrs A Doudle

Mr D Martin

Mrs J Tuffrey

Mrs K Dunstone

Mr J McGuire

Mrs K & Mr D Walker

Mr B Eastick

Mr J Marton

Mr S Ward

Mrs E & Mr T Edwards

Mr D & Mrs K Matters

Mr D & Mrs L Wilson

ABOVE The Foundation raised over $2,000 at

the inaugural film night at the Gawler Cinemas in June.

Foundation Support to Students The Foundation Board is pleased to announce the current recipients of scholarships and prizes awarded as at September 2013; Foundation General Excellence Scholarship Winner 2014/2015: Kate Bomm (Year 10)

Year 10 Kasey Cottnam

Gawler River Year 7

Jennifer-Diep Trang

Year 8

Skye Szymanskyj

Mrs P Fabian

Mr J & Mrs R McDonald

Mr K & Mrs J Whittington

Year 9

Adam Seccafien

Mr N Fuller

Mr N McGrath

Mrs N Wray

Year 10 Michael Raschella

Ms K Fyfe

Ms S McCaffrey & Mr M Randall

Mr I & Mrs S Zuiani

North

Mrs A Fyffe

Mrs C Murray

Blakeview P&F Association

Year 7

Kayla Clark

Mr J Gauci

Mrs S Norris

Ren Projects

Year 8

Audrey Hamilton Francesca Deer

Mr G & Mrs J Gordon

Dr H & Mrs Y Oo

Lanser Communities

Year 9

Mr W & Mrs M Graveney

Mrs C Otterspoor

Rivergum Homes

Mr G & Mrs K Gregory

Mr R & Mrs H Oermann

Woods Furniture

Mrs C Hammond

Ms D Pollard

Devine Homes

Miss M Harding

Mr B Raymond

Campion Education

Mr N & Mrs M Hately

Mr K & Mrs S Reynolds

Mr M Hawkey

Mr S Rosier

Trinity College Facilities and IT Departments for recycling materials

Year 10 Harrison Sanders

South Year 7

Benjamin Anderson

Year 8

Chloe McLean

Year 9

Jack Schuurmans

Year 10 Hamish Perriman

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STARplex

STARplex created Sammy STARfish to promote and implement a water safety program for children.

Innovation Winners

R U OK Day? STARplex would like to thank its members who participated in the national ‘RUOKDay?’ event. Many of our members made their own name tags to wear on the day and took the initiative to say ‘hello’ to another member. As a centre for wellbeing STARplex will look to offer other new programs to expand on its services in this area.

ABOVE L - R Toni McCann, Sammy STARfish and Mel Boston with their State Award.

Sammy STARfish has been recognised with a state award. The STARplex pool team are the inaugural Aquatic Innovation winners. Recreation SA coordinated this award to recognise and reward practices, facilities, training or service that is innovative within the South Australian aquatic industry. STARplex created Sammy STARfish to promote and implement a water safety program to children. These Recreation SA Awards recognise exceptional innovation from people or organisations who work or volunteer in the aquatics industry.

Well done the STARplex pool team!

Special Visitor

ABOVE Head STARplex Swimming Coach Stephen Garner welcomes Leigh Nugent.

Leigh Nugent was the Head Coach of Swimming Australia. He is now the Youth Coach of Australian Swimming and visited STARplex to see swim club member and current Year 12 student James McKechnie who recently took seven gold medals at the State Age 12-18 Short Course Championships. We expect to see more of Leigh at our pool.

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Trialling Triathlons Triathlon is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and combines swimming, cycling and running in one event. STARplex is the perfect venue for this. Triathlons can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities and can be completed as an individual or a team event. STARplex recently has hosted a ‘Come’n’try’ event in conjunction with Triathlon SA. Stay tuned for more of these events over the summer months.

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Top L-R: Strength for Life regulars Alwyn Windle, Richard Ide, Rita Engel and Monica Bennett sign up for R U OK Day. Bottom: Ethan Woolford (Year 10 Blakeview) lead rider competing at the Scody Australian Youth Championships at the Runaway Bay Super Centre, Queensland.

All past students are invited to Open Day 2014 to celebrate Trinity’s 30th Birthday.

Old Scholars

Births

Lee-Anne Field (nee Staples 2003) and husband Shane welcomed their daughter Beverley-Anne, April, 2013.

Nathan Pollard (2006) and Emma Ludwig welcomed Oscar Robert into their lives April 2013 and have recently become engaged during August.

Kate McLachlan (nee Close 2002) and husband Craig welcomed their son, Hugo, May 2013. They also have a daughter, Maggie who is 2 years old.

Ben Cockerill (2002) and wife Sheree (both teachers at Trinity South) welcome Blair James, born in May, 2013.

Michael (2002) and Belinda Oermann (nee Penn 2003) welcomed their daughter Matilda Suzanne, March, 2013.

Nicky Wells (nee Slocombe 1995) and husband Jeremy welcomed baby May, August, 2013, a sister for Clare (1.5 years) and Grace (3.5 years).

Births

Weddings

Russelle Verhoeven (nee Jelinek 2001) and husband Clint welcomed their son Ollie into the world in April, 2013.

Brooke Reynolds (2002) married Joe Godsell in Slovenia. The wedding took place at a castle on an island in the middle of Lake Bled, in April 2013. The bridal party included old scholars, Emilie Reynolds (2006), Heidi Gogoll (nee Wood 2002) and Danielle Symes (nee Strong 2002).

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The 2013 winner of the AFTA National Travel Industry Awards National Rising Star Award.

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Top L to R: Ryan Harris (1998), Timothy Stephens (2012), Caitlin Johnson (2009).

Bottom L to R: Sarah Woolfitt (2010), Sarah Leo (1994) and Declan Stimson (2012).

Old Scholars Updates

Ryan Harris (1998) was named Australia’s player of the Ashes series after a campaign in which he missed a match but took 24 wickets at an average of 19.58. He was the leading wicket taker for Australia.

Teresa Sapio (1996) completed her Registered Nursing degree at UniSA this year.

She has been working as an enrolled nurse for 13 years with RDNS and is now at the Modbury Hospital as a Registered Nurse.

Daniel Ong (2007) is in his fifth and final year of Science and Engineering double degrees at the University of Adelaide, and will defer a semester to undertake a scholarship at the Shanghai Normal University. This course will prepare him to learn the Chinese language and possibly commence an undergraduate course in China.

Caitlin Johnson (2009) graduated with a Bachelor of Midwifery from UniSA. She was offered a 12 month graduate contract at Lyell McEwin Hospital which she commenced in March.

David Humphries (2009) the 6-foot4 freshman guard is North Iowa Area Community College’s first player to be selected in the All-American men’s basketball first team. David is studying nutrition and health at the College.

Timothy Stephens (2012) won an academic/ sporting (tennis) scholarship to West Virginia Wesleyan University in America.

His scholarship is valued at $12,000. Tim is currently ranked third in the state.

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Liberty Hogg (2011) has been named the Gawler Show Young Rural Ambassador and was also named as joint winner of the regional title at the recent Northern Areas Show Association presentation night.

Declan Stimson (2012) a combination of Declan’s high academic standard and soccer talent has scored him a scholarship to Catawba College in North Carolina.

Declan will study economics and play on the men’s soccer team in the South Atlantic Conference in Division 2.

Sarah Leo (1994) has been a Business Development Manager at Open Book

Howden for 13 years. Sarah is responsible for the ongoing brand and marketing development of the company. She was their first team member to participate in the University of Adelaide Professional Management Program.

Nick Lowes (2008) is the 2013 winner of the AFTA National Travel Industry Awards “National Rising Star Award.” Nick is a recognised rail expert with an extensive and in-depth knowledge of international and domestic rail travel. He is currently employed as a travel consultant at Jetset Travel Norwood.

Sarah Woolfitt (2010) graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Hospitality Management) and a Diploma of International Hotel Management (Swiss Hotel Association). Part of this qualification required placement in China where she also obtained a Certificate IV in Chinese.

She is currently studying her Bachelor of International Hotel Management which will be completed at the end of 2013 and commences a Masters Degree in the USA.

Past staff For the first time ever past staff of Trinity College gathered to share lunch in the city on Trinity Sunday and talk about old times. With a few former staff travelling from Victoria to make this gathering, the room was filled with much chatter about life since working at Trinity. Attendees requested another gathering in 2014 to help the College celebrate its 30th birthday. For this occasion the event will be known as a staff reunion of former and present staff.

ABOVE Trinity old scholars C grade semi final team.

Netball Winter Wrap

September saw the C2 girls, under the guidance of coach Perry, in the grand final. The girls had a dream start to the season with a bye and a forfeit in the first two weeks. This left them fresher than the rest of the competition. In what was a hard fought battle, sadly, the girls did not walk away premiers.

B1 had another stellar season as the benchmark of the competition. After an awesome summer season the team made the finals again and lost one week out from the grand final.

A2 sadly had their season come to an abrupt end with a game that was abandoned by both teams due to the dreadful conditions and injuries that hampered them all season.

The summer season will see TOSNC field four teams in the SADNA Golden Grove competition. We are always on the lookout for more players to join us on a Monday night for netball. From the start of the summer season a new range of merchandise will be available. Order forms are available by email to tosnc@hotmail.com. If you are keen to organise a new team or want to join a team please send an email.

Peter Bajcic, former staff member and Trinity College parent, is now working at Kormilda College in Darwin. Peter is Head of Gumimba (Freshwater Crocodile) House with boys aged 12 to 14 and 25 girls aged 16 to 19. These indigenous students are from 30 different communities in the top end. For most students English is their second language. He is also involved in the mathematics faculty, Head of Cricket with two teams, First XI and U 15s. The Kormilda College First XI have just returned from Malaysia and they were runner up to South Africa in the Jahore T20 Championships.

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Top: L-R: Dr Michael Slocombe, Ms Deidre Fischer and Mrs Rosslyn Hewitson share stories from their days at Trinity College.

Bottom: Mr Peter Bajcic with his indigenous students in Darwin.

Michael Coburn President

Football Report

TOSFC made the grand final in 2012 and so gained promotion into Division 5 for 2013. I am pleased to report in our first year we finished just one game out of the finals race in sixth place.

Even though TOSFC’s A and B grades did not make finals, C grade had its most successful year ever making a preliminary final. Coach Ben Johnson has turned a struggling team into a team with consistently high numbers.

The second half of 2013 realised a dream for the club as it unveiled the new FOOD SHACK, purchased in conjunction with the Old Scholar’s Cricket Club. Not only does it add to our catering facilities it provides great promotional awareness along with opportunities to fundraise externally during the off-season.

Finally, TOSFC would like to thank Trinity College for their ongoing support and access to first class facilities. A special mention also to our long term club sponsors, Zorich Group – Sports Power Gawler, Gunn Group and Mawson Lakes Hotel, Fasta Pasta Gawler, Transliquid and Bed Shed. Without the support of these sponsors, many of whom are local family owned businesses, our club would not be where it is today.

Carl Teusner (2006) President

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Discover f o 30 Years ity n Opportu

Reunions Class of 2003 – 10 year reunion Over 100 people from the class of 2003 gathered at the Royal Hotel, Kent Town in May to share stories and catch up on events over the past ten years since they left school. A highlight of the evening, and illustrating very amusing fashion, was the 2003 Presentation ball video played on the large TV screens.

ABOVE L-R: Rachel Franklin, Eliza Thackray and Elisha Brand, Surekha Curpatrick, Chris Gooley and Jenna Rich.

Have you found an old Trinity uniform, report card, old sports day program, presentation cup or photos?

Don’t throw them away. As the College prepares for its 30th birthday celebrations we welcome any item you might like to add to our archive room.

Please contact Mrs Mary Kerin (College Archivist) on mary.kerin@trinity.sa.edu.au to discuss your item with her.

Hockey Club Update The Trinity Hockey Club looks back at a very successful season yet again in 2013, both on and off the field. Off field events included a quiz night where record numbers attended this always entertaining evening.

On field, both the A grade men’s and women’s teams had very promising seasons with the men’s team making the finals but unfortunately going out in the first round to a strong opposition. The club looks forward to what next season holds and we always welcome new players of any age and experience. With an exciting turf pitch being laid in the Barossa ready for the 2014 season, there is no better time to join!

Please contact me on 0431 861 165.

Tom Gregory (2009) President

Trinity College Alexander Avenue Evanston South SA 5116 tel: (08) 8522 0666 email: enquiry@trinity.sa.edu.au

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