JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWS | FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017newsletter.trinity.nsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/...JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWS | FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017 NEWS & NOTIFICATIONS From the Master of

JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWS | FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017

NEWS & NOTIFICATIONS

From the Master of the Junior SchoolBut you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s specialpossession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darknessinto his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9

Dear Parents and Friends of the Junior School,

Our students have been involved in a number of charitable and fun activities this week. On Tuesday, Year 5students operated a series of ‘businesses’ for their parents and the boys of the Junior School. It was a fascinatingand practical experience of the ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’ of running a successful enterprise to conclude their recent Unitof Inquiry. Collectively the grade raised $2495 to be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Thank you to theparents who attended, participated and helped to resource the boys’ stalls and well done Year 5! Yesterday, ourCharity Leaders and Cody Lambert spent the afternoon at IGA filling trolleys with food items to kick-start ourAnglicare Toys and Tucker Drive and boost the number of cans given to The Exodus Foundation. The boys usedsome of the funds raised through the Walk-a-thon. We are asking every family to make a contribution of toys orbooks (to be placed unwrapped under the Office Christmas tree) and/or canned items (placed in the corridoropposite the Chess board) to be passed onto Anglicare for distribution to families over Christmas. Specificsuggestions of appropriate items are communicated elsewhere in this newsletter. The boys also enjoyed a MuftiDay on Thursday as part of Pastoral Care Week with funds raised for the privilege of dressing casually to beallocated to a charity selected by our Year 6 leaders. It is a privilege and joy to see boys and families embracingopportunities to be generous to others.

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As part of Pastoral Care Week, on Wednesday all boys in Years 2, 4 and 6 completed the Primary WellbeingSurvey. The Australian Council of Education Research has designed this 53 statement anonymous surveyfocusing on indicators of social-emotional wellbeing, emotional skills (i.e. resilience & coping skills), social skillsand learning skills. This survey has been undertaken for the last few years and the School uses the information totrack the wellbeing of cohorts in general throughout their time at the School. The information obtained helps toguide welfare and life skills programmes.

The Auxiliary Annual General Meeting was held yesterday. The Junior School has again enjoyed amazingsupport from Jinan Ammoura and her team this year. Next year’s executive was elected and I look forward toworking closely with the team who have accepted the responsibility of coordinating events in 2018. They alreadyhave great things planned including the second edition of Movie Under the Stars to welcome families on Friday23rd February. It is wonderful to have so many parents willing to work with and serve the School with such timeand energy. I thank the Auxiliary for the role played in organising events and providing resources for the boys of


the Junior School.

Next week will see the first orientation visit of next year’s Kindergarten students to the Junior School. We arelooking forward to meeting them, seeing them meet each other and providing some helpful guidance to newparents as their sons get ready for big school. Kindergarten visits will continue over the next few weeks,culminating in Orientation Day for all new boys on Friday 24th November. Current students will continue withregular programmes and lessons on the day.

Year 5 students are reminded to submit their leadership application forms and letters by next Wednesday.The process of selecting leaders and allocating roles will then continue until the announcement of 2018 captainsand house leaders at Speech Day.

Next Wednesday, our Year 6 students will join with Year 6 girls and boys from nearby schools for an evening ofdance and socialising at the Year 6 Social at MLC. It should be great fun! Boys will be reminded of dress andbehaviour expectations early next week. Teachers are working hard to ensure that the boys remain mindful oftheir position as leaders in our School and the corresponding expectations over their final weeks. They havebeen encouraged to finish the year well and reminded that the privileges they will enjoy at special events incoming weeks are closely linked to the responsibility, respect and self-discipline that we expect them to displayin their final days in the Junior School.

Mark DunnMaster of the Junior School


ACADEMIC

Awards for the Week | Junior SchoolKM

Jackie Jiang

Darren Zheng

1H

Arles Hanning

Jack Lai

Mateo Lazanja

2B

Luke Nada

William Saunders

2T

Cyril Elassal

Harry Volikas

3K

George Elassal

Daniel Jones

Christopher Savva

James Wang

3N

Romeo Ozdemir

Lachlan Reese

Dara Ritchley

4M

Vasili Armenis

Harry Clegg

Matthew Sefein

Austin Wang


4R

Samuel Gimenez-McAlpine

Michael Hatzistergos

Andy Nguyen

4T

Ignatius Cesarano

David Simmons

Rayden Soo

5B

Ethan Dunne

Indiana Murphy

Dylan Ritchley

5D

Felix Hindle

Owen Lang

Mathew Nicholas

5M

Oliver Kreis

Kevin Ma

Christopher Webb

6B

Harry Groth

Ross Oddie

Sam Payne

6G

Oscar Fryer

Ethan Harricks

Jack Hartzenberg

Sunny Li

6O

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Tom Fergurson

Peter Michalos


Academic Focus | Primary Wellbeing SurveyOn Wednesday 1st November, as part of Pastoral Care Week, all Year 2, 4 and 6 boys completed the PrimaryWellbeing Survey with their classroom teacher. For many years, the School has conducted surveys acrossdifferent year levels in the Middle and Senior Schools. The results of these surveys have helped us to betterunderstand the social and emotional needs of our boys, establishing an evidence-based process for planning andevaluating our approaches to pastoral care, and teaching and learning. This is our fifth year conducting thePrimary Wellbeing Survey. It has been developed by the Australian Council of Education Research. It is ananonymous survey which focuses on indicators of social-emotional wellbeing, emotional skills (ie. resilience &coping skills), social skills and learning skills. Our pastoral care focus, which promotes a shift away fromemotional first aid to one which takes a holistic approach to learning and well-being, is well aided by the ongoinginformation we receive and respond to from these surveys.

Craig Sandwell | Deputy Head Master- Operations


SPORT

Sportsmaster | Junior SchoolA lovely Spring Saturday morning greeted us after the wild and woolly Friday we endured 24 hours earlier. Thefields and indoor and outdoor basketball facilities at Summer Hill shone spectacularly.

It was nice to be able to move around and see segments of 10 different basketball matches, mostly from thebench and also the 4A cricket match, which was held at school.

We had mixed results with Sydney Grammar in Basketball, met strong opposition in Scots in our Year 6 1sts and2nds and our Milo T20 team under Mrs Taylor had a strong win over the Prep team in an intra school derby.

Our 4C basketball team battled manfully with just the bare 5 and led Kings 6-4 at the break before succumbingto exhaustion in the second half.

Congratulations to Reece Hartnett (5D) who placed 4th in the Intermediate ACT Optimist Championship forsailing last weekend. Reece placed twice in four races to total 21 points, only one point behind the eventualwinner. Each position in a race calculates your score, the lower the better and 20 was the winner’s total.

Chris Robinson | Junior School Sportsmaster

CRICKET

1st XI Scots 5/200 def Trinity 6/138

Best and Fairest Will Thomson

Consistent Effort Clark Foley

2nd XI Scots 9/142 def Trinity 86

Best and Fairest Alex Runciman

Consistent Effort Adam Gill

Year 5/6 Super 8 Grammar Edgecliff 5/91 def Trinity 10

Best and Fairest Filip Lujic

Consistent Effort Remy Maresch

Year 5A XI Tudor House 3/69 def Trinity 3/68

Best and Fairest Arnav Gupta

Consistent Effort Riley Farrell

Super 8 White Grammar St. Ives 61 def Trinity 60

Best and Fairest Charles Allison

Year 4A XI Kings 5/168 def Trinity 7/90


Best and Fairest Kieran Siva

Consistent Effort Chieran Neelakandran

Year 4MILO T20 Trinity White 168 def Trinity Green 89

Best and Fairest Nik Lujic

Consistent Effort Samuel Gimenez-McAlpine

Basketball

1st V Grammar St. Ives 29 def Trinity 23

Best and Fairest Myles Buvac

Encouragement Kelvin Kong

2nd V Grammar St. Ives 45 def Trinity 20

Best and Fairest Ollie Orr

Consistent Effort Marc Barakat

3rd V Grammar St. Ives 31 def Trinity 20

Best and Fairest Hudson Korda

Consistent Effort Pete Mitrokas

4th V Grammar St. Ives 19 def Trinity 8

Best and Fairest Alex Nero

Consistent Effort Oscar Hartzenberg

5th V Trinity 26 def Grammar St. Ives 9

Best and Fairest Denis Petrides

Consistent Effort Renesh Moodley


Best and Fairest Lucas Blum

Consistent Effort Kye Graziano


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Consistent Effort George Georges


Best and Fairest Peter Knhoury-Harb

Consistent Effort Ethan Harricks

9th V Knox 13 def Trinity 11

Best and Fairest Joshua Yazbek

Consistent Effort Peter Noah

10th V Knox 18 def Trinity 6

Best and Fairest William Tran

Consistent Effort Ethan Chan

4A Trinity 52 def Kings 5

Best and Fairest Marcus Cupac

Consistent Effort John Markos

4B Kings def Trinity

Best and Fairest Christian Ciarroni

Consistent Effort Christian Beke

4C Kings def Trinity

Best and Fairest Declan Tan

Consistent Effort George Stavrakis

4D Kings def Trinity

Best and Fairest Andy Zheng

Consistent Effort Allen Zheng

Softball

5/6 A Trinity 7 def Tudor House 6

Best and Fairest Zane Nazha


Consistent Effort Max Knauer

Tee Ball

Year 4 Trinity 24 def Grammar St. Ives 12

Best and Fairest Rocco Fazzari

Consistent Effort Luke Gergis


EVENTS

Dates for the Diary | Junior SchoolTERM 4

WEEK 5

06 Nov - Y5 Excursion State Library and National Maritime Museum

08 Nov - Minimites 4pm - 6pm

08 Nov - Y6 Social @ MLC (6pm-9pm)

10 Nov - Kindy 2018 Orientation Session (1) (9.15am - 10.30am)

10 Nov - Remembrance Day Observance (11.30am)

11 Nov - Summer Sport Round 11

11 Nov - Open Day (9.00am - 10.00am)

WEEK 6

13 Nov K-2 Swimming

14 Nov K-2 Swimming

15 Nov K-2 Swimming

15 Nov Minimites 4pm-6pm

16 Nov K-2 Swimming

16 Nov Kindy Proms Annual Concert 11am

17 Nov K-2 Swimming

17 Nov Kindy 2018 - Orientation Session 9.15am -10.30am

17 Nov Y3 Sport - Rugby 3.00pm - 4.00pm

18 Nov Sport - Summer Round 12

WEEK 7

20 Nov K-2 Swimming

21 Nov K-2 Swimming

22 Nov K-2 Swimming

22 Nov Minimites 4pm-6pm

22 Nov Music - JS Evening of Music 6.30pm

23 Nov K-2 Swimming


23 Nov The Head Master's and Mrs Cujes' Farewell

24 Nov K-6 Orientation Day


Christianity ExploredFor parents, friends of the School community and guests. All welcome! A series of discussions and videos in Term 4, Monday Nights Weeks 2 - 8. Monday 16 October to Monday 27November | 7.00 - 8.30pm. Join the conversation or feel free to sit back and listen. Venue: Staff Common Room, Ground Floor, Founder's Building. To RSVP, please contact: Chris Thanopoulos | Assistant Chaplain and Head of Christian Studies email [email protected] | 9581 6149 Arch Humphries | Master Teacher, Professional Accreditation email [email protected] | 9581 6053 Trinity Grammar School | 119 Prospect Road Summer Hill 2130 | www.trinity.nsw.edu.au


mailto:[email protected]?subject=Christianity Explored Inquiry

mailto:[email protected]?subject=Christianity Explored Inquiry

Society of the Arts | Smashed Screens"Smashed Screens is about expecting more from the way you view the world. While most people's vision is nowmediated through screens - poorly lit, cracked, diffracted - this group of artists still dares to look outside theplastic frame” – guest curator, Priscilla Bourne.

Exhibiting artists: Ciaran Begley, Jessica Bradford, Christian Davis, Adrian De Giorgio, Georgia Emslie, JodyGraham, Kasane Low, Al Poulet, Colin Rhodes, Laurence Williams and Rohan Wilson.

Official opening: Saturday 18 November, 3-5pm with a performance by Laurence Williams

Exhibition dates: 19 November – 3 December

Image: Jessica Bradford Haw Par Villa Rock Study #10 2016 bisque fired porcelain, 6.7x12.6x4cm. Photography:Document.


Studio Concerts | Junior SchoolSTUDIO CONCERT for students learning from Mrs Smith next week:

Kindergarten – Year 2 | Wednesday 8th November at 3.15pm in the Junior School Resources Centre(Library)

Year 3 – Year 6 | Thursday 9th November at 3.15pm in the Junior School Resources Centre (Library)

Parents and friends invited. Look forward to seeing you there!


End of Year EventsINVITATION

The School Council and the Head Master invite you and your friends to attend...

THE FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS

on Friday, December 1st at 8pm and

on Sunday, December 3rd at 8pm in the War Memorial Chapel, Summer Hill Campus

THE JUNIOR SCHOOL ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING

on Wednesday, December 6th at 10am in The James Wilson Hogg Assembly Hall, Summer Hill Campus

THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ANNUAL PRIZE GIVING

on Wednesday, December 6th at 2.30pm in The James Wilson Hogg Assembly Hall, Summer Hill Campus


Trinity Prayer Group | Summer Hill CampusParents and friends are most welcome to come and pray for our boys and the School on Tuesdays | 8.30am -9.30am

The Prayer Mornings are run on a rotational basis, on alternate weeks, at the Preparatory School campus and theSummer Hill School campus.

Junior, Middle and Senior Schools Summer Hill – meet at Reception in the Junior School on even weeks of term(Weeks 4, 6, 8,)

Term 4: November 14th, 28th

Come and join us so we can encourage each other, help form a sense of community within the School, andgenuinely bring the needs of the School community before our great God.

Contacts:

Greg Webster | Senior Chaplain, Summer Hillemail [email protected]

Margaret Chu (Summer Hill) mobile 0433 124 523


COMMUNITY

Anglicare’s Toys n Tucker Christmas AppealThis term the Junior School has decided for the second year to support Anglicare’s Toys n Tucker ChristmasAppeal as our chosen charity. Toys n Tucker provides a wonderful way for us to share God’s love and spread thejoy of Christmas to those who would otherwise go without food or gifts.

In 2016 Anglicare distributed 3,850 Christmas food hampers and 3,170 gift parcels through donations to thisappeal.

Collection dates

We will be collecting toys and food in the Junior School during Weeks 4-7 of Term 4, starting Monday 30 Octoberand finishing on Friday 24 November.

What to donate

Toys (for pre-school, primary and teenage children) including:

Picture booksAge-appropriate gamesEducational gamesOutdoor gamesSporting equipmentToysGift cards

Tucker (non-perishable food) including:

Pancake mixLong life custardTea bags or instant coffeeBiscuits (no crackers or Tim-Tams)

Thank you in advance for your generous support of this worthy cause.

Miss Gratton and Mr Brigden(on behalf of the Year 6 Charity Leaders)


Documents

JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWS | FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017newsletter.trinity.nsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/...JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWS | FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017 NEWS & NOTIFICATIONS From the Master of