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Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe 31 August, 2011 – Week 7 From the Headmaster Back to top UPCOMING EVENTS Dear Parents 31 August – Year 12 Colloquium, Centre for the You would all be aware of the Arts, 7.00pm importance of regular and authentic 1 September – Junior feedback in continuing to monitor the School Father’s Day health of any enterprise. Such Breakfast, Centre for the feedback from the stakeholders of an Arts, 7.15am organisation provides a way of 2 September – Junior checking the operational compass of School Father’s Day the organisation, and helps to ascertain Breakfast, Centre for the whether or not the day to day work and outcomes match Arts, 7.15am this operational compass. 2 September – Southside Jazz, South Room, Centre Trinity Grammar School is currently working in for the Arts, 7.00pm partnership with Independent Schools Victoria (ISV) in 5 September – Fair the process of conducting a number of surveys in Committee Meeting, relation to different sections of our school community. Hudson House, 8.00pm We will be, in the coming week, presenting parents, students and staff with survey material. This survey 6 September – Sutton House Breakfast & Chapel, material has been designed to gain valuable feedback 7.15am from parents, students and staff. Information obtained from surveys will be used by the School to evaluate the 6 September – Junior operation of the School, in order to further consolidate School Prep and Year 3 and improve the quality of education for our students. Play, South Room, 7.00pm 7 September – Early The previous occasion when such surveys were Learning Centre conducted was in 2009, and not only did the information Information Evening which flowed from them inform us of the opinion of our 7 September – Junior stakeholders about a range of key questions, but it School Year 1 and 2 Play, provided us with the opportunity to address a number of South Room, 7.00pm concerns and define a number of challenges. 9 September – Early We are hoping that you will be able to participate in Learning Centre to Year 6 Grandparents’ Day, South this survey process, by answering the questions which Room, 8.30am should take not much more than ten minutes. In order to expedite this, parents, students, and staff will receive 9 September – Middle an email with a link to the appropriate survey later this School Play Performance, P & F Hall, 7.30pm week. 10 September – Middle I very much appreciate the time you put aside, to School Play Performance, P provide us with valuable feedback – this material will & F Hall, 7.30pm hopefully be affirming of our approaches and operational 12 September – AGSV processes and assist us in crystallising new goals where these are required. Athletics eliminations, 10.00am Quote for the Week: Truth is the property of no individual, but is the treasure 14 September – AGSV of all. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Combined Athletics, Olympic Park, 1.15pm MR RICHARD TUDOR 15 September – Year 7 Big (HEADMASTER) Tri p 16 September – VCE Unit 4 Practice Examinations commence, Centre for the From the Senior School Back to top Arts, 8.30am Learning Journeys DVD Night 16 September – Term 3 concludes Wednesday in Week 5 marked the middle day of Term Three, and was therefore an ideal time for boys to stop 10 October – Term 4 and reflect on how they had been progressing this term. commences Year 8 boys and their parents were invited to a Learning Journeys DVD Night, which provided an opportunity for them to hear four different students’ perspectives on the Learning Journeys program which was held during the last week of Semester One. As well as the Year 8 IMPORTANT NOTICES speakers, a professional video was shown highlighting Southside Jazz, Friday 2 the many facets of the program. September, South Room, Centre for the Arts, 7.00pm The outdoor component was impressively depicted, with Year 8 boys undertaking the high ropes course, the Oaks Day Parents’ Function, confidence course and the raft building task. Highlights Thursday 3 November, from the guest speakers were also shown, including the Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club oft-repeated refrains of AFL legend Tommy Hafey, familiar to any boy at the School who has participated in Learning Journeys. The technical production of the DVD was excellent and it reflected countless hours of work that had gone on behind the scenes. What stood out while watching the DVD, however, was the interviews with individual students as they spoke about their experience of Learning Journeys. Most boys highlighted neither the guest speakers nor the outdoor components, but the precious opportunity they were given for individuals to mend broken relationships or strengthen existing ones within the year level. The advantage of having such a night midway through the term was that boys were reminded afresh of apologies they had given to other students, or assurances they had offered about changing their behaviour. This gave them a wonderful opportunity to measure their actions for the first half of the term against what they had said they would do, and to provide some degree of accountability among their peer group. The Year 8 boys will have a second opportunity to do this when they receive their copies of the DVDs at the end of Term Three. MR BRYN HUMBERSTONE (ACTING HEAD OF YEAR 8) Sport State Final – Athletics Victoria Schools Knockout Congratulations to the Junior (U15) Team of 6 boys that won its competition at Olympic Park yesterday: Chris Tetaz, Nick Paidoussis, Ethan McArthur, Damon Zethoven, Alex Leptos, Will Seton. They defeated 22 other teams (Caulfield Grammar, Melbourne Grammar, Xavier, etc.) These boys now have the opportunity to compete in the National Final held in Queensland in December. Well done. Congratulations Danny Smith (Year 10) competed in the Australian Cross Country Championships in the ACT over the weekend. In the Under 16 race, Danny came 4th. Ben Andrews (Year 8), competed last week in the Eastern Metro Zone Final of the Victorian Schools Cycling Championship. He finished 3rd and qualified to ride in the Victorian Championship Final in October. House Athletics A new School record has been set by Damon Zethoven’s Under 14 Triple Jump at the House Athletics. Damon had already broken the U14 Hurdles record in 12.61sec. Snowsports Victorian Interschool Snowsports : 36 Trinity students, including 13 from Junior School, competed at Mount Buller last week. The snow cover was limited, but the blue skies were a very pleasant change from previous years. The following TGS students all qualified for The Nationals to be held at Falls Creek : Danny Land (Year 10): Individual 10th. Div. 2 Snow Boarder Cross Riley May (Year 8): Individual 9th. Div. 3 Snow Boarder Cross Alex Percy (Year 5): Individual 7th. Div. 4 Alpine GS Aiden May (Year 5): Individual 4th. Div. 4 Snow Boarder GS Aiden May (Year 5) & Lachlan Marsh (Yr. 5): Team 4th. Div. 4 Snow Boarder Cross Oscar Percy (Year 4): Individual 1st. Div. 5 Snow Boarder Cross Oscar Percy (Year 4): Individual 1st. Div. 5 Snow Boarder GS Oscar Percy (Year 4): Awarded Most Outstanding Primary School Snowboarder in Victoria Many thanks to the boys for their fine efforts and to the parents who assisted as Team Managers and Course Officials. MS GERI COUGHLIN (TIC SNOWSPORTS) Year 10 Exchanges Jake Lane and Angus Beattie will be on exchange to Southridge School, Canada from 28 August to 8 October. Ben Harvie and Ben Lawler will be on exchange to Somerset College, South Africa from 27 August to 9 October. We wish these boys a very happy and successful exchange at these two fine schools. Cover for Cambodia Last Thursday night, Trinity held a fundraiser for the Carpets for Communities. This charity raises awareness and seeks to empower women in Cambodia through making carpets to give their family a stable income. The theme of the night was ‘Cover Songs’ performed by students of Trinity Grammar School. People sang, played instruments and entertained the crowd many all different ways. Some of the stand out performances were Will Cooper’s beautiful use of vocals singing ‘Shelter From the Storm’ by Bob Dylan, Mr Richard Grummet’s version of ‘Summer Winds’ brought tears to our eyes. Max Greenham should also be commended on a fantastic comedy act that would have made Jim Carey proud. Thank you to everyone who cooked, helped prepare the night and performed. A special mention to Mr Luke Dixon who set up the stage and all Year 10 boys and others who helped organise this special evening. We managed to raise over $1600 dollars and this will be used to fund at least 3 entrepreneurs in Cambodia. We hope this can become an annual event. The Carpets Crew Debating Messages Junior debating kicked off last Monday in great style, with the green and gold picking up 6 wins out of 8. This year the Junior Debating Program is being hosted by Fintona Girls’ School. The senior debating year level captains have taken up roles as coaches for the Years 7 and 8 debaters, imparting their knowledge and expertise to the younger boys. It is wonderful to see the boys training together, developing a mentor relationship which will be further strengthened as they progress in debating over the years. It was fantastic to see a huge variety of boys participating, and the debates held on Monday will put them in a great position for the rest of the season. All visitors and friends are welcome to the debates, held at 6.00pm and 7.30pm at Fintona. Special congratulations go to William Deed, Lachlan Cho, Andrew Kondopoulos and Tiger Lin, who each received best speaker, having the highest scoring speech in their debate.