College Board
On behalf of the Trinity College Board, I am pleased to report another very successful year for the school. Mr Christopher Sutherland (’81) Board Chair
We have seen outstanding results across all four educational pillars covering our faith, academic, cultural and sporting programs. With the major school building works and land purchase arrangements completed at the end of 2011, the Board has used the 2012 year to set in place the structure and capacity to reconsider the challenges and opportunities that the school may face in the future and how we best put in place strategies to ensure the continued growth and prosperity of Trinity.
Of high importance to the Board is to ensure the student community remains a reasonably broad cross-section of the WA community. To achieve this we must find further ways to support some families and students who may not otherwise be able to attend the school. This delivers significant educational benefits to all students as well as continuing the tradition of Edmund Rice.
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With this in mind we have reinvigorated the Trinity College Foundation chaired by Mark Mony de Kerloy (’75) with a goal to build a capital base that can provide scholarships for future students, who without financial support, may not otherwise be able to attend Trinity. In particular, we have launched the Karrik Bursary for Australian Indigenous students. This Bursary targets individuals and corporations who wish to support the education of Indigenous youth and who may also provide vocational training support and apprenticeship opportunities. To date we have secured the support of four partners and plan to grow this support over the coming years. We established our Capital Strategic Planning Committee under the stewardship of John Driscoll (’79) to consider a range of opportunities and challenges facing Trinity over the next 20 years and to ultimately produce an updated master plan for the school by the end of 2013. This committee must consider a range of long-term factors, including substantial developments underway on our east and west boundaries and opportunities to develop the recently acquired land to the north; the significant forecast rise in population and traffic directly surrounding the campus and its impact on security; safety and student demographics; the rapid advancement of computing and online technology in delivering education and its impact on the size and shape of school facilities in the future. After a detailed tender and review of proposals received from a number of planners/architects, a firm has been appointed to work with the committee to develop the updated master plan.
