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It finally arrived! After many months of careful planning,weeks and weeks of hard work in rehearsals, not to mentionthe usual stresses and anxieties which precede any majorshow, this year’s musical turned out to be an outstandingproduction, with a superb set of performances all round, froma talented bunch of Trinity students.

In recent years our dedicated duo - Head of Drama, MrsFenella Cooke, and Head of Music, Mrs Rachael Arkell - havebeen turning out fantastic shows such as ‘Joseph’ and ‘LesMiserables’, and in ‘Oliver!’ we were treated to yet another.

As Mr Coen, our Headmaster, summed it up, ‘If you didn’tmake it then I’m afraid you missed out; not only on fantasticindividual performances from Year 7 to Year 13 (and staff!) butalso on seeing how a full range of ages and abilities can worktogether for a common goal….fine acting and singing from all,from those out front and those playing the supporting roles.This cast are very lucky, and in years to come they may passeach other in the corridor, or return to the school, and therewill just be a knowing look or smile of recognition that theywere part of something special.’

Please sir,can I havesome more?

February 2017

TRINITONIAN

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Students were given two fantasticopportunities to demonstrate theirtalents in music and performing artsevents.

In the Inter-House ‘Trinity Has Talent’the school was entertained by 19 acts,some by our stalwart performers andsome by new names on the horizon.We were amazed by the courage ofthe stars of the evening, some ofwhom jumped right out of theircomfort zone and on to the stage. Tomention just a few, there was Archie

Kent with his stand up joke routine; Victor Joss, ConnorHare and Lucy Davis all lighting up the piano; and JoshWalker’s impersonations which left everyone in stitches,particularly his Donald Trump impression. The winner wasjudged to be Jero Zhang for his rendition of the Gospel song‘Angels’.

At the Senior Department’s Christmas Music Concert thepacked audience saw 20 performances of a very highstandard, by students who were truly challengingthemselves. With acts as diverse as Sennen Pappin singingBrahms’ Sappische Ode, Ellie Smith performing InParadisum, and Georgia Marney’s rendition of Riptide byVance Joy, every act was refreshing and inspiring. It wasthoroughly enjoyable to watch and listen.

Trinity has even more Talent

The cast of Oliver!

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Our musical students have once again been performing in‘out and about’ in our community.

Chamber Choir were invited to the Alice Cross Centre inTeignmouth to sing at a special Christmas lunch for localresidents. The guests enthusiastically joined in as Mr Birtled the Choir through a set of traditional carols,accompanied by Ms Robbins on piano. The Choir sangbeautifully throughout, with a particular highlight beingtheir performance of ‘Walking in the Air.’

Performing ArtsMacbeth workshop at

Torquay and a visit by a PoetConfidence and

Courage….

What a treat we all had watching the fantastic ‘WrigglyNativity’ before Christmas. The singing, acting andclarity of voices were all amazing considering the agesof the cast. Very well done to all staff and pupils fortheir contributions to such a stunning show.

Wriggly Nativity!

We continue our links with Teignmouth Poetry Festivalafter another visit by published poet Graham Burchell.Graham led a workshop in which pupils studied variouspoems before writing and reciting their own poems.

Year 10 BTEC studentsperformed a moderninterpretation of“Macbeth”, in acelebration ofShakespeare with severalother local schools anddrama groups, at theLittle Theatre in Torquay.The students decided torefresh the play bysetting it in an AmericanHigh School.

Our talented BTEC students staged a whole evening ofentertainment, compered by Sennen Pappin. The acts werea mixture of musical and performing arts elements, and sawindividual and group performances presenting a range ofmaterial from covers to their own compositions. Theaudience were completely captured by the quality of theacts, especially Yasmin Westlake’s lyrical dance piece andJosh Walker’s impressionist take on Game of Thrones whichhad people roaring with laughter. The Year 10 groupensemble reflected the huge amount of time and practicethat went into the acts.

Other performances from Trinity students included JoshWalker's monologue from “Henry V”, and Harris Huddart ina spoof of “Macbeth” as part of The Tadpoles YouthTheatre Company.

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This exciting event was attended byYears 5 to 8. After a talk on whatUniversity is all about it was into themarquee for a huge array of excitingworkshops on a range of topics fromdesigning and programming robotsand virtual reality games to makingdinosaur footprints and mixing yourown scented bath bomb! Studentslearned about the challenges beingtackled using Science and Technology

such as plastics in the sea and creating ID cards using face,eye and fingerprint images.

This year’s Science Challenge saw students facing a real-lifeproblem actually faced day-to-day by farmers in Nepal.They grow crops high in the mountains but need to selltheir produce in markets in the valleys, a dangerous threehour trek below.

Teams of students from Years 5 to 13 had to design asystem to transport ripe cherry tomatoes from the dizzyingheights of the top Science balcony to the Science quadbelow. Each House team had to plan, design and trial asystem using a variety of low tech approaches usingpulleys, string, guttering, water and buckets.

Plymouth UniversityScience & Technology

Showcase

Science Challengestudents solve Nepalfarming problem

‘It was great to see our Prep students from Years 5 and 6bringing their enthusiasm and ideas to their teams,’ said MrDarrel Jones, Director of Learning for the Science Faculty.‘Students of all ages engaged in the task, workingcooperatively together to solve the challenge’ he added.The winning team was the one judged to have transportedthe greatest number of undamaged tomatoes in the fiveminutes allotted time and in the most innovative manner.After the final event the result was very close withUgbrooke sneaking victory by 2 points from Luscombe, withPowderham in third place

Radio Stars!Starr Johnson and Ella Clark were interviewed for RadioPlymouth during the event. They said what a fun day it hadbeen and how much it stimulated their interest in science.Starr mentioned her ambition to become a surgeon andhow the event allowed her to see what working at auniversity was like. Asked about the value of the eventScience teacher Mr Van Es said, ‘it allows students to seewhere studying science can lead and how stimulating andvaried a career in science can be. The huge range ofdisplays and experiences gives us many opportunities toconnect our classroom topics with current research andtechnologies. It was a brilliant day!’

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Our Young Enterprise teamhave been making full useof the school’stechnological resources.The students havedesigned a series ofinnovative puzzles and giftproducts made from Legobricks.

Coming Soon!Trinity Science

BuskersAn enterprising group of science enthusiasts have recentlylaunched an exciting new initiative to stimulate interest inthe world of science.

Operating under the name of Trinity Science Buskers, thegroup is made up of pupils from Years 4 to 13 whose aim isto share their enthusiasm for Science and Psychology withother young people aged 6 to 14 in school and the widercommunity.

Science andTechnology

Led by Mr Jones, the students will be starting their careersas Science Buskers with 2 events during British ScienceWeek next month. The first will be a street-based event onThe Triangle in the centre of Teignmouth on Saturday 11March, from 10.30 to 12.00. It will be followed by anotherdate at the Science Week Event in Teignmouth Pavilions onSunday 19 March from 11.00 to 13.00.

The buskers will be entertaining children with a range ofsimple, safe and fun Science demonstrations and engagingvisitors to the event in Science workshops. Demonstrationswill include rockets, gravity-defying magnets, the mysteriesof lava will include lamps and a whole series of otherexciting, fun and educational activities that the youngpeople can take part in.

Working with subject leader for Design and Technology,Mr Ed Donaldson, the team have used school’s laser cutterto imprint various original designs on to the bricks.Brainbox have since enjoyed a great start to this year'strading, selling out of product in the Young EnterpriseChristmas Market in Exeter.

Their creativity was recognised by the judges when theyreceived the award for ‘The Most Innovative Product’,beating off stiff competition from schools across Devon andSomerset.

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Year 9 Giving Nation: ‘What a Week,What a Community!’

This year’s programme certainly lived up to expectations. Inone week our Year 9’s:

● Made and sold 122 slices of pizza, nearly 200 cupcakes, 104 hot dogs, 70 sweet pots and over 50pots of popcorn.

● Ran a Messy Play Group at St Michael's Church,Teignmouth for local families including ourReception and Prep 1 classes.

● Volunteered at the local charity Homeless inTeignbridge (HITs), labelling and sorting donatedfood into packs for families who find themselves indesperate situations

Every year our Year 9 pupils take partin a ‘Giving Nation’ week. For 5 fulldays our students take part in a seriesactivities focused on charity,fundraising and volunteering.

Organised by our Head of Key Stage 3,Mrs Gerry Davis, and our SchoolChaplain, Revd Jonathon, the themeof this year’s Giving Nation week was‘Inequality and Poverty’. Aimed atboosting pupils’ learning about

charities, social enterprise and individual giving, the weekwas also concerned with raising their awareness of those inneed, both locally and in other countries. We have run theprogramme for several years and students often leave ataged 18 citing their Giving Nation week as a highlight oftheir school life.

● Sorted a mountain of bags of donated clothes forthe Exmouth-based charity CR2EE, and helped toclear their warehouse after a busy ChristmasShoebox appeal season, (photo left)

● Spent a day learning about the plight of refugeesand made gifts of pencils and activity books forchildren in a camp in Greece whose school burntdown recently.

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The ‘Buy a Brick For Moldova’ project grew out of an ideadiscussed when Hugh Scudder, of CR2EE (ChristianResponse to Eastern Europe), came to Trinity to collect 142Christmas shoeboxes for Moldova, donated by Trinitystudents and their families.

‘CR2EE support families in Moldova in many ways, includingproviding homes,’ said Mrs Davis. ‘We were surprised tofind that houses in Moldova cost as little as £1000. It wasfelt that as a community we could make a real difference tothe lives of a family in Moldova by raising the funds toenable CR2EE to buy another house.’

And so it proved! Year 9 were tasked with building a houseof 'Trinity bricks', each brick representing a £2 donation or£2 raised from fundraising activities. Hugh Scudder wasabsolutely delighted with the efforts of our students andthe support given by the Trinity School community, 'Thanksto you they have a home. It needs a lot of work doing to itbut they are indescribably thankful to you'

Over £1300 raised toprovide a familyhome in Moldova

Charity, at homeand abroad

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Football teams excelto make National ISA

cup finals

Trinity swimmers win10 medals at LondonOlympic pool

Two Trinity football teams recentlyexceeded all expectations when theyplayed in the first ever National ISA6-a-side competitions, held inNottingham recently. Our U14 andU16 teams surprised us all, althoughperhaps not themselves, when theyboth reached finals of their respectivecompetitions.

The U16 played well in their pool matches, beating RadnorHouse (2 - 1), drawing (0-0) against Shoreham College,beating Bredon (7-0) and drawing with Tettenhall College(2-2). This resulted in second place in the pool (despitebeating the team that won the pool!). The Plate semi-finalsfollowed and, in a topsy-turvy game, Trinity came outwinners (4-2) against Priory. The final against King Alfred'swas a close match, but two momentary lapses ofconcentration resulted in goals and a 0-2 defeat.

The U14 team had a ‘wake-up call’ in their first match butthen went on to win a couple of games to put them throughto the Trophy semi-final. After a ding-dong battle, this gamefinished 2 -2 and, even after extra time, the two sides couldnot be separated. Penalties followed which Trinity wonafter some good saves from Ismael in goal. Unfortunatelythe team couldn't manage to break down the opposition inthe final but put in a spirited performance.

It was a great day for our footballers, all of whomdemonstrated excellent effort, model behaviour, andconsiderable courage and commitment.

Trinity swimmers enjoyed notable success as theyrepresented SW ISA Schools in the National ISA SwimmingChampionships . A large contingent of swimmers and theirfamilies turned up bright and early at the famous Olympicvenue, for what turned out to be an exciting day ofcompetition from which our swimmers came home with 10medals between them. Fletcher Wickham got the team offto a great start with silver medal in the 50m backstroke,following this up with a bronze in the 50m Breaststroke anda silver in the freestyle relay. Lucas Randall was also a silverwinner as part of the same freestyle relay team.

The best performances, however, came from Phoebe Armesand Evie Lewis, both of whom emerged as gold medalwinners and national champions. Phoebe won gold in nofewer than 3 events - 50m backstroke, freestyle relay andmedley relay; and Evie was also a star, being part of thegold-winning teams in the freestyle and medley relays, andreaching silver in the 50m Butterfly.

There were superb performances from other Trinityswimmers, who showed considerable mental toughness intheir various events without coming away with any metal toprove it. But it was undoubtedly a great day for all ourcompetitors as they got to compete in such as prestigiousvenue. The squad was accompanied by our Headmaster, MrLawrence Coen, whose pride was clearly evident in a seriesof tweets from the poolside ‘Very proud of all Trinityswimmers today who to a person showed great courage,resilience and confidence’

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It’s been a successful few months for our Prep athletes,with rugby and cross country teams emerging as regionalchampions from South West ISA competitions. 14 runnerscompeted in the Cross Country held in Haldon Forest andfor some this was their very first experience of competitiverunning. The U9 boys did particularly well. Max Cassidy wasthe overall winner in a field of nearly 50, soon followed byJames Hill (2), Fletcher Wickham (4) and Freddie Nicol (7) - afantastic team effort which made them overall champions.

Trinity hosted the ISA South West U14 and U16 Netballtournament and we are delighted to report that both ourteams performed exceptionally well, the U16’s winningtheir competition and the U14’s emerging as runners-up intheir own contest.

Determined Prepteams take regionalRugby and CrossCountry titles

National andregional ISA

success

Last term we entered 2 teams in the SW ISA TAG Rugbycompetition held at St Christopher’s. With strongcompetition for places it was fascinating to see how theteams performed. The B team worked tirelessly and earned3 very creditable victories with some fine play by all.However the A team took the competition by storm andwith the motto of ‘we’ll score more tries than you’, they ranout as eventual champions. Excellently led by William Ross-McNairn and backed up by his team, it was a great day anda great victory. Well done to all of our players.

Teams perform well asTrinity hosts SW ISA finalsin netball and cross-country

After a very successful SW cross country event Trinity haveno fewer than 17 runners from a wide age group throughto the ISA National finals. There were some outstandingperformances showing real grit and determination over atough course. Hannah Greenwood ran a brilliant race in alarge group and was 3rd in the U16 girls. The U16 boysteam came out as overall winners of their competition,with Ben White, Niall Perryman and Tom Finneran all fin-ishing in the top 8. Meanwhile Chloe Jepson finished 2nd inthe U20 race, and the U20 boys won their team title. It wasalso an all-round team effort and every Trinity participantcan be extremely proud of their individual contributions.Our thanks to Mr Larkman for organising very successfulcompetition.

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Cadets from Army and RN Sections have beenconcentrating on Skill at Arms training in order to pass orrepass the Weapon Handling Test on the cadet A2 rifle.The aim is to qualify to attend a Saturday training session atthe Dismounted Close Combat Trainer (DCCT) at WyvernBarracks in Exeter. The DCCT is a computer simulated firingrange used by our Armed Forces for training in weaponhandling without the risk of live weapons.

Amity Carr attended the DCCT on her 16th birthday. Havingbeen awarded her 1st class Cadet GP Rifle badge atBeckingham Camp last June she lived up to her reputationwith some impressive shooting. Mrs Poulet-Bowden

Former student Peter Ingoldsby,who left Trinity only last summer,has been selected for the CanadianNational Under 19's rugby team.

He flew to Canada for their EastCoast trials and clearly impressedthe selectors as his name was on thelist when the team was announcedrecently. The Canadian team will betouring Wales in April this year andwill be playing games against

England, Wales and Italy. Peter played for the school's firstteams throughout his time at Trinity, and indeed went on torepresent Devon before joining Exeter Chiefs Academy lastsummer.

Dedication anddiscipline as CCF takeaim on firing range

International RugbySelection for Peter

Powerboat awardsCongratulations toMackenzie Podstatzky andSimon Lai who achievedtheir RYA Level 2Powerboat qualification atHMS Raleigh recently. Withso many courses andopportunities available tocadets, the Combined CadetForce is a world ofopportunities.

His father Tom Ingoldsby is understandably proud. 'Pete'shaving a great year at Exeter,' he told us, 'and reallyenjoying his rugby. It's amazing to think the distance he'stravelled (rugby and otherwise!) in just the last 6 months.'

Peter made his ambition clear after the 2015 Rugby WorldCup - to play for Canada in the 2019 tournament, which willbe held in Japan. Selection for the Under 19 squad takeshim one step nearer his goal. We congratulate him on thisachievement and wish him continuing success in the future.

Peter is pictured rightwith another formerTrinitonian, LewisJeffery, when theywere on opposingsides during a recentReg Brewer Cup under21's rugby matchbetween Brixham andTorquay

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This half-term sees the end of the tenure of our Year 13prefects and the responsibility for their duties now passesto our newly appointed Year 12 prefects. The amount ofwork that our ‘retiring’ prefects have put into their roleshas been awe inspiring and they have never faltered fromdemonstrating what a true Trinitonian is all about.

Through working with the prefects for the past two termsI have really seen how the Trinity vision has come tofruition in them. They really are true leaders who haverisen to the challenge of working daily with integrity andresponsibility. As with all working groups things haven'talways gone to plan and every member of the prefectteam has had to show great resilience and confidence tobe brave enough to go with their convictions.

The interpersonal and life skills that they have gained willreally help them as they seek their own individualpathways in the modern world, but this is not the reasonthey became a prefect. What has been obvious to methis year is that we have a group of young people whohave taken on the role of prefect because they care and Iwould just like to say a huge thank you for this. Mr Milne

AspirationDedicationLeadershipdiscipline as CCF take

All change instudent leadershipas new prefect teamis appointed

The Headmaster and Mr Milne (Head of Sixth Form) aredelighted to announce the first round of appointments forthe new prefect team for the school year 2017/8.

All the students in the Lower Sixth were invited to apply forspecific roles which they thought would allow them tocontribute most to our community. These newappointments have been made after the students had beenthrough an extensive and rigorous selection process.

Congratulations to the following:

Pastoral PrefectsNursery & Prep: Alice Bowerman-Wake & Josh Walker (Sub Prefect)Key Stage 3: Yasmin Westlake & Jon CoppinKey Stage 4: Georgia Marney & Ben Ashfield

School PrefectsCharity: Will CollinsonAttic: Ed MartinTours: Connor HareCo-Curricular: Simon LaiSport: Flynn Bonar - FosterChapel: Josh TrickettEvents: Jean-Luc ChenerySocial: Ivan ChowSub Prefects: Ross McNaught, Gus Bascombe, Elvis Lo, Ailsa Xie, Ashlynn Ng, Chris Lin, Jan Willett, Jack Hingston, Louis Liu, Josh Walker

Head of Sixth Formthanks ‘retiring’ school

prefects

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It's always one of the highlights of theyear for our Year 7 History students:the study of Medieval Realms, andmore specifically the opportunity forthem to construct their own castles.

The students consider how William Iwas able to control his new countryafter the conquest of 1066. As part ofthis they research the use of castles inlocal areas, with reference to theNorman Motte and Bailey Castle. They

then produce a model, picture, or written account topresent their findings. As a result we had some fantasticmodels in materials ranging from wood, paper-mache andcardboard to astro-turf and lego. We even had some ediblecastles, proving that Curly Wurlies and Chocolate Fingerscan make excellent medieval ladders and palisades.

Mrs Entwistle, as Director of Learning for Humanities, hadthe unenviable task of judging the work but everyone mustbe applauded for their effort and enthusiasm. The pictures,diagrams and leaflets were very creative and informative.We particularly enjoyed this study of Motte and Baileycastles when we all got to eat some of them! Year 7 were,as ever, a credit and a joy to teach this topic to, and reallyexcelled in this task. Mrs Evans

Prep 2 travelled to Paignton Zoo to learn about habitats ingreater detail. The children explored the different enclo-sures noting the features and types of animals that livedthere. We were then treated to a workshop from the Edu-cation Team which allowed the children to feel and exploredifferent artefacts. Particular highlights of the day for thechildren were the playful lion cubs stuck in a tree and beingface to face with an ang-utan and its baby.

Motte and BaileyCastles, edible and

otherwise

A group of Year 13 Travel and Tourism students visitedEden Project to carry out some research for one of theircoursework assignments. They gathered information on thedifferent ways that Eden Project present their attraction forvisitors to enjoy. They were joined on the trip by studentsstudying our Foundation programme, the 1-year A-levelpreparation course run for international students, a keypart of which is a schedule of regular educational visits tohelp them assimilate and understand life in the UK.

A visit to PaigntonZoo

Research visit to EdenProject for 6th Formers

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‘Who stealeth the swine?’ was the question on the lips ofour Prep 4 pupils during their Humanities Impact Day,hosted by the school's Senior Department. They werejoined by pupils from a number of other local primaryschools in trying to resolve this most serious of crimes.Theday centred on the theme of the stolen pig and consisted offive exciting workshops based on a Medieval theme.Language, Crime and Punishment, and an ArchaeologicalDig (digging for the bones of the ‘swine’) were combinedwith the construction of a medieval village, to solve theriddle of who had indeed stolen the Swine, culminating withour newspaper focusing on the ‘oh so dreadful’ crime.

What a credit to the Prep Department the pupils were.Their excitement was infectious and they made our visitorsfrom other schools feel very welcome. Although I haveheard a rumour that Mr Coen being stuck in the stocks wastheir favourite part of the day!! Mrs Davis

Thanks to everyonewho purchased theChildren's Christmascards and mugs. As aresult we were able topurchase largePolydron pieces whichare proving verypopular with theNursery children.

An extendedcurriculum

Who Stealeth TheSwine? Pupils fromlocal schools join Year4 to investigate

Pre Prep's Shoe Shop hasgiven the children a chanceto role play a life experiencethey are all familiar withwhich provided manylearning opportunitiesacross the EYFS.

Year 5 pupils, within their English topic on ‘Instructions andExplanations’, each produced a ‘Crazy Invention’, whichthey ‘pitched’ to the Dragons. The inventions ranged fromThe Fantastic Flush (a musical gadget which fits onto yourtoilet cistern), to The Crazy Cube (which provides games forall the family). Pictured here is Bodie, shaking hands on adeal with Mr Wright, having negotiated 25% of his profitsfor a £250,000 investment. Your future is secure Bodie!Many thanks to Dragons: local business-man and parentMark Wright, Rachel Eaton-Jones, Headmaster Mr Coen,visiting Dragons, Matt Harris and Dee Godden.

Enterprising Year 5 pupilsbrave the Dragons Den

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TAAG Art galleryexhibits student works

Our new Head ofEnglish - an OS

Champion

"Trinity School art students were amongst other artistsfrom the local area that exhibited art works relating to"drawing" in its widest context.The exhibition was held atthe TAAG gallery in the Arts Quarter of Teignmouth as partof an International event THE BIG DRAW promoting draw-ing. Both large hand produced banners promoting theevent were produced by key stage 3 art club students andKey stage 4&5 art club students.

Allow me to introduce myself: I amLucy Atkins and I started working atTrinity in January as Subject Leaderfor English. I am already enjoyingworking in this new environment withstudents and staff who share my loveof learning. I am passionate about mysubject and have been teaching for 10years. I am also proud to have beeninvolved with the Duke of Edinburgh's

Award for several years and have recently visited Bucking-ham Palace and St James's Palace in this capacity.

In my spare time I write a daily blog with a friend,twoblondeswalking.com about our adventures outside andparticularly Dartmoor. We love the moors and enjoyencouraging others to love it too. We have been writing ourblog for over 4 years and now have quite a following. In thepast we have trained and inspired young people and adultsto get outside safely. We have worked with DartmoorNational Park, Dartmoor Search and Rescue and theDartmoor Preservation Society. We run navigation coursesso that more people can spend time safely in the outdoors.For the second year, we have been chosen by OrdnanceSurvey to represent them as OS Champions through their'Get Outside' scheme. At the end of January we went tomeet with the small group of Champions to share storiesand plan our year ahead as the voice and face of the 'GetOutside' campaign. The school benefitted from a set ofmaps and compasses, and a video from Ben Fogle (one ofthe other OS Champions) dedicated to the students toencourage them to get outdoors. I look forward to workingwith students, staff and parents at Trinity and sharing mypassion. Mrs Atkins

'Heroes' Day raisesawareness and funds

A charity day organised by the 6th Form saw the school raisefunds and awareness for Help For Heroes. Students andstaff dressed up as their heroes. Mrs Davis’ Land Girlcostume and Mr Larkman’s Commando uniform remindedus of the sacrifice made by previous generations.

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Our communitySixth Form GreatGatsby BallThe Sixth Form prefects organised a 1920’s-themedspectacular based on The Great Gatsby, transforming theSalle with glitter and pizzazz! Special thanks go to Mrs DeeGodden who returned to Trinity following her retirementlast year to take photos of what turned out to be a reallygreat night. The pictures were taken against a wonderfulbackdrop built by Sam Jeffery and other prefects. It helpedto create a really special atmosphere to the evening.Everybody dressed to impress, with glitz and glam galore.

It may be winter butTrinity boarders havebeen kept busy withmany trips and activitieson offer. A trip to Exeter’sClip and Climb saw someof the Year 6 boardersprove that age doesn’tmatter as they climbedhigher than the 6th

Formers.

exhibits student works

Year 11 raise £613 forTeignmouth charity

Year 11 organised a CharityDay at the end of last term.Supporting Volunteers InHealth, a Teignmouthcharity caring for those withneeds, helping withshopping, housework, andhome visits, the studentsmade a terrific effortputting together a 'Bringand Buy' sale and aChristmas Jumper Day. Theyraised an impressive £613and Chloe Myers from thecharity was presented witha cheque by Mr Larkman,Head of Key Stage 4

One of the most popular trips is Go Karting. We are lucky tohave Race World, an indoor race track, nearby and theboarders LOVE IT! Our stars were Play Lamatipanont (Year 11)who had the fastest lap, just one second slower than thefastest ever lap, followed closely by Daniel Fisac, with MrDavies in a sad third place. Mission Escape’ was the venue foranother weekend adventure. Imagine being locked in a roomfor an hour, in a race against the clock, solving puzzles as agroup to find your way out! On another Saturday the boarderstook to the kitchen to create culinary delights that would havemade Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood comment, “ greatbake!”

Do you have a news story we can publish?Contact: Email Mike Farish news@trinityschool.co.uk

www.trinityschool.co.ukTrinity School 2010. Trinity School Teignmouth is registered in England as a company limited by guarantee (registered number 1399560) and a registered charity

(number 276960). Registered Office: Buckeridge Road, Teignmouth, Devon. TQ14 8LY.

News of PTAevents and

projects

The secret is out!Teignmouth is onThe Guardian’s 2017Travel HotlistWe might have thought that a new Colin Firth film, shot inTeignmouth and set for release later this year, was goingto be the moment when the world would ‘discover’Teignmouth. But a national newspaper has beaten thefilm in breaking the news. Are the national press realisingwhat we already know: the Teignmouth area is a fantasticplace to live and visit (and study!)

The town is one of only 6 UK locations to have made theGuardian’s Global Hotlist of destinations set to inspiretourists in 2017, and it shares the honours with placessuch as St Petersburg, Yosemite National Park, Norway’sLofoten Islands, Lisbon, Hamburg, Colombia, Hadrian’sWall and China. The article describes the town as a ‘Food-ie Hotspot’ and ‘a picturesque holiday favourite sinceGeorgian times’. The scenic coastline will soon be on showfor all to see when a new film called The Mercy is releasedlater this year. The movie, which stars Colin Firth andRachel Weisz, and tells the true story of the 1960’s trage-dy involving local yachtsman, Donald Crowhurst, wasfilmed in Teignmouth and the surrounding area.

The PTA are looking forward to holding our St Patrick's NightParty on Friday 17 March. Everyone is welcome and ticketsare just £12.50 per person, on sale from PTA members orplease contact pta@trinityschool.co.uk . The party starts at7pm with a welcome drink, followed by a 2-course meal andan evening of dancing from 8.30 pm until late. Come and joinus for a night of fun and you may win a prize in the raffle orauction. We hope to see you there!

Save the date for the Swim BBQ on Saturday 10 June - moredetails to follow.

The PTA appreciates your support with PTA events as theproceeds are used to fund various projects throughout theschool. In the past this has included a new climbing and playequipment area in the Prep playing field, a laser cutter forSenior School and a parachute shelter for Forest School.

Future projects include a replacement tipi and new playequipment for the Prep playground, cybershot cameras forthe Art and ICT departments and new picnic benches forNursery. The largest future project is 'science busking' led byDarrel Jones which is a fun way for children to demonstratethat science can be fun & creative. More than 20 childrenfrom Years 4 - 13 will be representing Trinity School atvarious events during Science Week (10-19 March), includingscience busking at Teignmouth Triangle (11 March),Teignmouth Pavilions (19 March) and other events in thesummer. The funding will provide clothing and lab-coats witha customised Trinity School Science Buskers logo.

Trinity School has always been proud of its position on theDevon coast, close to a National Park and an area ofOutstanding Natural Beauty, and proud to be part of theTeignmouth community. We are delighted to be providingan outstanding education for all our students in anationally acclaimed location, and sometimes we dare toask ourselves, will our own Trinity Secret be the next oneto emerge?