My Trinity - Issue 1 Summer 2019

Trinity MAGAZINE FOR FORMER

ISSUE 1 SUMMER 2019

My

PUPILS, STAFF AND FRIENDS

CEMAL EZEL Commodity Trader turned Social Entrepreneur GABRIEL IBITOYE - SUPERMAN?

IT’S A SPORTING LIFE FOR OUR ALUMNAE

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

THE TRINITY CLUB

My

Trinity

Welcome Dear alumni, former staff and friends Welcome to our new alumni magazine, My Trinity We have enjoyed another fantastic year at the School in so many ways and our news section brings you a few highlights. I am delighted that Trinity ranked 40th in the Parent Power list of Top 100 Independent Schools in the UK this year, making it the top ranked independent school in Croydon for the third year running. We were also proud to be shortlisted for the Senior School of the Year award at the TES Independent School Awards 2019.

We are immensely proud of our alumni and hope you enjoy reading about some of them in this magazine. We have great admiration for alumnus Cemal Ezel, who is literally changing lives through an award-winning initiative that gives homeless people a bright future. We feature alumnae Hannah Bond, Isabelle Hilditch, Imani Lansiquot and Kathy Rogers, who are excelling in their sports and we place the spotlight on Gabriel Ibitoye, who is one to watch in the world of rugby.

Our ties with our former students’ association The Trinity Club [formerly the TMWA] are extremely important to us. Do look out for the Club pages in the magazine.

As we say au revoir to our Upper Sixth students, we wish them all the best, whether they are starting their chosen course at university, embarking on a gap year, or joining the ranks of the employed. We welcome them as alumni of the School and hope they stay in touch with us. We look forward to our new alumni joining us on our bespoke networking platform My Trinity where they will be able to find mentors and seek professional advice from a pool of over 1,000 registered users. If you have not already registered for this platform, we strongly advise you to do so as it is a great way to reconnect with your peers, network with fellow professionals and keep up to date with news from the School.

It has been a pleasure to meet and reconnect with so many former students and staff of Trinity over the last three years and I hope to see many more of you at our forthcoming events.

With my best wishes

Alasdair Kennedy, Headmaster

Join over 1,000 alumni on our networking platform My Trinity at www.mytrinity.org.uk It is simple to do, just sign up using your LinkedIn or Facebook log in, or with your email address.

My Trinity will enable you to find and connect with fellow alumni and friends, seek careers advice from a network of professionals and search for mentoring opportunities, jobs and other forms of support. Those of you in established careers can offer a wealth of experience to our next generation of alumni. Do take advantage of the jobs board where you can post jobs at your company free of charge. You can see our forthcoming events and news from the School, view and upload photographs, and join groups based on your interests.

Alumni news By appointment to Her Majesty, The Queen

3 Alumni and School news

Her Majesty, The Queen, has appointed Paul Cleal, who left Trinity in 1984, to the Board of the National Citizen Service Trust.

6

How

your morning coffee can change a life

8

Review of Events

14 Meet Alumnus Gabriel Ibitoye

Paul is passionate about social mobility and diversity. He works with a variety of educational institutions and acts as a mentor to young people. He was previously a board member of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

Paul has worked in both the private and public sectors for 30 years, 16 of them as a Partner at PwC in both the UK and Africa practices. He led and grew successful businesses within PwC including the Government & Public Sector practice and Africa Business Group.

contents

16 It’s a Sporting Life for our Alumnae!

18 One Hundred Years Ago 20 Destination of 2018 Leavers We owe our grateful thanks to Paul for participating in a video for the School earlier in the year, promoting bursaries for aspiring applicants to Trinity.

22 The Return of our Alumni 23

Trip down memory Lane

24 Alumni News

Tommy Petty selected for England U20s squad We would love to see you at our Afternoon of Sport on Saturday 7th September We will be featuring three superb games of rugby, plus alumni vs the School and staff at Hockey, Football and Water Polo. There will also be a shooting competition on the rifle range, the chance to play tennis, squash and badminton for fun and we will have activities for young children too. There will be a cash bar, with proceeds going to our Rugby and Hockey Tour 2021, and our caterers will be barbequing burgers and sausages for all.

Join us for a great afternoon for all the family!

Congratulations to Tommy Petty, who left in 2017, on being capped for the England U20s rugby squad during the England Counties rugby tour in Romania. The England Counties U20s XV is a representative rugby squad comprising players from a range of clubs and counties.

25

The Trinity Club

26

‘The Midwives’ live on

after name change to Trinity RFC

28 Hockey for All, Hockey for Life 30 The Trinity Mid Whitgiftian Cricket Club

Tommy, who joined the Alumni Team at Trinity for two memorable terms during his gap year, is currently studying Human Sciences at University College, London.

32

Mitre

Players

33

Folk

& Blues / Golf Society

34

In Memoriam

My Trinity Magazine is published by the Alumni and Development Team at Trinity School

35

Meet the Team

Edited by Melodie Johnson, Head of Alumni Relations

36 Dates for your diary

Suggestions for content to be addressed to: The Editor, My Trinity Magazine, The Alumni Office, Trinity School, Shirley Park, Croydon CR9 7AT Email: maj@trinity.croydon.sch.uk Telephone 020 8662 5159

02

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

direct line 020 8662 5159

www.trinity-school.org/alumni

03

School news Max Finch wins scholarship to Sandhurst Upper Sixth Form student Max Finch has won a scholarship to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS).

Training on this prestigious scholarship lasts for 44 weeks, and focuses on military and leadership skills, as well as demanding training exercises in the UK and overseas. Max also hopes to secure sponsorship to read Engineering at Harper Adams University.

Trinity U18 football team crowned Croydon Cup winners Our U18 football team finished their season on a high, winning a tough Croydon Cup Final in April against Riddlesdown. Despite falling behind in the first half, the boys equalised with a fantastic team goal, passing their way through the midfield and back line, before sliding the ball across to Jamie Kennedy to finish. The game progressed into extra-time, with a spectacular by Joe French securing the team’s victory.

Trinity U13 football team retain Surrey Cup

shoot-out, Trinity won 7-6!

The U15 rugby team secured an outstanding win in the Schools National Plate Rugby final in March with a fantastic score of 45-5 against Hymers College. The team gave a superb performance in a very exciting match held at Sixways Stadium.

The team were supported by fellow students both at the match and at home where the match was live-streamed in our Concert Hall at lunchtime.

U15s Rugby Team win National Plate

Trinity Boys’ Choir star on latest Fantastic Beasts soundtrack Twelve members of The Trinity Boys’ Choir were thrilled to be invited back to work with composer James Newton Howard on the second film soundtrack for the box office hit Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald at the famous Abbey Road Studios last summer.

Trinity student in West End production, School of Rock

Our U13 footballers won the Surrey Cup in May after an amazing game against Carshalton Boys.

Following successful games against Whitgift, St. Peter’s and George Abbott during the tournament, and Coombe in the semi-finals, the U13s were looking to retain the trophy they won last year.

The thrilling final ended in a draw 6-6, but, after a breath-taking penalty

U15s win National Plate

U16 hockey team win National Plate finals at Olympic Park Our U16A hockey team were crowned National Plate champions in May following a dramatic victory over RGS Guildford at the Olympic Stadium in London. With seconds remaining, we won a high turn-over ball and forced the RGS keeper into multiple saves. When the final whistle blew, the score was 3-3. The team won after some thrilling penalty strokes.

Following on from his casting as Freddy the Drummer in December 2017, First Year student Jasper Bew has now been cast as Zack, the lead guitarist, in the hit musical School of Rock. Jasper is the only child to secure two starring roles in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning show as it celebrates 1,000 West End performances.

As well as singing and playing the guitar, Jasper, a music and drama scholar at Trinity, also plays the violin and piano.

We are the Champions!

Trinity U13 and U15 water polo teams win ESSA National Finals Our U13 water polo team won the national title at the ESSA championships in May at Northampton Boys’ School. They played superbly from start to finish, with an impressive scoreboard throughout, beating Whitgift in the final 5-2.

The School’s U12, U14 and U15 cricket teams were crowned county champions last summer following victories against RGS Guildford, Whitgift and Tiffin Schools.

U13 Water Po lo

Trinity is one of the top 100 cricket schools in the country for the fourth year in a row according to The Cricketer magazine, and Archie Holman, now in the second form at Trinity, was delighted to receive a Kent Invicta Players’ Player Award from Paul Downton, former England keeper and Director of Kent Cricket.

Team

Our U15s, played a brilliant match against Bolton in the ESSA Water Polo Championships, claiming victory by winning 3-2.

This marks the first time in our history that we have held two age group national titles at the same time.

Hope4Malawi celebrates opening of new classroom block Despite the recent devastation caused

by Cyclone Idai, classrooms officially opened in Malawi earlier this year. The project, funded by our staff, students and parents through Hope4Malawi, first sent out a team in 2017, where students helped dig the foundations and made some of the bricks from local clay. The 2018 group helped to skim the classrooms, and our 2019 team have fundraised for 125 new desks, which they will use to teach lessons when they visit in July.

This bodes well for the 2019 season!

lo Team U15 Water Po

Trinity School in Top 50 Trinity again ranked in the top 50 independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Parent Power Schools Guide 2019, moving up the list to number 40.

Archie Holman

TOP

Crystal Palace diver plunges to victory

U14s with their trophy

Sixth former Anna Bradescu competed in the National Age Groups Finals in Sheffield last summer, winning gold in the platform, gold in the 3m springboard and silver in the 1m Springboard.

U12s with their trophy

Jasper Bew - © Rory Neal McKenzie

U15s with their coach

04

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

05

Cemal has won a string of awards including Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017, Richard Branson’s Start-up of the Year 2018 and the Chivas Venture Award 2018 which finds “the World’s Best Social Enterprise and Bloomberg’s" World’s most promising business”.

How your morning coffee can change a life

In 2017, Change Please was named one of the “Top 100 most disruptive brands in the World” by Marketing Week.

Additionally, Cemal was mentored by Richard Branson on Necker Island.

We speak to Social Entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel Cemal Ezel left Trinity School in 2002 having attained A levels in Economics, Religious Studies, Geography and General Studies. A keen sportsman, Cemal played 1st XV rugby, 1st XI hockey, represented the athletics first team and was 1st VI badminton captain whilst at school. He went on to read Psychology and Social Science at Nottingham Trent University and Business Management at Cambridge University and, up until 2015, Cemal focused on property development and commodity trading. Having stepped back from these businesses, and using the skills he learned along the way, Cemal set himself on a course that is now changing peoples’ lives for the better.

Cemal recognised the dilemma people face when passing the homeless in the street. Will stopping and handing them money only fuel an alcohol or drug problem, or will it really help? Many people become homeless through a series of unfortunate incidents and find it very hard to lift themselves out of their plight without a helping hand. Cemal’s deep seated business acumen gained through his corporate background, coupled with his empathy and compassion for the homeless people he passed every day, sparked an idea.

Change Please was born. In November 2015, Cemal came up with a novel idea on how to overcome the challenges homeless people face by capitalising on the nation’s thirst for good coffee on the move.

Cemal recognised a social problem and came up with a solution. Sell coffee where commuters need it most - on the streets on their way to work. Change Please is a coffee brand staffed by formerly homeless people. Cemal’s initiative identifies suitable homeless people, trains them as baristas, helps them set up a bank account, pays them a London living wage and provides them with housing.

And it is working. Change Please is serving great tasting coffee at 38 sites in the UK including The Shard, Canary Wharf and Borough Market. Cemal plans to open another 18 sites in the UK, 7 sites in Dublin and 4 sites in New York before the end of the year. Big companies are also embracing Cemal’s social conscience by buying Change Please coffee to serve at their premises.

Companies such as UBS, Barclays, Slaughter and May, Linklaters, WeWork to name a few are replacing big players like Costa and Starbucks with Change Please coffee. The coffee is also available on all Virgin Trains nationwide, on Upper Class flights on Virgin Atlantic, and Cemal's coffee beans are on sale in supermarkets, bearing the faces of some of the homeless people he has helped.

I feel incredibly lucky to have attended a school where excellence is expected from every student, regardless of their background.

Tom Finke, Global CEO of Barings, with Cemal

06

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

L-R Sonal Shah, Alexander Ricard, Zoe Saldana and Cemal Ezel, judges at the Chivas Venture Awards

Cemal was delighted to join the panel of judges for the 2019 Chivas Venture Final alongside fellow judges. Zoe Saldana (actress from Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, Star Trek, Avatar, Columbiana), Alexandre Ricard (Chairman and CEO of Pernod Ricard and Sonal Shah (Economist and founding Executive Director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University.

The accolades keep coming. ‘Change Please’ recently won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, and was the only company to win the ‘Promoting Mobility’ category. Cemal said “Thanks to our amazing clients who purchase Change Please coffee, our phenomenal staff and wonderful customers on the high street and in supermarkets who trust us to deliver amazing coffee first, then do good with 100% of the profits.”

Cemal’s green credentials are evident too. All of the brand’s cups are 100 per cent made from plants, not plastic, and the coffee carts are solar powered, with the leftover coffee grounds being converted into bio-fuel. Coffee beans also come from farms that support local communities. For example, a supplier in Peru that helps victims of domestic abuse, and another in Tanzania that supports people injured by landmines.

There is no doubt that Cemal’s entrepreneurial spirit has changed many lives already, and he has great ambitions.

The average Londoner buys two cups of coffee a day and demand is rising. Given there is a skills shortage in the industry, not just in the UK, but around the World, Cemal could be helping many more people in the years to come.

Asked whether his schooling at Trinity gave him a good grounding for his career and social conscience, Cemal said: “There is no doubt the person I have become today is a product of the culture of excellence that permeates from every teacher, classroom and the values of Trinity School. The quality of education given to me, provided a platform to aim at a level someone from my background could only ever dream of. This combined with the school’s history of outstanding sporting achievement, installed in me the competitive ambition to have the confidence that I can make a difference in the areas I applied myself to. I feel incredibly lucky to have attended a school where excellence is expected from every student, regardless of their background.”

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Cemal came up with a novel idea on how to overcome the challenges homeless people face by capitalising on the nation’s thirst for good coffee on the move.

www.mytrinity.org.uk

07

Review of events

Cambridge Tea David Young, our Director of Development, invited Cambridge undergraduates to tea in January to see how they were getting on.

Decade Reunions

at their milestone reunions last year. Over 50 people It was great to see the Classes of 1957-9, 1968 and 1978 of whom had not seen each other for 60, 50 or 40 attended for an afternoon of catching up with peers, many in the Meeting Room and Quad, followed by a tour years. Alumni enjoyed browsing archive materials, lunch The sun shone and everyone had a good time. of the School, led by our Estates Manager Robin McKinlay.

Fantastic Afternoon of Sport

Classes of 1957-9 Standing L-R: Mike James, John Benstead, Mike Lowing, Mike h, Maunder, Bev Phillips, Martin Rus Tony Clover.

Seated: L-R: David Gilbert, Geoff Wilsher, Anthony Harrow, Colin Nash, Edward Benwell.

Class of 1968

er Cox, Brian Standing L-R: Kevin King, Rog l Townsend, Duggan, David Bates, Michae , Nick Walton, Warwick Jones, Peter Vaines n Davies, Nigel Heslop, Peter Bailey, Joh Robert March. n Dixon Front L-R: Paul Simmonds, Joh Duncan , [former staff], Richard Porcas nie Watts.

Ouseley, Graham Ashton, Ber

Class of 1978 Standing L-R: Chris Collier, Ross Angel, Michael Jackson, Andrew Coulbeck, Adrian Pelham, Anthony Tollast, Roger Deane, Peter Conradi, Paul Lynch, Niall Humphreys, Phil

Reception for Supporters a great success There was palpable buzz of energy at our Reception for Supporters of the Trinity Bursary Fund in November, as we thanked alumni, parents and friends of the School for helping us fund more bursaries. The lively conversation was flowing, with a gentle background of beautiful piano playing by student William Hardy.

Michael McConnell, who left Trinity in 2012, made an impassioned speech about what gaining a place at Trinity, with the help of a bursary, meant to him. Michael talked about the value of the diverse community at Trinity, and how studying here prepared him for university and beyond. Describing himself as a ‘rough diamond’; he recalled initially thinking Trinity would be full of 'rich kids', but after visiting the school and gaining a place, he has never looked back.

Alumni, parents, students, younger children and current and former staff joined us for our Afternoon of Sport last September. Whether they were participating or spectating, it was a memorable afternoon for all.

The upper fields hosted three brilliantly entertaining rugby matches, featuring our outgoing captains Luke Medcraft and James Hammond’s XV winning against our newly-formed 1st XV, an exciting staff vs Old Mids match and an impressive Old Mids 1st XV winning decisively against Bec Old Boys 40-10.

The School’s Netball and Football teams displayed their skills in thrilling games, winning 14-10 and 5-1 against Alumni and the Alumni teams were victorious in the Hockey [3-0] and Water Polo [7-5].

Congratulations go to our Top Gun Nabeel Ul-Haq [1993] at our Shooting competition on the rifle range.

Younger children enjoyed the bouncy castle, ball pond, penalty shoot-out and table tennis laid out to keep them amused, and the tennis, badminton and squash courts were available for people to come and play. A wonderful family day out.

The Staff and Old Mid Whit’s Rugby was better than many an international I have endured Trinity Parent

Wilson, Marc Pollington.

Seated L-R: Nick Johnson, Jonathan Dean, Graeme Creffield, Ian Brown, Christopher Burtonshaw.

Michael McConnell, right, talking to Laurie King

08

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

09

Review of events The Class of 1988 Reunite In September, leavers of 30 years ago arrived at noon, browsed archive materials, and enjoyed an excellent buffet lunch served by our chef Simon Martin. After lots of photographs, the group toured the School with our former Estates Manager, Robin McKinlay, and then went off to a local pub for more reminiscing...and a curry.

Trinity Choristers celebrated the 50th Choristers’ Course with a Festal Evensong at Worcester Cathedral last year. The cathedral holds a special significance for Trinity School as the current precentor is former chorister and alumnus The Revd Dr Michael Brierley. We invited alumni to sing with our current choir, with magnificent results. One year on, former choristers came along to sing or worship at a Festal Evensong at Lichfield Cathedral. The evensong marked the end of another successful choristers’ course. Alumni thoroughly enjoy singing with our current choir and it is great to be able to give local alumni this opportunity, as our choristers travel around the country. We will be at Bath Abbey next year.

50th anniversary celebration at Worcester Cathedral

Founder’s Day Supper

We raise £26,000 towards a Cathedral-style Organ Class of 1988

Thanks again for your wonderful efforts in organising a fabulous reunion for my year group. It was a great event on Saturday – and a valuable opportunity to catch up with old friends and see the school again.

Festal Evensongs

L-R sweeping round the back from bottom left: Salin Talavdekar, Tim Cattell [former staff], Richard Cookson, Andy Nicoll, Ashley Dewar, Alex Budge, Greg Allen, Neal Halett, Spencer Collingwood, Richard Brooks, Kevin Bone L-R in front of above: Adam Jones, Mike Leonard, Pat Price, Richard Sexton, Greg De Saulles, Jeb Beresford, and Indy Kler at the front.

We had fun recreating a 30-year-old photograph of School Captain Indy Kler, centre, with Vice Captains Richard Sexton, left, and Jeb Beresford on the right. Thanks for flying over from New York to join us Richard; it would not have been the same without you!

We hosted a wonderful choral concert in March to raise funds towards a cathedralstyle, three manual, electrophonic organ for Trinity Concert Hall. The concert opened with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with superb performances by Deputy Head Boy Quentin-Zach Martins as Aeneas, and Lower Sixth form student Elizabeth Fitzpatrick as Dido. Christopher Dowie, organist with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, formerly Director of Music at Wimborne Abbey, and whose relationship with Trinity goes back to the very first Trinity Chorister’s course 50 years ago, was delighted to perform Sigfrid Karg-Elert’s Chorale Prelude on ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ on an organ borrowed for this event.

The concert culminated in a 112-strong choir comprising students, staff, parents, governors and alumni singing a rousing rendition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem. We are delighted to report that £26,000 was towards purchasing the organ.

Another opportunity to sing with our choir Come and sing Parry’s I Was Glad at our Celebrity Organ Recital with internationally renowned organist David Briggs, on Wednesday 11th September 2019.

Robin McKinlay, our outgoing Estates Manager, was Chairman and special guest speaker at the Trinity Club’s Founder’s Day Supper in March.

The Priest in Charge of Croydon Minster and Chaplain to the Whitgift Foundation, The Revd. Canon Dr Andrew Bishop, led a moving service at the War Memorial, and guests had the opportunity to go on a tour of the School before the supper commenced. The Class of 2014 reunited five years on at a special drinks reception with their former teachers before the main event, and they appreciated being special guests of The Trinity Club [TMWA] at the Supper. Congratulations to Warwick Jones [Trinity 1969] for delivering another successful evening.

Hong Kong Reunion David Young, our Director of Development, enjoyed meeting up with alumni living in Hong Kong for an informal gathering in March at the Café Gray Bar of the Upper House Hotel. It was an enjoyable evening of drinks and the sharing of news and stories of Trinity past and present.

Above Andrew Boulton 1989, Robert Potts 2008, David Jackson 1983 and Basel Kirmani 2001, with David Young

10

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

11

Review of events Trinity Golf Day

More Alumni news

Networking event for lawyers

Alumni, parents, staff, governors, friends and members of the Trinity Golf Society enjoyed beautiful sunny weather, a really relaxed and sociable afternoon and a lot of fun at our Trinity Golf Day at Shirley Park Golf Course in May. Peter Thomson, a friend of Governor and alumnus David Seymour, managed to pip the Headmaster Al Kennedy, by one point, with parent Rob Jordan in third place. Look out for our next Golf Day on Tuesday 19th May 2020! In the meantime, if you would like to play with members of the Trinity Golf Society at courses such as The Drift, Worplesdon and East Brighton during the rest of the summer months, please contact Nigel Jupp at: nigel_jupp@hotmail.com and he will provide full details.

Everyone welcome.

We hosted a networking event in May for lawyers and those aspiring to work in the legal profession at KWM’s offices in the ‘Walkie Talkie’ building.

Managing Partner, Darren Roiser, alumnus, who left in 1998, was a fantastic host as alumni, parents, students and staff networked whilst delighting in the magnificent views from this iconic building.

Sam Phillips, middle

Sam Phillips, RFU referee The London Society of Rugby Football Union referees [LSRFUR] promoted 2014 leaver, Sam Phillips, to the RFU National Panel of Referees from the London and South East Group. Well done Sam!

HSBC Rugby 7s Alumni, staff and friends enjoyed 21 games of exciting rugby at the HSBC 7s at Twickenham in May. They were delighted to see Sam referee one of the games in front of 40,000 people.

Alumnus Tony Britten launches THE ARTS CHANNEL

London Drinks It was great to see so many alumni, parents and staff at the Yorkshire Grey in February for our first London networking event of 2019. It was an enjoyable evening of drinks, food and lively conversation.

Can you help?

We are looking for venues to host our increasingly popular networking events.

Would you, or your place of work, be prepared to host a drinks reception, a working lunch or business breakfast? We would love to hear from you.

Please get in touch with Melodie on 020 8662 5159 maj@trinity.croydon. sch.uk or Donna on 020 8662 5155 dxl@trinity.croydon.sch.uk.

12

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Writer and composer, Tony Britten, who left Trinity School in 1973, has launched a new subscription based arts channel.

If you are interested in the arts, whether it be music, dance, art, sculpture, photography, theatre, literature, film, the coverage on television can be quite limited. There are the conventional concert and opera relays available as well as some documentaries, but there is a huge amount of material you will never see in the UK. That has now changed. With one click, The Arts Channel becomes a portal into hours of fascinating, quality arts film and television from around the world.

Tony Britten right, with David Swinson, Trinity Dire ctor

of Music

Paul Morgan, Flying High Paul Morgan, who left in 2014, decided early on that university was not for him and the RAF was beckoning. Paul was in the RAF section of the CCF when he was at Trinity School and he always had flying on his mind. Once Paul had decided on the RAF, the recruitment process took nearly a year, and after a challenging period of training at RAF College Cranwell, Paul was commissioned as an Officer into the Pilot branch at his graduation parade in May. Paul Morgan at RAFC Cranwell in CHOM

To find out more, visit www.theartschannel.online

(College Hall Officers’ Mess) on the day of his

Tony’s career has been broad, from conductor/orchestrator for the famous National Theatre production of ‘Guys and Dolls’, to running his own opera company; Music Theatre London to working extensively in film and television - where he is perhaps best known for writing the European Champions League anthem.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

graduation, © Kamara Photography.

www.mytrinity.org.uk

13

Meet alumnus Gabriel Ibitoye Harlequins’ exciting player with his sights set on donning a white shirt again Gabriel joined Trinity School in 2009, having been awarded a sports scholarship and bursary. In 2016, he graduated from Trinity with A levels in Mathematics, Economics and Chemistry and, unsurprisingly, he was awarded the School Prize for Rugby.

Gabriel has represented England thus far to U20 level, and was part of the winning team at the 2017 U20 Six Nations, finishing as England’s top try scorer at the U20 World Rugby Championship of the same year.

Gabriel was also named in Eddie Jones’ 44-man pre-season training camp for the England squad in 2018.

When Gabriel left Trinity in 2016, he joined Harlequins’ Senior Academy, and made his first debut for them in November 2017.

Gabriel has been with Harlequins since the age of 13, when he joined their development programme.

Head of Rugby at Harlequins, Paul Gustard, said: “Gabs is a great talent, he is a truly electric winger who is helping us build a winning ethos at the Club. The exciting thing for me is that he is so young and with so much potential, I look forward to him being part of a very successful Harlequins squad.”

On his recent re-signing, Gabriel said: “This is my club and The Stoop is my second home, so it is brilliant to be signing a new contract. Now, I am just hungry to start winning things with Harlequins.”

Gabriel describes his style as agile, elusive, evasive, fast and unpredictable. And yes, he is all these things. He is incredibly exciting to watch. If you are in any doubt, just take a look at Youtube clips of some of his finest moments. During a game against Australia in the 2017 U20 World Cup, Gabriel scored a brilliant try right at the corner post.

The TV Commentator exclaimed “That one hand dive was audacious! He is Superman!”.

Gabriel is modest about this accolade.

He laughs it off and says the try was a massive 15-man team effort, and all he did was to put the ball down in the corner.

We talked to Gabriel about his time at Trinity School and when asked why he applied, Gabriel said “When I was in year 6 at primary school, I played indoor hockey at Trinity and I just fell in love with the School.”

Take every opportunity as it comes. You don’t get many of them, and you’ve got to make each opportunity count, so grab them with both hands.

Gabriel qualified for a bursary as well as a sports scholarship when he joined Trinity: “Having a bursary helped me massively.

Without bursaries, a lot of people like me wouldn’t have the opportunity to come to a school like Trinity. There are so many opportunities available, and being able to come here helped me a lot in terms of progression and really finding out what I can do as an individual and in a group. In class, you receive a first rate education, so I’m massively thankful for that too.”

Gabriel has many great memories from his time at school but for him, the one that stands out the most was a rugby tour to Hong Kong and Australia. He said it was a fantastic experience for him because he’d never been to that side of the world; although he found it difficult to train in Hong Kong as it was so humid. Gabriel claims that visiting the Great Barrier Reef is the best thing he has ever done in his life so far.

As well as concentrating on training and playing for Harlequins, Gabriel is involved with Project Rugby, the RFU’s initiative aimed at increasing participation of Black, Asian, Ethnic minorities and youngsters from low socio-economic backgrounds in the sport. Speaking to rugby journalist Liam Heagney for Rugbypass earlier this year, Gabriel said “In New Zealand, kids play from when they can walk.

England is now one of the best teams in the world, but we can take it up another level if we build it from the ground up and get the ball in many more young peoples’ hands.”

Trinity’s commitment to open access Without bursaries, a lot of people like me wouldn’t have the opportunity to come to a school like Trinity.

Trinity’s genuine mix of students is one of the School’s greatest strengths, with 15% of our pupils currently on means-tested bursaries. The financial support we receive from the Whitgift Foundation will ensure we maintain this level of bursaries, but our mission is to reach out to more bright, local children, who will thrive at a school like ours.

Social mobility is the key to unlocking the potential of children from low income families and Trinity is committed to an outstanding community programme where staff provide extra support and tuition to bring primary school children up to the academic levels required to enter local selective schools, including ours. We have formed a close partnership with The Rowdown Foundation which specialises in identifying gifted children who are at risk of not fulfilling their academic potential on transfer to secondary school. The families of the children who are successful in our own entrance exams are then supported via our bursary programme.

Gabriel credits Trinity for inspiring him to pursue a career in rugby. He remembers being a First former and having the likes of Alex Codling and Aaron Liffchak coaching him. They encouraged Gabriel to commit to it fully, and he hasn’t looked back since.

Alex and Aaron played a massive part in where Gabriel is now. Alex Codling is back at Harlequins, coaching, so Gabriel is delighted to be reunited with him.

When asked about life lessons he has learnt since leaving Trinity, he said: “Take every opportunity as it comes. You don’t get many of them, and you’ve got to make each opportunity count, so grab them with both hands.”

But we need help The Trinity Bursary Fund was established in 2015, and to date, has raised over £350,000 in gifts and pledges, but going forward, we hope to raise this sum on a yearly basis.

This regular income will enable us to offer more bursaries where they are needed most.

So what next for Gabriel?

Gabriel’s ultimate dream is to play for England and win the Rugby World Cup. He wants to play at Twickenham against the best in the world. That’s where he wants to be in a few years’ time. So watch this space, as Eddie Jones has his eye on Gabriel too.

Making a donation will literally change a young person’s life.

To find out more about how you can help, please contact David Young on 020 8662 5162 or development@trinity.croydon.sch.uk.

14

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

15

It’s a sporting life for our alumnae!

Kathy Rogers, Wolverine Kathy Rogers won a sports scholarship to the University of Michigan in 2017, where they have one of the top water polo teams in the USA. She plans to major in Public Health with a minor in Food & Nutrition, aiming eventually for a career with the World Health Organisation.

Kathy has clearly made a great impression, so much so she got a special mention following her second successive CWPA Conference win in Rhode Island in April 2019. Kathy was described as “making a huge impact in the title game”. Not only has Kathy been awarded a substantial sports scholarship, she is an academic scholar too.

Amazingly, Kathy manages to train for 20 hours a week as well as keeping up to date with her studies.

Kathy played in all but two games during her second season for The Wolverines water polo team. The Wolverines have played all over America from California in the West to Boston in the East and the team made it to NCAA (national) Finals Tournament again this year. Kathy has not been able to fit in playing for England/GBR this year, but watch this space!

Hannah Bond © University of Maryland Athletics

Trinity helped me so much academically and with my hockey, so I am really happy that I have been able to combine both of these again successfully at Maryland.

n iversity of Michiga Kathy Rogers © Un

16

www.mytrinity.org.uk

Kathy is pictured above on the far left with her teammates. They were presented with commemorative rings in front of 120,000 people by the University of Michigan for winning their Conference.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Rising star Imani Lansiquot, who left Trinity in 2016, captained the Great Britain team at the World under 20 Championships in the same year.

She is the second fastest British junior of all time and her senior 100 metres personal best of 11.11s ranks her sixth on the UK all-time list.

Imani’s first senior appearance was at the Athletics World Cup in London last July, where she ran the second leg in the 4 x 100m relay alongside teammates Asha Philip, Bianca Williams and Shannon Hilton. The team was victorious, and Imani could not have been happier with her senior debut.

At the European Championships in August, Imani, a Sky Sports Scholar, came sixth in the 100 m, clocking up a time of 11.14s [0.03 off her personal best]. Dina AsherSmith famously won Gold that night.

They then ran together in the 4 x 100 m relay with Asha Philip and Bianca Williams, and brought home Gold with a World leading time of 41.88s.

for the Sixth Form as I knew I would get the support I needed to build on my athletics career and achieve academic success at the same time. I would not be where I am today if I had not attended Trinity.”

So what next for Imani? She is immensely proud to be a Sky Sports Scholar. Sky supports twelve of Europe's most promosing young athletes. Sky Sports and Imani will be building on their relationship over the next year to achieve the ultimate goal - the Tokyo Olympics next July.

We wish Imani all the best for 2019 and the lead up to the Olympics next year. We will be watching!

Dina Asher-Smith has been a great inspiration for Imani both on and off the track. When Imani was finding it difficult to balance training alongside revision and exams for her psychology degree at King’s College London, Dina gave her help and encouragement. Dina graduated in History at King’s, so she knew how challenging training and studying can be.

Of the win, 21 year-old Imani said, “These Europeans have just been amazing and it was a really lovely way to end the championships. All the girls ran incredibly well. We were all going for Gold obviously, but to get it with a world-leading time was just fantastic.”

The Wolverines © University of Mich igan

Isabella Hilditch © Beverly Schaefer

Sprinter Imani is one to watch!

Imani is committed to her ambition of inspiring young women and shows there is “more to life than where you are from, or your background”.

I came to Trinity for the Sixth Form as I knew I would get the support I needed to build on my athletics career and achieve academic success at the same time. I would not be where I am today if I had not attended Trinity.

When we asked Imani why she chose to come to Trinity, she said, “I came to Trinity

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

17

One Hundred Years Ago

Major Frederick Henry Johnson VC, (pictured), is one of Trinity's former pupils commemorated on the memorial. He was killed in action on 26th November, 1917 in France.

He joined the Royal Engineers at the outbreak of war in July 1914 and disembarked at Havre, France on 10th July 1914.

He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and saw action on the Western Front at the Battle of Loos. He was shot in the leg whilst temporarily in command of his section, but led several charges of the German Redoubt to retain position.

Honouring the fallen during World War One The Bishop of Croydon, The Rt. Revd.

Jonathan Clark, presided over a moving ceremony at the re-dedication of our War Memorial in November. The Priestin-Charge of Croydon Minster and Chaplain to the Whitgift Foundation, The Revd. Canon Dr Andrew Bishop, based the Order of Service on a similar re-dedication ceremony that took place after World War II, when an additional plaque was installed on the memorial to remember those who lost their lives in service between 1939 and 1945.

Daniel Gilbert plays The Last Post

Robin McKinlay, Neil Mckenzie and Mark Gardiner

Photo by Jon Gilbert

The memorial with the new WWI plaque and granite stone for WWII

In preparation for the centenary year of the World War One Armistice, former pupils Mark Gardiner and Neil Mackenzie, who left Trinity School in 1981, spent the previous eleven years meticulously researching war records to establish whether the names of the fallen on our war memorial were complete.

Astonishingly, Mark and Neil discovered an additional 36 names that were missing from our WW1 Memorial plaque.

Robin McKinlay, Trinity’s former Estates Manager, masterminded the updating of the memorial. There was already an addendum to the original WWI plaque, which was removed, melted down, and incorporated into a larger plaque to

18

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

facilitate the inclusion of the additional names. The newly formed plaque was carefully crafted by stonemason Christian Marshall to match the original. In order to make way for the new plaque, the record of the WWII fallen was re-positioned at the foot of the original memorial on a new granite stone. The stone was sourced from the De Lank quarry at St Breward, on the edge of Bodmin Moor, which is where the granite originated from for the main memorial stone. This entailed an enormous amount of work and ingenuity to find an appropriate slab and get it placed in front of the original stone.

Each of the plaques have been carefully restored to match and the final result is perfect.

The memorial now pays tribute to the 142 alumni who died serving their country in World War I, the three Currie brothers who were killed in an aid raid whilst students at our School, and a further 88 military alumni who died in service during World War II. At the re-dedication ceremony, metal poppies were placed around the memorial, one for each of the fallen, and perhaps most poignant, a stem with three poppy heads to remember the three

Major Johnson was awarded the Victoria Cross on 25th September 1915 for action at Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos. He was promoted to Captain in September 1916 and to Major in January 1917.

Currie brothers. The weather was atrocious on the day, but the CCF contingent, led by Head of Army section Max Finch, Head Girl Shreya Ganguli, Deputy Head Boy Quentin Zach-Martins, the Sixth Form Chamber Choir and our Bugler Daniel Gilbert, showed great stoicism in the driving rain, perhaps remembering the dreadful conditions the young servicemen faced when fighting for their country.

Mark and Neil also spent endless hours researching all the fallen and compiled comprehensive articles about every alumnus who died during WWI in service to their country. Our plan is to have these articles bound in a volume when funds are available.

Would you like to help with research into our WWII fallen?

Alumnus Alan Perkins, who left Trinity School in 1960, has already discovered a few names that are missing from our WWII plaque.

Alan has volunteered to continue with research, but would like more alumni to help with this task. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact Melodie Johnson on maj@trinity.croydon.sch.uk or 020 8662 5159.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

19

Destination of 2018 leavers Name

Destination

Edward Adams

University of Birmingham

Zayna Ahamadeen Afzal Ahmad

Subject

Name

Aerospace Engineering

University of Arts London

Art Foundation

Kingston University

Aviation Operations with Commercial Pilot Training

Jay Ahuja

University of Oxford

Chemistry

Sonny Allgood

Employment

Business Operational Psychology

University of Exeter

Business & Management with Industrial Experience

Freddie Argent

Joseph Baldwin

UCFB

Football Business & Finance (deferred to 2019 for application to the Army)

David Barnes

University of Cambridge

Medicine

Graham Bass

Ralph Edwards William Edwards

Destination

Subject

University of Exeter

Business & Management with International Study

Brunel University

Product Design Engineering

Destination

Subject

Name

Destination

Subject

University of Bath

Sport & Exercise Science with Placement (2019)

Will Roberts

University of Warwick

Electronic Engineering

Lochlan Rycott

Gap year

-

Man Lok Leung

Queen Mary, London

Science & Engineering Foundation programme for Mathematics

Laura Sallabank

University of Birmingham

Geography

Elliot Lilley

Employment

Wealth Management

Sophie Salway

Durham University

History

David Liu

Queen Mary, London

Mathematics with Actuarial Science

Danyaal Samad

Gap year

-

Luke Saville

University of Warwick

History

Nivashinie Logeswaren

University of Warwick

Economics

University College, London

Medicine

University of Warwick

Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Christopher Savvas Adarsh Shah

University of Manchester

Modern Language (Spanish) and Business & Management

Emma Sheldon

University of Birmingham

Economics & Management (2019)

Tristan Shone

University of Edinburgh

French & Spanish

Katarina Simic

University of Warwick

Economics

Edward Soars

University of Birmingham

History

Nathan Stephenson

University of Westminster

Computer Science

Name Samuel Leigh

Tom Foreman

University of Cambridge

Psychological & Behavioural Sciences

Hannah Mahmood

Deesha Ganguli

University of Warwick

Politics & International Studies

Zuriel Makele

University of Nottingham

Politics & International Relations

Maria Mallett

University of Warwick

Hispanic Studies & Italian

Aasim Mansoor Ahmed

Gap year

-

Constance Gesser

University of Birmingham

Psychology

Jack Giblin

Gap year

Applying Pharmacology (2019) Modern European Studies

Iain McFeat

Commercial Loughborough University Management & Quantity Surveying

Connor McGrath

Keele University

Economics & Finance -

Charlie Gill

University of Nottingham

Georgiana Gillespie

University of Leeds

International Relations

Joshua Gower

Queen Mary, London

Biomedical Science

University of Reading

Economics

Lucy Beeson

University of Leeds

Classical Literature & English

Fabian Blackler

University of Leeds

Zoology

Zak Bond

University of Surrey

Veterinary Medicine (2019)

Louisa Hanton

Isabel Haddock James Hammond

Sam McGregor

Gap year

Louie Stoneman

University of Leeds

Chinese

Thomas McKinnon

Loughborough University Sports Management

James Taylor

Employment

Inalytics

Isabel Townend

Gap year

-

University of Leeds

French

Luke Medcraft

University of Nottingham History

University of Manchester

Modern Language & Business & Management

Krista Moody

University of Bath

Mechanical Engineering

Mark Townsend

University of Edinburgh

Chinese & History

Kieran Moore

University of Oxford

Physics

Anthony Vaz

King's College, London

Chemistry

English Literature & History (2019)

Sophie Moss

University of Birmingham

Psychology

Oliver Wakeling

University of Bristol

Biology

Paul Newton

Hansen Wang

University of St Andrews

Computer Science & Mathematics

Matthieu Weiss

The Academy of Contemporary Music

Creative Music Production

Dominic Williams

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Music

James Williams

Liverpool Hope University

English Literature, Philosophy & Ethics

Alexander Willis

Apprenticeship

Farrier

Lucy Wingrove

University of Nottingham

Biology

Prem Woods

Durham University

University of Leicester

Law

Ewan Borland

University of Buckingham

Computing

Sophie Hanton

Kingston University

Art Foundation then History/Liberal Arts

Kristen Nielsen

University of Manchester

Music

William Bowler

Lancaster University

History

Kate Hanton

University of Oxford

Law (2019)

Harry Oakes

University of Bristol

Modern Languages

Miles Brookes

University of Leeds

Economics & Philosophy

Rithik Hari

University of Exeter

Benjamin Osland

Durham University

Music

Caleb Broomfield

Durham University

History (2019)

Politics, Philosophy & Economics

Charlie Broughton

University of Cambridge

Natural Sciences

Marni Owen

London School of Economics & Political Science

Social Anthropology

Marcus Browne

University of York

Economics

Joseph Casey

University of Birmingham University of Birmingham

Pharmacy (2019)

Samuel Christie

University of Oxford

Law with German Law

Emilie Clark

University of Leeds

Psychology

Matthew Clarke

University of Reading

Real Estate

University of Manchester

Kieran Crowley

University of York

Lucy Curry

University of Manchester

University of the Arts

Photo journalism & Documentary Photography (2019)

Nihara Herath

Imperial College London

Medicine

Kit Hobbs

University of Southampton

Biochemistry

Munaiza Hoq

Durham University

Law

Sami Hoq

University of Bristol

Geology

Luke Houlahan

University of York

Chemistry

Dexter Howell

University of the Arts (Camberwell College)

Art Foundation

Shirley Ibegbulam

University of Birmingham

Pharmacy

Edward James

University of Bristol

English

Umar Jamil

Gap year

Applying Dentistry (2019)

Oliver Jonas

University of Bath

Computer Science (2019)

Darcey Kirwin

University of Leeds

Neuroscience

Harry Kohn

University of Bath

Mathematics (with Industrial Placement)

George Railton

Commerzbank

Degree apprenticeship

David Read

University of Bristol

History

Paula Lago Burity

King's College, London

Medicine (2019)

James Reid

Gap year

Pilot Training

Alexander Roberts

University of Cambridge

Psychological & Behavioural Science

Business Management

Chloe Cheng

Maclaren Crawford

Milo Hayes-Collins

Modern Language and Business Managment (2019) Music (2019) Geography Accounting and Finance with Foundation Year

Alexander Dantas

University of Surrey

Thomas Day

University of Southampton

Computer Science

Malin Dekas

University of Southampton

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Celina DembinskaKenner

University of Bristol

Psychology (2019)

Joshua Dumbrill

Gap year

-

Theo Lally

King's College, London

Dentistry

Amir Dungerwalla

University of York

Economics

Alexander Lee

Durham University

Natural Sciences

20

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Ishaan Oza

University of Warwick

Physics

Thomas Pacitti

King's College, London

English

Jonathan Park

University of Edinburgh

International Business & Chinese (2019)

Kailan Patel

University of Leeds

Economics

Kush Patel

Apprenticeship

Nayna Patel

University of Bristol

Philosophy & Economics

Accountancy

Orlando Woscholski

University of Bristol

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

University of Edinburgh

Economics & Mathematics

Anushun Yasotharan

University of Surrey

Economics

Riana Patel

University of Cambridge

Engineering

Jayant Yogendran

University of Warwick

Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Cato Pauling

University of Southampton

Computer Science with Cyber Security

Alexandra Zamar

University of Leeds

Classic Civilisation & Philosophy

Pawan Peethamber Queen Mary, London

Economics Finance & Management

Thomas Persinaru

University of Huddersfield

Exercise Science

Eliza Prentice

University of Exeter

Classical Studies

Yasser Qureshi

University of Warwick

Engineering

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

21

The Return of the Alumni We are delighted our alumni continue to return to Trinity to give talks at our various society meetings where they impart valuable knowledge about their experiences at university and in their careers.

It was great to see four classicists back at Trinity last year, talking to current students about their first year at university. Pictured below from left to right are Henry Gale, reading Classics and Linguistics at Cambridge, Stephanie Kellaway, reading Classical Literature and Civilisation at Birmingham, Harry Jackson, reading Classical Civilisation and English Language at Leeds and Beth Carroll is reading Classical Studies at Bristol. They were able to pass on valuable advice about their first year.

L-R Henry Gale, Stephanie Kellaway, Harry Jackson, Beth Carroll

Rachel Duncan, who left in 2016, currently reading Psychology at The University of Bath, gave an enlightening presentation to fifteen Trinity Sixth Formers on her placement year inside England’s prisons.

A trip down Memory Lane Desperately seeking photographs

Rachel Duncan, psychology talk

Chris Allen, 2016 leaver, is in his third year at King’s College and he gave an impressive insight into his studies at medical school at our MedSoc group. His advice? Stay positive and accept that you may face the odd defeat in life - Chris received nine rejections before he gained a place at King’s College.

Sharing your experiences Current students really benefit from collaboration with alumni. We would love to welcome you back to pass on your wisdom at a Careers evening, Society Meeting, during our Higher Education Week, or as a judge of one of our internal competitions.

2015, shared his experiences of studying Psychology at university with our sixth form and Psychology students. He also discussed his planned PhD research into Psychosis.

Reminiscing “Looking back, I certainly did enjoy my time in the choir, and I am thankful that it provided so many wonderful opportunities and memories for me. A definite highlight was taking part in the last Bing Crosby Christmas Show and meeting the man himself and David Bowie. The memory of singing Bach’s St John’s Passion under Roger Norrington still gives me goose bumps every time I hear the opening bars of that piece. I was also part of the choir that took part in the original production of Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley. The production led to so many performances of the opera in the ensuing years. I can vividly remember breaking my toe shortly after one of the performances whilst messing around with some of the other boys and having to go on stage with an improvised bandage on my foot, hoping that I didn’t leave bloody trails on the stage.”

Would you be willing to help with practice interviews for university or apprenticeship applications? These normally take place one evening in November.

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

“Getting caught with Jason Court and Killer getting into Jay’s mini halfway round the inter-house cross country” “Regularly buying those one foot long cream doughnuts from the bakery across the road” “Being one of the first people to stretch the school dress code – starting with black suede shoes and white socks, then light grey Farahs, then a black waffle cardigan, then a burgundy waffle cardigan. I swear I must have driven Mr Wilson and Dr South to despair.”

Please send your memories to Melodie Johnson maj@trinity.croydon.sch.uk

If you work within 10 miles of Trinity, could we organise a short student visit to see your industry in actions?

22

Here are a few more anecdotes from the 1980s:

“Abseiling upside down off the school building”

Do you have half an hour on the phone to guide a student in their choice of profession?

There are many different ways to share your expertise with our current pupils, so please do contact Sue Highmore, Head of Careers sfh@trinity.croydon.sch.uk, or Melodie Johnson, Head of Alumni Relations maj@trinity.croydon.sch.uk, so we can explore how you can get involved.

User name: guest Password: trinity

Here is a photograph of our 1st XI Hockey team from 50 years ago – we are hoping to see some of these guys at their 50 year reunion, which takes place just after this magazine goes to press.

Danny Millington, left 1981, recalls what being in the Trinity Boys Choir meant to him

Edward Millgate, who left in

Did you know we have an online archive where you can browse for photographs, school magazines, school lists and more? To access the site, go to trinityschool-archive.daisy. websds.net/

We love to see your photographs from your time at school, in particular, team photographs and groups of students and teachers. If you can recall names too, so much the better! Any photographs you can unearth will be greatly appreciated by our archivist Laurie King. Please email him on lck@ trinity.croydon.sch.uk, or send copies of photographs to Laurie at the School.

We are always happy to scan originals and return them to you.

We would love to hear your memories from your time at School.

Chris Allen, Medsoc

Browse our online archive

Ed Millgate - psychology talk

Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne, copyright Robert Workman 2016

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

23

The Mitre Society Photo Booth When John Benstead arrived at the Founder’s Day Supper last year, he did not realise until it was too late, that he had left his suit jacket in his wife’s car. Robin McKinlay, our then Estates Manager, came to his rescue with a Trinity School blazer for John to wear.

Alumni who inform us of their intention to make a gift in their Will automatically become members of The Mitre Society, which enables us to thank them during their lifetime and celebrate their relationship with the School.

We invite members of the Society to an annual lunch with their partners, where we keep them up to date with the School’s progress and future.

We hosted the 2019 Mitre Society lunch in the historic Audience Chamber at the Whitgift Almshouses in February. Where Alasdair Kennedy, Headmaster, thanked our guests for their generosity and Martin Corney, Chief Executive of the Whitgift Foundation, gave a brief overview of the history of the Almshouses, and the forthcoming redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre.

We are deeply grateful to all those who choose to remember Trinity in their Will, whether it is a donation to our Trinity Bursary Fund, or for other priorities, these gifts make a real and lasting difference for future generations of Trinity students.

For more information, please contact David Young, Director of Development on 020 8662 5162, or by email dty@trinity.croydon.sch.uk.

24

www.mytrinity.org.uk

This sparked an idea. We invite you to send us a photograph of you wearing part of your old school uniform. Please send photographs to the editor, Melodie Johnson, by email maj@trinity.croydon. sch.uk, or by post, addressed to Melodie Johnson Trinity School Shirley Park Croydon CR9 7AT.

How Green is our School?

The School is progressing to fulfil our green recycling programme with the introduction of colour coded recycling bins around the School. There are also green recycling bins in each classroom where students can dispose of plastic, paper and cardboard.

We have a Solar PV system with a total of 878 panels, which is working very well. This system, together with the LED lights replacement programme throughout the School, has helped to reduce our electricity consumption significantly. The solar panels generated 57,179 kWh of electricity during the 3 months period February to April 2019 and the majority of this electricity (53,347 kwh) was used by the School, saving £9,084 in electricity costs.

A recent survey by our ‘Green’ reps estimated we get through a staggering 33,000 single use plastic bottles a year!

We are encouraging pupils and staff to purchase Trinity branded refillable water bottles. If you would like to support this initiative, please get in touch with us and we will let you know how to order one.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

gby et, Hockey and Ru e home of our Crick th is b Clu our y nit ye Tri The The Mitre Pla rs, r dramatic society, eu at am r ou , bs sports clu b and Golf Society.

Folk and Blues Clu situated in w to the Club, we are ne are o wh u yo of sports and For those tead, and we provide ers nd Sa , ue en Av e Club Lime Meadow alumni and staff. Th for pupils, parents, ies ilit fac to se le ou op bh clu tivities for pe a wide range of ac in ion at cip rti ol, pa ho Sc enables ed at Trinity y friendships form an m e th joy en to continue past and present. iftian Association the Trinity Mid-Whig as us ow kn ll wi u er Many of yo relevant to our old A name is still very y was nit Tri [TMWA]. The TMW School, as ed Whitgift Middle nd te at o we wh rs, be al mem ains our leg title, ver, whilst this rem we Ho .

54 19 ury, til nt ce un known o the 21st name of our Club int e th ing br to e tim born. felt is was e Trinity Club was with the School. Th and more aligned ble . We are a very socia us at the Clubhouse ectating sp r, ba Do come and visit e th e new faces at se to e lov we d an sured group of people olved. You can be as generally getting inv d an ts, or sp g yin or pla e. of a warm welcom re and ies and infrastructu esting in our facilit inv y all inu nt ou co We are d heating in r air-conditioning an w ne d lle ta ins tly have recen ion of more LED elift and the addit fac a d ha s ha r ba uce our power main hall. Our nels, help us to red pa lar so r ou th wi ilighting, together print. We have mult ove our carbon foot pr im d an rers ion te pt ca e consum r new onsit lar matches, and ou pu po r fo ts or Sp d y an screen Sk d snacks for players er match meals an provide welcome aft spectators alike. including the curity at the Club, se ed ov pr im in d ss to deter We have investe dth and height acce wi d cte tri res d an ide a installation of CCTV y seriously to prov ke our responsibilit ta e W ts. s es gu rse ed unwant d we pride ou lve tivities we offer an ac y an m e th r fo e embers. good venu l club for all our m d welcoming socia on being a warm an any tives, so if you have welcome new initia e to help, lik uld Finally, we always wo ities, and you tiv ac r he ot r fo as are suggestions or ide @tmwa.co.uk to sh th me at chairman wi h uc to in t ge e pleas your thoughts. come and join us!

Club, so please do ur yo is b Clu y nit The Tri Andy Thompson Chairman

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Our continued investment in our Club ensures we remain a popular and attractive venue for events and celebrations including birthdays for over 21s, anniversaries, retirement parties and the like. If you are planning an event and wish to find out more, please contact our bookings secretary Anna Warnock at clubhouse@tsssc.co.uk.

Andy Tho mpson

We are continually investing in our facilities and infrastructure and have recently installed new air-conditioning and heating in our main hall.

The Trinity Club is your Club, so please do come and join us!

www.mytrinity.org.uk

25

‘The Midwives’ live on after name change to Trinity RFC The Old MidWhitgiftian Rugby Football Club (OMWRFC) came into being back in 1926 when the School was Whitgift Middle School.

Women Meet your inner warrior!

Members of the Club voted to become Trinity Rugby Football Club earlier this year, and the RFU have now ratified the decision, with the OMWRFC officially changing its name to Trinity RFC on 1st June 2019.

The Club had a strong season last year and reached the Surrey Cup Final in May 2019, where they narrowly lost to Weybridge Vandals. Our VETS won their Surrey Cup final in 2018 with victory over KCS Old Boys and they reached the final of the Surrey President’s Vets Pitcher this year, only to concede the trophy to Old Regatians Vets. d Mids 1 Rugby staff vs Ol

The recruitment of former 1st XV captain and Nigerian international Temi Okenla, who re-joined us from Gravesend last summer, was a major coup and a number of players, who finished their university degrees last year, are now back playing on a regular basis, including former Trinity pupil Nathanael Briggs.

The link we have with Trinity School is very important to the club, as over 50% of our player base is former pupils of the School.

We were delighted to welcome 2018 leaver, James Hammond, up to the Club and love to see other former Trinity pupils as they return from University.

Behind the first team, we also have the AXV, who play an important role for the Club.

It is great to have current teachers at Trinity School, such as Paul Murphy, Nick Evans and Jed Pietersen turning out for them.

The Midwives

Old Mids vs staff 2018

The ‘Trinity Titans’ have continued to grow, and the number of under 6’s to under 10’s turning out on a Sunday has doubled in numbers. Over seventy youngsters signed up to the annual juniors tour to the Isle of Wight at the end of the season! We also started a new under 12’s team last season, which comprised Trinity pupils. It would be great to welcome some more Trinity pupils up to the club to play in these games.

Another exciting new venture for us has been the introduction of RugbyTots up at the club.

This caters for the two and a half to five year olds and is a great way to get the kids ready to join our Young Mids. These dynamic weekly play sessions enable boys and girls to develop their social and physical skills in a fun and positive environment.

Community work also remains important to us, such as running after school rugby clubs at Atwood and Gresham Primary Schools.

Visit our website www.trinityrfc.com

q

@Trinity_RFC

i

trinity.rugby

At the other end of the age spectrum, the rugby club also enjoys a thriving social network for former players. The Club’s much loved moniker and traditional nickname lives on as the former players’ section is now officially ‘The Midwives’. Former players or friends of the club are very welcome to come along and join one of our regular gatherings.

For more information about the rugby club, or if you would like to sign up to our weekly match magazine, please email info@trinityrfc.com For more information about Rugbytots, please get in touch with Darren by email darren@rugbytots.co.uk

Looking to grow your business?

Trinity RFC has a range of commercial and sponsorship opportunities to promote your business within their network and the wider local community. Get in touch with Commercial Manager, Iain Munro commercial@trinityrfc.com to find out more

The Trinity Rugby Football Club also has a thriving women’s section. Warrior Camps are held every Wednesday from 19:3020:45, and are a fun-packed, commitment-free way for Sixth Form girls, alumnae, mums and teachers to experience the dynamic, exhilarating sport of rugby, whether you have played before or not. With plenty of help at hand, we will introduce you to the basics of rugby, coupled with enjoyable fitness routines- helping you step out of your comfort zone and unearth your inner warrior!

For more information, please email our Head of Women’s Rugby, Phil Mamode at womens@trinityrfc.com

Join us in September at Trinity School!

Do come and watch our 1st XV friendly match at Trinity School on Saturday 7th September 2019.

It promises to be a great afternoon with our AXV playing a match against Trinity staff – always worth watching! The School’s outgoing 1st XV Captain will also be challenging the School’s newly formed 1st XV to a match. This afternoon is not to be missed!

Please all feel welcome to come up to the Club on a Saturday to watch a game!

Temi Okenla in action

26

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

27

Hockey for All, Hockey for Life

The Trinity Hockey Club Colts Section Our Colts is a thriving section that trains every Sunday at the School from 10.30 am to 12 pm from September to March. It is not just coaching; there are also matches against local opposition during the season.

Hockey is a major sport at Trinity School and has been for generations, with many going on to play the game at all levels for much of their lives. The game suits all ages, and that is its strength and appeal.

Under the excellent direction of Kevin Pacey, the section has brought many players through from novice to first team player since its inception some 20 years ago.

We are delighted to welcome current and former students to join us at The Trinity Hockey Club [formerly known as the Old MidWhitgiftians Hockey Club and more recently, the Trinity Mid-Whitgiftians Hockey Club].

Many players have come through the system and progressed on to County honours, but just as many have found their own level in the game, and benefited from the enjoyment and camaraderie of playing for our club.

The Club runs four sides on a Saturday, from top Surrey league games to the bottom league – genuinely offering hockey for all.

We aim to provide hockey for pleasure, fitness, and the opportunity to enjoy fellowship and happy memories over a beer afterwards in the clubhouse. It is truly a wonderful way to relax away from your busy life.

Our second team, which fields a wide mix of ages, has achieved great success recently, achieving promotion twice in two years. The side has some outstanding youngsters who have matured hugely in a short space of time.

Once boys reach the age of 13, we are very happy to welcome them to our adult sides, and as they grow in strength and confidence, the opportunity to play a different sort of hockey to that at school, enhances their game.

For a number of our younger players it has also given them the chance to play games alongside their dads!

Which brings us to the Dads! A number of people in recent years have come back to hockey after watching their sons play. We even had one Dad who took up the game for the first time, and became one of our best goalkeepers!

So, who can match that?

But, seriously, we are providing a sport that really is for all ages. We often get players who take up the game after finding that soccer or rugby are getting a little too difficult, but who want to continue to enjoy the camaraderie

28

www.mytrinity.org.uk

Trinity Mid-Whitgiftian Colts is a truly inclusive environment. All players, boys and girls, of any ability, from any school are very welcome.

But, we do have a pre-requisite here it comes - you have to want to have fun, meet new friends and PLAY HOCKEY. That’s it! We will do the rest for you. Come down to the Lower Astro at Trinity School on a Sunday morning and give it a try!

a team game brings. Much more rewarding and sociable than going to a gym!

Although the Club’s base is current pupils and alumni of Trinity School, players are welcome from other schools. We have had players joining us from Whitgift, Royal Russell, Caterham and Warlingham Schools in recent years.

Our league season runs from September to April with summer hockey in between, featuring sessions for beginners, returners and those needing to enhance their skills.

Hockey is a friendly sport and we would love the chance to offer you a game.

This is not exclusively male hockey – our Colts' sides are mixed and we are hoping to start games for ladies soon – so we want to hear from you too!

For more information, contact us by email enquiries@tmwhockey.com or visit our website at www.tmwhockey.com.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

29

Junior Section

The Trinity Mid Whitgiftian Cricket Club The Trinity Mid-Whitgiftian Cricket Club (TMWCC) was formed over 100 years ago in 1908

Based in Sanderstead, about 10 minutes from East Croydon and 15 minutes from Junction 6 on the M25, we have a ground that is one of the most beautiful places to play cricket in Surrey.

The Club runs four Saturday league teams in the prestigious Surrey Championship and is always keen to attract talented cricketers, but caters for anyone and all standards.

We have two Sunday 2nd XIs. One is committed to the Surrey Trust League, which is specifically designed to encourage and develop the transition of juniors into senior cricket – an important focus for the Club – the other side plays ‘friendly’ matches.

2018 was an extraordinary season. Emotions ranged from frustrating disappointment to

The Club boasts a vibrant and highly regarded Junior Section with around 200 members, with age related sides from U8 to U16. Our team of 35 qualified coaches and assistants also run sessions for 5, 6 and 7 year olds.

An additional fifty U5s to U8s signed-up during 2018 for our All Stars programme, which comprises one-hour sessions for eight weeks. This England Cricket Board initiative aims to introduce cricket to young children new to the game. Many of these children joined our own juniors for 2019.

euphoria following unparalleled success.

The development of outstanding young talent became more focused and driven from the top.

It would not be overstatement to say that the Surrey Trust League Finals Day at Normandy last September was one of the best and most successful days in the Club’s history. Two finals were played concurrently on adjacent pitches and separate XIs were fielded to meet strict age group criteria, when both tiers had originally only been entered to provide more cricket (rather than having two distinct teams). Victory in both finals, Tier 2 over Horley and Tier 3 against Horsley & Send – the former nail-biting and exciting, the latter more comfortable, perhaps less expected, but nonetheless easily as impressive – is unprecedented and something of which all players, officials, supporters and the Club should rightfully be very proud. Inspiring leadership, infectious enthusiasm and structured team management should also be commended.

122 players represented the senior club during the 2018 season. 21 played their first senior matches for the Club, of which 10 were teenagers. A total of 36 teenagers played, which included six U14s and seven U13s.

A 6-a-side tournament, the first for 8 years, also proved successful and perhaps telling that the U16 side were ultimately victorious. Positive feedback has suggested that both events should be repeated.

Off the field, two NatWest Cricket Force days helped prepare the grounds and equipment for the season, the annual Race Night was well-attended once again raising important revenue, and the Endof-Season Social featured Virgo playing live in the Clubhouse.

The Annual Dinner honoured ex School Captain Andy Blackmore for his Club service over a period of 25 years.

A match against a Surrey Masters XI was organised in August. A good crowd, undeterred by the threat of adverse weather, suitably replenished from a series of refreshment marquees, witnessed a narrow victory for the Club.

It was very pleasing and refreshing to co-opt two keen 20 year olds onto Committee last year. It has long been the intention to broaden the Club’s communications coverage by increasing its profile on various social media platforms. Their involvement has made an enormous difference already. Do follow us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ TMWCC and Twitter @TMWCC.

Our twelve junior teams enjoyed considerable success during 2018 with the U11s, U11Bs, U12Bs, U13s, U15s and U16s all winning their respective leagues.

The organisation and logistics required to ensure the success and smooth running of such a sizeable section should not be underestimated and the team deserves special praise.

All new members are guaranteed a warm and friendly welcome.

And so to the future….

Plans for a proposed extended net facility have changed given the discovery that external funding is only generally available for north-south facing lanes. This ‘health and safety gone mad’ realisation has led to conjecture that an entirely new and fully enclosed 4-lane project might be the way forward. This would be a huge undertaking and involves as a minimum a financial plan, Association and Whitgift Foundation approval, planning permission and a successful funding application for a large majority of the overall cost.

The Club would not run without significant and valued help. Sincere thanks go to all Committee members; umpires and scorers; managers, coaches and assistants; caterers and bar staff; the groundsman Martin Butcher for producing excellent wickets and grounds the envy of many; and of course, all other volunteers.

For more information go to www.tmwcc.co.uk or email enquiry@tmwcc.co.uk

30

www.mytrinity.org.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

31

The Mitre Players The Mitre Players is the dramatic society for former pupils of Trinity School and is also open to anyone else interested in amateur dramatics.

We are a very friendly and sociable society, presenting three or four productions a year at a wide variety of venues, including the prestigious Minack Theatre on the Cliffs near Land’s End and the Apollo Theatre in Newport Isle of Wight.

Putting on a show not only requires people on stage, but also involves a great deal of hard work behind the scenes. We design, build and paint our own sets, find and make our own props, make many of our own costumes and use “in house” musicians whenever possible.

We would welcome any new members, so if you have any aspirations to act, sing, dance or play a musical instrument, we would like to hear from you.

If you prefer to remain out of the spotlight, building scenery, lighting, painting, making costumes, making props, doing “Front of House” or simply would like to make tea for the team, we would still like to hear from you.

Most of our rehearsals take place at the Clubhouse in Sanderstead. The bar facilities at the clubhouse lend a social and convivial atmosphere to our rehearsals and all members are encouraged to use the facilities at Sanderstead as often as possible.

If you would like more information, please contact our Membership Secretary: Julia Ascott by email julia.ascott@mitreplayers.org.uk

Lime Meadow Acoustic Folk and Blues Club

Forthcoming productions Bugsy Malone The Mitre Players present the classic kids gangster musical performed by an adult cast in Croydon and Newport.

• The Clubhouse, Lime Meadow Avenue •7 .30 pm • Tuesday 16th to Friday 19th July 2019.

Tickets £12

Book now as our cabaret style seats are limited: ticketsource.co/uk/mitreplayers

• The Apollo Theatre, Pyle Street, Newport

Tickets £12

• 7.30 •T uesday 30th July to Saturday 3rd August 2019. ticketsource.co.uk/appolloexternal

Big Fish The Mitre Players presents this new musical with fabulous music and colourful characters at The Mitre Theatre, Trinity School Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th October 2019.

Tickets will be available from ticket source.

Hot off the press …

We are delighted to announce there will be a joint Mitre Players and Trinity School production of Coram Boy next spring (2020)!

Mitre players

32

www.mytrinity.org.uk

Are you a competent guitarist, pianist, singer or other musician, who would like to perform in front of other like-minded people in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, or someone who loves listening to music?

If so, do come along and join us. Don’t be put off by the name, Folk and Blues, as, in common with similar clubs, the music played can be an eclectic mix of other genres.

The Club is gaining a good reputation as people travel from Sutton, Upper Norwood, Orpington and further to perform or just listen and enjoy our bar.

We have attracted a number of well-known musicians including Wizz Jones, who

regularly tours with Ralph McTell and Brooks Williams. We were pleased to see the recent return of Anne Sumner, who used to come to us when we first started in the snug bar, with a mere twelve people. Her reputation has gained momentum in the last four years as a talented singer/songwriter and guitarist (and many other instruments), appearing on many local BBC Radio stations around the country as well as performing at many folk & blues clubs.

Anne came and performed some songs from her latest album, which included the talents of our regular performers at our club, Father and Daughter duo, Aidan and Vicky Keohane, who joined her on stage, playing mandolin and bodhran, respectively. Check out Anne’s song, Solid Ground on You Tube.

Kent. Two Coats Colder have a large fan base and numerous albums, appearing all over the country at festivals and clubs. They recently did a mini lunchtime concert at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank.

We meet fortnightly on a Wednesday 8.15pm until 11pm. Club meeting dates can be seen on our diary page on www. limemeadowacousticfolkandbluesclub. co.uk and day to day chat, videos and photos can also be seen on our Facebook page.

We enjoyed a double-header concert, with four piece folk group Two Coats Colder from North Essex and husband and wife duo, Sally Ironmonger and Brian Carter from North

ncer iams in co Brooks Will

Calling all golfers!

The Trinity Golf Society is the golfing section of The Trinity Club. It exists to promote friendship and social golf amongst former pupils, parents, staff and friends of the wider Trinity community.

Each year, a minimum of four golf days are held at various courses across Surrey, Kent and Sussex, in addition to a singles and pairs competition, a post Christmas meet and a late summer tour.

• 26th June at The Drift Golf Club, Leatherhead. Coffee and bacon roll at noon, 18 holes and 2-course dinner.

Cost £55.00 • 22nd August at Worplesdon Golf Club, Woking. Coffee and bacon roll at noon, 18 holes and 2-course dinner. Cost £75.00. This is one of the famous ‘3 Ws’ and a truly splendid course.

To book a place at any of these golf days, please contact Nigel Jupp by email on: nigel_jupp@hotmail.com or contact Laurie King at the school on: lck@trinity.croydon.sch.uk Nigel Jupp, Ph ilip Garland, La urie King and Jo hn Bone

• 18th September at East Brighton Golf Club. Coffee and bacon roll at noon, 18 holes and 2-course dinner. Cost £50.00.

Golf Days coming up are:

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

www.mytrinity.org.uk

33

t

In Memoriam We lost some very dear friends and colleagues over the past year.

We offer condolences to the families and friends who have lost loved ones and we say a few words about those we knew well.

Alumni

We send our condolences to the family and friends of the following alumni who we also lost over the last year:

Dennis Grew, left 1940 We were sad to hear Dennis passed away last October, aged 94. He was a great supporter of the School in so many ways. He never missed an event if he could get to it, often accompanied by alumnus and son Neil. In Neil’s eulogy at Dennis’ funeral, he recalled comments made in tribute to his father, and these sum Dennis up perfectly: “A fine gentleman, cheerful, kind, reliable, a perfect bandsman. A stalwart; lovely and kind, generous with a good sense of fun. He had a twinkle in his eye and a mischievous smile.”

Dennis leaves sons Iain and Neil, both Trinity alumni, who left in 1981 and 1986 respectively.

• Stuart Ballard, 1968

• Tony Mead, 1959

• Malcolm Brown, 1977

• James Tamplin, 2008

• Stephen Field, 1977

• Michael Thomas, 1954

• Kenneth Foster, 1940

• Peter Warren, 1961

• Mike Hardstone, 1957

• Raymond Wheeler, 1952

• Ian Hussey, 1959

• George Wilkins, 1946

• Ivor Matanle, 1957

Staff Craig Burke, staff 1990 - 2018

Alan Sexton, left 1949 Alan died in December, at the age of 88. Alan was school captain and a top-class sprinter, holding school records, which lasted well into the 1960s. After National Service in the RAF he went to Cambridge, where he won his athletics Blue, remaining one of the few Trinity Blues of either shade. With his outstanding speed, he was also a natural rugby winger, and he captained the old boys’ 1st XV for six years in the late 50s and early 60s. Alan was Chairman of the OMWA [now the Trinity Club] Council for several years and was a Whitgift Court Governor. Alan leaves his wife Heather, sons Matthew and Richard [both of whom attended Trinity] and daughter Zoe.

Alex Greenslade, left 1985 It is with the heaviest of hearts and sadness that we report the sudden death in December of Alex Greenslade, at the age of 51. Alex joined the Mitre Players in 1985 as part of the cast of Cabaret. He then appeared in Dame Sherlock in 1986 and soon quickly made many close friendships that would endure for the rest of his life. He was renowned for his incredible sense of humour and spot on imitations; the most requested being those of alumnus Martin Tyrrell [1972] and Robin Wilson, Headmaster at Trinity during Alex's time. Alex became Chairman of the Mitre Players in 2013. As well as his friends, Alex leaves his partner, Robert, his parents Tony and Joan and his sister Anna.

34

www.mytrinity.org.uk

Craig Burke passed away suddenly last summer. He taught across the whole PE syllabus, but specialised in cricket and hockey. When time permitted, Craig played for the Trinity Mid-Whitgiftian sports clubs.

In addition to coaching Trinity teams, Craig coached the prestigious South West team in the national interdistrict competition; the team won the national title on regular basis.

Peter Rule, staff 1976 - 2015 Peter Rule passed away in April, at the age of 65. Peter gave a remarkable 39 years of service, before retiring in 2015. He was the Head of Biology at Trinity School for many years, and was popular with both staff and pupils.

He was also a keen rugby player, and played for the old boys club, then known as the OMWRFC, in its 1st XV. We offer our condolences to his wife Hilary, and their family, Kathleen, Patrick and Alexander.

Maureen Dixon, staff 2004 - 2018 We pay tribute to Maureen, who died last year after a long battle with cancer. Maureen started at Trinity as a Music Administrator back in 2004. From there, she became our first Alumni Officer, forging a relationship with the then TMWA, before reluctantly relinquishing that role in favour of running the School’s Community Action programme.

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

The Trinity Bursary Fund There’s No Such Thing As Small Change In the first two weeks of August, the School will be running the No Small Change telephone fundraising campaign in support of the Trinity Bursary Fund. A dozen former Trinity students will be calling alumni and parents to ask them to support the bursary programme through which we help hundreds of children from lower income families to receive a life-changing education at Trinity. We want a Trinity education to be within reach of any child who would thrive here, not least because the wide range of students that enter the School through bursaries brings richness and diversity of experience that helps every Trinity child prosper. In the coming year, the Trinity Bursary Fund will be awarding bursaries worth a further £100,000 to pupils in addition to those funded by the Whitgift Foundation.

Every penny of this amount will change a young person’s life.

I hope that many Trinity alumni will consider becoming donors. By working together, and giving what we can afford, we can change many more lives. For these young people there is no such thing as small change.

To learn more about the #NoSmallChange campaign, please go to the Supporting Trinity section on the School’s website (www.trinityschool.org) or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

David Young Director of Development

From L-R: David Young, Jason Court, Melodie Johnson, Matt Damen, Donna Lewis and Laurie King

Meet the Team The Alumni and Development Team supports former Trinity pupils and staff, as well as the School’s wider community. The department is led by David Young, Director of Development. As well as leading the Team, David is directly responsible for raising money for the School’s bursary fund and other projects, assisted by alumnus Jason Court, Development Officer, who left Trinity in 1986. Jason is also our technical guru.

Melodie Johnson, Head of Alumni Relations, is the longest serving member of the team, having joined the School in 2003 and taken on her current role in 2013.

Melodie’s sons, Ross and Alex attended Trinity, which has also given her an insight into being a parent at the School.

Donna Lewis, Alumni Officer, joined in January this year, but she is no stranger to the School or the Whitgift Foundation, having joined us from Whitgift School. Donna has settled in brilliantly and has taken over our social media and event organisation operations.

Laurie King, alumnus, who left in 1977, is our Archivist. He is also heavily involved with alumni relations and events and is a great asset to the Team.

Last, but by no means least, we have yet another alumnus in the Team in the form of Matt Damen, Development Assistant, who left Trinity in 2015. Matt supports the whole team’s activities from working on our events to making sure our database is as accurate as possible.

We hope to see many of you at our events over the forthcoming academic year!

How to get in touch with us: David Young

Jason Court

Director of Development, email: dty@trinity.croydon.sch.uk direct line: 020 8662 5162

Development Officer email: jtc@trinity.croydon.sch.uk direct line: 020 8662 5147

Melodie Johnson

Laurie King

Head of Alumni Relations email: maj@trinity.croydon.sch.uk direct line: 020 8662 5159

Archivist and Alumni Relations email: lck@trinity.croydon.sch.uk tel: 020 8656 9541 ext 747

Donna Lewis

Matt Damen

Alumni Relations Officer email: alumni@trinity.croydon.sch.uk direct line: 020 8662 5155

Development Assistant email: mgd@trinity.croydon.sch.uk tel: 020 8656 9541 ext 266

If you prefer to write by post, please write to the relevant team member at the following address: Trinity School, Shirley Park, Croydon, CR9 7AT

www.mytrinity.org.uk

35

Dates for your diary We look forward to seeing many of you over the next academic year. Whether you are interested in networking, music, sport or want to catch up with your peers from years ago, there is something for everyone.

Saturday 7th September 20 19 Afternoon of Sport Alumni vs curr ent pupils and staff Trinity School Sports Facilitie s September 2019 Wednesday 11th cital Celebrity Organ Re lly renowned With internationa iggs organist, David Br ll Ha Trinity Concert Wednesday 16th October 2019 Whitgift Foundatio n Schools’ Concer t Featuring musici ans from Trinity, Whitgift and Old Palace Fairfield Halls ber 2019 8th Novem 1 y a d n o M for Donors Reception rters our suppo We thank ool Trinity Sch

Tuesday 10th December 2019 Festival of Nin e Lessons and Carols Join us for fest ive carols Croydon Minst er 2019 th December Thursday 12 zz Evening Christmas Ja d by our to the soun Enjoy supper s zz musician wonderful ja rt Hall Trinity Conce

Thursday 12th December 2019 Varsity Match Twickenham St adium

2019 th December Tuesday 17 y rt niversity Pa Back from U ol Trinity Scho

36

www.mytrinity.org.uk

bruary 2020

12th Fe Wednesday y Lunch Mitre Societ ing a gift porters leav p su k an th We . in their Will ol o h Trinity Sc

2020 th February Thursday 13 on Drinks Trinity Lond event Networking e Grey WCI The Yorkshir

Friday 20th M arch 2020 Founder’s Day Supper Organised by The Trinity Club Trinity Concer t Hall

2020 Friday 27th March (provisional date) ion Dinner Class of 2015 Reun Trinity School

Coming soon!

We are also organising a Networking event for Medics, termly Business Breakfasts. We also hope to organise an early evening 20/20 Cricket Match.

To find out more, or to register your interest in an event, please contact one of the team overleaf.

Make sure you receive your invitation - please let us have your up to date contact details!

alumni@trinity-croydon.sch.uk

Saturday 18th April 2020 Evensong wit h Trinity Chor isters We invite alum ni to sing Bath Abbey Thursday 30th April 2020 City Networking Event Venue TBC

0 th May 202 Tuesday 19 Day Trinity Golf Golf Club rk Shirley Pa

2020 20th June Saturday Reunions Milestone s of 1970, the Classe g in it n u e R 0 0 and 200 1980, 199 ool Trinity Sch

Monday 14th September 2020 "Back to School" For alumni who left in the late 50s and early 60s Trinity School