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It has been a busy week at the Preparatory School as we have begun the home stretch and attempt to...
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Ground your helicopter
Every parent wants their own children to spend time playing, having fun with friends, and exploring the world around them. But the shape of childhood is changing to incorporate more online spaces, more supervision, and more structure. While undoubtedly safety is a higher priority for today’s parents, an essential part of childhood is being lost [...]
Skin in the game – Historic NT partnership begins
New adventures, new friends, new perspectives … they even came back with new names. Receiving “skin names” from Aboriginal elders left a deep impression on the 20 Junior and Preparatory School boys who blazed a trail as the first students to visit Trinity’s remote Northern Territory partner schools. Skin names, normally given at birth, are [...]
Team spirit at the primary arts festivals
Many hands make art work To call the Junior School and Preparatory School arts festivals a team effort is no idle claim – every student was involved in the spectacle of sights and sounds that made students “rock stars for the night”. At the Junior School, for example, at least two art works were on [...]
A vision for Reconciliation
Trinity’s partnership with two remote Northern Territory schools, Alekarenge and Murray Downs, plays a significant part in the School’s greater vision for reconciliation. Headmaster Tim Bowden said the School’s ethos of a thoroughly Christian education demands this sort of vision. “At the heart of the Christian message is a call to love. Jesus said: ‘You [...]
Flexible Personalised Learning thrives in Trinity’s Pre-K Program
Pre-K students are the youngest learners at Trinity and their days are filled with opportunities to develop a love of learning, learn about themselves, and explore their natural surroundings. Once they’ve settled into life at Trinity, their days look how you might imagine for students younger than five: a healthy balance of routine and learning [...]
Learning from cultural knowledge to enhance student connection
As a Year 3 Teacher at Trinity’s Preparatory School, Ms Nadene O’Neill is never short on things to be doing. From collaborating with the rest of the Year 3 team to engaging in her role as one of Henderson’s Housemasters and running the Tournament of Minds Co-curricular, she’s always on the go. Even still, she’s [...]
Prep violinist at uni honours level – Cayden’s latest diploma
Preparatory School violinist Cayden T continues to garner musical honours far beyond his years – his latest is a university level performance diploma from London’s Trinity College. The 11-year-old received his LTCL diploma from the British High Commissioner to Malaysia at a ceremony for Asia-Pacific graduates in Kuala Lumpur. The diploma is ranked as a [...]
Big dreams for a big country
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 – [...]
