Annual Quiz Night

Calling all ‘Quizers’…

Quiz logo

The Annual Quiz Night will be held on Friday 18th March at 7pm

Tickets cost £5 and £2.50 for children.

Quiz nightPupils — make a team & see if you can beat your parents.
Or have a family team and see if you can beat your friends and neighbours.

Book your tickets through the fair-trade ticketing company Brown Paper Tickets or by emailing Susan Edwards.

Back to school

Welcome back from the half term break. Here are a few school dates for the next few weeks that may be of interest.

25th February at 20:00 in the Starbank Inn – Fundraising group meeting (new members and volunteers always welcome)

29th February at 17:00 – Parents’ information evening for the S1 France trip

1st March at 19:00 – Parent Council meeting

22nd March – Spring Fling

Making Maths Count Initiative

Maths!

Making Maths Count” is a Scottish Government national initiative that has two broad aims:

  1. To encourage greater enthusiasm for maths amongst children and young people, their parents, carers and the wider public
  2. To provide support for teachers and help raise attainment in Mathematics National Qualifications.

To encourage engagement from the wider general public an online questionnaire has been developed to look at how people feel about maths, how they use maths and how confident they are with their maths skills.

Health and Resilience

Life often throws challenges our way. It could be the death of a close family member or friend, a serious illness, the loss of a job or the breakdown of a relationship. ‘Resilience’ means our ability to cope with these events.

As parents and carers, you play a vital role in helping to prepare your children for the difficult times that life brings.

Lern more at the Place2be website

Design Ventura 2015 Finalists

Four girls from S3 have received an award for most original concept at the final of this year’s Design Ventura competition at the Design Museum in London.

Design Ventura winners

The 2015 Design Ventura challenge started with 10,000 participants from 287 schools in the UK and overseas. In December, Trinity’s team pitched their puzzle ‘On the other hand’, designed to teach sign language, to a panel of judges that included Sebastian Conran and Naomi Cleaver.

At the final event, the judges said that the teams present represented “the best design talent in UK secondary schools.”

A number of schools were singled out for special awards, including Trinity Academy’s team.

Design Ventura certificate

The finalists’ entries are on display in a purpose-built ‘Design Tank’ beside the Thames where they will be seen by 1000s of people every day until the end of March.

Well done done to everyone (pupils and staff) who took part.

Design Ventura fish tank

‘On the other hand’

Scottish Schools Swimming Championships

Scottish Schools Swimming Championships

Trinity pupils India Dodd, Sophie Hamilton, Jocelyn Low and Jonah Walsh competed extremely well at the Scottish Schools Swimming Championships, Tollcross, Glasgow this weekend.

We had one medallist – Jonah Walsh (on the right of the photo above) won a bronze medal in the 15/16 yr old Boys 200m Butterfly. Well done to all four.