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The Innovation Edition
Year 3 students help one another during a 360 degree decision making challenge.
Educating For The Future WE ARE COMMITTED TO DELIVERING AND IMPROVING TRADITIONAL ASPECTS OF SCHOOLING WHILE IMPLEMENTING NEW DIRECTIONS.
Since 1984 Trinity College has thrived. The community has established a flourishing College, as evidenced via a host of relevant educational measures. Community engagement, commitment to wellbeing, talented staff, loyal volunteers, open enrolment, high ATAR attainment, amazing co-curricular program and an excellent base in literacy and numeracy, all built around extraordinary opportunities. This edition of Trinity Times has a focus on some of the innovative opportunities available to our students. It celebrates our further embracing of technology to empower and engage and acknowledges the ethical underpinning essential to help students navigate an increasingly complex digital world. Our Christian values and strong faith dimension permeates our educational approach and we seek to ensure our students will develop an ethical overlay to all areas of their lives, including the use of technology.
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The high employability of Trinity graduates has been a significant and now growing feature. We look to serve our community in increasingly relevant ways by regularly reengineering and refocussing our College. We are committed to delivering and improving traditional aspects of schooling while implementing new directions. Our new Innovation and Creativity School (TICS) is the most significant leap forward in many years, in boosting the skills of our students and enhancing their employability. With a 360 degree projection room, industry standard 3D printing capacity, significant virtual reality capability, design and animation areas, sound studio and university standard teaching spaces, the new facility has made a really positive impact on teaching and learning across the College. This significant investment and reworking of our curriculum is providing some tremendous opportunities for students from all year levels. 21st century education is being driven
by stronger movement to learning through inquiry, exploration and collaboration. Real world, transferable skills will become an even greater focus as will embracing opportunities to promote enhanced critical thinking, creative thinking and entrepreneurship. Enterprise skills are transferable skills that can be applied across contexts or work environments. Up to this point possessing these enterprise skills has often advantaged particular workers to gain leadership positions or be more successful in applying their technical skills. Jobs of the future will demand enterprise skills and are needed 70% more than they are currently. The future of schools will see less reflection on measures such as ATAR and more on understanding and celebrating graduate capabilities. Throughout this, the promotion of wellbeing will remain one of our highest priorities. To embed these skills, the College has rewritten significant parts of our curriculum. Students from particular year levels including all Year 7s and 8s are provided week long immersive experiences where they are taught skills relating to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3D printing and animation. They are presented with real world problems and given opportunities to apply their newly developed skills by solving them. Additional courses with a more significant focus on entrepreneurship and innovation are now also available.
Key partnerships with the University of South Australia, corporate and other tertiary providers have been established. Mentoring programs where local industry experts partner with students to commercialise student led innovations have begun. Trinity has embraced a path to clearly establish the qualities and capabilities we want our graduates to possess in order to flourish in society beyond school. We are providing opportunities to build these qualities. Our graduates are attaining excellent scores but they also take with them decent community values and a host of employable skills. We have embraced a holistic teaching programme and provide school experiences which will deliver ethical values and capabilities for all. These are exciting times for Trinity College. Mr Nick Hately Head of Trinity College
Front Cover: Liam Ey (Year 3) enjoys his first immersive experience in the 360 degree projector room. Top: College Captains, Christopher Hancock and Lucia Franks welcome guests to the official opening of the Trinity Innovation & Creativity School. Middle: Dr Ken Heath, Chair of the College Board, officially cuts the ribbon during the blessing of the plaque ceremony for the opening of the Trinity Innovation & Creativity School. Bottom: Mr Nick Hately.
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The Trinity Research Institute is Launched THE TRINITY INSTITUTE SEEKS TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE TO SUPPORT PEOPLE TO SUCCEED PERSONALLY AND ACADEMICALLY AT SCHOOL AND IN THEIR LIVES BEYOND SCHOOL. South Australia is at the forefront of economic and societal transformation. Increasingly frequent disruptions from forces such as advancements in technology and globalisation are the new normal. The changing demands of modern education have been outlined in numerous policy statements including the Melbourne Declaration, OECD 2030, Gonski review, National Curriculum and the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE). The common call in these documents is to equip young people to be life-long and self-regulated learners and Trinity College is committed to be a place not only of ‘best practice’ but also ‘next practice’. With this in mind, The Trinity Institute has been established.
The Trinity Institute
Graduate Qualities
Our Research
The Trinity Institute, is leading a transformation in schooling to equip students with the skillsets and mindsets needed to flourish in a future employment landscape that is likely to be shaped by increased disruption and fast paced change.
The Trinity College Graduate Qualities articulate the skills, qualities and dispositions that the College aims to foster in all our students. Our graduate qualities are based on the core values and mission of the College and were developed in consultation with students, parents, old scholars, staff and our enterprise partners.
The focus of our research is to create and transform educational systems and practices that support students to move creatively into an unknowable future.
In collaboration with key partners and educators from all areas of Trinity College, we are exploring and putting into practice structures that engage complexity and foster the emergence of student innovation and creativity or put simply, moving from environments where students want to learn rather than have to learn.
• Applied Creativity - the ability to develop novel and effective solutions in response to current and future challenges. • Wellbeing - a state of physical, mental and spiritual health that enables individuals to flourish in life with meaning and purpose. • Lifelong Growth - the ability to be self-regulated and self-directed in the ongoing pursuit of personal and professional growth. • Community Engagement the ability to build positive and responsible relationships that achieve social good, locally and globally.
Our primary focus is applied research, building on the strength of our staff. Research will be undertaken by teachers completing higher degrees (Masters and PhD) and collaborative research projects with universities. Current projects include: • Learning Analytics Approaches for Assessing the Attainment of Graduate Qualities • Creativity and Innovation Assessment
Our Partners The Trinity Institute will coordinate and facilitate practitioner inquirybased projects and is open to meaningful collaborations with other educational and enterprise partners. Our foundation partner is the University of South Australia (UniSA), overwhelmingly the destination of choice for many Trinity College graduates undertaking tertiary education. Mr Wayne Jaeschke Director of Research and Learning Services
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Engaging with Technology
Podcast Influencers At Trinity College, we embed student voice in what we do. And nowhere is it more visible – and audible – than in our podcasting recording studio. This dedicated recording space allows students to record in high-fidelity voice, music, interviews and more. Classes from across Trinity have been ready to embrace the medium for the opportunities it presents, from recording scene analyses in English, critical reflections in Health and PE, work plans in Food Technologies, and performance pieces from a range of subjects. It is transforming tasks and providing alternate, diverse access points for students in sharing and demonstrating their understanding. Enterprising Year 8 student, Ryan Vandermyle, has pioneered the use of the podcasting facilities outside of timetabled classes. Ryan writes, records, produces and edits his podcast, “Road to the Big Time”, where he interviews
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Trinity Old Scholars for their stories on making it big, as a professional athlete, whilst looking for tips to improve his own game. You can view some of his podcasts on the College VIMEO channel. The College’s only dedicated podcast studio has seen heavy demand for use of the technology. Trinity’s vision is to expand the podcast recording capabilities of the College and include mobile podcast recording facilities. Mr Steve Grant Director of Innovation and Creativity
Above: Ryan Vandermyle (Year 8) prepares to interview a professional athlete for his podcast program “Road to the Big Time”.
First XVIII Football averages and maximums from Game One; Total Distance: Avg 11.29km Max 13.42km Sprint Distance: Avg 1,183m Max 1,656m Sprints: Avg 37 Max 57 Top Speed: Avg 7.65m/s Max 9.12m/s
A Year 8 student wears the Catapult GPS tracker during his immersive week at TICS.
Improving Performance Year 7 and 8 students during their immersive week at TICS have become professional athletes by using the Catapult Sports wearable trackers to collect personal data on their physical performance. The GPS devices record total distance travelled, sprint distance, maximum speed, impacts (bumps, falls) and sprint efforts.
The software produces a heat map of where students travelled on a field or pitch. Students can compare how they performed individually to the class average data. By using science and maths skills they are able to create graphs, analyse data and use formulas to modify their behaviours to map improvements.
The coaches then took this a step further by establishing the ‘Beat the Coach Challenge’ where a coach would post their time, maximum for a specific exercise and then give the players a chance to beat it and post their score. Old Scholar and current AFL Giants player Jackson Hately (2018) has since provided some of his numbers to evolve the concept to ‘Beat the Pro’. His data was rolled out over the isolation weeks and gave our players a chance to set goals based on elite athletes and work to increase their current fitness levels. As our competitive football season re-commences we hope that we can reap the rewards from our data tools. Mr Scott Charlton First XVIII Football Coach
Our sporting teams have benefitted greatly by using the GPS trackers for trainings and games. Hockey, soccer and football are using their data so players can understand the demands in a game, set goals for training sessions and future matches. It allows coaches to give feedback and work with individual athletes on their fitness, running and effort in their sports. During the COVID restrictions and without the motivation of matches and group training sessions, we were concerned some footballers may have let their fitness subside. We tried to curb this by establishing a specialised SchoolBox page devoted to the squad that included a running program, some strength exercises and a ‘Social Stream’ for communication.
Heat map shows one of our soccer players during a game.
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Above: Lachlan Hayford (Year 12) studies Digital Technology Solutions which necessitates hands-on game development and testing.
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Hands on Learning STUDENTS HAVE PRODUCED PROTOTYPE PARTS, USING DESIGN SOFTWARE AND 3D PRINTERS TO CREATE MODELS IN TICS.
Why Teach Gaming?
The Robotics Evolution
Teaching digital technology allows for student-centred learning where my role as a teacher is about creating an environment that encourages students to set their own learning goals and develop a plan to achieve those goals.
The College has expanded its robotics offerings for cocurricular to include younger students in Years 4-9. Robotics is now offered systematically in our curriculum and co-curricular programs at each Trinity school. Students commence with “RoboCupJunior” focussing on the development of teamwork skills, technical abilities, in an environment of participation, fun and excitement. We encourage students to think creatively to develop solutions, share ideas, and ultimately participate in the RoboCup Junior Challenges of OnStage, Rescue (line and maze), Soccer and Sumo using a range of platforms including EV3/NXT/Arduino/Mbot.
I use game programming as the context for students to develop skills of computational thinking, which involves breaking larger problems into a logical sequence of smaller steps, identifying errors and developing innovative solutions. Learning how to code is beneficial for students who aren’t necessarily interested in pursuing a career in software development to understand technology and how it’s shaping our world. We use industry standard software to program games including Unity, Visual Studio and C#. The fastest growing job market is programming and many skills are transferable across other businesses and highly sought after. Mrs Camille Young Senior Digital Technologies Teacher
In Years 10-12 we offer the First Tech Challenge (FTC). Teams work on designing, constructing and modifying programs/robotic parts to solve the challenge. Students need to work together to solve a problem, employing programming, electronics, building, designing, driving, marketing, leadership and teamwork to be successful in this competition. Students design and construct their own robot to solve a problem that is outlined each season. They need to apply engineering processes such as testing and iteration to make sure their robot is meeting the criteria of the challenge set. Students have produced prototype parts, using design software and 3D printers to create models in TICS. The 2020 competition will most likely incorporate an on-line component which will be a great new challenge for us. Mr Simon Coad and Mr Sion Harman School Robotics Coordinators
Above: Jackson Riordan (Year 12) during his Digital Technology lesson demonstrates the coding used for a new game design. Right: Kaitlyn Winchester (Year 6) during a Robotics Co-Curricular Club challenge after school.
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Top: Chaplain David MacGillivray presenting the College Easter Eucharist on-line using his iPad. Left-Top: Senior students adapt to social distancing behaviours in the Senior Hall. Left-Bottom: The Wellness page for Junior students and parents in our Learning Management System, Schoolbox. Above: Dr Lisa Kettler uploads content and resources for the Wellness Schoolbox pages.
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Thriving During COVID-19 WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE A STRONG FOUNDATION OF POSITIVE EDUCATION AT TRINITY, WITH A CURRICULUM AND EMBEDDED PRACTICES SUPPORTING MINDFULNESS, POSITIVE EMOTIONS, ENGAGEMENT, POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS, MEANING AND ACCOMPLISHMENT, ALONGSIDE GOOD PHYSICAL HEALTH.
Student and family wellbeing is always important, and when tough times are upon us, it becomes even more important to offer positive supports for wellbeing in the community. COVID-19 has offered a new set of challenges for all of us but also offered opportunities for us to embrace new ways of working. Our partnership with Flow Psychology and Therapeutic services has also strengthened even further during these extraordinary times.
Flow also moved rapidly and seamlessly to offering telehealth services to ensure excellent continuity of care and flexibility of access to clients.
Our learning management system, Schoolbox has been an essential part of our on-line Coronavirus wellbeing response, especially for our older students. Not only has Schoolbox education delivery enabled families greater flexibility of choice in how their family responds to risk, it has ensured continuity of access to education in this extraordinary time. Schoolbox has further enabled us to collate and share excellent wellbeing supports and information in an easily accessible format for students, staff, family and friends on our Wellbeing Schoolbox pages, our Pastoral Care supports pages and our Trinity College Counselling pages. These have been tailored to the age groups and needs of the respective audiences. We have also continued to have available the excellent online resource “School TV”, which contains a wealth of information about mental health and wellbeing topics presented by Australian experts in an easy to understand format. Our counselling team at Trinity quickly adapted their approach to offer online counselling support sessions through WebEx – secure, reliable and safe, and so important for students struggling with their personal wellbeing, especially during isolation. In response to very large numbers of referrals during this time, Flow have also begun to offer therapy skills groups for teens, so that more young people can receive a service in a timely way. The St Francis congregation moved their Sunday Church services to an online mode for 14 weeks and have been hands-on to help families at risk with food vouchers through the St Francis Community Fund. Dr Lisa Kettler College Psychologist Left: Lisa Shetler from Flow Psychology and Therapeutic Services preparing for a mobile phone consultation.
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Virtual Artists THE PEDAGOGICAL BENEFITS OF THE MODEL WILL PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH A RICHER LEARNING EXPERIENCE, OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE RESEARCH SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE IN THE MAKING OF A SHARED PRODUCT.
Music Out Of The Box
Monsters On The Horizon
With music lessons hosted via Zoom it allowed us to build a virtual stage in Schoolbox known as the “On-line Concert”. Students in Years 1 to 12 uploaded videos of themselves performing at home for others to enjoy and their music tutors to review. This has created a great collection of musical performances for all of us to enjoy at any time.
Students of Stage 1 Visual Art and Drama will collaborate on a unit of assessment in order to develop wider sociocultural contexts for shared and sustained thinking, research and analysis. Students of Drama will research and analyse film director, Guillermo Del Toro. A key element of his style is the production of monsters that subvert the conventions of horror, tending towards magic realism. Students of Visual Art will attend the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Exhibition: Monster Theatres.
In the Senior School students relished applying the Sibelius software program used for digital music notation, allowing students to compose musical scores as an Orchestra, whilst in the Middle School students have used Soundtrap – a digital audio workstation to compose electronic and popular music. Students create a song from the ground up, firstly selecting the instruments, creating chords and melodies, adding effects, and mixing. We look forward to hearing their Top 20 creations later in the semester. Mrs Louise Skelton Director of Instrumental Music
This will allow Drama students to script, plan, film and edit a short 5 minute movie in the style of Del Toro using a monster that the Art students will create, design and construct as collaborative projects. The pedagogical benefits of the model will provide students with a richer learning experience, opportunities to share research skills, knowledge and expertise in the making of a shared product. This learning experience will merge traditional subjects; anatomy, biology, English, literature, history, science and drama into making a monster. Software and technology utilised will be Google Tilt Brush (2D creations) medium Expose (3D creations), Quill for animation and the 3D printer for creating models. We are also pleased to announce after school workshops have commenced for students aged 9 -14 with industry experts from CDW Studios. Students interested in animation, visual effects, 2D and 3D drawing can learn from the professionals during 90 minute sessions every week. Dr Sara Zitner Senior Art Teacher
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A New Spin on Design
The new 3D printers give students the opportunity to put into practice anything they can imagine.
Above: Mr Andrew Norwood teaching robotic programming and assembly.
Mathematics without the textbook and calculator. Painting without a canvas and paint. In 2020, students across the College are learning and innovating in both the physical and virtual world! The new 3D printers in the Trinity Innovation and Creativity School are enabling students to turn mathematical formulas and calculations into objects that they can physically hold and manipulate. Through hands-on-learning and rapid prototyping, students are developing their ability to think critically and logically solve problems. While some students are delving deeper into the real world application of mathematics, others are becoming 3D artists in Virtual Reality. These immersive experiences develop students
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creativity and spatial reasoning skills while giving them an insight into the future of design industries. Trinity looked to acquire 3D printers that could offer various methods of printing at an industry-standard. The ProJet 2500 offers increased printing speed, accuracy and a highresolution finish. The printer can complete all class members’ projects overnight, so students can use their 3D-printed model the next day. The Markforged Onyx One provides an impressive individual finish, which is leagues ahead of hobbyist machines, and is invaluable for creating prototypes. For example, a spinning top project introduced Year 7 students to the 3D modelling software Tinkercad and required them to scientifically investigate ways to make their top spin longer.
Top: Students commence programming the robots they have assembled. Left: A Year 10 laser cut and designed architectural model for future housing concepts. Right: Mr Steve Grant removes student produced prototypes from the 3D printer.
In a senior extension of this project, students will be required to create a device that will spin the top most effectively. The College also runs a mathematics lesson where students develop and print chess pieces, working out the volume of each piece. The 3D printers will also be used to develop robotic parts as part of a co-curricular program. One student used 3D printing to create a new part for a line sensor on a robot, which had been continually falling off, incurring costs for the College to replace it each time.
3D printing provides a fast, easy and cost-effective solution to maintaining the robotic fleet. The new 3D printers give students the opportunity to put into practice anything they can imagine. It doesn’t require a large workshop; it just requires their imagination and some 3D modelling skills. An additional 3D laser cutter in Tech studies has enabled students to see their architectural designs come to life. Year 10 students are truly creating houses of the future with this example
of a house that is built over the ocean so as to help conserve a coral reef. Students have also placed solar panels on the roof line and designed sky lights to use natural resources. Mr Andrew Norwood Director of Digital Learning
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Immersive Learning IT’S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT AND THE CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
Design Thinking Remember the phrase “Well, that’s thinking outside the box?” Today, we do this via teaching and learning in “Design Thinking”. With Design Thinking, students can do better researching, prototyping and usability testing to uncover new ways to generate solutions to problems. It helps us to tackle problems with the notion of thinking about the people it impacts. Trinity is all about the people and design thinking has a human centred core which encourages students to focus on the people they’re creating for. It’s about understanding the context and the culture of the people involved.
Using direct observation and qualitative data and using stories – people can really empathise with the problem and want to get involved. I want our students to see and feel the problems first hand, so by sharing the design principles and user issues of the TICS building and asking authentic questions as to how we can do this better – they own it.
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Empathy is crucial to a human-centred design process. Students gain real insight into users and their needs. It values solutions over processes and creativity and innovation over traditions. Ms Susan Hart-Lamont Deputy Head of Trinity College
Future Entrepreneurs Have you heard of the TV show “Shark Tank”? Where entrepreneurs pitch to a panel of experts to obtain funding to help establish their business or idea, of course, the entrepreneurs on this TV show must achieve this pitch in a matter of minutes. Our Year 7 Futures program commences with de-constructing “Shark Tank” to understand the different elements of beginning an entrepreneurial enterprise. The Futures program is taught weekly for a semester. It provides students with opportunities to study; • Creativity and innovation using cross curricular subjects • Modelling of product design and/or services • Entrepreneurship for social impact • The set up and marketing of a successful enterprise
Students learn design thinking, digital innovation, project management and the impact of a business contributing to the global community. In a practical sense students produce a marketing plan and an associated product launch, create a web page, podcast or TV commercial to promote and sell their product plus understand the intricacies of running a small business enterprise. We look forward to the first Trinity “Shark Tank” episode late in Term 3. Mr Nicholas Sharrad Executive Director of Teaching and Learning
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1. Year 11 Visual Art students researching, analysing, experimenting and preparing their Stage 1 Art piece.
11. Students from Gawler River received their International Competitions and Assessment for Schools (ICAS) medals this year. ICAS is an independent, skills based assessment program that recognises and rewards student achievements nationally from 2019.
2. Arwen Candish (Early Years) enjoys her first day at school. 3. Paiten Dawson-Ryan and Laura Wall (Year 2) enjoy the North Twilight Picnic. 4. Mr Deanshaw with his Year 9 Music students creating their own pop song using Soundtrap. 5. Congratulations to our Equestrian Team who are the 2020 Gymkhana Trophy Winners. 6. Emily Waters (Year 1) thanks local supermarket workers for their tireless work during COVID restrictions. 7. Noah Morey (Year 10) using a tablet and stylus pen during the CDW workshop. 8. Flashback to day one at our Gawler River School as they celebrate 20 years of operations in 2020. 9. Lucy Foreman (Year 1) pleased with her art work. 10. Learn to swim lessons recommence at STARplex.
12. Year 7 Gawler River students prepare to learn about the Playertek GPS Pods with Mr Charlton. 13. A Year 7 student designed advertising campaign for the Roseworthy development. 14. The Senior Clarinet Ensemble rehearsing for their online entry to the National Schools Chamber Music competition run by Musica Viva. 15. South students in action at Sports Day 2020. 16. Blakeview staff send messages of support to their students. 17. Many students wrote to people in our community who were working tirelessly for the good of all during the difficult COVID-19 restrictions to say thank you. Mason Hain (Year 5) decided the Prime Minister needed some words of encouragement and he was thrilled to receive a reply from Scott Morrison in the mail.
18. Senior Graphic Design students undertake their first project in the Design B Laboratory in TICS. 19. Students learn to fly jets using the RAAF Virtual Reality programs. 20. These wonderful succulent arrangements will become gifts in Spring for children who lost their gardens in the Cudlee Creek bushfire early in 2020. Blakeview Junior School students have undertaken this project as part of the SA Bushfire Garden Revival Growers Group. 21. Riley Taylor (Year 10) enjoys recording her first podcast. 22. Year 7 students brainstorming and designing new aircraft in a TICS pod. 23. Preschool students celebrate National Reconciliation Week with a lesson about Indigenous painting. 24. Year 8 North students Zara Simpfendorfer, Piper Gibbens-O’Hara and Ashleigh Collins enjoy Sports Day 2020.
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Old Scholars News
Anika Scott (2018) received the National HelloWorld Rising Star Award. Anika has been working at HelloWorld Travel since completing her schoolbased traineeship in Tourism during Years 11 and 12.
Demi Skinner (2014) received the Rookie of the Year Award after her rookie season in the WNBL playing for Bendigo Spirit.
Aidan Coleman (1994) received the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship during Adelaide Writers’ Week 2020. His previous works have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards, the John Bray Poetry Award and the WA Premier’s Book Awards, and his third book “Mount Sumptuous” (2020) is published by Wakefield Press. Aidan will use the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship to continue work on “Liable”, an eclectic poetry collection. Jack Gill (2017) was nominated as the Town of Gawler Council Delegate to attend the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne during February, 2020. Jack represented the Gawler Climate Emergency Action Plan Working Group and recently presented a report about the national summit to the Elected Council Members. Jack is continuing to be an advocate for climate emergency declarations. Jamie Hornsby (2012) is a Playwright and received the New Play Runner-up for his play “Python” at the Inaugural Australian Theatre Festival in New York City, March, 2020. Natalie Mudge (1993) was awarded the honour of becoming a Distinguished Toastmaster in March, 2020. Natalie is a member of Toastmasters International and was awarded the honour after demonstrating outstanding leadership and communication skills.
Brittany Perry (2016) made AFLW history by scoring the Gold Coast Suns’ first goal. The match was against Greater Western Sydney (her former team) in heavy rain, making conditions tough. Jackson Dearing (2014) applied for a software engineering internship at Google and successfully undertook an internship during the USA summer of 2019 at the Google headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. Along with all of the perks of working at Google (free 3 meals a day, gyms, massages, indoor rock climbing, bowling and nap pods) he worked with a YouTube team and was able to travel to the New York offices. Miles Scotson (2014) was back in South Australia in January 2020. He rode for Equipe cycliste Groupama-FDJ during the 2020 Santos Tour Down Under. He finished 57th in the General Classification.
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Amy Hammond (2016) represented Australia in a four match series against Japan in February 2020. Amy was one of two goal keepers in the 21 and under age group squad. The series was held in Canberra.
Congratulations to Stephanie Cole (nee Antonopoulos 2013) who finished in the top 20 in the most recent season of The Voice. Performing since she was six years old Stephanie has worked hard to make a name for herself in the local music community and with each one of her outstanding performances on the show has ensured she has reached a new and appreciative national audience.
Cricket Club
Jace O’Hara (2007) running up to claim one of 25 wickets for the 2019/2020 season.
The Trinity Old Scholars Cricket Club 2019/20 season ended prematurely, due to the Adelaide Turf Cricket Association (ATCA)’s recommendations. Our B Grade finished second on the ladder, after defeating Walkerville on day one of their match. They received a promotion to A3. This season was our A Grade’s first season in A1, the competition’s top grade, having earned promotions (through A3 and A2) in as many consecutive years. Our highlight of the season was defeating the highly rated St Peters side, defending only 181 runs. In the final game of the season, club coach Ali Forwood (2007) became the first player in the club’s history to pass 4000 runs. In 2019/20, our club grew considerably and we were able to fill a fourth men’s team for the first time in our history. Our D Grade enjoyed the new challenge of playing on a hard wicket pitch in the Para Districts Cricket Association. Our women’s team played games during the second season offered by the ATCA and narrowly missed out on some victories. We are set to return for the 2020/2021 season with four men’s sides and a women’s side. Mr Rob McLean (1994) TOSCC Vice President Enquiries to Brad Schaper Mobile: 0416 368 218
Hockey Club We will be fielding three sides this year in the BVHA 2020 season; an A grade combined team with Gawler Hockey Club, a B Women’s team and B Men’s team. Members are excited
to be playing the first full season with the new Trinity Turf. There are a couple of new players to the club debuting, as well a few players returning to the game after not playing for a number of years. The players are excited to be taking the field with newly designed shirts and for the first time in 25 years, a number of external corporate sponsors have made contributions to the club. We are grateful to Gawler Dental Clinic – gold sponsor, Riverview Chiropractic and Terry White Chemmart Angle Vale, Playford and Unihealth – Silver Sponsors and Fasta Pasta Gawler – Bronze Sponsor. Mr Nicholas Sharrad TOSHC President sharrani@trinity.sa.edu.au If you have thought about playing hockey and want to get involved please contact us at TrinityHC@barossahockey.com (No experience needed).
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Netball Club TOSNC had a rather successful summer 2019/2020 season filling two sides, one playing A2 in the Elizabeth Netball Association (ENA) at Argana Park and the other in B2 in the Gawler and Districts Netball Association at Gawler. Our A2’s faced evenly matched competitors with majority of games being decided by small margins. The A2’s were just shy of qualifying for finals. Our B2’s enjoyed a whirlwind season, made up of players who were getting back into netball and some new to the sport. They were able to continue to work hard and made it into the first round of finals. If you are wishing to join our growing club, no matter your skill level, please contact myself or visit our TOSNC Facebook page for the latest updates. Miss Kate Edwards (2012) TOSNC President tosnetballclub@gmail.com or Mobile: 0400 881 471
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Trinity Old Scholars Tennis Club players pictured (left to right) Keely Silvy, Steve Goss, Jamie Burdelof, Michael Burdelof (1997), Rekiah Langford (2010), Brett Pearson (2019), Klara Lenkiewicz, Jordan Smith (2013), Demi Alcorn (2008), Hayley Silvy (nee Fischer 1994) and Hunter Martin (2006). Absent: Belinda Wellington (1999) and Ben Johnson (2006)
Trinity Old Scholars Tennis Club was proudly established in October 2019. A team consisting of students, firsttime players and players returning from a twenty year (or more) break from the court was formed and entered into the Gawler and Districts Tennis Association. The team remarkably finished top of the ladder at the end of the minor round. Please contact us via Facebook or email michaelburdelof@gmail.com Mr Michael Burdelof (1997) TOSTC President
Trinity Old Scholars Football Club’s A Grade side in action, ready for the upcoming 2020 season.
Preparations for the 2020 season were well underway until the postponement of the season. Preseason training was being held on Mondays and Thursdays and the club was looking forward to an improvement on last season. The season commenced 4 July and if you are interested in joining our club, please contact us on the information provided below. We train on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mr Nathaniel Eldridge (2004) and Mr Ben Johnson (2006) TOSFC Co-Presidents Mobile: 0488 067 670
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1. Joanne Letchford (2003) and husband Ben welcomed daughter, Lani in January 2020, a little sister for their son Taj. 2. Shikara Monteath (nee Juhas 2012) and husband Glenn welcomed their son Max Frank in September, 2019. 3. Kira Langley (2012) and partner Andrew welcomed daughter Lara Anne in January, 2020. 4. Scott Evans (2005) and wife Chloe (nee Vanderhout 2007) welcomed their daughter Hazel Emmie in September, 2019. 5. Jenny Fowler (nee Sherwood 2006) along with husband Adam and big brother Roman are pleased to announce the arrival of Riley Jane in September, 2019.
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1. Kimberly Stephens and Sean Chase (both 2014) became engaged at Monarto Zoo in May, 2019. They have been a couple since Year 12. 2. Tasharni Nienaber (2011) became engaged to Billy-Jack Opitz in April, 2019. 3. Jemma Brown (2001) married Jared Rozman in November, 2019 at Port Willunga Beach.
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4. Emily Collins (2010) married Peter King in March, 2019 at Stevens Estate Garden in Williamstown.
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5. Joanne Letchford (2003) married Ben Kinnaird in October, 2018 at the Barossa Goldfields. Jo has been a swimming instructor at STARplex for the past seven years. 6. Benjamin Johnson (2006) and Tahlia Langley (2009) were married at Mount Osmond Golf Course in February, 2020. 7. Carl Teusner (2006) married Alysia Perry at Serafino Wines in McLaren Vale in March, 2020.
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Upcoming Events
On Saturday 14th March 2020, Old Scholars from the classes of 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 gathered at the Pavilion for afternoon tea. Past and current staff along with vintage Old Scholars were in attendance. The group enjoyed a tour of the College grounds including icons from their schooling days: the Chapel and the “Big Shed” as well as new additions such as Senior School and the brand new Innovation and Creativity School. The Old Scholars re-created their Year 12 Class photo in front of the Chapel. Attendees were also entertained by the Old Scholars Cricket Club’s A Grade match played on the Waldeck Oval.
Class of 2015 – 5yr Reunion Saturday 5th September 2020 Class of 2010 – 10yr Reunion Saturday 10th October 2020 Class of 2000 – 20yr Reunion Saturday 24th October 2020 Class of 2000
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Class of 2015 30 Year Reunion
If your alumni year is scheduled to have a reunion this year and you would like to assist in organising the night, feel free to contact the Old Scholars’ Liaison Officer at oldscholars@trinity.sa.edu.au Sending in photos, gathering memorabilia and even compiling a playlist are all ways that you can help out. You can keep in touch with up to date information regarding Old Scholars event by joining our closed Facebook Group “Trinity College Gawler Old Scholars”.
Mr Bruce Raymond receives OAM Congratulations to former staff member Mr Bruce Raymond on his Queen’s Birthday Honour - an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to music, particularly brass bands. This is a fabulous acknowledgement for someone who has been able to deliver the gift of music to so many and so widely. Although now retired, the College community certainly learned a lot from Bruce during his time with us between 2007 and 2018. As Musical Director of Carols by Candlelight we thoroughly enjoyed helping Bruce make great music for everyone in Elder Park each Christmas.
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