Parent School Partnership Initiatives Pastoral
Enrolments In Year 8 there are 180 boys enrolled annually at Trinity College with seven places offered to Indigenous boys. Currently we have thirty three Indigenous students enrolled at Trinity and, for the first time, three are enrolled at the Junior School. Trinity has an Mr John Jacky exceptional retention rate of Indigenous Student Liaison Indigenous students, as again we congratulate six boys for successfully completing their Year 12 studies and becoming future TOBA members.
Reconciliation Assembly
Five years ago I was the only Aboriginal on staff, today there are two of us as we welcome Mr Derek Hunter for 2006. Mr Hunter replaces Mrs Jodie Bin Sali as our Aboriginal Teaching Assistant while Mrs Bin Sali takes her twelve month study leave at Notre Dame University in Fremantle.
Mr George Walley is a trained Junior School teacher, singer, songwriter, Nyungar historian and well respected local Nyungar community member, who completed the Welcome to Country at this year’s Reconciliation Assembly at Trinity. Mr Walley also played the didgeridoo and was very well accompanied by our College Senior Ensemble Percussion Band. Old Boy Terry Morich (Class of 1982) was our special guest speaker. Mr Morich incorporated this year’s NAIDOC theme, Past, Present and Future into his inspiring speech to the Assembly. Mr Morich spoke about his past and growing up as a Nyungar. He also spoke about his immediate family, his employment experiences and his time as a Police Officer in the WA Police Force, before alluding to his present and current studies as a fourth year medical student at UWA. He impressed upon the boys how a good education from Trinity has helped him achieve what he has today and how in the future he intends to use his education to help others.
PSPI
Speech Night
Staff
The Indigenous Parent Schools Partnership Initiatives Committee (PSPI) is responsible for funding the after school homework classes, the Year 8 Discovery Day to UWA, the Reconciliation Assembly Luncheon and this year’s trip for four upper school students to attend the Indigenous National Assembly in Alice Springs. Homework Classes The after school homework program has fast become one of the more consistent and successful PSPI projects and currently employs two fulltime tutors, with many of our students benefiting from the project. The homework classes operate out of the PL Duffy Centre every Monday and Tuesday from 3.05pm to 5.00pm. Indigenous National Assembly The four Senior School boys who took part in the Alice Springs Dreaming from The Heart Assembly were Tyson Yarran (Yr 12), Jarrhan Jacky (Yr 12), Daniel Mills (Yr 11) and Callum Morich (Yr10). Dreaming from the Heart took place during the first week of the Term 3 holidays and celebrated the 20th anniversary of the visit of Pope John Paul II to the Red Centre. The tour was a timely
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project for capacity and leadership building for the boys who went to Alice Springs.
INDIGENOUS STUDENTS Back row: Steven McGuire, Tyson Yarran, Eric Bin Sali, Domanic Matsumoto, Daniel Evans, Daniel Mills Third row: Jordan Morich, Zacharia Edgar, Trae Turvey, Shae Michael, Lars-nila Corbett, Mark Kickett, Samuel Vale Second row: Mr John Jacky (Aboriginal Student Liaison), Callum Morich, Jarrhan Jacky, Joshua Kitaura, Joshua Hill-Carter, Ayden McBeath-Rankins, Jonathan Oades, Mr Derek Hunter (Aboriginal Teaching Assistant) Front row: Clem Hansen, Clinton Yarran, Terrence Little, Nestor Zimmermann, Daniel Bin Omar, John Robert Gallagher, Kohwin Bin Sali, Lance Mongoo Absent: Matthew Bullen, Reece Garlett, Robert Martin, Shayne Moore, Damon Guerinoni, David Michael, Joel Bruce-Morich
There was a proud moment for many of us as we listened, for the first time in the history of the College Speech Night, as Yr 12 student Tyson Yarran delivered The Nyungar Acknowledgement to Country in Nyungar Language. We congratulate Tyson and the following speech night award winners: Daniel Bin Omar and Kohwin Bin Sali in Yr 8, Samuel Vale and Nestor Zimmermann in Yr 9, Eric Bin Sali and Callum Morich in Yr 10, Daniel Evans and Jarrhan Jacky in Yr 12.
Farewell Class of 2006 We congratulate and farewell Daniel Evans, Zacharia Edgar, Jarrhan Jacky, Tyson Yarran, Joshua Hill-Carter and Jonathan Oades who are members of the Class of 2006. They have made an outstanding contribution to the College and we wish them every success for their future. Mr John Jacky Indigenous Student Liaison
