Play the long game and reap the rewards – continuing our series profiling the class of 2024
You will hear it often: education is a long game, and at Trinity the long game objective is the growing of good men. We are about partnering with parents to set challenging expectations, to provide clear boundaries and to support each young man on his personal journey to maturity, as a learner, as a member of community, as part of a family, as a respectful and ethical contributor to his world.
This week’s profile of Cristiano Savoca speaks to this long game objective. An elite footballer and highly able student in the academic realm, Cristiano’s reflection on his own journey through Trinity reflects the importance of the long perspective and the centrality of partnering with parents. Teaching boys how to navigate challenge and regulate disappointment are long game strategies. Supporting them as they step into escalating demands and expectations are the robust training sessions that lead to success.
My ambition for every student is that his learning will positively impact his developing sense of self and his day-to-day wellbeing. ‘Learning Well’ is one of the core domains of our new wellbeing framework. At Trinity, it means boys are progressing in their capacity to self-regulate, manage tasks, focus on personal learning goals and demonstrate strategies to work through learning challenges. These are behavioural competencies: playing is doing and playing the long game of learning requires us to ask ourselves what are we doing and why are we doing it?
Cristiano gives us a sincere answer to those questions. You can read his profile here, as part of our 2024 Results Package on the Trinity website.
