TRINITONIAN October 2016
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TRINITONIAN October 2016 Building courage, confidence and resilience: CCF on a Survival weekend Fifty intrepid CCF cadets experienced a weekend of Survival training on a 100 acre woodland site near Truro. The centre staff, mainly ex-Army personnel (including at least one of whom had worked previously with legendary survival expert Ray Mears) made the Trinity Contingent very welcome. After a supper of hot soup from a huge cooking pot over the open fire, the cadets slept at the team base on Friday night - the girls in a yurt and boys in large Army-style senior then left for for the valley slope to build their own tents. shelters, prepare freshly killed rabbits for lunch, make camp fires and stay out overnight. By Saturday morning the rain had stopped and the sun shimmered through the autumnal trees. After breakfast, The beginners, led by Jan Willett and Yasmine Westlake, cooked over the open camp fire by our senior cadets, the began a rotation of activities including fire making from group were divided into Beginners and Advanced. The more scratch, safe use of knives to make kindling, a teamwork challenge called the knotting rail, and rabbit preparation. The sun shone again on Sunday as tired and grubby cadets packed their belongings and said farewell to the centre staff. All the participants should be extremely proud of their achievements over the training weekend. In line with the Headmaster’s challenge at the start of the year - they were taken out of their comfort zones and challenged to live without modern conveniences such as electricity, running water, warm beds and central heating. Like true Trinitonians, our cadets rose to the challenge admirably - and with great good humour! www.trinityschool.co.uk Harvest support Cake and Conversation for local homeless - a community charity initiative Harvest is always keenly celebrated at Trinity has been working in partnership with Our Lady and Trinity. This year saw services to give Saint Patrick’s Primary School (OLSP) and other faith thanks for our ‘harvest’ taking place in communities in Teignmouth in order to set up a new group all Departments of the school - called ‘Cake and Conversation’. Nursery, Prep and Senior - all led by our Chaplain Revd Jonathon. For a few years we have been supporting HITS (Homeless in Teignbridge Support), a local charity that works with a range of people in need including the homeless, victims of domestic violence, ex-service personnel, the elderly, families in poverty, disabled people, ex-offenders and many others. Commenting on the start of this group, which meets at The Pavilions in Teignmouth, Revd Jonathon said “It’s been lovely to play my part, with others, in welcoming people to this group. It’s a simple idea: come along, grab a cup of tea or coffee, choose a slice of cake and say hello to someone. Young children are very welcome with older pupils there to help entertain them; but join us whether or not you have a small child with you. It’s a chance to chat, and find some calm and reflection time. Mrs Eaton-Jones’ short reflections in our ‘group time’ have been tremendously helpful and supportive. A huge thank you to her and to the children of OLSP and Trinity who have Pupils, parents, guardians and staff have been donating food come along to help with supervised play for young children. to pass onto HITS. We would like to thank Martin Brown and The group will next meet on 8, 15 and 22 November at 10 our Nursery Chef, Sue for making such fantastic Harvest a.m. Why not put these dates in your diary and come and loaves. Also a thank you to Ben Ashfield and his mother Fran see if the group is for you? for making the superb Harvest cake (above left); and to everyone who contributed to our Harvest display in chapel or donated food for HITS. 2 Charity and National Poetry Day - Community eating cake, winning chocolate! Christmas Appeal to On National Poetry Day, Thursday 6th October, the English support Christian department organised a poetry cake sale with a difference! If the line of poetry hidden in the bottom of Eastern Europe your cupcake matched a winning line of poetry on posters around the school you won a very special charity (chocolate-related) prize. Once again we will be supporting Christian Response To Eastern Europe (CR2EE) in their Christmas Shoebox Appeal. The Devon-based charity seeks to ‘show love and care to those in Eastern Europe who are less fortunate than ourselves.’ They support families, churches and medical organizations through financial gifts, taking Humanitarian aid and medical supplies, and setting up projects to provide long term benefits and independence. CR2EE also send Christmas shoeboxes to children in Over £60 was raised for the charity ‘Wings of Hope,’ who Romania and Moldova and last year Trinity supported provide education to the underprivileged in Malawi and their appeal, sending 127 boxes to children in Moldova. India. It was great to see pupils chasing round the school, This year’s challenge: 150 boxes!! desperately scanning the poems to see if they had the winning line! Keep your eyes open for the next English Society event! Follow all the events going on at Trinity via the Twitter accounts: Senior: @TrinitySeniorSc Prep: @prepheadtrinity 3 More tennis and Phoebe’s amazing football successes for swimming year Beth and Jacob It was an impressive end to a truly Two of Trinity’s sporting elite continue to go from strength amazing swimming year for Phoebe to strength at the highest level in their chosen sports. Armes of Prep 6. Beth Cooper of Year 10 has had an excellent few months on She ended the season at her local the tennis circuit. During the summer she achieved some club championships in Dawlish, amazing results, winning no fewer than five regional and swimming in 14 races , winning 12 local tennis tournaments. Beth combines her studies at golds and a silver. Phoebe says the Trinity with tennis training at Exeter University and her next best part was ‘coming away with the goal is to compete in an ITF tournament in Croatia next year. award for the top 11-12 year old girl. The next week I participated in the Plymouth Long Course Open Meet’ she continues, ‘ where I swam 10 events over 2 days, travelled home with 9 gold medals and a silver, and was also awarded Top 10 year old Girl.’ As well as participating in lots of galas and earning even more medals during the season she was also selected for a 2-day South West regional camp at Sherborne School. Phoebe is only 10 years old but in common with our other Meanwhile, Jacob Evans of Year 10 is enjoying his time sporting ‘high achievers’, such as Beth Cooper and Jacob among the region’s footballing elite at the Plymouth Argyle Evans (see right), she has to make sacrifices and train Academy. Since joining a year ago he has been training with incredibly hard. She undertakes 6 sessions a week, which them 3 evenings a week, and playing matches at weekends include 9 hours in the pool and 3 hours of land training. ‘This against other academy teams from clubs such as Bristol year has been a great year of swimming for me,’ she says, ‘ Rovers, Exeter City, Yeovil Town, Cheltenham Town etc. and I have achieved the unexpected. Knowing what I can now do at this age, I hope to go a lot further.’ And with such a determined, committed attitude to her sport, who would doubt her? Well done Phoebe, and good luck next season! Both athletes have also proved they can hold their own when playing in higher age groups. Jacob sometimes plays for Plymouth at Under 16 level, and Beth has also done extremely well in Under 18 tournaments. Achievement and aspiration are not without sacrifice, however. Asked how he manages to combine such a demanding football schedule with his school commitments, Jacob said he has to devote all his remaining evenings and Sundays to homework, and restrict his social activity. Beth also has to pass up social opportunities at a weekend in order to train or compete in tournaments. We wish them both continued success in their sports. 4 George and Morgan Sporting football successes for win Devon Cricket Trinitonians awards The Devon Cricket Awards night was held in the large hospitality facility at Sandy Park, the home of Exeter Chiefs School grounds are rugby team, with over 300 players and parents turning out for this very special occasion. the perfect setting Devon Cricket are proud to celebrate the success of the for Aquathon previous season of County Cricket, recognising personal achievements and team successes, throughout the whole of Devon's performance pathway, from under 10 through to It has been fascinating to Devon County Men and Women's first Xl's. witness the growth in popularity of junior Trinity School were delighted to have both Morgan Couch triathlons, duathlons and and George Tapley represented as Devon under 10 team similar events in the past players, and it was a successful night for the boys with both few years. Trinity recently of them being rewarded for their efforts on the pitch staged an inter-school throughout the summer months. aquathlon event with St. Christopher’s School. Morgan collected the district trophy as he was the winning South Devon Captain in the Inter District Competition. Aquathon is essentially a triathlon without the cycling and George was then awarded the Bowler of the Year award and our event involved all of Years 4, 5 and 6.