Junior School News

NT schools venture underway  Trinity’s new partnership with two schools in central Australia is a firsthand opportunity to help reconciliation become a reality, Chris Wyatt believes.  He hopes the venture will grow into a long-term alliance benefitting students at all three schools, and through them their wider communities.  Stephen Heanly has a dream, too – [...]

On many people’s bucket lists is to visit the Kingdom of Bhutan, a landlocked country high in the Himalayas where Gross National Happiness underpins many areas of life, including Education. For a week in May, Trinity’s Director of Research, Dr Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn, had the opportunity to travel to Paro, Bhutan as an Honorary Industry Fellow [...]

Young minds tackle global issues  From world peace to nuclear power, AI to genetic engineering, inequalities in the law and education, they could scarcely have grappled with weightier  subjects.  The fact that such complex topics were chosen by the boys themselves indicates Trinity’s Year 6 students certainly don’t look for the easy way out in [...]

For the ninth year in a row, Trinity Grammar School students have taken part in ‘Day Without Speech’, raising over $22,000 for OIC Cambodia.  The event is an initiative headed up by OIC Cambodia (founded by Weh Yeoh - Class of 1999), who work towards a better future for thousands of children affected by speech [...]

Mrs Melinda Bargwanna’s experience as a Landscape Architect and University Lecturer has seen her tackle some challenges over the years but she says that none have been quite as rewarding as her current role as Specialist Environmental Educator at Trinity Grammar School.  “It’s a role that brings many of my favourite things together – designing [...]

The relationship between academic progress and social and emotional wellbeing is important in a young person’s development and Trinity prides itself in supporting boys in their holistic development.  Throughout their schooling, boys and parents receive a large amount of feedback about their learning journey through informal and formal assessments and reports.  Through each assessment and [...]

Academic Care is an important part of Trinity’s ecosystem of support for students. The Academic Care team works hard to ensure that Trinity’s Academic Care strategy is carried out effectively.  Andrew Martin’s Motivation and Engagement Wheel underpins much of Trinity’s approach to Academic Care, while three crucial tenets underlie this wheel:  Motivation is not purely [...]

“Academic care is the teaching and monitoring of all students and provision of additional support for some students, to encourage academic engagement that results in academic growth. The School’s Academic Care Programme outlines the pedagogies, structures, processes and programmes for the teaching and monitoring of all students and provision of additional support for students identified [...]

Schooling in the voice of reconciliation  They ate green ants and other bush tucker, learned Aboriginal words, made spears, cooked damper, swam in waterholes and played footy; they made soap from tree ferns, caught rainwater in leaves, painted, wove baskets, visited the local school and heard stories from Aboriginal elders.  Of all the things Trinity [...]

A tale of two composers, and 202 performers  Trinity’s showcase musical extravaganza demands an intense personal and collaborative effort – 272 hours of formal rehearsal time, to be exact, for the combined cast of 202 performers.   This year’s event, themed Let’s Dance and staged again at the world-class City Recital Hall, concentrated two minds in [...]